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Google has announced plans to restrict loan apps on its Play Store from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos, and contacts. The update, which was pushed to the Personal Loans Policy yesterday, will take effect from May 31st.  “Apps that provide personal loans, or have the primary purpose…

Thursday 06 April 2023 4:07 pm Google Google is banning apps that provide personal loans from accessing sensitive user data in a bid to clamp down on predatory activity among some lenders. In a policy update late Wednesday, the company said that the apps available on Google Play were “prohibited”…

Cheap-and-cheerful Chinese retailer AliExpress was the most downloaded online shopping app in Korea last month, pushing flea market Daangn Market into second place. According to big data analysts Mobile Index on Tuesday, AliExpress was downloaded 682,332 times on Google's Play and Apple's App Store in March, twice as many as…

:Alphabet Inc's Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems are both faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia Corp. Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. It uses…

The Pixel Tablet is expected to launch next month. (Image source: Google)The FCC has published documentation for what appears to be the Pixel Tablet, Google's first Android-based tablet since the Nexus 9. The FCC's documentation reveals various information about the Pixel Tablet, including that it relies on the older Wi-Fi…

Earlier this week, Google introduced a suite of new search features that will hopefully reduce some anxiety around travel planning. These tools, which promise to help make looking for places to stay and things to do more convenient, also include a “price guarantee” through the “Book with Google” option for…

NurPhoto/Getty ImagesGoogle has established its rightful place at the top of the search engine hierarchy as the most used search engine in the world. Consequently, the expectations for Google's AI chatbot were high. The results, sadly, fell flat.  Google Bard was released four months after OpenAI's extremely capable and powerful…

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem a little bit like magic sometimes. But they’re not, especially when asked to do a fairly basic computational task that you’d think they could handle with relative ease—like generate a Windows 95 license key. From our AI shootout of ChatGPT versus Microsoft Bing versus…

Huawei Health is no longer available in the Google Play Store and now you can get the app only through an unsecure sideload or by getting Huawei's App Gallery first. The last version of the app was from 2020 and it ran until October of last year. It didn't have…

Introduction Watts are the new megapixels - the numbers race is going at full speed in the field of fast charging on smartphones. While some choose not to partake (Apple and Samsung, but also Google and Sony), others are pumping out power figures unthinkable until recently. We only just got…