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Though Google constantly updates its Play Store and takes measures to prevent malicious apps from making their way into the Android ecosystem, a few apps have recently breached the security wall. Earlier this year, Google removed a malware called ‘‘System Update” which was there for almost three years. Now, the recent malicious app has gained access…
Facebook has introduced a new platform called Watch, exclusively for videos. The feature is available on Facebook TV apps, mobile and desktop, as a preview for a limited number of people. Video view time on Facebook is increasing as people finding it more engaging and entertaining. With the increase in demand, Facebook felt the need for…
Adobe is known for advancing interactivity and creative content on the web, and has been pushing hard to meet the needs of evolving standards on the web. The company is finally putting an end to Flash by 2020, and has begun to “end-of-life” the proprietary technology. Flash came into existence to support animation and interactivity…
Bixby, Samsung’s much-talked about voice assistant, is facing serious delays with its English version due to lack of data compiling. It strives to control all of the company’s digital devices and home appliances. Bixby artificial intelligence is mainly dependent on data gathering and analyzing for deep learning solutions. It takes time to learn and adapt…
Ever since the modding tool program for Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5), OPENIV, was banned after a cease-and-desist legal notice from Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive, things have been going from bad to worse. Now, Rockstar has sort of intervened, and Take-Two has agreed not to take action against single-player mods. But the…
Bixby, Samsung’s AI assistant on the Galaxy S8 and S8+, has finally been launched in beta mode in the U.S. market. Though the service is rolling out to Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices across the United States, access is only available to users who pre-registered for the tests. The application itself is still in beta…
If you’re tired of waiting for Rockstar Games to pay more attention to the iOS community, you’re not alone. Almost four years after Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5 or GTAV) was released to gaming consoles and PCs, iOS and Android still don’t have the official game. But don’t lose heart, because Grand Theft Auto…
Microsoft has released the latest Insider preview build 16179 for the Windows 10 Redstone 3 update for PCs, and build 15205 for mobile devices. For PCs, power throttling seems to be the biggest feature on this build, at least from an end-user perspective, where users can gain up to 11 percent more battery life on…
Microsoft’s obsession with Office 365 has possibly reached such a fever pitch that we can expect them to launch at least one new service every month. In one of our earlier articles – Microsoft Upping the Pace on Office 365 Features and Product Launches – we shared details on how the velocity of updates from Office 365 team…
If you spotted a big improvement in 3D web graphics when browsing on Google Chrome over the past few days, you’re not alone. Google recently announced that a major update to the WebGL JavaScript API in the form of WebGL 2.0 is now available for Chrome users with the latest graphics hardware running on Windows, macOS…
In a recent press release, Samsung announced that it has partnered with YouTube to stream HDR (High Dynamic Range) content, better known as 4K videos, to its Quantum dot HDR and its UHD TVs. Late last month YouTube’s senior product manager Kurt Wims revealed that the world’s largest user-generated video streaming platform had started supporting 4K…
According to data released by Mobile Marketing firm Fiksu, iOS 10 adoption has been on fire since its launch on September 13. In 27 days since the release iOS 10 is installed on 67% of devices, better than the previous record holder iOS 9 which had 61.6% after the same period of time. Source: Fiksu…
Apple doesn’t take kindly to prank apps, as is evident in this recent incident with what is now the #1 Top Paid app on the iMessage App Store – Phoneys. The app allows users to paste stickers with funny messages on top of other people’s messages so it looks as if they said them. The…
In case you haven’t caught up all of the technology news from this week, here’s your weekly Friday dose of everything tech, from glass iPhones from Apple to Microsoft’s new 5000-member “super-team” for artificial intelligence research to Google’s rebranding of its business productivity apps as “G Suite”, this is the only place you need to come…
It’s Sunday! Another opportunity to share with you some of the best premium iPhone apps that are available for free as of today. I can’t promise that these three apps will still be free tomorrow so check them out and see how you like them. Of course, once you download them they’re free forever and…
