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Do you remember the EyeToy? It’s still being made today, but back when it first came out in 2003, it had only sold two million units – significantly less than the 69 million units the platform it was made for, Playstation 2, sold in the same year. The EyeToy was designed to work with specific […]

You’ve met Dustin, and Trisha, two of our premier project managers. This week, we want to introduce you to Fahad, an up-and-coming Tepia worker who joined through our team recently and made his way into an indispensable part of the company. Here’s Fahad, in his own words. 1. What’s your earliest tech memory? My earliest […]

Too much of a good thing isn’t a good thing – and that doesn’t just mean gorging on funnel cakes at the OC Fair. Tech, for all of the positive traits it gives us, can get overwhelming, and it can get overwhelming fast. Ongoing studies have shown that there is a direct link between overusing tech and […]

There’s a big blind spot when it comes to building apps. A lot of people have the idea that all you need to start a business, especially one based on an app, is the app itself. The reality is a little different. Here’s our CEO and Founder, Abe, talking about what it takes to start […]

One of the things that the pandemic really shed a light on is how much we rely on in-person visits to the doctor whenever we feel sick, and when those visits were forbidden because of the pandemic, a lot of people struggled. Something as benign as the flu or a hangover feels like a much […]

When it comes to personal safety, taking precautions is important: don’t walk alone in dark areas at night, always let someone know where you’re going, stay aware of your surroundings – all of these are great habits to develop and build on and they could save your life. For everything else, there’s smartphones. Sure, we […]

Star Trek got one thing especially right about cell phones: we don’t know where we’d be without them. Cell phones changed the course of human history, and not just because they made it easier to connect to people. The first cell phone came out in 1973, and since then, we’ve come full circle to having some […]

Tech should be for everyone. As of 2022, there are over 61 million adults in the United States living with a disability, or around one in every four people, and software on the market has to reflect them too. From the way you design your app to the way that your app works, there’s different […]

One of the reasons Tepia was founded was because we wanted to break away from the purely profit-motivated attitude that Silicon Valley seems overridden by. We wanted to make technology human again, and while it hasn’t been the easiest journey, it’s been an extremely fulfilling one. Our clarity of purpose has always been present in […]

86% of consumers worry about the amount of data that businesses hold on them – and as people who work in tech, it’s a worry that’s only going to keep growing as more companies gain access to the kind of third-party data networks that bigger corporations pay for. Some companies are now pivoting towards first-party data, […]