Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is asking the chief executives of Apple and Google to immediately stop offering a Saudi e-government app that allows men in Saudi Arabia to track and control the movement of women. In a letter sent to the tech giants Monday, Wyden urged them to prevent theirRead More →
At the heart of Apple’s shocking FaceTime bug, which allowed just about anyone to turn an iPhone into a live microphone, stands a 14-year-old boy who stumbled upon the eavesdropping flaw more than a week before Apple took action. “The thing that surprised me the most was that this glitchRead More →
Opera Touch is now available for iPad users as well. The browser was made available for iOS users in October last year, but at that time, it was only available for iPhone users, and not iPad users. Now, the iPad version of Opera Touch has been launched, and is availableRead More →
With Android 9 Pie, Google also introduced a great new feature called Digital Wellbeing. This allows users to get insights into how much time they spend on specific apps, their usage of their smartphones, and even set limits to the amount of time in a day they can use specificRead More →
An app on Apple’s App Store has been disguising itself as an official setup app for Amazon’s Alexa smart speakers. The app called ‘Setup for Amazon Alexa’ even managed to climb the top charts for free apps on the App Store before it was taken down by Apple. The holidayRead More →
Apple has elevated John Giannandrea to the company’s executive team as Senior Vice President of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy. Giannandrea, who joined Apple from Google in April, oversees the strategy for AI and ML across products and services, as well as the development of Core ML and Siri technologies. HisRead More →
Microsoft on Thursday announced new, redesigned icons for all Office 365 applications to reflect a modern real-time and cloud-based approach for the Redmond giant. The company announced that the redesigned Office icons come as part of its focus towards pushing Office as a collaborative suite platform that allows users toRead More →
Indian banking and financial services company HDFC Bank on Tuesday announced the launch of its next-gen mobile banking app that brings a revamped interface and additional functionality, at an event in New Delhi. However, things seem to be going downhill (no pun intended) for the Mumbai-headquartered private bank as its redesignedRead More →
Google Maps has received an update that brings the ability to share live location and ETA for bus and train journeys. The new update is an extension to the original Share Location feature that is designed to let users share their real-time location while navigating to a particular place. WhileRead More →
Apple has introduced third-party workflow extensions and a host of new features for professional video creators in its update to Final Cut Pro X – its professional video-editing programme. The Final Cut Pro X update, now available on the Mac App Store, introduces workflow extensions that enable professional video editors to use third-partyRead More →