Apple Provides Information on How It Ranks Web Search Results

Recently, Apple updated the ‘about Applebot’ help documentation section. In the support page, the company also listed information about how Apple ranks web search results. Furthermore, the company updated information around Applebot. For those who don’t know, Applebot is the web crawler for Apple,...

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A Former Facebook Software Engineer Claims That the Social Media Giant Is Failing and Hurting People at Scale

Some current and recently-departed Facebook employees are reckoning with several ways that they state the social media giant is damaging the society. Max Wang, a software engineer at Facebook left the company on July 1 of this year. He worked at Facebook for seven years. As Wang departed, he posted...

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This Drone App Has Been Collecting Sensitive User Data and Violates Google Play Policies, Reverse-engineering Experts Discovered

The DJI Go 4 application for Android which allows you to control drones, includes some worrying backend features, revealed Ars Technica. The app has recently been collecting sensitive user information and can download as well as execute the code of the developers’ choice. Two independent reports...

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Apple Placed Strict Restrictions on How Customers Will Be Able To Use the ‘Find My’ App, A Secret Document Revealed

Last month, the tech giant, Apple, announced during the annual developer conference that small developers will finally be able to access Apple’s ‘Find My’ application. On the surface, Apple’s move to open up the Find My application seemed welcomed, but a new secret Apple document suggests that the...

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Google Will No Longer Take Commission Fees From Retailers To List Products On Its Shopping Platform

In an attempt to compete with Amazon in the eCommerce industry, Google has finally decided to eliminate the commission fees for retailers who want to list and sell products through the search engine’s shopping platform. Prior to this constructive move, Google used to charge merchants with a...

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WhatsApp’s new Android beta update suggests some improvements in the developing features of Linked Devices and Advanced Search Mode

Recently we reported that WhatsApp is going to bring in several new features. The most talked features include multiple device support and an advanced search mode. The recent release of a new Android beta update by WhatsApp reveals that the app is working on these two features and they are most...

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Facebook Has Built A New Army of Bots To Strengthen Anti-Spam Methods

We know Facebook has tried its best over the years but still bad actors have always found a way to break the safeguards. With rising concerns over the privacy of users on the platform, the social media giant is now training an army of bots in an attempt to make the anti-spam walls stronger than...

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