A troubling lawsuit coming out of California alleges that a woman was fired from her job after she uninstalled an app that her employer requested all employees had to download. The troubling aspect of the story is that the app in question was capable of tracking employee location data even when employees weren’t on the clock.

The lawsuit in question was filed by Myrna Arias who was previously employed by Intermex Wire Transfer as an account manager. According to the suit, originally spotted by Ars Technica, Arias’ boss asked her and other employees to download a mobile app called Xora which, according to the app description on the App Store, allows mobile workers to record pertinent information when they are on the go.

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This past January, I shared the story of how I lost 50 lbs in just three months, and I wrote about how technology helped me do it. More important than the amount of weight I lost and the speed at which I lost it were the lifestyle changes I made and the good habits I formed along the way, thanks largely to some good advice and some good apps.

But a huge piece of the puzzle was still missing, and I think I just found it.

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On Monday, The Washington Post published some excerpts from a new book on Elon Musk written by Ashlee Vance called Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future that really made the brilliant Tesla and SpaceX CEO look fairly insane. However, Musk took to Twitter on Tuesday to specifically refute one particular excerpt in the book that alleged he ripped into an employee for missing a company event to witness the birth of his first child.

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More so than any other company in the tech space, Google has a tendency to work on many projects out in the open, allowing users to access things that are still in development and provide feedback. As open as Google is, it’s also quite scattered, constantly launching new and interesting things that are either missed or forgotten by users because there’s just so much going on.

In this post, we’re going to show you 10 amazing Google projects that you probably either never knew about or have completely forgotten about.

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A pair of ex-Googlers is bringing another player to the news app space today with their launch of Spotter, an app that crawls hundreds of news sites to try to bring users information that matters to them and could help their careers.

The app, which launches first for the iPhone and iPad, and is headed to the Web and Android soon, was developed by Jon Emerson and Tom Charytoniuk, both of whom worked on various aspects of the Google+ experience, among other things, while they were with the search giant.

They built Spotter, they explained, on the premise that the most relevant articles to a user can come from anywhere – from Medium posts to The New York Times and everything in between. And rather than jump into different streams or manually pick content creators to follow, their goal is for Spotter itself to do the heavy lifting of picking and choosing.

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There are still a few solid paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free in yesterday’s post that you can grab if you hurry, but today we have a fresh new batch for you. Tuesday’s list features seven apps in total, but there are some truly great apps on today’s list including one that normally would cost you $20 to buy on the iPhone and another $20 on the iPad.

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KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, known for his many reports that accurately predict Apple’s undisclosed plans regarding a variety of products including the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, has revealed a bunch of interesting details about the next-gen iPhone. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, or iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, are supposed to launch at some point in September offering several interesting new features — and now we likely have our first real look at what to expect.

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It’s time for Star Wars fans and Star Trek fans to let bygones be bygones. Though a vicious battle has raged between them for decades, we think both camps can agree that this video mashup of the two groundbreaking sci-fi series is fantastic.

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Motorola is working on a bunch of new smartphones, a new report suggests. Apparently, the Android smartphone maker might be testing at least three distinct devices that have different screen sizes but share one important feature: killer screen resolution. All models are supposedly packing 2K displays with 2560 x 1440-pixel resolution.

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Even though we don’t need more proof that music streaming is the wave of the future, recent comments made by Warner Music Group CEO Stephen Cooper really underscore just how fast the transition from digital downloads to music streaming is happening.

During an earnings conference call on Monday, Cooper said that Warner Music, the third largest recording company on the planet, generated more money from streaming than they did from digital downloads. That’s no small feat, and as Re/Code notes, this “is the first time a big music label has hit that milestone.”

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