US regulators on Friday said they had found now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data for voter profiling and targeting. The Federal Trade Commission also found that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices relating to its participation in the EU-US Privacy Shield framework – a pact on the cross-border transfer
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Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro has been found to continuously collecting and transmitting its users location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so. Security journalist Brian Krebs wrote about this on his blog recently, with an accompanying video revealing that the new iPhone continues to collect GPS data for certain apps and
Xiaomi’s Redmi K30 will be launched on December 10, but leaks keep coming from all directions. After appearing in multiple hands-on images as well as official renders, live images of the phone’s retail package have surfaced online for the first time. The leaked images show the phone in a cherry-pink colour that we’ve seen in
Apple on Thursday said it has bought the first-ever commercial batch of carbon-free aluminium from a joint venture between two of the world’s biggest aluminium suppliers. The metal is being made by Elysis, a Montreal-based joint venture of Alcoa Corp and Rio Tinto announced last year with $144 million (roughly Rs. 1,027 crores) in funding from the
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Apple is reportedly planing to use Qualcomm’s ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technology in one iPhone model, set to be released in 2020. The iPhone maker was partnering with Taiwanese touchscreen maker GIS to develop an iPhone for 2020 or 2021 that could use the under-display tech, MacRumors reported on Wednesday. Qualcomm unveiled the new 3D Sonic
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Uber reveals thousands of sexual assault reports last year Uber just released its first-ever safety report, stating that it received 2,936
JavaScript has become a staple in modern web development. This powerful language has evolved into an essential tool for any web developer to understand. JavaScript has special features that make it different from traditional programming languages. We’re going to dig into what it is, how it works, and what you can do with it. Let’s
Amazfit has been launching wearables in India at a relentless pace, and the Verge Lite is the latest one that we received for review. The Amazfit Verge Lite is a fitness watch with notifications, and with a sub-Rs. 10,000 price it could appeal to lots of people who want something more than a fitness band
Playrix Holding, a mobile-game developer that made billionaires of its Russian founders, has bought into about a dozen studios to take on the likes of Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts. Brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman said in an interview that by 2025 they want Playrix’s sales to catch up with those of the US gaming giants.
Huawei has added a new fitness band to its wearables portfolio – Huawei Band 4 Pro. Huawei’s latest wearable comes equipped with a heart rate sensor as well as SpO2 sensor for gauging blood oxygen saturation levels. The Huawei Band 4 Pro features 0.95-inch AMOLED display and also offers NFC support for making contactless payments.
Netflix may still not have a million subscribers in India, but it continues to invest big bucks in the nation, where Disney’s Hotstar currently dominates the video streaming market. Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix, said on Friday that the company is on track to spend 30,000 million Indian rupees, or $420.5 million, on
Advertisement Every pair of headphones will break. It’s a delicate device with lots of intricate components, and those components will get jostled and wear down with time, leading to inevitable malfunctions. You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it. But if your headphones always die within a year, you’re doing something wrong. I’ve worn
Qualcomm has unveiled its new extended reality platform called the Snapdragon XR2 platform. Qualcomm says it’s the world’s first 5G-supported platform, which can be scaled across various uses cases of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR). The Snapdragon XR2 promises twice the CPU and GPU performance, four times more video bandwidth, six
Call of Duty: Mobile (CODM) has reaped nearly $87 million (roughly Rs. 621 crores) in global player spending and more than 172 million downloads in its first two months. The game picked up nearly 21 million installs in November, compared to almost 146 million in October, revealed analytics firm Sensor Tower recently. As per report, the
Apple’s free video creation app Clips has been updated for the iPhone and the iPad with new Animoji and Memoji support. This update includes animated stickers and emoji that can “follow the movements of a user’s face” in videos captured with device front-facing cameras. “Users can now easily share personal video messages, slideshows, school projects
Here’s a little early Christmas present for you. Apple analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo is out with his latest Apple opus. Per usual, it’s got a lot of fascinating nuggets, this time projecting as far as 2021 in its look at iPhones to come. Let’s skip right to that bit, shall we? It seems that 2021
Sony India on Thursday announced Alpha 9 II a full-frame interchangeable lens camera for Rs. 3,99,990 in India. The Alpha 9 II will be available across all key retail counters Sony Center and major electronic stores across the country from this Thursday onwards. The company said in a statement that the new Alpha 9 II
If you love to watch movies or sports on big screens, think of bigger ones now as South Korean technology giant Samsung on Thursday in India introduced its modular MicroLED display “The Wall” that can stretch your imagination with its 146-inch, 219-inch, 292-inch screen sizes, costing you anywhere between Rs. 3.5 crores to Rs. 12
Arpita Chaudhary, a newly recruited police constable in India’s western Gujarat state, became an overnight celebrity after posting a clip of her 15-second gambol — clad in her civvies — on the smash-hit social video app, TikTok. Then she paid the price. A snippet of her gyrating to a Bollywood song against the backdrop of
Advertisement Facebook is quite open about its goals: the company dreams of a world in which everyone is connected at all times. Perhaps that’s why it’s so difficult to appear offline on Facebook Chat. The very idea of “offline” or “invisible” is the antithesis of everything the social network believes in. However, being “invisible” isn’t
Apple is said to be planning a major change in the top-end 2021 iPhone model. If predictions made by noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo are to be believed the Cupertino, California-based company is planning to kill the Lightning port in the highest-end 2021 iPhone model. By ditching the Lightning port, Apple will make the iPhone
Samsung Galaxy S11+ is still a few months away from its official unveiling, but that hasn’t stop the leaks and rumours from pouring in. A new leak indicates that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S11+ will be packing a large 5,000mAh battery under the hood. If this report does turn out to be true then it
Over the last few weeks, some 13-inch MacBook Pro owners have been reporting an issue with their machines. These users claim that their MacBook Pro models shut down randomly even when the laptop has a decent amount of battery left. The issue seems to be affecting entry-level 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro models only. Apple has
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Nokia 2.3 was launched in Cairo on Thursday. The budget smartphone is the latest from Finnish company HMD Global, the Nokia mobile brand licensee. The company is touting the Nokia 2.3 as a camera and entertainment-focused budget smartphone, and while it ships with Android 9.0, it’s being called Android 10 ready. Featuring a dedicated Google
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. 300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app Melee, the company’s first app beyond its flagship product, lets users subscribe to
Huawei Watch GT 2 was launched in India on Thursday. The new smartwatch is the successor of the Huawei Watch GT that the company launched earlier this year. Huawei launched the Watch GT 2 internationally in September and was teasing the launch of the product in India. The highlight of the new smartwatch is two
PUBG Mobile is about to get a whole lot better, thanks to Qualcomm’s latest flagship mobile chipset, Snapdragon 865 SoC. At the ongoing Snapdragon Tech Summit, it was announced that PUBG Mobile will soon get support for 90fps gameplay, which means a much smoother visual output for players to feast their eyes upon. Moreover, PUBG