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Photo: GettyThe tumultuous divide between full-time staff and contract workers at Facebook and Google has come to a head recently, with this distinction now purportedly determining who deserves to work from home amid an ongoing global pandemic.Throughout this week, several big names in tech have begun recommending that their workforce…

A recent Buzzfeed investigation discovered that several popular VPN and adblocking apps for Android and iOS secretly collected user data and sent it to Sensor Tower, a cross-platform data analytics service for app developers. The snooping apps include:Adblock Focus (Android and iOS)Free and Unlimited VPN (Android)Luna VPN (Android and iOS)Mobile…

Screenshot: David Murphy (Google)Whether you have multiple personalities or you don’t like dropping your personal phone number into every email you reply to, editing your signature on a per-email basis can get annoying. While plenty of third-party apps allow you to pick from multiple signatures when composing or replying to…

Google’s NYC offices, March 2018.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Google has asked all of its North American employees—well over 100,000, counting all those working under parent company Alphabet, and a similarly massive number of contractors—to work from home due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.The request applies…

Customers wearing protective facemasks visit an Apple store in Hong Kong on February 22, 2020.Photo: Vivek Prakash (GettyA Senate subcommittee on Tuesday took aim at what one witness described as a “dire threat” to the digital marketplace—the processes by which “platform monopolists” such as Google allegedly maintain a stranglehold over…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)While COVID-19 may have forced Google to cancel in-person attendance of Google I/O 2020, that doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on new gadgets to show off like the rumored Pixel 4a and potentially now this: a Chromecast Ultra powered by Android TV. The latest info on…

The new Doodle honors the progress made by women since the late 1800s. Image: google By Natasha Piñon2020-03-08 04:00:00 UTC It's almost International Women's Day, and your Google homepage is ready to celebrate.  To mark the occasion, Google is debuting a new Doodle with a global and cross-generational appeal.  The…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019,…

When women have the tools to take charge of their own lives, they make history. In the month of March, we’re highlighting women who’ve started the ripples of progress in the past, and the ones who are changing the course of history now. Though this change is happening everywhere, we’re…

Both Apple and Google have begun cracking down on apps related to the coronavirus, according to a new report from CNBC. App developers who spoke with the news organization say Apple is rejecting any and all coronavirus-related mobile software not from recognized health organizations or the government. CNBC also reports…