This Security Researcher Provides Evidence of Flaws in Google's reCAPTCHA Technology, By Using Google's Own Tools

A software developer and analyst Nikolai Tschacher recently demonstrated the flaws in Google's reCAPTCHA technology by running old audio software against the security measures, effectively breaking them. CAPTCHA, a very long acronym (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers...

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TikTok tops the non-gaming grossing app of 2020

The world’s biggest non-gaming app of December 2020 is TikTok. In comparison to the sales TikTok generated in December 2020, this year with approximately $142 million of user spending, a 3.3 fold rise has been observed in sales. Most of the sale generated by TikTok in 2020 was from Douyin in China...

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Apple’s IDFA changes may adversely affect Facebook and Snapchat the most

A recent report by MKM Partners suggests that Facebook and Snapchat will face the major brunt if Apple’s IDFA changes come into effect. Since December 2020, Facebook has been creating mayhem over Apple’s upcoming IDFA changes for iOS 14. Not only Facebook, but many other apps and sites are upset...

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How Much Did Internet Shutdowns Cost the World?

The world revolves around the internet. Yes, yes, not exactly a hot take of the day. However, the sheer automation of almost every real-life appliance combined with our dependence on online media for social interaction, networking, acquisition of working tools, etc. really means that we've created...

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Apple is probably planning to launch some unspecified AR/VR device in 2021 and tech gurus think that it can be their AR glasses

Since 2017, Apple has been making news about its AR glasses and people sit back in anticipation that they are releasing now, but the supposed launch never happens, and these glasses haven’t made it to the markets as yet. However, 2021 may be a little different! Facebook is already on the verge of...

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This week Google will launch App Store privacy labels on iOS apps

Recently Apple revealed new Apple store privacy label policies. In response to this, Google is updating its iOS apps as it does not want to work under the newly released policies of Apple. As per the new policy, the developers are asked to report the data collected from the App store users. Google...

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Windows 10 May Be Seeing Some Very Notable Changes, As Indicated By Microsoft Job Posting

Microsoft has recently put out a job posting, looking for a senior software engineer to help them capture the good old days of the user-Window experience. While that may not be the exact language used to communicate the posting, it isn't really all too far either. The description, as noted by WL,...

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