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Here’s why your iPhone XS selfies look a bit too smooth
Since people have been getting their hands on the latest iPhones over the past couple of weeks, many people and media outlets have been up in arms over the new devices’ front-facing cameras alleged use of a ‘beautification’ filter that smoothened skin on facial features in selfies. дальше »
2018-10-2 15:15 | |
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FBI uses FaceID to unlock a suspect’s iPhone X for the first time
For the first time ever, America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had a suspect to unlock his iPhone X using FaceID. The agency forced Grant Michalski – an Ohio resident who is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography – to unlock his iPhone X with his face on August 10. дальше »
2018-10-2 16:32 | |
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Opera Enables Built-in Ethereum Support, Integrating Web3 Capabilities
Opera Browser, the fifth most important internet browser in the market recently announced an update of its desktop app which added built-in Ethereum support, enabling Web 3.0 capabilities. With this decision, the browser is now the first to allow the implementation of an ecosystem of decentralized applications that can interact with each other through a […] The post Opera Enables Built-in Ethereum Support, Integrating Web3 Capabilities appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »
2018-9-29 20:41 | |
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WhatsApp co-founder: Facebook already had plans to serve ads on the app before acquisition
Brian Acton – one of the co-founders of the popular messaging app WhatsApp – resigned from Facebook in 2017. And with that, he left $850 million on the table in the form of non-vested stock options. дальше »
2018-9-27 16:24 | |
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Cryptocurrency That Works Without Internet, mCoin Launches In Africa
London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app. дальше »
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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Google releases Android Studio 3.2 with app bundle support
Google released Android Studio 3. 2 today with a bunch of useful new features for developers on, including a new app publishing format, an energy profiler, and an improved emulator. As is the case almost every year, the company had announced the update at its IO developer conference in May. дальше »
2018-9-25 15:14 | |
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Devs worry Ethereum is clogged with crappy apps, but Vitalik has a fix
There’s growing concern that Ethereum cannot handle anymore dApps – but founder Vitalik Buterin says he’s close to fixing the scalability issues. Afri Schoedon, part of the Parity wallet development team, recently urged new decentralized app (dApp) projects away from Ethereum. дальше »
2018-9-24 17:31 | |
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Sublime Git is a clean code editor for merge conflicts
Sublime HQ – the folks behind the excellent text editor Sublime Text – has released a code editor for developers that focuses on a clean interface for coding and solving git merges. It’s called Sublime Git, and it’s available for free on macOS, Windows, and Linux. дальше »
2018-9-21 17:03 | |
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Dutch supermarket giant uses blockchain to make orange juice transparent
The largest Dutch supermarket chain, Albert Heijn, is planning its own blockchain makeover. Albert Heijn wants to stamp bottles of its private-label juice with special QR-codes. Customers can scan them with an app that will show details about its origin and supply chain. дальше »
2018-9-21 14:04 | |
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Twitch confirms it’s been blocked in China
Gaming-focused live streaming platform Twitch has been blocked in China, the company confirmed. A report by Abacus suggests that Twitch’s iOS app has vanished from the App Store and its website is inaccessible across the country. дальше »
2018-9-21 09:18 | |
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Instagram is testing geo-restriction for stories and posts
Instagram is testing a geofencing feature for stories and posts. This will allow the creators to post their content to selected countries, instead of being universally available. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong pointed out on Twitter that while creating posts, users will be able to choose specific countries where they want to show their content. дальше »
2018-9-20 11:14 | |
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Amazon reportedly plans to open 3,000 cashier-less stores by 2021
Amazon is said to be interested in beating grocery stores at their own game by opening 3,000 more of its cashier-less Amazon Go shops over the next three years, reports Bloomberg. That could see it go up against major chains like 7-Eleven, Subway, and Pret a Manger – with the added advantage of zero checkout lines. дальше »
2018-9-20 06:48 | |
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Beauty app teams up with Kik to bring cryptocurrency to 92 million women
AR-powered vanity platform Perfect365, which touts more than 100 million (mostly female) users, is the latest startup to embrace blockchain technology and tokenize its platform. Through a collaboration with Kin (a cryptocurrency developed by messaging giant Kik), the beauty app will soon reward users with cryptocurrency for their activity on Perfect365. дальше »
