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Google reportedly spying on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok users on Android
Google is reportedly keeping tabs to how its users interact with rival Android apps, selectively monitoring how the users interact with non-Google apps via an internal programme to make its own products better.
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Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success
Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s efforts
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Dark Sky alternatives for Android weather watchers
If you’re a weather geek, you probably already know that Dark Sky, one of the most popular weather apps around, has been acquired by Apple and is probably being integrated into iOS 14. As a result, anyone who uses an Android device and has the Dark Sky app is going to lose access on July 1st. In addition, a variety of other apps (some not even weather-related) will lose access to the Dark Sky API.
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Uber in talks to buy food delivery app Postmates
Uber is in talks to buy food delivery app Postmates in a multibillion dollar deal, US media reported. The San Francisco-based company has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic—last month cutting a quarter of its global workforce—and has been looking to boost its growing food delivery service Uber Eats.
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Using this WhatsApp feature will land your phone number in Google search results
Users of WhatsApp’s Click to Chat feature could see their personal phone numbers exposed via public Google search results, according to a new discovery made by a security researcher. Click to Chat is a lesser-known WhatsApp facility that allows website visitors to converse with website operators via the messaging service. For example, if a visitor to an ecommerce site had a query about a listing, they could scan a QR code to be entered into a WhatsApp conversation with the relevant helpdesk.
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Italy launches COVID-19 Exposure Notification app to the public
Italy on Monday launched its COVID-19 contact tracing app based on the Apple-Google Exposure Notification API, becoming one of the first to be available to the public.
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End of an Era: Microsoft Word Now Flagging Two Spaces After Period as an Error
Adding two spaces after a period is something that so many people seem to do, despite others obviously going for what they believe to be the correct choice and using just one space. While the two-space rule actually made sense in the era of typewriters, it does’t anymore, so switching to a one-space approach is something that everyone should do.
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Google Removes Adware-Laced Kids' Apps From Play Store
After over a million downloads, the Tekya-infected Android offerings are finally on ice.
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Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a midwestern-looking man in his 60s, asked for help. He couldn't figure out how to enable airplane mode on his aging Android phone. But when Marlinspike saw the screen, he wondered for a moment if he was being trolled: Among just a handful of apps installed on the phone was Signal.
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All The Apps That I Pay For
Maybe it helps some other devs out there (to find an idea or something to work on), but here are the services that I pay for to run my business...
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The New Banking App That Swears — They Won’t Become Evil…..
When I heard there’s a new banking app starting to trend, I had to take a look.I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t looked at banking options for awhile I figured “they‘re all bad if you really look into it, so why bother?”. Actually… they’ll pay you AND a charity $25 each if you try it, so now you kinda have to for the sake of the children (or whatever).
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Rewound is a new app that turns your iPhone into an iPod
If you’ve always wanted an iPod click wheel on your iPhone, a new app is helping to bring Apple’s iconic music player back into the modern touchscreen era. Rewound is a basic music player app that’s available in Apple’s App Store.
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The augmented reality app helping veterans manage anxiety
Healium AR blends storytelling, neuroscience and game design so users can harness their feelings to power virtual worlds and find a sense of calm.
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From Tinder to Venmo: These 25 apps changed everything
Games, social media, dating apps and more: Here is a list of 25 apps that had the most impact on our lives in the last 10 years.
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The latest Pixel 4 leak is an app that automatically transcribes your voice memos
We already seem to know a lot about Google’s upcoming Pixel 4, including one of its new apps: “Recorder,” a new voice recorder app. In a recent 9to5Google hands-on, the app seemed pretty basic — hit a button to record, then share that audio file with other apps. Surprisingly, though, Google seems to have updated Recorder before it’s even been released, with one particularly handy feature: automatic audio transcription.
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Dark Noise Review: Ambient Noise Never Looked So Good
An ambient noise app’s most important job is providing a variety of sounds that can evoke a soothing sense of calm, and offer environment control. The App Store is full of apps that accomplish this purpose, and a new one’s being added to that roster today: Dark Noise, from developer and designer Charlie Chapman.
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4 Ways To Quickly Acquire And Onboard New Users For Your App
Getting an app off the ground is hard, but following the numbers and investing in acquisition channels that reliably pay off will keep you ahead of the curve. Here are four ways to identify the right app advertising networks and maximize your return on investment.
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LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer
Spain’s data protection agency has fined the country’s soccer league, LaLiga, €250,000 (about $280,000) for allegedly violating EU data privacy and transparency laws. The app, which is used for keeping track of games and stats, was using the phone’s microphone and GPS to track bars illegally streaming soccer games, Spanish newspaper El País reported.
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Dark Mode Might Not Be Coming To WhatsApp After All
If you’re part of the DarkModeEverything Movement (I just named it that) you’ll be disappointed to know that the much anticipated WhatsApp dark mode might not be coming to the application after all. After rumours started swirling confirming the existence of the feature we even got a closer look at what dark mode would look like but alas, the feature might have died a premature death. WABetaInfo (the authority on WhatsApp leaks) has said the company has stopped working on the feature.
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McDonald’s Keeps Touting Security of Mobile App After Credit, Debit Cards Hacked
The MyMcD’s mobile app continues to plague some users who have had their payment methods compromised.
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