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• Google and Apple are courting the education sector with new tools for students

  With the new semester weeks away, Google and Apple are wasting no time to target the education sector with a swathe of new ...

  • Mix

• Twitter invests in ShareChat, an Indian social network for regional language users

  Twitter just made its first investment in India with ShareChat, a social networking app that targets local languages instead ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Assistant can now nag your family with assignable reminders

  Reminders are one of the most useful features of AI assistants. Pick up some groceries, take out the trash, set up a dentist appointment. But what about those times you need to nag other people to do something? Google Assistant can soon do that for you too. The feature, dubbed ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite's lack of accessibility is turning us into muggles

  As I realized Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was incompatible with my phone, I learned that I'm a device-muggle in the wizarding ...

  • Henry Sung

• Huawei is building its own Google Maps (and Yandex and Booking.com are already on board)

  Huawei is quietly gearing up to take on Google Maps with its own mapping service – and it's already got Yandex and Booking.com's ...

  • Mix

• TikTok is flooded by scammers promoting adult sites

  TikTok has been inundated by a slew of scammers seeking to take advantage of its quickly growing userbase – and get them ...

  • Mix

• Over 50% of Google searches result in no clicks, data shows

  Google is hungry for your clicks. But it turns out that more than half of all Google Search queries now result in no clicks. ...

  • Mix

• Here's how to listen to articles on your phone

  There’s a whole selection of apps that make news more accessible and engaging including paid subscriptions like Curio, ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook is finally testing Dark Mode

  Facebook is finally testing a dark mode for its Android app afeter sitting out for long. Reliable app leaker Jane Manchun ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Chrome for Android will now let you log in to some services without password

  Google announced today that you can use the fingerprint sensor to sign in to some of its services when you're using Chrome ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Researchers break iPhone’s FaceID by putting modified glasses on unconscious people

  Researchers have cracked Apple's FaceID biometric system yet again. But to unlock an iPhone, the attackers need to make sure ...

  • Mix

• Researchers: Popular gay dating apps are still leaking users' location data

  A handful of the most popular gay dating apps are exposing the precise location of their users. In a demonstration for BBC, ...

  • Bryan Clark