Net Signal Pro Wi-Fi strength checker for Android
Net Signal Pro is a commercial application for Android to check the strength of wireless connections and to display various Wi-fi related information.
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iOS 16 update to roll out today, here is what's new in it
Apple is set to releases iOS 16 today.
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EU wants OEMs to support phones with 3 years of OS updates and 5 years of security updates
The European Union is working on new laws that could enforce OEMs to offer long-term software support for phones.
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Valve releases new Steam beta mobile app with redesigned UI, scan with QR to login
Valve has released a beta version of its Steam mobile app for Android and iOS devices.
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InAppBrowser reveals if TikTok, Instagram and other apps with browsers inject their JavaScript
Earlier this month it was revealed that popular mobile applications with integrated browsers injected custom JavaScript into visited sites.
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Signal says Twilio data breach resulted in 1900 users' phone numbers being exposed
A week ago, I wrote an article about a data breach that happened at Twilio.
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Telegram founder says Apple forced them to remove animated Telemoji from the messaging app
A couple of days ago, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov shared a message on his channel claiming that Apple had deliberately delayed a revolutionary update for the
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Twilio, the company that owns Authy, suffered a data breach
Twilio, the company which owns the popular 2-factor authentication service Authy, has revealed that it has suffered a data breach.
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WhatsApp now lets you delete messages after 2 days, leave groups silently, and adds screenshot blocking
WhatsApp Messenger now allows users to delete messages even after 2 days.
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Researchers discover HiddenAds malware in a dozen Android apps that were distributed on the Google Play Store
Researchers at McAfee have discovered that a dozen Android apps, that were distributed on the Google Play Store, had been pushing malicious ads to users.
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Google says it will restore the app permissions section on the Play Store
Earlier this week, Google made a rather unusual decision to stop displaying app permissions on the Play Store.
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Media Player VLC 3.5 for Android has been released
VideoLAN, maker of the popular open source media player VLC, has released VLC 3.
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Nova Launcher and Sesame Search have been acquired by Branch, an analytics company
The popular home screen app for Android devices, Nova Launcher has been acquired by Branch Metrics, a company that specializes in analytics.
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App Permissions are no longer displayed on Google Play
Google Play is the default store on most Android devices.
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Microsoft announces a new design for OneNote on Android, and adds local backup option for OneNote for Mac
Microsoft has announced that it is updating the user interface of its OneNote app for Android.
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How to install iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 public beta on your iPhone and iPad
Apple has released the first public beta of iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura 13 for download.
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AGM Glory G1S: heavy-duty Android phone with best-in-class thermal camera
AGM released the Glory G1S, a rugged phone with an impressive thermal camera, a night vision camera, laser pointer and several other nice-to-have features.
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Huge update for third-party Android YouTube client NewPipe released
The developers of the third-party Android YouTube client NewPipe released an update this week for the application.
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SoundAssistant for Samsung Galaxy gives you app-specific volume controls
SoundAssistant by Good Lock Labs is a free sound application for Samsung Galaxy devices.
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Telegram Premium Features: Official List
Telegram Premium has been officially announced.
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Telegram founder criticizes Apple for web app limitations on iOS
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has criticized Apple for limiting web developers on iOS and iPadOS.
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DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser app does not block Microsoft trackers
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser isn't totally private, a security researcher has revealed.
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Google forces Total Commander developer to remove the ability to install APKs on Android devices
Total Commander for Android no longer allows you to install APKs that you downloaded.
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1.5 million apps on Google and Apple's app stores may be removed for not being updated in 2 years
A few weeks ago, Apple began warning developers that they would be removing apps that haven't been updated in a long time, from the App Store.
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Nothing Launcher beta is now available for devices on Android 11 or above
A couple of weeks ago, Nothing, the company founded by Carl Pei, released a new launcher app to tease a preview of Nothing OS.
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Google will discontinue its YouTube Go app in August
Google has announced that it is discontinuing its YouTube Go app in August 2022.
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Mozilla says that some mental health and prayer apps have serious privacy issues
Mozilla has released a report after analyzing various mental health apps and prayer apps.
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Telegram Premium subscription is reportedly in the works; could offer more stickers and reactions
Telegram Messenger is working on a paid subscription called Telegram Premium.
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Microsoft Lens can only save scans if you allow it to analyze the content
Microsoft Lens, a free scanning application for Google Android, is a document scanning and conversion app.
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Telegram adds support for custom notification sounds, mute duration, new animated emoji
Telegram has updated its apps with improvements for notifications, auto-delete, emojis and more.
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Whatsapp file upload limit increase 100 MB to 2 GB, group size 512 members increase
WhatsApp has increased its file sharing limit to 2 GB and expanded group sizes to 512 members (and later to 1,024), officially rolling out these features to use
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Proton Calendar app for Android is now available for all users
Proton AG has rolled out Proton Calendar for Android for all users.
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Android Messages and Dialer apps allegedly sent data to Google without consent
In the research paper "What Data Do The Google Dialer and Messages Apps On Android Send to Google?", Trinity College professor Douglas J.
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How to delete the Advertising ID on Android
To delete your Android advertising ID, open Settings, tap Privacy > Ads, and select Delete advertising ID, confirming the action.
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DeepL Translator is now available for Android
When DeepL Translator launched in 2017, it promised to deliver translations that would be more human-like than those of competing services such as Google Transl
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Simple Keyboard: open source lightweight keyboard for Android
Simple Keyboard is an open source application for Google's Android operating system by the maker of Simple Mobile Tools.
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Open Source app TapTap brings Android's Quick Tap feature to unsupported devices
TapTap is an open source application for Google's Android operating system that brings Android 12's Quick Tap feature to devices running Android 7 and up.
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Why I won't buy a new phone when my Google Pixel Android phone runs out of support
I bought a Google Pixel 3a Android phone shortly after it was released.
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NewPipe: the better YouTube client for Android
NewPipe is an open source YouTube application for Android that has all the features that the official YouTube application does not support, or only offers when
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My experience with DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection feature
DuckDuckGo added an app tracking protection feature to its Android application, also called DuckDuckGo, back in November 2021.
