Technology

China's gaming regulator on Monday granted publishing licenses to 45 games belonging to the likes of Baidu and XD's Party Star, ending a nine-month long freeze that has dealt a blow to many of the country's tech giants.The National Press and Public Administration published the list on its website. Reuters reported that China had granted a license to XD Party Star earlier in the day.Other companies whose games received licenses included iDreamSky, 37Games, a subsidiary of G-bits Network Technology Xiamen, Shenzhen Zqgame…

Google is rolling out the Switch to Android app for iOS users who are looking to move their data from iPhones to Android smartphones. The free app is currently available to download on iOS devices via the Apple App Store. Switch to Android app allows users to migrate data including photos, videos, and contacts among others from iPhones to Android phones wirelessly. Additionally, the app lets users turn off iMessage to receive text messages on their Android phones. Apple already offers a similar app named 'Move to iOS' to…

Bridgerton season 2 — Netflix's hit period drama series — has surpassed its first season to become the most watched English-language series on the streaming service. Netflix's latest quarterly report revealed that the Regency-era series, produced by Shondaland, has amassed a total of 627.11 million viewing hours in the first four weeks, beating season 1's viewing hours in the same time span. Netflix's Korean-language series Squid Game still remains the streamer's most watched series yet. Meanwhile, The Tinder Swindler,…

Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro was launched in global markets on Tuesday. The latest addition to the company's Red Magic gaming smartphone lineup was launched in China on February 17. The handset is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, paired with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM. It sports a 6.8-inch AMOLED display and comes with 64-megapixel triple rear cameras and an under-display selfie camera. Unlike the Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro that was launched in China with 135W fast charging, the global model only offers support for 65W charging,…

Instagram has received a new feature ahead of Earth Day on April 22, i.e. 'Fundraise on Instagram Reels'. With the help of this feature, Instagram is rolling out an option for users to create and donate to fundraisers through reels. This feature will be available in more than 30 countries, and users can donate to more than 1.5 million nonprofits available to them.Meta has announced this feature as part of celebrations for the upcoming Earth Day and the company says that they want the consumers to check out a few ways to…

Brave, the privacy-focused browser has unveiled a new feature that allows users to navigate directly to the publisher's website. The latest functionality called De-AMP will bypass accelerated mobile pages (AMP) hosted by Google and take users to the original website. According to Brave, AMP harms users' privacy and promotes Google to monopolise the Web. The new feature will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from landing on AMP pages. When Brave cannot rewrite links, it will redirect users from AMP pages to non-AMP…

Google's Project Zero is its in-house team of cybersecurity experts and analysts, who look at advanced threats, has detected a record number of exploits in 2021. In a blog post, the team, known as Project Zero, announced that these zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits had reached a record-breaking number of 58. Project Zero was formed in 2014. In 2015, the team detected 28 exploits, which were reduced to 25 in the year 2020. A growing number of cyber-attacks and the popularity of cryptocurrency can be the reasons behind…

London Files — the Arjun Rampal-led series, now streaming on Voot Select — is a hilariously bad cop show. There's no getting around it, so I might as well acknowledge that straight up. Rampal's police detective is stuck inside the TV, except he doesn't know it. After all, that's the only way to explain his bewildering actions, things no cop in his position would do. At one point, while Rampal is following a suspect, he calls out their name and gives himself up, just because London Files needs an episodic cliffhanger. When…

Facebook parent Meta Platforms will charge creators around 47.5 percent on sales of digital assets and experiences made inside the company's virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds.The overall charge comprises of 30 percent hardware platform fee for sales made through Meta Quest Store, where it sells apps and games meant for its virtual reality headsets, and a further 17.5 percent cut as its Horizon platform fees, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday.On Monday, the tech giant said it would start testing tools for…

DuckDuckGo, a popular privacy-focused search engine, was recently called out in media reports for tampering with search results and purging independent media sources. This week, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg took to Twitter to refute the allegations. He said the claims the search engine purges independent media outlets are completely made up, and went on to detail how the search engine shows results, and possible reasons why certain results didn't immediately show up. The clarification comes days after DuckDuckGo was…