It’s your first date. You’ve never met the other person, but they’ve been pre-screened and chosen for you, so you show up at the agreed-upon location, perhaps a park bench or hotel lobby. It’s daytime. You sit apart from each other, not close enough to touch or bump knees. Even though it’s the first date,…
(JTA) — A security lapse at the JCrush dating application for Jews left sensitive personal data of about 200,000 users exposed. The breach, rooted in the site’s failure to encrypt its data, gave anyone who knew where to look access to users’ real name, gender, email address, IP address, location, age, sexual preferences and religious…
It’s no one’s favorite topic, but facing death is inevitable. While hundreds of books and articles have been written to help families deal with the emotional repercussions of a loss, many fewer resources exist to advise them on how to deal with the logistics. In our complex society, most people have assets and accounts strewn…
Gone are the days when Jews would scurry through their neighborhood and their local pizza store as if they were wandering the desert in search of a sukkah. Now, like most things, there’s a digital tool for that. Open Sukkah, founded by Toronto born and Tel Aviv-based Aaron Taylor, has one goal in mind: To…
Imagine if there was a free program that predicted correct answers on the popular gameshow app HQ Trivia with near-perfect accuracy, helping countless people cheat the system and win cash? For a while, there was. When Jonathan Nassimi and Jake Mor created HQuack, they created a phenomenon within a phenomenon. Nassimi and Mor’s site “predicted…
Since its launch in August 2017, the 1-year-young gameshow app HQ Trivia has changed lives, filled coffers, and strengthened thumb-muscles beyond previously believed limits. The live, app-based trivia game airs at 3pm and 9pm on weekdays, and allows users to “take a stab at correctly answering 12 multiple choice questions (which start easy but rapidly…
Bumble is swiping left on Tinder. The dating app that allows women to make the first move is lashing back at Tinder after its rival sued it for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Before suing, Tinder tried to buy Bumble, but the latter’s CEO and founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, rejected the offer out of hand. “We…
After her college-age daughter needed to go to the emergency room but didn’t have a way to contact her, a Jewish mother helped to create an app that stores such information and also provides other services college students may need in a serious situation. Gail Schenbaum Lawton was inspired to develop the app, called Umergency,…
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