Apps

A recent report from LendEDU points to a significant number of Millennials favoring original content from Netflix than original content provided by other streaming service providers. While leading competitors such as Hulu or Amazon’s Prime service only managed to collectively take 7 percent of the viewers, Netflix came away with 79 percent of the votes. […]

YouTube on Tuesday officially announced the first logo change in its history, in addition to debuting a major redesign of both its desktop and mobile apps. The Google-owned video streaming service has been experimenting with a refreshed aesthetic for several months now but is now distributing it to users all around the world, with the […]

Google has pulled roughly 300 apps from the Play Store because they were secretly engaging devices in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Serious attacks from a WireX botnet hit a number of content providers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) on August 17, with the botnet tapping Android devices infected with malware in order to […]

Uber will stop tracking users after their trips are over and they exit the ride-hailing mobile app, the company’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said during a Tuesday interview with Reuters. The move is meant to mark the latest step in the company’s effort to increase the privacy of its users by eliminating a controversial feature […]

In an effort to further curb the distribution of fake news, Facebook has announced through its official blog, that it will be preventing pages that repeatedly share misleading articles from buying ads on the social networking site. A few months ago, the social network has prevented advertisers from sharing links to stories, that have been […]

The latest version of the Google Duo app — build version 17 — hints at additional camera settings and some other improvements that the Alphabet-owned company is presumably looking to debut in the near future, as suggested by a recent APK teardown of the service. The code found in the new app suggests that the video Settings section […]

Each of us can hardly imagine the life without Internet. It caused a slow but constant economic boost all over the world giving solid ground for small business development together with enhancing the possibilities of big enterprises and corporations. Thanks to world wide web we made a big step in raising a generation of absolutely […]

Google has officially announced the top 20 indie games that have made the cut to be called finalists at this year’s Indie Games Festival in San Francisco. The Googlers in charge of picking out the games did so by spending some time playing the ones that made the cut for the minimum criteria for submission, […]

Google’s Allo Android app is set to be updated with a native translation feature and a number of other functionalities in the near future, as suggested by a recent APK teardown of the Allo build 17. The ability to translate messages received from chat participants is presumably powered by the same technology behind Google Translate […]

There is a brand new open-source native desktop client for Google’s Allo that solves at least one of the problems users might have with the web application. Namely, it bypasses the Allo for Web app’s reliance on Google’s Chrome browser which has been a problem for some users since the official web client was first […]

ComScore’s 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report has been released and, as always, it shows several interesting trends in the usage of apps across age demographics and categories. Although there is a lot of information in the report in general, it seems to suggest that apps are hitting a kind of peak. That’s despite that apps […]

Uber has announced a slew of additions to its service for both drivers and passengers today, including a new optional driver tracking feature called Driver Share My Trip. This new feature allows drivers to share their current whereabouts with a given contact or group of contacts, allowing anyone to know where they are at any […]

WhatsApp‘s newly updated FAQ page reveals that the service introduced verified business accounts to its beta application for Android devices. The article states that a small number of companies have participated in the pilot implementation of this feature, although it did not list the parties currently involved in the program. Through this feature, legitimate businesses […]

Facebook’s Messenger Lite: Free Calls & Messages app surpassed 50 million downloads on Android devices, as revealed by its Google Play Store listing. The latest turn of events marks a significant milestone for the app that the Menlo Park, California-based company isn’t offering worldwide, having designed it exclusively for emerging markets. Messenger Lite’s new download […]

The apps that come pre-installed on the Galaxy Note 8 are now unofficially available on other Samsung Electronics-made smartphones, provided that they’re rooted and run Android 7.0 Nougat. One member of the XDA Developers community managed to port the majority of mobile tools included with the Galaxy Note 8 last week, allowing users to simply […]

Not too long ago a version of the Pixel Launcher surfaced online which could be downloaded and installed on just about any Android phone. Providing owners of non-Pixel phones the opportunity to use a stable and feature-full version of a Pixel-only feature. Now, that same version of the Pixel Launcher has been updated to include […]

Facebook has added new variants of its family emoji sets that represent a spectrum of skin colors. Previously, only the default yellow tone was supported for family emoji that were all shown together, but this change adds a range of skin tones from white to black. The new emoji skin tone options cover every existing […]

Earlier this week, Disney and Lucasfilm announced a new augmented reality (AR) event in the form of Find The Force, a global happening that’s scheduled to start on September 1 and celebrate both the Force Friday II day and the related release of Disney’s latest product lineup inspired by the upcoming Star Wars movie – […]

Stadium’s 24/7 sports network launched on Thursday and is now available within the Pluto TV Android app, as well as on its official website (WatchStadium.com) and Twitter. The Chicago, Illinois-based company pledged that its latest platform will offer a wide variety of sports-related content including hundreds of live games and over 2,500 college games. Stadium […]

Google’s latest anti-extremist video initiative is officially in effect as of yesterday, with the Mountain View, California-based tech giant introducing a number of new measures designed for combating content associated with terrorism and related themes which seeks to radicalize users or support extreme views in general. The move marks a precedent in Google’s policy for […]

