Month: February 2024

Logo for social media app Wizz

Created by developers from the French firm Voodoo, Wizz was launched in 2019 with the aim of connecting strangers online in safety. “Expand your world meeting unexpected online people,” is one of its promotion lines, and while not explicitly aimed at teenagers, they appear to have been a key segment of its users.

According to CNBC, Apple and Google were contacted by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). The organization alleges that Wizz has been used in what are described as sextortion scams.

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Apple Karntner Strabe in Vienna

Apple Stores are always noteworthy because the company appears to spend much more time on their design than most other retail outlets. Despite them always being distinctively Apple Stores, it’s also rare now to find any two that look even roughly the same.

Instead, Apple might work to preserve a building’s original look, as it did with the 144-year-old bank it took over in Birmingham, UK. Or it could build a radically, startlingly new piece of what’s as much art as architecture, as it has with Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands store.

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