Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The fake review and rating scam is continuously rigging the Apple’s App Store charts

In this current 21st century, consumer review is the most important factor that most of us consider before purchasing anything online. Usually anything that has more rating than another similar product is considered to be more reliable, however, it is not always what it seems to be. Right now, the...

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YouTube Starts New Media Literacy Experiment, Running Advertisements Before Videos To Teach General Awareness About Identifying And Dealing With Online Misinformation

A new experiment by YouTube will involve playing short "media literacy" advertisements, in an attempt to encourage critical thinking in its userbase. The idea for literacy experiments was posited in a Google Support webpage, updated on April 12th, 2021, as a part of YouTube's broader scope of...

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Apple's Tim Cook in an interview discussed various topics from the company’s new App Tracking Transparency system to its soon to be up legal battle against Epic Games

The world knows Tim Cook as the current CEO of the multinational giant tech company Apple, but they also know him for his candor. Tim Cook has always been nothing but honest in all of his interviews and doesn’t shy away from passing his remarks on other tech companies as well. Coming up in the news...

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Facebook Introduces A New Prompt That Encourages Its Userbase To Get Themselves Vaccinated Against COVID-19

Facebook has recently added prompts to its repertoire of pro-vaccine campaigning, urging its vast userbase to get vaccinated once as soon as availability in their local region surfaces. The COVID-19 pandemic is far from extinguished, but the onset of vaccines have had the world breathe a...

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Google to Introduce a Heads Up Feature to Alert You to Stop Using Your Phone While Walking

Google comes up with new and unique features in its smartphones every now and then in order to keep their users interested in their technology and while some of its features have actually proven to be really good some just don’t make sense at times or the simply do but aren’t really sensible to us?...

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Facebook Lets Global Leaders Manipulate Users Through Their Platform, Here’s How

By this point no one would dare to suggest that Facebook is in any way an ethically sound platform. The countless privacy violations just don’t allow comments like this to be taken all that seriously anymore, but this doesn’t mean that we have uncovered the extent of Facebook’s unethical behavior....

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Telegram is now coming up with another Clubhouse like feature where users can schedule their audio chats for discussion

Since the release of Clubhouse in August of 2020, the app has been able to achieve much success in a very short span of time. The main reason behind this success is the unique concept that the app came up with, the idea of invite-only audio chat rooms to host discussions and meetings in was very...

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