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Carrier Pidge messenger delivers messages at a speed of 177 km/h, but with a 0.2% chance the pigeon will die en route

Developer Noah Iarrobino released an iOS app called Carrier Pidge that deliberately breaks the one thing modern messengers are supposed to get right – instant delivery. Instead, your text travels to its destination the way...
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21-year-old student from Berlin created a radar detector for ticket inspectors and received 55 thousand messages

Berlin transport operator BVG has criticized FreiFahren, an app that shows real-time fare inspection locations on the subway and city rail network. The operator responded to the app, stating that helping people ride without a...
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Developer built an app for cursed photos using a 2007 algorithm and attracted millions of views

A developer going by measure_plan showed off a content-aware scaling tool built, in his own words, for "cursed photo editing." A post featuring warped portraits spread across social media, and beta access requests flooded in...