2018-9-20 18:31 | |
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Mozilla’s new Firefox Reality browser brings the web to your VR headset
Mozilla has launched Firefox Reality, a web browser custom built for use with VR headsets. Version 1. 0 is now available for free in Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores. The goal with this project, which the organization has been working on for years, is to make it easy to enjoy 2D and immersive content on the web as easily as possible. дальше »
2018-9-19 08:10 | |
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YouTube merges Gaming with main site after standalone app fails to impress
Google today announced it’s shuttering YouTube Gaming, replacing it with a page on the main site. The company is hoping that the Gaming page, while not very dissimilar to the Gaming site, will help bring more viewers and content creators together now that they aren’t being forced to shuffle between two sites. дальше »
2018-9-19 00:59 | |
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SBI Holdings to Use Ripple’s Distributed Ledger Technology for Mobile App
Japanese Fintech giant SBI Holdings will launch a Ripple-based mobile application called Money Tap by the end of 2018. Takashi Okita, the CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, announced the news via a tweet on September 12, 2018, and shared a website of the new mobile application. дальше »
2018-9-19 20:30 | |
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Ripple makes waves with Japanese money transfer app
SBI Holdings is not quite done with its foray into blockchain. The Japanese financial giant has announced plans to launch a mobile payment app for iOS and Android that will use Ripple’s distributed ledger tech. дальше »
2018-9-17 23:06 | |
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Hackers Steal $200k from EOS Gambling dApp EOSBet
Merely days after claiming to be the safest gambling app on the market, EOS-based gambling dApp EOSBet has been hacked for 40,000 EOS tokens ($200,000). According to the Next Web, the hackers were able to exploit vulnerabilities in EOS’ smart contract protocols. дальше »
2018-9-15 22:08 | |
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Japanese SBI Set to Launch Ripple-Based Mobile App
Japanese Fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings plans to launch a Ripple-powered mobile payment application called MoneyTap. In a tweet shared with his followers, Takashi Okita, CEO of SBI Ripple Asia shared the web page of the new payment application, which promises to offer "easy bank transfer application" without fees. дальше »
2018-9-15 22:03 | |
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Facebook is building an AI tool to help devs fix buggy code
Facebook has built an artificial intelligence tool to help programmers patch buggy code. It’s called SapFix, and it’s currently being used internally to automatically detect anomalies in code and suggest relevant fixes to coders. дальше »
2018-9-14 09:33 | |
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Kik-approved messaging app caught storing user passwords in plain text
It appears that messaging app Blastchat – which was recently selected for Kik’s $3 million cryptocurrency developer program – has been caught storing sensitive user data, including passwords, in plain text. дальше »
2018-9-13 18:51 | |
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Spark, a New GUI Lightning Wallet for Bitcoin, Now Available for Download
Spark is a web-based GUI wallet designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend. The platform allows for easy spending and receiving of bitcoins over the Lightning Network, which is renowned for its payment speeds. дальше »
2018-9-11 22:32 | |
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The crypto-jacking epidemic continues, 280K infected routers detected to date
The blockchain space has been under siege by a massive crypto-jacking campaign. It’s designed to surreptitiously steal your computer power to mine cryptocurrency – and it appears the attackers are showing no signs of slowing down. дальше »
2018-9-11 19:12 | |
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We used Google Arts & Culture’s selfie app to make the internet’s Shit Museum
Ever have one of those weeks where you feel like everything is going wrong in the world? Us too. The planet is melting. There are powerful idiots all over the world with their greasy fingers hovered over big red doom buttons. дальше »
2018-9-9 17:47 | |
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Hackers hijack 380,000 customers’ data from British Airways’ site
Hackers have stolen the data of 380,000 customers including names, addresses, phone number, and payment information from the British Airways website. However, the compromised data didn’t include passport or travel details. дальше »
2018-9-7 09:59 | |
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Instagram’s parents guide is helpful, but doesn’t go deep enough
Instagram today published a new guide on its Well-Being center aimed at parents of younger Instagram users. While the resources it offers are very helpful for non-savvy guardians, it doesn’t offer tools for addressing some of Instagram‘s deeper issues and the trouble it can cause young people. дальше »
2018-9-7 21:35 | |
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Snap’s new Spectacles actually look… wearable?