As part of its Google for Indonesia event, the search giant announced the availability of the video app YouTube Go and localized version of Google Assistant in the archipelago. YouTube Go is specifically designed for users who live in areas with a poor internet connection. The app allows people to save videos when connected to […]

Following Uber’s opening of a new Toronto-based testing center back in May, the company has now sent out two autonomous vehicles to map the city. The test vehicles were launched on Wednesday and will be collecting mapping data from around the city while under the control of drivers brought in from another Uber facility in […]

Facebook is shuffling some employees around as it looks to bring some consistency to the many consumer-facing hardware projects it currently has going on. Leading the efforts, the company has now announced, is Andrew Bosworth, an executive with more than 10 years of service to the company since he joined back in 2006. Bosworth’s prior […]

Facebook, through its Building 8 division, is preparing to release a new communications device and based on the limited information currently available, this will be positioned as a direct competitor to Amazon’s Echo Show. This information comes from a new report out of Business Insider which in turn credits “people familiar with knowledge of the […]

ASUS has now made its ZenUI Safeguard app available through the Google Play Store. As to be expected, this is not going to be an app available to everyone, as you do need an ASUS phone to be able to install the app. In addition to having an ASUS phone which is currently running ZenUI […]

The Mushroom Wars ireal-time strategy (RTS) developed by Zillion Whales is now on Android too as of August 3. According to the app’s description in the Play Store, Mushroom Wars 2 has taken no fewer than four mobile gaming awards, with two of those being this year. That makes it, at very least, something that […]

ASUS released its Page Marker Android app earlier this week, with the company’s creation originally hitting the Google Play Store on Monday. The tool is meant to facilitate the process of browsing the Internet on your smartphone or tablet, allowing you to quickly mark, download, and revisit pages, as well as perform a number of […]

Uber updated its ride-hailing service earlier this week, giving riders the option of setting multiple stops on their trips, the company said. The feature is meant to facilitate the process of riding with Uber when you have numerous people to pick up or several destinations to drop by and setting up additional stops can be […]

Starting today, an update to Facebook’s mobile app started rolling out for its Android users (iOS as well), adding support for taking 360-degree photos and using them as cover photos on this social network. Not only that, but this is the first major update to Facebook cover photos since they were introduced. The users can […]

Monument Valley 2 is now available for pre-registration on the Google Play Store. As a result, those interested in being one of the first to download this title, now have a way to ensure they are kept in the loop on when the game does become available. Speaking of which, although it is now open […]

A snippet of code found buried in the backend of Android 8.0 Oreo by XDA Developers seems to suggest that Android Oreo may eventually allow OEMs to add secondary functionality to hardware buttons in the near future. To be fair, advanced users have already been playing around with the concept using various methods and workarounds […]

Mobile MOBA game Vainglory will get support for the Samsung Desktop Experience (DeX), letting players use a keyboard and mouse to play as they would on a PC. Super Evil Megacorp, developers of Vainglory, made the announcement during the Galaxy Note 8 Unpacked event in New York City. The game’s upcoming update to version 2.8 […]

Samsung’s digital assistant Bixby will be updated with Spotify support later this year, according to an executive of the Seoul-based phone maker. Samsung Product Marketing Director Jonathan Wong took to stage earlier today during the Galaxy Note 8‘s official announcement to talk about numerous features of the company’s latest Android flagship and revealed Bixby’s incoming support […]

Uber’s valuation started dropping following the departure of the company’s now-former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, with some of the firm’s investors marking down their stakes in the San Francisco, California-based ride-hailing giant, recent filings have shown. Four mutual fund companies with stakes in Uber Technologies have dropped their estimated investments by up to 15 […]

A brand new Naruto game is coming soon from Bandai Namco Entertainment, and it will be a mobile-exclusive Naruto X Boruto Ninja Voltage. The company has announced this game with a short gameplay trailer, showing how mechanics will blend base-building of Clash of Clans and high-octane action of main Naruto games from consoles and PCs, […]

Artificial intelligence startup, Astro, has introduced the company’s artificial intelligence-based voice assistant called Astrobot Voice to its own email app two months after launching the solution on Amazon Echo. The company announced on Tuesday that its customers will now be able to use voice commands to handle emails from an Android device, helping users to […]

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has introduced a live stream feature to DU Recorder, its screen recorder solution for the Android platform, as a part of the celebration of the app’s 10 million-user milestone. The Beijing, China-based company announced recently that its DU Recorder app now has more than 10 million users across the globe […]

Following the success of the company’s driver tipping feature, Uber has decided to take action on other initiatives based on driver feedback with the goal of making the job more flexible. The tipping feature was launched in the U.S. back in June and has since been rolled out to users in Canada and the U.K. […]

Some very popular applications in the Google Play store have now been removed, following the discovery that 500 or more applications could have been spying on users without their knowledge. Among those applications were some that had been downloaded more than 100 million times. What’s worse, the developers of each of the apps may not […]

Final Fantasy XV is getting a mobile version for Android smartphones and tablets in the form of the Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, Square Enix announced on Tuesday. The developer has been putting out a lot of straight or enhanced ports of its popular games in the Google Play Store lately but this one will […]

