Massively Popular Android VPN App Revealed to be Highly Dangerous

Google’s Play Store is often criticized for allowing dangerous apps to be downloaded by a lot of people before they are finally taken down but the latest example of this is the sort of thing that has exceeded all previous examples of things like this happening. The app in question is one that has...

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Netflix helping parents to supervise their kids from age inappropriate shows

Netflix, one of the largest video-streaming platforms these days for every age group to spend time, it is more like a hobby to people. Netflix consists of TV series and movies ranging from every genre and age group. However, to make it more reliable, it has roll down new features and tools so that...

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Google is Re-Branding Hangouts To Meet

Are you having a good time with Google Hangouts this quarantine or you once used the communication software for your company? Whatever the case is, there is branding change underway which includes the renaming of Hangouts Meet to Google Meet. As spotted by Android Police, the official Hangout...

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Android 11 users will enjoy seamless updates as compared to other versions, thanks to some new changes in the VTS by Google

Recently, the Vendor Test Suite (VTS) had some changes which was first spotted by XDA Developers and according to them, Google will be requiring seamless updates for devices operating with Android 11 and later versions. Well, if you go in detail you’ll see that the Vendor Test Suite is aimed to...

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React in 33 lines, understanding JS module types, and some GitHub protips

#483 — April 10, 2020 Unsubscribe  :  Read on the Web 🥚 Hi folks! This is a shorter than usual issue as we're taking a half day due to it being Easter Friday here – back to full service next week. If you celebrate Easter, happy Easter. If not, happy Friday and we hope you have a great weekend 😄 JavaScript Weekly Some GitHub Pro-Tips Direct from GitHub — Lee Reilly is a developer and marketer at GitHub and has a whole bunch of genuinely useful GitHub power user tips here. Or if you prefer something more JavaScript-flavored, GitHub also just wrote about how they restructured GitHub's JavaScript SDK. Lee Reilly (GitHub) Understanding JavaScript's Various Module Formats and Tools — Straightforward example-heavy coverage of things from the IIFE pattern to CommonJS modules, the now uncommon AMD modules, ES modules, Babel modules, and more. Dixin Locate Front-End Issues Like JavaScript or Network Errors Instantly — Get proactively alerted on any client-side issues such as JavaScript and network errors, optimize the load time of your front-end resources, and detect any UI issues that affect critical user journeys. Try it free with Datadog Synthetics. Datadog sponsor Some of What's Coming in Vue 3 — A summary of features in the next major release of Vue, still upcoming. There’s also this video from Vue.js Amsterdam 2020 on the same topic. Parthiv Mohan Svelte: The Framework That 'Puts Web Pages on a Diet' — It’s worth noting this is a high-level WIRED article, but it’s always nice to see some JavaScript tech getting positive mainstream attention. Klint Finley (WIRED) Making a 33 Line React-a-Like — React does some useful things, but you can do the same things with very little code, so.. why not? A fun experiment. Also of interest is that Hacker News had its say and the author responded. Oliver Russell Porting to TypeScript Solved Our API Woes — From the guy behind the (in)famous Wat video comes a tale of porting a backend from Ruby to TypeScript. Gary Bernhardt ⚡️ Quick Releases Anime.js 3.2 — Mature Web animation library. Styled Components 5.1 — JS-based CSS styling for components. Video.js 7.8 — Web video player. Node-RED 1.0.5 — Low-code programming for event-driven apps. redux-logic 3.0 — Redux middleware for organizing business logic. 🔧 Code & Tools Chocolat: A Responsive Image Lightbox Control — Seems pretty slick overall, and definitely one of the more polished project homepages I’ve seen. Note: GPL v3 licensed. Nicolas Turlais Winddown: A VS Code Extension That Encourages You to Take a Break — After 25 minutes of use, this extension slowly fades out your syntax highlight colors, making things just annoying enough to encourage you to take a quick break. schneefux Preact 10.4.0: The Fast 3KB React Alternative (With The Same API) — “This release contains some very amazing improvements to hydration and to performance when memoized vnodes are used. We recommend everyone to upgrade.” Preact Track JavaScript Console Logs and Errors from All Your Users — Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience or revenue-generating initiatives by centralizing JavaScript console logs in Datadog. Datadog sponsor Franc: Natural Language Detection for Text — Given some text, Franc can detect what natural language it’s written in from a set of 82, 187, or 406 languages (depending on how heavy you want the build to be). Live browser-based demo here. Titus emoji-regex: A Regular Expression to Match All Emoji-Only Symbols Mathias Bynens markmap-lib: Convert Markdown into Mindmaps — Certainly an interesting use-case for Markdown but it makes sense. gera2ld prerender.js: Prerender Web Pages on Hover in Any Browser — This has echoes of other projects (e.g. instant.page) but this prerenders rather than prefetches by using a hidden IFRAME. genderev Valtan: A Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler cxxxr 👾 One for Fun QuakeJS: A Port of ioquake3 to JavaScript (via Emscripten) — A particularly cool ‘you can run a full AAA title in a browser?’ demo that has resurfaced recently. OK, the AAA title in question is 21 years old, but still.. GitHub repo. Anthony Pesch

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Twitter Has Decided To Share More User Data With Advertisers

Twitter greeted its users with a notification on Wednesday that was based on an update related to data-sharing settings. With the pop-up message, the company actually informed its users that they will no longer have control over mobile app advertising measurements and said that the move will...

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Google AI calling service DUPLEX reaches new destinations (Australia, Canada and UK)

In the world of technology and devices, nothing remain constant, everything changes with time. It was a time when Facebook was a social media platform where people could express their opinion but now it is hub of marketing, business and journalism. Similarly Google is also expanding. It has started...

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