Sunday, November 15, 2020

Google Scraps Expeditions Project, Stores Previous Tours in Arts & Culture Section

Google experiments a lot with the products and services it provides to various users. One experiment that the company conducted had to do with Expeditions, a service that was meant to make it so that three dimensional digital experiences could be created for certain locales thereby ostensibly...

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by Zia Muhammad via Digital Information World

Gamers Favorite Minecraft Related Apps Contain Malware Causing Damage of Millions

Another storm of malicious apps is taking place inside the Google Play Store and because of it, this time gamers are in danger in real life as cybercriminals are targeting something the gaming community truly loves - Minecraft. Avast, a leading digital security and privacy products provider, has...

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by Daniyal Malik via Digital Information World

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Alexa becomes smarter - now equipped with ability to detect 'intent' behind words

Amazon says that Alexa is now able to understand user requests even if they are not clearly defined. The company made this announcement on Wednesday through a blog post. As an example, Amazon used the question, “How long does it take to steep tea?” in response, Alexa will say “Five minutes is a...

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by Saima Salim via Digital Information World

A server in the data center of 123RF Stock Photo site got breached and around 8.3 million user records got exposed and sold on a hacker forum

In the second week of November, 123RF.com, a famous Stock Photo site became the target of a data heist. 123RF site is famous for selling royalty-free images, videos, and audio content that can be used on different websites. They also sell printed content and the site usually sees very heavy...

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Apple has launched the latest version of the TestFlight app with support for automatic updates, some improvements, and bug fixes

Apple’s TestFlight app is specially designed to facilitate the app developers for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS to beta test their apps through this platform before launching it on the App Store. Previously, some glitches made this app a little harrowing to use. With bugs and issues with the...

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Amazon has filed suit against two influencers and several online businesses over an alleged counterfeiting scheme of luxury items across Instagram and Amazon Marketplace

Amazon has a pretty strict policy against counterfeit products. They have highly developed tools that ensure that none of the listings on their Marketplace are selling counterfeit products. But recently, Amazon has filed suit against two influencers, Kelly Fitzpatrick and Sabrina Kelly-Krejci, some...

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

Instagram Reveals Changed Priorities With First Homepage Redesign in Years

Facebook has gone through a lot of facelifts over the years but its subsidiary Instagram has remained more or less the same. All of that is about to change now that Instagram is implementing its first major homepage redesign in years. Instagram appears to be moving away from its previous focus on...

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by Zia Muhammad via Digital Information World