India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation

Pratik Sinha, the co-founder of the Indian non-profit fact-checking website Alt News, says there ... but they know it’s not working,” he told TechCrunch. Holan believes there is much room ... Read More

India’s VerSe acquires Apple News+ rival Magzter

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of Indian news ... app, underscores VerSe’s growing focus on reaching and serving affluent audiences, VerSe’s co-founder, Umang Bedi, told TechCrunch in ... Read More

Contact Tracing

Google's exposure notification system --- designed to help deploy Covid contact-tracing apps --- contains a security flaw that allows third parties to see users' private personal and medical ... Read More

Need a news app? Here are my top 5 across Android, Linux, and iOS

If keeping up with the news is high on your list of daily tasks, you might want to consider using one of these apps. Read More

Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it

Consumer-grade spyware apps are frequently sold under the guise of child monitoring or family-tracking software ... from outside of Google Play’s app store, planted on a phone without a person ... Read More

Security bugs in a popular phone-tracking app exposed users' precise locations

Last week when a security researcher said he could easily obtain the precise location from any one of the millions of users of a widely used phone-tracking app, we had to see it for ourselves. Eric ... Read More

Google Wallet App Is Yet to Launch in India, Company Says

Update: Google says the Google Wallet app is yet to be announced in India. Several reports recently ... downloaded from the Google Play Store. Here's everything you should know about the Google ... Read More

I use a tracking app on my teens - here's how I get away with it

So, my family is all on the app ... It’s such a relief to see he’s safe and I can go back to sleep. Tracking can be done respectfully and for the right reasons. Leveraging tracking apps ... Read More

KPBS News: Source Tracking Policy

Tracking the sources in our news coverage ... tracking tool, Source Matters, that aims to make source tracking and conducting in-depth data analysis more efficient. Here's how KPBS' source ... Read More