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If you record music or podcasts on your computer, you might be familiar with Audacity. It’s a free, open-source, and cross-platform app that helps you record and edit audio over multiple tracks. The software’s new privacy policy — afterthe Muse group acquired itin April — came into effect on July 2. The change notes that Audacity will collect more data from you, includingoperating system version, processor, country based on IP address, crash reports, and non-fatal error codes and messages....

What’s up with the Apple App Store’s privacy changes? What will change under Apple’s new rules? Currently, apps gather all sorts of information about you as you use them—that’s not going to change. What will change is how that information is shared with third parties, like data brokers and other tech companies. Right now, the vast majority of apps you download, whether to an Apple or an Android device, track you in pretty much the same way, through a unique identifier....

Standards is a series explaining various tech protocols, looking at their practical implementation, and where we could find them in devices around us. Fitness bands and watches have thrown around numbers at our faces and motivate us to be more healthy. All these smart wearables have two primary measures: the number of steps taken and the number of active calories burnt in a day. Apple pioneered the system to display three rings for calories, steps, and standing....

A few years ago, the popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin rolled out a redesign ofher website. Instead of employing a simple reverse chronological blog, the new site featured one large “lead story” on the left, with a blog-like list of headlines on the right. The reason for this is quite obvious: Malkin wanted the ability to feature what she considered her most important post of the day while also making it easy to navigate her less noteworthy posts....

If you’re a regular reader of The Next Web, chances are that you’re a pretty regular Twitter user too. As the servicecelebrates its fifth birthday, our minds have been cast back to the first time we ever used it. In its short life it’s transformed the way that many people communicate and receive information online, but how did you feel about it when it first launched? Here are our memories; feel free to share yours in the comments below....