It seems Snapchat finally gets the concept of aesthetics. The company’s just introduced two new kinds of Spectacles — both of which look considerably less dorky than their predecessor. You remember Snapchat‘s Spectacles, the sunglasses-cum-clumsy recorder, don’t you? They were pitched as a sort of teen-friendly Google Glass, meant to compliment the app by letting users take photos and videos right from their temples. дальше »
2018-9-6 01:57 | |
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It turns out lots of people actually did #DeleteFacebook
A Pew Study published today suggests up to three-quarters of Americans have taken steps to either tighten their Facebook security or distance themselves from the site entirely — both reflections of a certain loss of naivety in the site’s audience. дальше »
2018-9-6 20:37 | |
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Google Chrome gets a big redesign and new features for its 10th birthday
Chrome is turning ten, and it’s getting a makeover to celebrate. Google today announced a wide set of changes coming to the world’s most popular browser – some aesthetic, and some functional. Most notably, the app now has a flatter, rounder design more in line with Google’s Material Design principles; these changes will be seen on both mobile and desktop. дальше »
2018-9-5 01:58 | |
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Skype has yet another new design, but hasn’t fixed its core problems
Microsoft today announced it would be walking back previous updates to Skype, and returning to the basics of video calling and messaging. Essentially, it’s finally dropped the hokey makeover it forced on users last year. дальше »
2018-9-5 20:40 | |
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Google erroneously banned a cryptocurrency mining app with 1M+ downloads
In an effort to curb the spread of crypto-jacking software, Google updated its terms of service in July to ban on-device cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store. Unfortunately, it appears that (in addition to a slew of mining apps) the internet giant has erroneously banned some legitimate apps – including one with over a million installs. дальше »
2018-9-5 18:20 | |
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Appscope is an app store for people who hate installing apps
Apps are what make your mobile device useful – except when they up too much storage space, or even too much of your attention. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em, eh? Appscope makes it easy to achieve a middle ground of sorts: it’s a store for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that work in your browser, requiring no installation and offering a native experience so it’s almost impossible to tell you’re actually just using a website. дальше »
2018-9-3 10:18 | |
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Can you put it down? We’re stealing our lives from ourselves…
We are living in a digital age of instant gratification. Thirty million songs can be accessed with a swipe of our smartphone on the Spotify app. Meanwhile, Netflix will ensure you can binge through an entire season of a TV series rather than wait for next week’s episode. дальше »
2018-8-29 22:05 | |
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UK bans ‘misleading’ Facebook ads for a popular contraceptive app
A Facebook ad promoting the contraceptive smartphone app as a “highly accurate” method of birth control has been found to be misleading by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after figures revealed it is less effective then suggested. дальше »
2018-8-29 11:58 | |
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Review: The Huawei TalkBand B5 is a fitness tracker you can make calls on
The Huawei TalkBand B5 is a fabulous fitness tracker. I’ve used a bunch, from devices from little-known brands like Amazfit, to units from more established industry figures like FitBit, and it’s easily my favorite so far. дальше »
2018-8-28 21:14 | |
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Google rebrands its Tez payments app to Google Pay in India, adds instant loans
Last September, Google launched Tez, an app for instant money transfers in India. At its annual event in the capital of New Delhi, the company announced it’s rebranding the app to Google Pay. That means it’s unifying its global payments services with what it’s built for India. дальше »
2018-8-28 11:15 | |
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Facebook’s attitude towards researchers should worry you
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics to gather public Facebook data, that the social network has recently banned. дальше »
2018-8-27 16:26 | |
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This Instagram account documents the disturbing truth of online dating as a woman
The world of online dating is a fraught one — filled with creeps, bad intentions, and painful chat up lines. Apps like Tinder, Happn, and Bumble have changed the dating game by making it easier and more accessible, but in return they’ve created an online culture of abuse after rejection. дальше »
2018-8-27 15:31 | |
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Data restrictions don’t have to spell disaster for companies
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a disaster for everyone: for Facebook’s users, whose personal data was exposed and misused. For Facebook itself, which breached and then lost the trust of a billion-plus people. дальше »
2018-8-25 15:30 | |
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Now is the perfect time for foreign developers to focus on the Chinese app market
China’s role in the global tech scene is now impossible to ignore. Previously seen as just a producer of components or builder of goods for tech products, the success of WeChat, Douyin, and Weibo, show it is now taking the centre stage with its own creations. дальше »
2018-8-25 11:30 | |
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It took Facebook months to ban this shady app after Cambridge Analytica
Facebook announced this week it had made its first outright ban of an app in the company-wide audit it’s been working on since the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year. The app in question had apparently been setting off red flags since April. дальше »
2018-8-24 00:42 | |
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Android app scams users out of €335 in return for an Ethereum logo
There is an illegitimate “Ethereum” app that claims to sell you one Ether (the cryptocurrency derived from the Ethereum blockchain). Except it’s a scam – users are being tricked into buying a picture of its logo. дальше »
2018-8-21 18:19 | |
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Google Fit teams up with the WHO to help you shed the pounds
Google has updated its fitness tracking app Google Fit. The latest version contains a radical visual redesign, and an emphasis on helping users achieve their health and fitness goals. For this update, Google says it’s worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Heart Association (AHA), in order to better understand the science behind physical fitness and health. дальше »
2018-8-21 18:16 | |
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Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning App Classes
The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants. дальше »
2018-8-20 16:40 | |
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Google Play promised to ban cryptocurrency mining apps, but we found tons
Google recently announced its plan to curtail the distribution of cryptocurrency mining apps on the Play Store, but it appears some are still slipping through the net. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices,” the Big G wrote in its updated developer policies last month. дальше »
2018-8-17 17:39 | |
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Gath3r Offers Online Publishers Ad-Free Way to Monetize
With the issue of data privacy rarely far from news headlines – regardless of the industry in question – and online advertising proving to be a bugbear for the average Internet user – it comes as no surprise that a number of companies are devising solutions to capitalize on this situation. Web publishers and app […] дальше »
2018-8-17 17:30 | |
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Google’s Firebase adds in-app messaging and new Crashlytics integrations
Firebase, the app development platform acquired by Google in 2014, today saw a major update. In addition to several platform-wide enhancements, the company is introducing an in-app messaging services, as well as several major integrations for the popular crash reporting tool, Crashlyics. дальше »
2018-8-16 19:00 | |
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