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• Google topped app downloads in Q4 2019, but Facebook dominated the year

  For the first time in five years, Google has snatched the reigns from Facebook to become the world's top publisher of mobile ...

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• New deepfake app pastes your face onto GIFs in seconds

  Last year, we saw some horrific apps that use deepfake tech with malicious intent. Following that, Facebook banned 'misleading' deepfakes from its platform -- except parody. However, the tech can be used freely in fun applications such as Doublicat, which lets you superimpose your ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google purged 1.7K malicious 'Joker' apps from the Play Store

  No, we're not talking about the movie. Google has removed 1,700 instances of a family of billing fraud malware dubbed Bread, ...

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• Text this number for an infinite feed of AI-generated feet

  Someone trained a computer to create fake feet pics — and you can get endless AI-generated foot pics by texting this number. ...

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• Google Assistant now lets you torment roommates with ‘household notes’

  Forget about the good ol' passive-aggressive refrigerator note: Google Assistant will let you leave "household notes" on ...

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• Our favorite things on the internet in 2019

  2019 brought us some nifty apps, websites and tools out there that make the dub dub dub a bit more enjoyable — and also saw us stick to a bunch of old favorites that are still going strong at the end of the decade. Here are our favorite things the TNW crew used online ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The UAE is reportedly spying on millions of ToTok messenger users (Update: It's back on Google Play)

  ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is being used by the government of the UAE to track users' chats and listen in on their ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• US Navy officers can't use TikTok on government-issued phones because it's a 'cybersecurity threat'

  Last week, the US Navy banned TikTok, the short video sharing app, from government-issued mobile devices, as it represented ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This Egyptian NGO makes workplaces more accessible for people with disabilities

  Twenty-seven-year-old Nabila Saleh, who has been blind since birth, has become accustomed to angry responses and hateful ...

  • Hazem Badr

• Facebook owns the four most popular apps of the decade

  Analytics firm App Annie revealed data about the most-downloaded apps and games of the past ten years. Most of it is about ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Microsoft wants devs to submit Chromium Edge add-ons ahead of its launch

  Microsoft is now accepting developers' submissions of add-ons for its upcoming Chromium-based Edge browser, so as to extend ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Review: Hot Wheels id makes the perfect STEM gift for kids with iPads

  There's always been something magical about Hot Wheels toy cars. Introduced in 1968, they were among the first children's ...

  • Tristan Greene