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Google has pulled seven apps from the Play Store after mobile threat researchers at Avast discovered they allowed people to stalk employees, kids, or romantic partners. Avast reported four of the apps to Google on Tuesday, after which they were quickly removed from the Play Store. The other three apps …

(Reuters) — U.S. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called on the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a national security and privacy investigation into FaceApp, a face-editing photo app developed in Russia, in a letter sent on Wednesday. The viral smartphone application, which has seen a new surge …

Windows Defender: Microsoft says you should still use it over other products Windows Defender trails third-party antivirus in tests, but Microsoft says you should still use it over other products. Microsoft said that over the past year it notified nearly 10,000 users that they’d been targeted or compromised by nation-state …

The Google Maps app is packed with information about restaurants, bus schedules, and now bike-shares. Starting Wednesday, the app will show information about bicycle availability at stations in real-time in 24 cities. It will also show how many empty slots there are to drop off a bicycle. New York City …

Avid players of PUBG Mobile, rejoice! There’s a new update out alongside the release of the Royale Pass Season 8. This update, titled update 0.13.5, includes a new gun, the PP-19 Submachine Gun. It’s fully automatic, with 53-round capacity for 9mm-type ammunition. Update 0.13.5 also includes a new game mode …

Microsoft’s on-stage HoloLens demonstrations haven’t always been impressive, but a new one at the company’s Inspire event (via The Verge) is nothing short of amazing. Using a combination of body and voice capture technologies, Azure AI, and HoloLens, Microsoft created a nearly photorealistic hologram of executive Julia White, then had the …

The New South Wales government’s Cyber Security NSW arm has established an identity recovery service for state government customers whose identities become compromised as a result of a “cyber incident”. The Identity Recovery Service will allow for 500 individual referrals to IDCare to be used by NSW government departments and agencies …

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5G is the next big technology and every carrier wants in on that action. With the exception of AT&T’s 5Ge network, seeing 5G on your device means that you are using the newest and fastest wireless technology available. The only problem is that every carrier has a different plan for …

Google has removed from the Play Store seven stalking apps that could track someone’s phone without them knowing about it. The sneaky software also offers access to a phone’s contact list, as well as its SMS and call history.