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Google Acknowledges Not Disclosing Its Home Alarm Contained Microphone

Google has confessed that they committed a mistake in keeping it a secret that their products of home alarms consisted of a microphone. Available since 2017, product details of Nest Guard had never said of any listening device at all. During the beginning of February 2019, Google said that a certain software update would come…

Education Department In China Checks Online Device Usage Of Students

The Department of Education in China’s Zhejiang has banned teachers from using WeChat. Mobile apps are used to assign homework to children. With the internet boom, phones are used by teachers in China to give homework and notices to students and their parents. Of late, teachers are using WeChat to provide assignments to students. Assignments…

Nissan Offers EV Batteries One More Chance By Using Them To Power Trailers

Once the batteries in electric vehicles are worn down further than the point of being helpful to the vehicle, something needs to be done. Nissan has a new solution that will assist expand the battery life by repurposing it into a fuel source for camping Opus’ trailers. The battery recycling solution by Nissan is made…

Niantic Is Changing Pokémon Go To Settle A Court Case With Angry Users

Niantic, the Pokémon Go developer, has agreed to settle a court case with users who had PokéStops placed near their homes, and it is making some minor game modifications as fraction of the agreement. The settlement was presented in court filings last week, and it is still awaiting approval of a judge. It will not…

Hugely Successful Chinese Govt App Designed By Alibaba

Alibaba, a multi-million dollar company headed by Jack Ma, who is considered as one of the biggest entrepreneurs of the present generation, recently came into the news as the company responsible for developing an application aimed at spreading the propaganda of the Chinese government. This revelation was done by two employees of the company itself…

Facebook To Increase Fact-Checking Before Elections In India

Reportedly, Facebook has bolted five new affiliations in India to expand its fact-checking program before the country’s general election, which is scheduled in May. In recent time, the tech giant declared it had associated with Vishvas.news, India Today Group, Newsmobile, Factly, and Fact Crescendo, which were all approved through a global fact-checking network. The collaborators…

Enterprise Program By Apple Is Being Abused By Gambling And Porn Apps

Gambling and porn firms are sneaking private applications on the iPhone, with the help of the same tool that Apple busted Google and Facebook for improperly employing previous month. Media uncovered almost 12 apps employing “developer enterprise program” by Apple to get loaded onto iOS gadgets outside of the App Store. Apple prohibits porn inside…

LG’s G8 Will Battle FaceID With Its Personal 3D Front-Facing Camera

LG is not ready to tout all of the details surrounding its next flagship handset just yet, but this week it has disclosed the tech that we will see in the front-facing camera of G8 ThinQ. By adding a “Time of Flight” image sensor created by Infineon, LG states that it can offer functions such…

Techstars, Starburst Begin Accepting Proposals For Space Focused Accelerator

Starburst Aerospace announced its plans in San Francisco, on the February 12, 2019. It plans to begin accepting applications towards an upcoming Accelerator focused on space in Los Angeles. This project is backed by the Air Force in U.S, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, SAIC, Maxar Technologies, the Aerospace Industry in Israel and Lockheed…

Streaming Service By AT&T Will Not Have Original Shows Till 2020

AT&T is carrying on the trickle of data about its next WarnerMedia streaming service, and now it is more particular about the type of content you will receive. Kevin Reilly (TNT and TBS President) claimed at a Television Critics Association event that the beta edition of the service rolling out in 2019 will not have…

Amazon Pumps In Self-Driving Car Startup Run By Ex-Google employees

The autonomous tech firm operated by the previous head of Google’s self-driving car department, Aurora Innovation, just landed a round of funding worth half a billion dollars from a huge bunch of investors, including Amazon. It is the newest sign that the online retail behemoth is pushing hard into the realm of self-driving cars. Late…

Apple Filing Specifies User Data The Firm Is Hoarding In Russia

Apple Inc specified the user data it is hoarding in Russia to conform to a local regulation that was implemented in 2015, as per a recent filing with the government of Russia. Apple users in the province have data comprising their name, email address, phone number, and delivery address hoarded on servers within Russia. The…

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