Korea will make it mandatory for people to undergo facial recognition when opening a new mobile phone number, as part of efforts to root out illegally registered handsets used for scams, the science ...

Researchers have uncovered a WhatsApp privacy flaw that allowed them to discover the 3.5 billion mobile numbers using the app globally, and possibly infer the identities of some of the people behind ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

Android 17 introduces a new Contacts Picker to fix the perpetual privacy flaw of all-or-nothing contact access. The tool allows selective sharing, giving apps only a one-time snapshot of necessary ...

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Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind its hit mobile game based on the “Squid Game” franchise. The two games the developer has released for the streamer, the “Netflix ...

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In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a missed call from an unfamiliar number, a potential scam or a ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

The Qi2 wireless charging spec was originally announced back in early 2023. However, Android phone makers haven’t exactly been rushing to add Qi2 support to their latest devices since then. That’s ...

Google is testing several new features on the Android 16 Canary build’s new photo picker tool. It allows users to pick multiple photos at once using simple tap and drag. The pinch-to-zoom-in and ...