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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.

Rovio had already shifted to primarily free games and ad revenue.But releasing a pay-to-play remake of the original Angry Birds game put a dent in the earnings of its many ad-supported sequels.The paid-for Angry Birds version charges players 99 cents for 390 ad-free levels.It's currently the App Store's second-best-selling paid download, but it only nets Rovio an estimated $30,000 in monthly revenue.

Google loses bid to block Indian Antitrust ruling on Android.Will be forced to make third-party app stores available in Play Store, among other things.Here's everything to know about it!Last year, the competition watchdog in India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), imposed a fine of $16 Million (Rs 1337 Crores) on Google, citing the company's control over the Android platform and has even made some demands.

It will pain Rangers that the defining goal in this semi-final stemmed from the kind of amateur defending that has undermined them against Celtic routinely in recent times.Celtic will take their place in the Scottish Cup final against Inverness early next month, with an eighth domestic treble in the club's history now looking a near certainty.

Pep Guardiola has brushed off the suggestion that he has ambitions to rival Sir Alex Ferguson's record 13 Premier League titles, with the Manchester City manager insisting that he is not motivated by leaving such a legacy.Guardiola, whose side visit Fulham on Sunday, has led City to four Premier League crowns in six seasons and will add a fifth if Arsenal's two-point lead is overhauled in their final seven matches, but is clear that he has set no target on the number he can win.

Fabio Paratici will have to step away from his job as Tottenham's managing director of football after Fifa said it had extended worldwide a ban imposed on him in Italy after his former club Juventus were found guilty of false accounting.Juventus were docked 15 league points in January at the resolution of a long-running investigation.

Everton have been charged with an alleged breach of the Premier League's Financial Fair Play rules in relation to their spending last season.The charge came after a 10-month investigation which began after Burnley and Leeds wrote to the Premier League in May to question whether Everton had broken the rules after they recorded losses of 371.8m over the last three years.

Liverpool have challenged Manchester City and the Premier League over their reduced ticket allocation for their forthcoming trip to the Etihad Stadium.The visitors have been restricted to 2,382 tickets for the 1 April lunchtime kick-off, down by almost 500 on the previous post-Covid levels.Prior to the pandemic, Liverpool's allocation was more than 3,000.

The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is expected to make a bid of more than 4bn for Manchester United by Friday's deadline, with those driving the purchase for the country's ruler valuing the club at no more than 4.5bn.The Glazer family, who own United, have set an asking price of 6bn.

Google says its tightened security features helped it block over 1.4 million bad applications from being published to the Google Play store in 2022.Enhanced policies combined with machine learning and an improved app review process, the internet giant says, helped it automatically block bad applications that violated the app store's policies.

Android Automotive, Google's operating system for cars, has historically been pretty niche, and only a handful of high-profile cars like the Polestar 2 have used it.Now, though, Android Automotive is going mainstream, and we're starting to see some of the biggest car manufacturers roll out Google's operating system across entire lineups.

Oppo introduced its first flip foldable last week, the Find N2 Flip.While we don't have the details yet, we know that in the near future this model will be available globally (or at least in the markets that Oppo covers), unlike the original Find N.
And, sadly, unlike the new Oppo Find N2 as well - it looks like this one will be China-only just like its predecessor.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk was planning to bring back Twitter Blue this week, but then he got frustrated with Apple, and now nobody knows when the subscription service will relaunch.But it seems Musk has decided that when Twitter Blue-initially exclusively offered to iPhone and iPad users-comes back, the service will likely not be available for purchase in the Apple App Store.

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has been quite eventful.The billionaire has been all over the internet, be it for the firing of employees, revisions of Twitter rules, or subscription changes.Now that he owns Twitter, and has always believed in freedom of speech on the microblogging website, he keeps churning out tweets, speaking his mind about Twitter's future plans and other topics.

Have you ever dreamed about a crypto exchange that is committed to your financial flourishing?A platform that offers all the instruments that you can possibly want and at the same time is also very cost effective?A place where you can learn and practice your trading using a demo account and also personally grow by joining your friends to the global community as an affiliate?

A Progressive Web App, or PWA for short, is essentially a website that looks and feels like a mobile app.PWAs are built with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but they offer features that were previously only available to native mobile apps, such as offline support, push notifications, and the ability to be added to a user's home screen.

For some reason, Apple doesn't think you should be using vaporizers in your spare time, so it decided to ban the Pax - and other vaping apps - from the app store...Back in November 2019, Apple decided to ban Pax's app from its App Store, meaning Pax users with iPhones could no longer interact with their vaporizer from their iPhones.

Google has suspended Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its Play store because versions of the software found elsewhere have included malware.Pinduoduo rose to prominence by offering Chinese consumers the chance to buy fresh produce from farmers.Chinese consumers are often very conscious of food quality and the app became a smash hit.

Google Play Services, a core component of the Android operating system, received an update this month.Among stability improvements and a few new features, the latest Google Play Store and Services update hints the tech giant is developing its own "Find My Device" network.Let's see how Google could be deploying a worldwide network that sounds similar to Apple's Find My-like network, but for Android devices.

Google could be separating a core component in Android.The Root Certificates may become a separate module to ensure old smartphones and devices running an outdated version of the Android operating system can still reliably connect to the internet.Could Google extend the usable life of millions of devices that are not updated to the latest version of the Android OS?
Root Certificate Modules Could Be Updatable Via The Google Play Store?

While meditation has become a part of our daily routines, there are a lot of incentives that are now popping up in the market to help us with our practice.With so many meditation apps out there in the market and amid the fierce competition, there's one app that can be a good alternative to all those expensive ones.

Will Lipman Photography for Engadget  If you're looking to pick up a new tablet for the holidays, a number of slates we recommend are on sale for Cyber Monday.Most of the best discounts are holdovers from Black Friday, but that still means a range of iPads, Amazon Fire tablets and Microsoft Surface PCs are down to their lowest prices to date.

Crooks are using an Android banking Trojan dubbed Godfather to steal from banking and cryptocurrency exchange app users in 16 countries, according to Group-IB security researchers
The security firm first detected Godfather in June 2021 and as of October, the credential-stealing malware has targeted the users of more than 400 applications.

Compromised Android platform certificate keys from device makers including Samsung, LG and Mediatek are being used to sign malware and deploy spyware, among other software nasties.Googler Łukasz Siewierski found and reported the security issue and it's a doozy that allows malicious applications signed with one of the compromised certificates to gain the same level of privileges as the Android operating system - essentially unfettered access to the victim's device.