David Murphy
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How to Check if You’re Running Android’s Speedier 64-Bit Chrome
The recent release of Chrome 89 brought with it one super-useful upgrade for a number of Android users: an official 64-bit version of the browser, which Google claims is “up to 8.5% faster to load pages and 28% smoother when it comes to scrolling and input latency.”
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How to Find the Privacy Labels for All Your Apple Apps
Apple is now forcing companies to use its new privacy labels, introduced in December of 2020, if they’re going to keep offering updated versions of their apps on the App Store. And that includes Apple’s own apps, too.
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Check Your Android for Malware Clones of These Useful Apps
A handful of malware-filled Android apps has, once again, been removed from the Google Play Store, and they were all taking advantage of the latest trend in malware design: masquerading as innocent clones of useful apps to escape initial detection by Google, and transforming into crappy malware once people started downloading and using them.
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How to Tell If You’re Being Tracked by Apple’s AirTags
AirTags aren’t a thing yet — at least, not when we wrote this — but the oft-rumoured tracking devices, about the size of a coin, should debut soon. And when they do, Apple is already building security features into iOS 14.5 to prevent people from secretly tracking you by attaching a tiny tracker to your…