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Location, location, location! Innovative new app helps homebuyers find areas best suited to their needs

Location, location, location is everything. Jerzy Ochoński/PAP

They say that location, location, location is everything. Well, now a first-of-its-kind app lets users filter for their dream amenities and, by analysing a map of Warsaw, use 16 filters to find a place best suited to their needs.

New app explores hidden secrets of Poland’s underground printing presses

Titled Szybowcowa ’87, the app which is part of the IPN’s push to make history more understandable and accessible to younger generations allows users to step back in time and explore a printing house hidden inside an apartment on Wrocław’s Szybowcowa street.

Dating app reveals critical role pets play in choosing the puurfect partner

The findings reveal that over three quarters of respondents in Poland are strongly influenced by their pet’s reaction to a new partner, to the extent that this would be seen as one of the deciding factors as to whether or not they would see that person again.

Augmented reality app brings Lublin’s long-lost treasures back to life

VIDEO: Designed by the locally-based Orizon Group, the stunning 3D renderings present a detailed reconstructions of two iconic buildings: the parish church of St. Michael the Archangel and a water tower that once stood on what is now known as Pl. Wolności.

New app aims to help fight addiction

The free application is intended to help people addicted to substances such as alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and legal highs, as well as to compulsive behaviours such as uncontrolled overeating, playing computer games, using pornography or gambling.

Government to push mobile ID app

The Polish government wants a mobile identity-card application to have the same legal standing that the actual identification card has.

Free Covid certificate app growing Increasingly popular

The Polish Health Ministry has said that over 825,000 people have already downloaded a free-of-charge Covid certificate scanner app.

Three Polish MedTech start-ups chosen for Google’s 2021 European Accelerator programme

The companies were chosen to join the three-month-long programme, along with 12 other companies from Europe and Israel, that Google says are the ‘most promising European tech start-ups’.

Netflix launches first in-app gaming initiative in Poland with 'Stranger Things'

The addition of original games based on popular content will offer Netflix subscribers something that they aren’t receiving elsewhere and could be the key to continued growth of the service.

Where Tik-Tok meets Allegro: New app launched to promote online sales

With livestream online sales becoming the new norm, a Warsaw firm is looking to help both big and small businesses take their products directly to the customers’ virtual door.

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Titled Uncertainty, the ambitious mega-production promises an intimate portrayal of the young Mickiewicz during a turbulent love affair, which would sow seeds of inspiration, ultimately germinating in works that would go on to become the cornerstone of Poland's literary heritage.

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