Indian alternatives to Chinese apps are seeing a surge in downloads after the government that banned 59 from the neighbouring country following the Galwan standoff Sankalp R Nag felt it was his nationalistic duty to switch to Indian apps after the border face-off between India and China in Galwan Valley in June. The government’s announcement to ban 59 Chinese apps immediately after the standoff only the reinforced his belief. Nag, who runs a gems and jewels shop in Zaveri Bazar, South Mumbai, uninstalled TikTok, where he would occasionally upload videos,…

Australia’s competition regulator has launched the court proceedings against Alphabet’s Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the expanded use of personal data for targeted advertising. The case by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Federal Court said that Google did not explicitly get consent nor properly to inform consumers about a 2016 move to combine personal information in Google accounts with activities on non-Google websites that use its technology. The regulator said that this practice allowed the Alphabet Inc unit to link the names and other ways to…

Google’s advantage over third-party Android developers might be extending the above and beyond just building apps for an OS it owns, According to reports, Google has been collecting and studying usage data from competing apps to help develop its own apps better. Reports by The Information (via MSPowerUser) claims that anonymised, user-consented data collected from third-party apps is stored in the Android Lockbox service. Google says that this service primarily works to power features like background app management etc. Google also noted that all this data is freely available to app developers…

Hopes that the rise in average of global temperatures by 2100 might be capped by below 2.5-degree Celsius can be all but ruled out if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, new research reassessing the atmosphere’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide(CO2) suggests. The study, under the Geneva-based World Climate Research Program, offers the first clear progress in decades toward narrowing the range of temperature rise caused by doubling of carbon dioxide levels since pre-industrial times. Its findings show that doubling would trigger 2.6 to 4.1 degrees Celsius in average…

You can unlock your iPhone and iPads with Face ID but on the Apple Mac, you still need to type in your password or set up your Apple Watch to auto-unlock your Mac. Or depending on which model of the Apple Mac you haven you can also use your fingerprint with Touch ID. However, there’s hope. Code discovered in the macOS Big Sur beta, according to a 9to5 Mac report, indicates that Face ID could be coming to Apple Macs sometime in the future. The code that’s has been spotted apparently is…

Reliance’s JioMart is a platform, which made a debut in Google Play Store and Apple App Store a few days ago, has already become the second and third most popular app in Apple and Google’s app stores, as per App Annie. Also, the app was downloaded more than 10 lakh times within days, according to the data compiled by Appbrain. Right now, the shopping platform is said to take more than 2.5 lakh daily orders from across the country with numbers rising at a consistent rate. It has even added…

Facebook might be have some well-meaning efforts in place but some of the bad actors manage to get through its safeguards and policies. The social media platform is now upping its guards and is experimenting with a new way to strengthen its anti-spam walls and preempt bad behaviours that could breach its safeguards – an army of malicious bots. The platform is developing a new system of bots that it can simulate bad behaviours and stress-test the platform to unearth flaws and loopholes. These automated bots are trained and have…