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Mozilla discovered privacy disclosure discrepancies for apps like TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook following investigation into Google Play Store data safety labels.An investigation into data safety labels on the Google Play Store has allegedly uncovered "serious loopholes" that allow apps like Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook to easily provide false or misleading information regarding how user data is shared.

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 has some eye-catching features that give this ChromeOS 2-in-1 a premium feel and performance.The star is the large 14-inch Full HD touchscreen that is widescreen and ideal for video streaming.It's large enough to be used as your home laptop and compact enough to take on your travels.

Parental control apps may do more harm than good, according to researchers who found 18 bugs in eight Android apps with more than 20 million total downloads that could be exploited to, among many nefarious acts, control other devices on the parents' network.Fabian Densborn and Bernhard Gründling of the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered the vulnerabilities and found that the parent web dashboards were susceptible to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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The best iPad alternatives give you the power and features of Apple's tablet, but without the price tag.Some of them will even offer up different features that the iPad lacks.The likes of Samsung, Lenovo and Microsoft dominate this space but there are some other players, such as Amazon, you might want to consider too.

Next summer, courts will decide whether Google is guilty of "misleading" millions of Google Play users by warning them against using any other app stores or services to download apps.A judge this week granted class-action status to antitrust litigation that now covers 21 million Google Play customers in 12 states-Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Wyoming-and five US territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

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The best touchscreen laptops can be valuable tools for digital artists and content creators.Despite Apple's disdain for the form factor (no, you're not going to find any MacBooks on this page, sadly), laptops with touchscreens can be extremely useful thanks to their versatility.

Many Android apps display web content within themselves - this keeps the user from bouncing back and forth between the app and the browser, for example, when tapping on a link in Gmail.One way to do this is to use the WebView component, but Google believes that Custom Tabs are the better solution and it has now made them even better with a couple of improvements.

Magic Eraser was previously exclusive to the Pixel 6 and 7. Yesterday, the editing feature saw its availability significantly expand to any Google Photos users on Android and iOS that's subscribed to Google One, including the cheapest plan.There are two ways to look at this move.For Pixel, this marks the loss of a very advertising-friendly capability, especially so soon after the Super Bowl ad that made a big deal about it.

When people hear laptops, the majority of them will most likely either think of Windows laptops or Apple MacBooks.For years now, however, these haven't been the only choices in the market.In fact, the education sector has recently been dominated by notebooks running Google's Chrome OS.Chromebooks have traditionally been seen as underpowered machines, but that hasn't been the case for quite a while now.

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Tablets can be productivity boosters or they can be time wasters - or both.You can slip one in your bag, use it to take notes, review documents, binge the latest Netflix show, play some games and so on.Amazon US has a whole week of Black Friday sales, so now is a good time to pick up your first tablet or upgrade an old one (tablets tend to last several years longer than smartphones).

Android TV is going to be less storage-greedy in the future.Google announced that Android's space-saving app file format, Android App Bundles (AABs), will finally be the standard on Android TV.By May 2023-that's in six months-Google will require all Android TV apps to switch to the new file format, which can cut down on app storage requirements by 20 percent.