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Apple during the WWDC event last year announced a change in the App Store guidelines that mandates all apps that support account creation to offer an in-app option for letting users delete their accounts. On Tuesday, the Cupertino giant started reminding developers about the new App Store guidelines that will come into effect on June 30. The App Store Review Guideline 5.1.1 aims at giving users more control over their data. The change was previously set to come into effect on January 31. Additionally, a separate App Store…

Developers better make sure some of their apps support account deletion in the next month. In an update on the Apple Developer website, the company is reminding developers who offer account creation within their app that they must also offer users the ability to initiate account deletion. The new requirement goes into effect for apps starting on June 30. As a reminder, apps that support account creation must let users initiate deletion of their account within the app starting June 30, 2022, as described in App Store…

According to Salone Sehgal, general partner at Lumikai, a gaming-focused VC fund, a significant part of funding went into real money gaming early on during the pandemic. However, investors have diversified their capital in the last 6-8 months, moving into game streaming, content and infrastructure providers, she said. “We have seen a lot more domestic interest from VC, a lot more international interest from strategics who are actively scouting companies in the Indian market," said Sehgal. A case…

Rivaling what has already been done on iOS and Android, Microsoft detailed at its Build 2022 conference that developers can soon build third-party widgets for the operating system. As has been long-rumored, the option is set to become available beginning “later this year,” and will be powered by Microsoft’s Adaptive Cards platform. According to Microsoft’s Panos Panay, these new third-party widgets can be “companion experiences” for traditional Win32 desktop, or Progressive Web Apps. While these specific widgets have…

The Microsoft Build 2022 conference is now underway through Thursday and the brand is revealing a host of updates to its app store in particular. The Microsoft Store will soon feature Microsoft Store Ads, which will be powered by Microsoft Advertising. The brand said the upcoming feature will allow developers to market their apps to the proper users and highlight new experiences to users. Microsoft said it will soon begin a pilot program for developers to design ad campaigns within Microsoft Advertising. Currently,…

NEW DELHI: GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository platform, said Tuesday it will offer its GitHub Sponsors service to developers in India. Starting today, Indian developers on GitHub can sign up for Sponsors to receive financial backing for their independent developer projects. The company said Indian developers will no longer be waitlisted for signing up on Sponsors. The GitHub Sponsors Explore platform offers a browser view for all projects on the platform, using which…

Introduction Attempts at hand-crafting algorithms for understanding human-generated content have generally been unsuccessful. For example, it is difficult for a computer to “grasp” the semantic content of an image - e.g., a car, cat, coat, etc....… - purely by analyzing its low-level pixels. Color histograms and feature detectors worked to a certain extent, but they were rarely accurate for most applications. In the past decade, the combination of big data and deep learning has fundamentally changed the way we approach…

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Google has officially released the ‘Now in Android’ app on GitHub, aiming to help developers keep in sync with the changing landscape of Android software development.The Now in Android app will help developers solve “complex real-world problems”“Firstly, it showcases best practices, opinionated designs, and solutions to complex real-world problems which other sample apps don’t handle,” Google said of the new app in a blog post (via XDA). “Secondly, it helps you (the developer) keep up to date with the areas of Android…

Hot off the heels of Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness comes a new game from Marvel Entertainment that offers the same flavor of throwing everybody from everywhere in a big ole pot, shaking, and seeing what kind of shenanigans come out. Marvel Snap is a new collectible card game that its creators claim has some of the fastest gameplay in the CCG space. According to the announcement video, matches only last about three minutes, and players take their turns simultaneously so there’s no waiting for your opponent…