Apple’s planning to make its app store available in more countries, pledging that developers will be able to sell their programs for the iPhone and iPad in 177 countries or regions by the end of the year. The announcement came Monday in part because Apple said developers need to fill out administrative forms on its …
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Update, March 26: The Huawei P40, P40 Pro and the P40 Pro Plus have now officially been launched. Read our first take here. Huawei isn’t letting the last-minute cancellation of Mobile World Congress stand in the way of its 2020 launch plans. Amid the extraordinary circumstances stemming from the novel coronavirus, Chinese telecom giant Huawei is pushing forward with plans to …
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Parasite may have cleaned up at the Oscars this month, but plenty of movies, actors and actresses also shared the spotlight at this year’s Academy Awards. Heavy favorite Joaquin Phoenix won for his role in Joker. Renée Zellweger won best actress for her portrayal of Judy Garland in Judy. Laura Dern won best supporting actress for Marriage Story, and Brad Pitt won …
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Update, March 26: The Huawei P40, P40 Pro and the P40 Pro Plus have now officially been launched. Read our first take here. MWC might have been canceled due to coronavirus, but Chinese tech behemoth Huawei pressed ahead with its Barcelona event regardless on Monday. Along with a slew of products, Huawei used the keynote as an opportunity to announce …
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Android app developers will soon need approval from the Google Play team before accessing a user’s location data in the background, according to an Android Developers Blog post Wednesday. In determining approval, the new Google Play policy will consider whether the app’s location-tapping feature delivers clear value to the user, if the feature is important to the primary purpose of …
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Bong Joon-ho may be new to American audiences, but the South Korean filmmaker has been making movies for more than two decades. Parasite became the first foreign-language film in Oscars history to win best picture, and Bong also took home the best director award along with two other statues for best international feature film and original screenplay. Read more: Oscars 2020 …
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Last year Huawei had the unpleasant experience of launching a flagship phone, the Mate 30 Pro, with no support from Google’s Mobile Services. It ran Android, which is open source. But no Google apps worked, nor did apps like Uber, which rely on Google apps (Maps, in Uber’s case). Instead of the Google Play Store, Huawei offered its own AppGallery. …
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Google forked out more than $6.5 million in bug bounties during 2019, the tech giant said Tuesday. Its Vulnerability Reward Programs provide payouts for security researchers who find and report bugs in Google’s services. Of the total amount, $2.1 million was paid from the Google program, $1.9 million from Android, $1 million from Chrome and $800,000 from the Google Play program. …
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Popular messaging app ToTok is back in the Google Play Store after it was removed in December. Last month, the app was accused of being a surveillance tool used by the United Arab Emirates to track the activities of people who download it. ToTok was available for download once again in the Google Play Store as of Saturday, according to a …
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Huawei’s Mate 30 Pro launched just a few months ago in September, but the company has already locked in a launch window for its next flagship, the P40 Pro. The P40 and P40 Pro will be unveiled at an event in Paris in March, said Huawei consumer group CEO Richard Yu, according to French press. More consequentially, Yu added the …
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