Photo: Gizmodo May Android 11, Google forces all apps to use the device’s built-in camera app—as opposed to any third-party camera app you may have set as your default – when taking photos or taking videos to better protect users’ location data, a company rep of edge on Thursday. The …
Read More »Google can work on a streaming hub called Kaleidoscope
Screenshot: Catie Keck / Gizmodo Google seems to be testing or developing a content hub under the name Kaleidoscope, per a dormant landing page displayed in Google’s developers’ browser. Spotted by Chrome Story at chrome: // kaleidoscope / with Chrome canary, kaleidoscope – as it seems to be called – …
Read More »Premom app helps share user data
Image: Ian Waldie (Getty Images) In a cruel but completely predictable twist, an app that guarantees everything for nine months for pregnancy as-you-money-back was too good to be true. A data privacy watchdog has found that a top ovulation tracker Premom has secretly shared location data, ad IDs and ads …
Read More »Map shows emerging diseases around the world
Provided display of the map. See the full version below.Image: Anthony Fauci, David Morens / sel Here’s the most depressing map you’ll probably see this week, thanks to Anthony Fauci, head of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The map, packaged in a recent paper co-written by …
Read More »Is your browser a good enough password manager?
Photo: 1Password Web browsers were once just used for browsing the web. But now they can perform all kinds of tricks, including password management. With new features like password suggestions and data protection warnings being added all the time, are these built-in password managers ready to adopt third-party dedicated tools? …
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