A new app called ReplyASAP aims to give parents some peace of mind, as it is designed to force kids to reply to their messages in a timely manner. Kids, particularly teenagers, often ignore messages or take too long to reply, which can be frustrating and worrisome for parents. With this in mind, Nick Herbert, […]

YouTube seems to be slowly rolling out a test of a new UI for minimized videos. Normally, minimizing a video will get you a small preview that takes up about one sixth of the screen sitting on the bottom while you navigate the app as you otherwise would. The new UI contains the video to […]

Software company FaceTec on Tuesday announced ZoOm, its new software development kit (SDK) for mobile biometric authentication which ships with full support for Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and newer versions of the operating system. The firm’s latest solution is meant to improve the security offered by contemporary biometric authentication services on mobile devices while simultaneously […]

A new forecast by eMarketer suggests that teenage users of Facebook are gradually moving away from the platform in favor of Instagram and Snapchat. It appears the growth that Facebook is experiencing is slowing considerably in both the United States and the United Kingdom due to lower usage among teenagers and young adults, while the […]

Google updated its flagship Google Android app with support for Google Lens, a machine vision and augmented reality (AR) service that the company introduced at the latest iteration of its Google I/O developer conference earlier this year, a recent teardown performed by 9to5Google revealed. The service has been receiving certain elements associated with Google Lens […]

With the release of Android Oreo which occurred yesterday, password management service, LastPass, is going through some beneficial changes promising to further improve the user experience by broadening the type of information it can be autofilled. With the help of the new Autofill APIs introduced in the latest version of Android OS, LastPass will soon allow […]

King Digital is bringing back ads into its games, four years after deciding to remove them. Mobile game developer considered previous model of serving in-game ads as disruptive and believed players perceive ads as a pure roadblock that stands between them and further progress. Earlier this year, the developer partnered with Nestlé SA and Visa […]

Popular messaging service, WhatsApp, has begun rolling out a new update for its text-based status feature which was introduced a few months back. With the latest update, users will be able to customize their WhatsApp Status by selecting specific fonts and also change the color of the background. On top of that, links can be […]

Facebook is set to roll out new changes to its Safety Check feature that will, among other things, consolidate all disaster-related data as well as information on where to ask for or provide assistance during crisis in a single place. On its own Facebook page created for disaster response efforts, the social media giant confirmed […]

One of Uber’s earliest backers, Jason Calacanis, now thinks that the ride-sharing company needs to join forces with Tesla Motors in order to save itself from its ongoing scandals. According to Calacanis, merging the two companies would offer several benefits, not least of all the implications of having Elon Musk at the helm. Uber’s previous […]

When it comes to chat and social apps most users have their pick, assuming that everyone you want to talk to isn’t already set on one particular app, forcing you to have to use the same one if you want to chat with them. If you’re not already tied down to a specific chat application […]

Russian app developer Prisma Labs best known for its work on photo and video AR filter app Prisma is shifting its focus to the enterprise segment and is starting a new business-to-business operation, the company confirmed. Its augmented reality solution for applying live filters to photographs and videos will now be offered to other companies […]

Telltale Games, the popular gaming company that’s responsible for notable decision based games such as Minecraft: Story Mode and The Wolf Among Us, has a big summer blowout sale going on for fans of the company. The aforementioned games, and several others from the company, are on the list. These games are seeing big prices […]

Google has announced that it will begin rolling out video previews for searches done in the Google App and in Chrome, but only on Android for now. The video previews are accessed the same way as the old thumbnails, with the only difference being that they move. These video previews will not produce any sound, […]

Facebook has kicked off testing for a new feature of its News Feed that is designed to customize links to articles tailored in accordance with the interest of users, according to a new report by Reuters. The feature is called Featured Topic and it appears to be available only to a small number of users […]

After making the leap to both Xbox and PC, fighting game franchise Tekken is branching out to the mobile space. Bandai Namco Entertainment America has announced that one of its most famous and successful video games will be launching on Android and iOS soon. The game is soft launching in Canada as of today for […]

There’s an ever-growing list of companies taking a stance against hate-speech and now the fight is being brought to the digital music industry as well. Among those, three providers, in particular, have opted to take a hard-line approach to the issue – Google, Spotify, and Deezer. It isn’t currently known exactly what will get a […]

Google has officially released the source code for the 2017 edition of the official Google I/O app. The source code is available freely on GitHub, sporting an Apache 2.0 license that allows free modification and forking of the app, even for commercial use, so long as the intellectual property rights of the Google brand are […]

YouTube has just pushed out a new update, via a server-side change. And it appears that this one is actually hitting every platform all at the same time. Which is uncommon for YouTube with these changes, that usually happens with small changes and are slowly rolled out. Nevertheless, this new feature adds a new section […]

Head of YouTube Music Lyor Cohen has stated that the company pays higher royalties to artists than its competitors do. In the past, there have been many claims regarding the royalties YouTube pays to artists on the site, with many stating that the online platform doesn’t pay enough. In a statement published on YouTube’s official […]