apps

This is amazing. Basically, these are downloadable/installable apps for your headsets that allow you to play a bunch of retro FPS in VR. 100% worth trying it out, as they're free. It works great on my Pico 4, highly recommended: https://sidequestvr.com/space/7/team-beef-vr-game-ports

A recent study from the BMJ found that many popular health apps share more data with advertisers than they probably should. The researchers analyzed 24 Android apps with scripts that simulate real world usage, and found that 19 of them shared potentially sensitive user data with 55 "unique...

Finland announced plans for a digital drivers license this year, and several U.S. States are running similar pilot programs of their own. So far, digital drivers license systems have been fairly limited, but a report by IEEE Spectrum claims that could change in Louisiana soon. According to the...

Google has decided they will no longer allow cryptomining apps on the Play Store. They've updated their policy to reflect this and the only cryptomining apps allowed now are those that monitor mining operations on remote devices. This banning of cryptomining follows the steps of Apple who banned...

I understand that you can change which partition the Microsoft store downloads to. https://www.softwarert.com/change-microsoft-app-store-download-location-windows-10/ I would like to download to my C drive but I would like to specify which directory to download to. this way, I can easily see...

Apple has begun cracking down on apps that share location data with third-parties, by removing the application in question, and informing developers that their app violates two parts of their guidelines. 9to5Mac is reporting that they have seen several cases of Apple cracking down on...

Google announced in a blog post yesterday that in 2017 they removed more than 700,000 apps that violated the Google Play policies, 70% more than the apps taken down in 2016. The most impressive stat is that 99% of apps with abusive contents were identified and rejected before anyone could...

According to Sensor Tower, consumers worldwide spent nearly $200M on apps, in-app purchases, and other app related transactions. This was up from $174M last year. I would have thought a lot of this might have been as a result of micro-transactions in gaming, but a huge percentage of the...

The latest beta of Chrome 64 Beta has a new feature a lot of Chromebook users have been wanting for a long time. In the beta you can now run apps side by side without one of them pausing or causing some kind of weird issue when they aren't in focus. So keep your fingers crossed that this...

As we have covered countless times before, there are many security problems in the world of connected cars. Now there is a new one to worry about. Apparently for fear of owners getting locked out of their cars by valet's or others accidentally resetting the cars connections, car makers have...

And it's about time! Google has been sending developers notices of their intent to limit visibility or remove apps that violate the company's user data policy. You know, the types of apps that are poor knockoffs of the real thing, with limited functionality, that exist only to trick you into...

There are numerous people who want to switch to a flavor of Linux but are held back for one reason or another. I am one of those people. What is holding you back?