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The #1 paid app in the Google Playstore "Virus Shield" is a complete scam
Security is an important factor when it comes to technology, and in most cases you can never have too much. In 2014, our smartphones know more about us than we know about ourselves, and if malware were to creep onto our smartphones then we could potentially suffer some major consequences. As a result, like any reasonable person, we would look to secure our device. This is what Deviant Solutions, the creator of the current #1 Play Store app, decided to capitalize on.
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Mark Cuban Wants To Take Over Texting
“Tact,” said the former British prime minister, Winston Churchill, “is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” In which case Mark Cuban is something of a smiling assassin on TV’s Shark Tank - striking equal measures of both terror and adulation in entrepreneurs seeking his investment on the show (relegating Kevin O’Leary incidentally to undertaker.)
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Beat Jet Lag with This Scientist-Developed App
Fed up with jet lag when you fly long distances? University of Michigan mathematicians have your back. They’ve developed a free app, available today, based on mathematical models that can tell you when to go outdoors and when to stay in bed to avoid the sleepiness and other side effects of crossing multiple time zones quickly.
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SkinneePix: the ugly truth about the selfies app that makes you look thinner
The new app SkinneePix claims to make it look like you've shed 15lbs in your selfies – but we found the results aren't that pretty
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How Fandango and Credit Karma exposed millions of smartphone users’ data
Developers of two popular smartphone apps—Fandango and Credit Karma—have been caught transmitting passwords, social security numbers, birth dates, and other highly sensitive user data over the Internet without properly encrypting it first, officials with the Federal Trade Commission said.
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Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends” With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing To Help You Meet Up
Today Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away you are from them, and you can share your exact, on-going location with them for a limited time. While it’s sure to stir privacy concerns, Nearby Friends could get people spending more time with friends in the real-world instead of online as it hits iOS and Android in the US in the coming weeks.
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After Cyberbullying Scandal, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Raises $1.5 Million
Anonymous social networking apps are having a moment. Following the notable funding rounds for apps like Secret ($8.6 million) and Whisper ($21 million!), newcomer Yik Yak is today announcing a small amount of outside investment, too. In its case, the company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding for its “hyper-local” chatting app, which controversially grew popular with school kids, leading to several bannings due to cyberbullying, drawing national headlines.
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Google removes malware Android apps used to secretly mine bitcoin
If you own an Android, your phone might be mining bitcoin without you even knowing it. Five apps were recently removed from the Google Play store after they were discovered to be covertly using Android devices' to mine bitcoin.
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Speed reading apps may kill comprehension
A few months back, there was a lot of buzz about a new display technology that promised to greatly increase people's reading speeds. The approach, typified by Spritz, displays words one at a time in a single location. As the speed cranks up and words fly by, the service seems to live up to its promise: each word registers as it briefly flits across the screen.
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Snapchat Steps Up Its Game With Sophisticated New Messaging Features
Snapchat rolled out its biggest update yet Thursday, in a move that added text messaging and video chatting to its photo and video sharing app. The latest version of the app focuses on helping its users have conversations, rather than just one-off picture and video messages.
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Spy Watchdog - Remote Monitoring Android Spy App | Paxcel - Coming Soon
Spy Watchdog is a one stop Remote Monitoring Solution for monitoring of places, people, activities through Android Devices - Smartphone, Tablet, Mini TV Box
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Off the Record in a Chat App? Don’t Be Sure
What happens on the Internet stays on the Internet. That truth was laid bare on Thursday, when Snapchat, the popular mobile messaging service, agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that messages sent through the company’s app did not disappear as easily as promised.
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Facebook Poke is dead
To Facebook, Poke was always "more of a joke" than anything else — so why did the company leave it in the App Store for more than a year after its troubled debut? We may never know, but today, Facebook finally put an end to Poke. If you check the App Store for Facebook's famed Snapchat clone, you won't find it. Facebook also took the opportunity, seemingly, to remove Camera, its photo uploading app. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the removals to The Verge, but provided no further comment.
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'Flappy Bird' creator says he is bringing the game back in August
The creator of the gaming sensation Flappy Bird now says he is bringing the game back. In an interview with CNBC, Dong Nguyen said the new version would be a multiplayer game that is "less addictive" than its predecessor. Nguyen famously pulled the game from app stores amid worries that the game's millions of fans were spending too much time playing the game.
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The App Store Is Proof We’re In Idiocracy
The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “Weed Firm,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called “100 Balls,” reminiscent of beer pong. And that’s followed “Toilet Time,” which offers you quick games to play while you…um…go, as well as “Make It Rain,” which tests to see how fast you can swipe to make the money fly.
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Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously
Onionshare is simple, free software designed to let anyone send files securely and anonymously.
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Google picks up incredible visual translation app Word Lens and makes it free
Google has purchased Word Lens, an impressive app that translates foreign languages in real time using the iPhone and Android smartphone built-in camera. It's now free for a limited time.
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Apps for the Lovelorn
Summer is almost here, and if you’re a typical Other Woman, you’ve already wasted precious hours (O.K., months) brooding about it: those romantic summer nights when the man you love will be off on vacation — with his wife (not that they have sex anymore, but just the idea of the two of them at some idyllic beach makes you crazy).
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Florida Turns to Smartphone App in Battle Against Invasive Lionfish
Florida has a new phone app to help cull the invasion of its waters by the spiked lionfish, a venomous species that is devouring other fish and harming reef ecosystems. The state is home to more than 500 non-native species, but few as rampant in the wild as the marauding lionfish, which is fast-reproducing and has a voracious appetite. It preys on native fish such as yellowtail snapper, Nassau grouper and banded coral shrimp, and other crustaceans.
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How Uber And Lyft Are Trying To Kill Each Other
The car service app wars in San Francisco have a new ground zero: 16th and Vermont streets. The Potrero Hill intersection doesn’t look like much — two empty lots and some furniture stores tucked under a freeway overpass. But the street might as well be strewn with cash, since that’s what Uber and Lyft are throwing at any driver that rolls through it.
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