The app stirred privacy and security questions offering to pay people for recordings of their phone calls to train AI models. A security flaw didn't help. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital ...

A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top-five free iPhone apps ...

A controversial app that claims to pay people for recordings of their phone calls, which are then used to train AI models, could soon return after being disabled due to a significant security flaw.

Earlier today, we covered the skyrocketing success of Neon, an app that pays users in exchange for recording their phone calls. Now, the app has gone offline, following the discovery of an egregious ...

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.

Neon is an call-recording app that pays users for access to the audio, which the app in turn sells to AI companies for training their models. Since its launch last week, it quickly rose in popularity, ...

Call recording is a feature that almost everybody wants on their phones, but for some reason, Android manufacturers haven’t adopted this feature yet. Thankfully, Android device owners can also try out ...

A Pixel 8 Pro user in India has shared a video showing native call recording in action. The feature works through the Call Assist menu, with playback, sharing, and deletion options in the Phone app.

Recording calls on Android smartphones has always been tricky. Over the past few years, it’s gotten even harder. Google keeps adding strict rules, especially around apps that use Accessibility ...

Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets including CNET, NPR, WIRED, Texas Monthly, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The ...