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Smartwatches are no longer an supplementary commodity as they are capable of doing multiple tasks, like any other smartphones. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, smart-wearables are becoming more popular as OEMs continue to add special features, like monitor blood oxygen levels (SpO2) – a crucial vital to check if you’re COVID-19-positive. …

Google has been accused of playing favorites in its treatment of Android app developers. The Verge reports a newly unsealed consumer lawsuit against Google alleges the company offered to take a “significantly reduced” cut of Netflix’s Play Store revenue in order to quell the streaming giant’s “displeasure.” Netflix, Spotify and …

Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch, an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. Yet I’m writing from an unlikely computer vision hub: …

Getty Images | NurPhoto Apple will finally let developers tell users about purchase options available outside the iOS App Store. The iPhone maker agreed to this and other concessions—including $100 million in payments to developers—in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by two app developers in 2019. Apple …

Alexandra Marvar / The Verge: A look at farmer-specific e-commerce and food distribution services, including GrazeCart, Farmdrop, Farmigo, and GrownBy, which took off during the pandemic  —  For the past two decades at Crystal Organic Farm in Newborn, Georgia, a typical Saturday morning involved Nicolas Donck and, later … News …

Central American countries are eagerly waiting to see if El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as parallel legal tender cuts the cost of remittances, an important source of income for millions of people, the region’s development bank said. President Nayib Bukele’s congressional allies have already approved legislation giving the cryptocurrency official …

Google will begin a multi-quarter programme of improvements to make ratings on Play Store more personalised by showing ratings to individual users based on the country they’re registered in and the device that they’re using. “Starting in November 2021, we’re going to change the ratings that individual users see based …

New Delhi: The worldwide popular instant messaging app powered by Facebook – WhatsApp – has rolled out few new features for its users recently. These include features like ‘View Once’ and ‘Add Participant’ to calls. The important thing is that these features can be used by both Android and iOS …

Express News Service Before the pandemic hit, Ruchika Rana (name changed) had a packed calendar. She volunteered at an NGO thrice a week, met her kitty group and women’s clubs frequently, and ran her household and a retinue of servants with an iron fist. As soon as lockdown was imposed, …

According to Kosta Eleftheriou, the developer behind FlickType, he is forced by circumstances to discontinue the iPhone keyboard functionality. (Image Credit: Twitter) The developer said that Apple’s rejection history for FlickType spanned more than 40 pages filled with “repeated, unwarranted, and unreasonable rejections.” News18.com Last Updated:August 21, 2021, 13:00 IST …