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Last week, the natives of Massachusetts found the official COVID-19 tracing app from their state government being installed in their Android phones, by Google, without their consent. This surprising act by Google has frustrated the people of Massachusetts, who went onto accuse Google of its technological dominance on its own platform. Google Automatically Installs Apps in Android Phones In order to track and safeguard the health of their citizens, several national and state governments across the world have come up with respective tracing apps recently....

Apart from apps and websites, browser extensions too can sometimes be malicious. After Awake reported that 111 malicious Chrome extensions can steal sensitive user data, Google has just introduced a new feature called Extension Checkup , which is enabled in the Chrome browser, shall educate the user about the pros and cons of extensions, and also review their extensions. A New Experiment While browser extensions are gaining prominence for being light and work doers, they’re often coming with malicious intentions since Google isn’t checking them so effectively....

In a new update rolled out to its Maps platform, Google added wheelchair accessibility settings for everyone and improved the Live View feature. With this, users can get more information about places on their route to their destination, like ATMs, transit stations, etc. – all filled with the necessary information to make smart choices. Further, the Maps Live View will point to EV charging stations, too, with suitable pins to your car....

The company also stated that the data be used for training Google Translate and its Cloud AI to perform better. This move triggered the community as experts warn that such scraping would eventually harm the users, as the companies often consider stolen private data too in training their products. Training on Public Data With Generative AI gaining craze, big tech is changing their policies to adapt accordingly. After rushing to make their large language models, the tech companies are now tuning their data-sucking rules to favour their products better, at the cost of the community’s privacy....

Google’s Play Store is back with its “Repetitive Content” banhammer, this time targeting the icon pack apps. After the Grabster Studios, we now have Pix Monochrome and Pix Material You Light/Dark apps from PashaPuma Design banned citing the repetitive content policy – even though they’re of different designs. And without understanding much, Google even turned down the appeal of PashaPuma for reinstating its apps. Taking Down Similar Icon Packs Google’s Play Store is one of the two major app stores today, housing billions of apps of various kinds....

Google has launched its third beta of Android 11 yesterday, which is going to be the last one before a stable release. While this beta isn’t going to much improvements on anything, it gets the final and much-settled version of the Exposure Notification for COVID-19 tracing. This beta will be available for select Pixel devices only. Google Releases Android 11 Beta 3 After two betas of Android 11 for several smartphones, Google has now come up with the third, and probably the final beta version of Android 11....

With Google shutting down Stadia next month, all the players are worried about their games data being stored in there – and the achievements they had in it. Well, it shouldn’t be a problem for the Hitman – World of Assassination gamers, as its developer, IO Interactive, announced a one-click tool to transfer all the major game data from Stadia to third-party consoles, like PlayStation, Xbox, or PC. This tool will be coming later this week....

WhatsApp has long been a favorite target for most of the cybercriminals, due to its wider community. And an allegation on Israeli firm NSO Group for breaching its policies has new detailed information now. WhatsApp , which filed a case against the NSO group for its product named Pegasus, was being used for hacking over 1400 of its users, detailed how the NSO group is involved in hacking. “Deeply Involved” In Phone Hacks – WhatsApp The Israel based NSO group has long been claiming its software; Pegasus is used by government authorities for tracking down terrorists, criminals, and saving lives....

If you live outside the US and would like to access US content on your Roku, then you are landed in the right place. Here, we will discuss how you can access the USA TV network on your Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and Xbox. Although accessing the USA TV network is very easy as you just need to create an NBCUniversal profile, but the process is quite complicated. To activate the USA TV network, you need to access the USA Network Activate page....

A proxy server is mandatory for your accessibility to browsers and the Internet. Before we dive into what we need to do to check the proxy server settings on our computer, let us understand its means and how it operates. A Proxy Server is a gateway to all web-related activities. Every computer has access to its proxy server settings, which mediate between websites and the computer. You are given a unique IP address when you purchase and set up a computer....

Windows 10 is continuously changing day by day, releasing updates in their new windows 10 OS. Many users like to get updated with the latest windows 10 and want to access their news features. So before moving forward, you need to know which build or version you are currently running on your computer. There is no fixed time to rollout the windows 10 update. Windows 10 is the last operating system claimed by Microsoft....

In this Covid-19 situation, we are working from our home, and in this situation, Webex helped us a lot. However, everyone knows the importance of the microphone and camera when it comes to online video conferencing or meetings, especially in this condition. Therefore, testing the microphone and camera is really important before joining a video conference. Apart from that, if we talk about Cisco Webex, it is basically an enterprise solution for online meeting and video conferencing platforms that is highly secured....

In this guide, I have explained how to clear iPhone and iPad system data. But what exactly is system data on an iPhone? It consists of various information related to the operating system, such as iOS on an iPhone and iPadOS on an iPad. System data usually includes Fonts, logs, dictionaries, local keychain data, and CloudKit Database information. Collectively, it can be viewed within the iOS/iPadOS settings app under the General section....

You will generally see .tar.gz file format in Unix systems (commonly in Ubuntu and macOS). Tarballs or files with .tar.gz extensions are created with tar in Unix systems and then compressed using gzip. If you come across such files on your Windows PC then you will have to extract them to use them. Well, there are various third-party apps with which you can extract such files on your Windows 10 ....

Facing an update error when trying to update Windows 11 isn’t something new. Recently, users have reported facing the 0x800f0831 update error in Windows 11 whenever they try to update their PC. This error faced by users prevents them from updating their OS to the latest version. There are various reasons to encounter this message. Most likely, you will face this issue because of some conflicting software due to corrupted system files , damages update components, less storage to allow you to update Windows and clean the old one, and various others....

Is your Chrome browser opening slow on your Windows 11/10 device? As we know, Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on every Windows device. Still, many users prefer using Google Chrome as it provides a seamless experience with all Google services. Google Chrome is very fast and secure as compared to other browsers. But recently, many users have been complaining about Google Chrome slow to open on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices....

Presently, Mobile hotspot is the most efficient way to connect to the internet on a laptop or computer. Through the Hotspot option, you can connect your network to other devices and other devices can access that network. Connecting your PC or laptop to the Mobile Hotspot is very simple. Enter the mobile Hotspot’s password in the PC’s Hotspot section, and connect to the Network. Sometimes, users can report the Mobile Hotspot not connecting in Windows 11 PC or laptop as they’d hoped....

With over 470 million users, Spotify is among the best online and offline music player apps. Spotify can do that because of its brilliant user interface and experience. And most importantly, it has millions of tracks from all over the globe. Along with music, Spotify is also providing podcasts. By far, around 40 million people from the USA only love to listen to any podcast on Spotify. So you can assume these huge numbers....

Windows CoPilot is an AI assistant by Microsoft, Built on GPT-4, that allows you to get AI-generated responses to queries and control the Windows 11 system through AI, such as manage settings, do various tasks, etc. CoPilot is only available as a web app, but we can help you create a Desktop app. You can see CoPilot on Microsoft’s products like Skype, edge, etc. It is mostly used for conversation and retrieving information from the internet....

It is always seen in older iPhones that their speakers are pretty low in sound output. However , Apple has significantly changed its smartphones over the years to boost their volume. Meanwhile, most of the latest iPhones are louder when speaking to someone on the call or listening to music. But sometimes, people want to make their iPhones louder because they face environmental noise issues or want extra loudness while listening to music....