This Week in Apps: iOS 13 complaints, Q3 trends, App Store ratings bug

Welcome back to This Week in Apps — the easiest way to keep up with everything that happened in the world of apps over the past week — from the breaking news to the trends and all the other information an industry watcher needs to know. The app industry is as hot as ever, with … Read more

WhatsApp Hack Targeted Officials in More Than 20 Countries

This week saw the cybersecurity world taking big strides against some of the world’s most aggressive hackers. In a dramatic and potentially precedent-setting move, WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging platform, sued the Israeli surveillance contractor NSO Group for allegedly targeting 1,400 of WhatsApp’s users with malicious phone calls crafted to infect devices with data-grabbing malware. Meanwhile, … Read more

Avatar is the latest blockbuster movie to be added to the Disney Plus line-up

Another big-name movie has been added to the Disney Plus library ahead of its grand launch on November 12: James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. If you sign up on or before launch day, you’ll be able to start streaming the tale of the Na’vi people and their home planet of Pandora straight away, and … Read more

Home Sitting in Nice #frenchriviera

Finally a service for keeping safe your home in the French Riviera, when you are abroad! House sitting is the practice whereby a person leaving their house for a period of time entrusts it to one or more “house sitters”, who by a mutual agreement are permitted to live or stay in the property temporarily, … Read more