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A free app is helping travelers discover more than 130 secret freshwater swimming spots across Portugal's mountains and forests. Half the profits will fund river restoration projects to protect these natural treasures.
A new social media app called UpScrolled crashed its own servers from overwhelming demand as users flock to an alternative that promises fair algorithms and no censorship. The platform jumped to No. 9 on Apple's App Store, ranking above TikTok for the first time.
High schoolers from a new maritime academy in Newport News won a national coding competition by solving a real problem at their school. Their library management app beat competitors across Virginia's 3rd Congressional District.
The popular Merlin bird identification app is linking its real-time birdsong data with the world's largest citizen science biodiversity database, turning millions of casual birdwatchers into conservation allies. Almost 2 million people in the UK alone used the free app in May to identify birds by sound.
The team behind beloved Dark Sky has returned with a new weather app that shows multiple possible forecasts at once, helping you understand when predictions are reliable. Instead of pretending weather forecasting is perfect, Acme Weather embraces uncertainty with transparency.
Millions of people across Spain are tuning into live webcams to watch Iberian lynx, peregrine falcons, and storks in their natural habitats. What started as a scientific tool has become a beloved form of digital leisure, connecting people with nature without leaving home.
Scientists have discovered massive reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen deep underground that could meet global energy needs for two centuries without producing carbon emissions. Unlike manufactured hydrogen, this "white gold" energy source forms naturally through geological processes and costs nothing to make.
A new platform called Wabi is making app creation as simple as typing a prompt, bringing software development to everyone without coding skills or hosting headaches. The YouTube-style approach could transform how we think about apps.
A new smart bird feeder with AI technology is helping people reconnect with nature from their own homes. The device identifies over 10,000 bird species and sends alerts when feathered visitors stop by for a snack.
Finding the right meditation app used to mean scrolling through thousands of options. Five standout apps now offer everything from 30-second breathing breaks to sleep sounds without costing a dime.
Apple and Google have agreed to major app store changes in the UK to promote fair competition after regulators found they had an "effective duopoly." The reforms will help 400,000 jobs and boost the UK's largest app economy in Europe.
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro just earned the title of world's largest natural habitat zoo, giving 1,700 animals room to roam across sprawling, nature-inspired exhibits. Visitors can meet over 250 species living in spaces that mirror their wild homes.
Sebastiaan de With, the creative mind behind beloved iPhone camera apps Halide and Kino, is joining Apple's design team. His partner confirms the apps will continue thriving with new collaborators.
Scientists worldwide are turning to biomimicry, copying nature's billion-year-old designs to fight climate change with solutions that work with ecosystems instead of against them. From termite-inspired buildings to river systems that heal themselves, these nature-based approaches are proving both effective and sustainable.
Scientists studying how pythons survive on one massive meal per year discovered a natural molecule that helped obese mice lose 9% of their body weight. The finding could one day lead to new obesity treatments inspired by nature's most extreme eaters.
Daniel Benjamin builds the invisible infrastructure that keeps Nigeria's biggest apps running smoothly under massive growth. His work helped scale a faith app to 150,000 users in three months with almost no bugs.
Anthropic's cheeky Super Bowl ads mocking AI chatbots with annoying ads helped push its Claude app from No. 41 to No. 7 on the U.S. App Store. The timing couldn't have been better—ChatGPT just started showing ads to free users.
Google just released a free dictation app that automatically removes "ums" and "ahs" from your speech and polishes your words into professional text. Best part? It works completely offline once downloaded.
After 15 months of development, Flipboard just launched Surf, a new app that brings back the joy of internet discovery by weaving together social media, blogs, podcasts, and videos into custom feeds you actually want to read. It's proof that the web can still feel wonderful.
A new smartphone app called LoonWeb is helping everyday nature lovers track endangered loons across Vermont, turning a mountain of soggy handwritten notes into streamlined science. The tool could soon unite citizen scientists nationwide to protect these iconic waterbirds facing threats from climate change.
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