TechCrunch

Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top-five free iPhone apps ...
Android

Google Pixel Phones Are Finally Getting Native Call Recording

A new video provides a first look at the native call recording feature on Google’s Pixel phones. Now appearing in the wild on Pixel 6 and newer models, the feature is legally compliant and simple to ...

I thought we buried the AI button until it showed up on this phone

Motorola still has its Moto AI Key; Nothing calls its AI button the "Essential Key", a baffingly ironic name; and Google ...

How to make a call private by hiding your phone number

You can make a call private by hiding your phone number in a few different ways, including using your phone's settings.
BGR

iPhone Volume Buttons Have Hidden Features Most People Miss

Every iPhone comes packed with more functionality than most people realize, and some of the most underrated features are hidden in plain sight. One great example is the set of volume buttons on the ...
Cfr.org

Trump, Xi, and the Making of a Presidential Phone Call

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping attend a welcoming ceremony in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. Thomas Peter/Reuters President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi ...
Android Authority

One UI 8.5 is getting ready to borrow a fan-favorite Pixel feature (APK teardown)

Samsung is preparing an automatic call screening feature for Galaxy phones with One UI 8.5. We discovered the code strings for the feature hidden in the leaked One UI 8.5 firmware. Samsung is also ...
TechCrunch

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.
The American Conservative

My Phone Call with Robert Redford

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Long before I ever interviewed Robert Redford, who died in his sleep last Tuesday, I had been told that, among the many qualities that the ...
Business Insider

I used to get a lot of unknown calls. This new iPhone call screening feature is helping so far.

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Slate

My Parents Have Never Respected Our Parenting Boundaries. This Time They’ve Gone Too Far.

My parents have always had some issues with respecting boundaries that my wife “Mia” and I set for our two boys, ages 5 and 7, but last weekend they did something that has my wife ready to cut them ...