A virtual concert packed with A-listers — from The Rolling Stones to Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish — entertained fans around the world with a show celebrating health workers, as billions shelter at home due to coronavirus. Lizzo, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and LL Cool J also joined in the Lady Gaga-curated online
Month: April 2020
Phishing operations target Apple customers, an Apple Watch found in a stolen car, and other news from the Apple crime blotter. The Lincoln Road Apple Store in Miami Beach The latest in an occasional AppleInsider feature, looking at the world of Apple-related crime: No Apple Store break-ins reported during first month of closures With
The government on Sunday prohibited the sale of non-essential items through e-commerce platforms during the ongoing lockdown, four days after allowing such companies to sell mobile phones, televisions, laptops, refrigerators, and ready-made garments. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items from sale by the e-commerce companies from the consolidated revised
WhatsApp is working on the ability to allow more users to participate in a group call. The current limit is set at four participants but WhatsApp’s latest Android beta suggests that the limit may be increased in the future. As people all over the world practice social distancing to stop the spread of coronavirus, apps
Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data, the European Commission said on Thursday, as Apple and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking. The EU executive’s recommendation came as part of a unified European approach for using technology to combat COVID-19
OnePlus 8 Pro price in India has been revealed, alongside the prices for the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z headphones. The prices are much lower than the prices of the smartphones and headphones in the US. What’s also worth noting is that the company has launched a brand new variant of the OnePlus
One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to worry about it? In short, contact tracing helps prevent the spread of a virus
Making the chief operating officer (COO) of firms such as Amazon and Flipkart responsible for strict implementation of social distancing and sanitisation norms and staff compulsorily downloading the Aarogya Setu app are among the measures proposed in the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for e-commerce operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the government allowing e-commerce
An updated 4.7-inch iPhone SE, Apple and Google team up to develop contact tracing technology to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and our hosts go in-depth on more of their favorite Mac utilities. Apple’s 2020 iPhone SE, contact tracing, and more Mac utilities Starting at just $399, Apple has released its anticipated successor to
Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of parties and open office plans
Netflix has increased the amount of money in its coronavirus emergency relief fund by $50 million, bringing the total for displaced production workers to $150 million, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. Film and TV production has been shut down around the world as people shelter at home to help slow the spread of the
Facebook has promised to do more to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 WhatsApp Limits Forwarding to Fight Misinformation WhatsApp has introduced new limits on message forwarding in an attempt to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Read More . Because, despite its previous efforts, people are still sharing absolute nonsense about the
HP has expanded its portfolio and launched the HP ZBook Studio and HP ZBook Create laptops. It has also refreshed its HP Envy 15 and HP Envy 13 laptops with new processors and GPU options. HP ZBook Create and HP ZBook Studio come with Nvidia GeForce and Quadro GPUs up to RTX options, and offers
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns over the Bluetooth-based contact tracing tool that Apple and Google are collaborating on, citing that the move could invade user’s privacy—if it even works at all. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has released a statement on the joint COVID-19 contact-tracing collaboration between Apple and Google.
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, according to App Annie’s “State
Airtel and Vodafone Idea have extended low income subscribers’ prepaid pack validity to May 3. This is due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that has resulted in the entire nation practising social distancing. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), on the other hand, has extended validity for its subscribers till May 5. The telecom operators have
Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near six-year long legal battle. The social media company had sued the US Department of Justice in 2014 to be allowed to reveal, as part
WhatsApp is currently one of the most popular messaging apps in the world with an estimated 1.5 billion monthly active users. WhatsApp has added a lot of features to the app, so it can get a little difficult to find something specific that you need. This is where our WhatsApp tricks come in the picture.
Realme X3 was reportedly listed on TENAA, hinting at key details of the phone. The phone has been spotted on multiple certification sites recently, and now the same Realme phone has cropped up on TENAA as well. This new listing tips that the Realme X3 will feature a 6.57-inch display and run on Android software.
Apple is expanding the selection of topics covered by its Today at Home initiative with the introduction of new videos about music and GarageBand, in what appears to be a weekly update to the online alternative to the in-store sessions. The latest Today at Home video, “Turn your home into music with GarageBand,” has
Flipkart has restarted smartphone selling in India. E-commerce giants had been limited to selling only essential goods after PM Modi announced a nationwide lockdown from March 25. However, the Indian government recently approved selling of smartphones online in India, and Flipkart has opened its mobiles category for orders. The company says that the mobiles category
Veering on the side of caution, investment bank Goldman Sachs said Friday it’s cutting its rating and price target on shares of Apple amid mounting uncertainty over the impact of COVID-19 on near-term consumer spending on items such as iPhones. Apple’s iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro may need to make it a few
The Mendel Air Sensor app is the first app I open every morning. Before Reddit, before Gmail, before NYT. I roll over, grab my phone and check my plants. I don’t know if there’s a higher honor I can bestow on an app. The Mendel Air Sensor is a game-changer for indoor growers. It offers
Would you pay with a “Google Card?” TechCrunch has obtained imagery that shows Google is developing its own physical and virtual debit cards. The Google card and associated checking account will allow users to buy things with a card, mobile phone or online. It connects to a Google app with new features that let users
NASA on Friday said its astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth, alongside Roscosmos’ Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka. The space agency said Morgan’s extended stay in space will help increase knowledge about how the human body responds to longer duration spaceflight, The space agency revealed the trio had departed the International Space Station
If you have the Facebook mobile app installed on your phone, chances are it’s storing a lot more of your location history than you realize. While this data is private and only you can see it, in light of Facebook’s recent privacy woes, it can be a little unsettling to see how much location data
Apple is adding a new feature called “Battery health management” to macOS with a view to improve the lifespan of batteries available on its newer MacBook models. The feature that has been released as a part of the latest preview of macOS 10.15.5 Catalina, works similar to the Battery Health feature present on iPhone models.
A coalition of EU scientists and technologists that’s developing what’s billed as a “privacy-preserving” standard for Bluetooth-based proximity tracking, as a proxy for COVID-19 infection risk, wants Apple and Google to make changes to an API they’re developing for the same overarching purpose. The Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) uncloaked on April 1, calling for
For the newest iPhone SE, the decision whether or not to upgrade is more complicated than you’d think. Let’s explore who should, and shouldn’t, upgrade to the iPhone SE. The all-new iPhone SE (2020) While not Apple’s top-of-the-line model, that iPhone SE has a lot to love. Whether you are coming from an original
Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore (SRI-B) has built a ‘Hand Wash’ application which prompts users to clean their hands, a key precautionary measure to stay safe amid the rising coronavirus concern The application on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch reminds users periodically about hand wash and makes sure the activity lasts at least 20 seconds. “The World Health Organization
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