MyFitnessPal, a popular, free food logging app, is getting into AI, specifically letting AI plan your meals for you. Following an acquisition of a startup called Intent, MyFitnessPal is adding an AI-generated meal planning feature for subscribers. The meal plans the updated MyFitnessPal app will be able to create take into account subscribers' "goals, preferences, dietary habits, and routines," according to MyFitnessPal, via information the app already has on you, and what looks like a survey. The feature will also be part of an end-to-end experience. Any plan the app creates can be automatically translated into a grocery list for the next time you're at the store, or an order to a grocery delivery service if you'd prefer to do as little as possible.

Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement. The thousands of apps, included in hacked files from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush and dating apps like Tinder to pregnancy tracking and religious prayer apps across both Android and iOS. Because much of the collection is occurring through the advertising ecosystem--not code developed by the app creators themselves--this data collection is likely happening without users' or even app developers' knowledge. This article was created in partnership with 404 Media, a journalist-owned publication covering how technology impacts humans. "For the first time publicly, we seem to have proof that one of the largest data brokers selling to both commercial and government clients appears to be acquiring their data from the online advertising'bid stream,'" rather than code embedded into the apps themselves, Zach Edwards, senior threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Silent Push and who has followed the location data industry closely, tells 404 Media after reviewing some of the data.

As if tightening your shoes wasn't easyenough, Nike will now let you adjust your kicks using your voice. The firm's Adapt BB basketball sneakers are designed with a power-lacing system that are activated by pushing a button on the shoe, but now Google's virtual assistant can do it for you. Google has added'Hey, Google' abilities to the Nike Adapt app, allowing wearers to voice their need just by speaking into their smartphone. The capability is part of a larger launch for Google, which adds the virtual assistant to 30 third-party apps including Twitter, Spotify and MyFitnessPal. Nike's Adapt BB basketball sneakers are designed with a power-lacing system that are activated by pushing a button on the shoe, but now Google's virtual assistant can do it for you Nike's $400 sneaker is designed with a power-lacing system that users control by pushing buttons on the side of the shoe or in the companion app – Nike Apt app.