Category: Applications

August 12, 2020

Every winter, when the Lunar New Year comes around, Shuyi’s 80-person WeChat group of extended family lights up with celebratory messages and ‘red envelopes,’ digital versions of the red-packeted cash gifts that are central to the traditional Chinese holiday. Shuyi […]

August 4, 2020

One of the worst things that are happening during the novel coronavirus pandemic is the constant fake news attack on social media. All sorts of crazy conspiracy theories and COVID-19 cure spread like wildfire on instant messaging apps, and it’ll […]

July 27, 2020

Social media has become the target of a dueling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and his election rival. They’re shooting the messenger while giving it lots of money. President Donald Trump has bought hundreds of […]

July 23, 2020

Twitter reported second quarter sales were a mixed bag as the company said it is addressing recent security issues and will be “transparent in sharing our learnings and remediations.” The company reported a second quarter adjusted loss of 16 cents […]

July 22, 2020

The Trump administration is considering banning TikTok, the wildly popular short video platform, over national security concerns and TikTok’s alleged vulnerability to Chinese government censorship and data sharing. TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based tech firm ByteDance Ltd. and has […]

July 14, 2020

Google is taking important steps to secure customer data in the cloud when used by applications and prevent potentially unauthorized access to sensitive computing workloads run by government institutions and their contractors. To meet the strict security and compliance requirements […]

July 13, 2020

Amid intense scrutiny over TikTok, WeChat, the essential tool for Chinese people’s day-to-day life, is also taking the heat from the U.S. White House trade advisor Peter Navarro told Fox Business on Sunday that “[TikTok] and WeChat are the biggest […]

June 3, 2020

Today, Google started rolling out an update to its iOS apps and online services that adds support for WebAuthn-capable security keys. Hardware security keys are devices that generate unique cryptographic keys that are used as a second proof during an […]

April 13, 2020

Governments can’t force their citizens to use technology built by Apple and Google for tracking and mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, senior company representatives said on Monday. Apple and Google, normally arch-rivals, announced on Friday that they teamed […]

April 10, 2020

In one of the most far-ranging attempts to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Apple and Google said they were building software into smartphones that would tell people if they were recently in contact with someone who was infected with […]