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Snapchat, a social media platform, is looking to “redesign” its camera technology in order to make it more “inclusive” after employees complained, “the camera is, in fact, racist,” according to an Axios report.

A blind man, Thomas Panek, completed a five-kilometer (3.1 miles) run through New York City’s Central Park Thursday without using a guide dog or human runner.

The Indian government announced Wednesday that it would ban 118 more Chinese smartphone apps, including the immensely popular video game called Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG for short.

The Chinese city of Hangzhou is considering proposals to make the smartphone-based coronavirus health tracking system permanent, expanding it to include factors such as how much sleep citizens are getting, how much alcohol they drink, and how frequently they exercise.

Saudi Arabia defended a smartphone app Saturday which allows men to track women’s movements and potentially “stop them leaving the country.”

A group calling itself a “worldwide leader in Virtual Private Network research and statistics” organized protests on Capitol Hill, at Facebook’s headquarters in California, and at its campus in Austin, Texas, “to advocate for consumer privacy rights and online security.”

Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote is calling into question whether Los Angeles County election officials are properly training poll workers to follow voter identification standards.

The Islamic State is touting a sporty new update for its Amaq News smartphone app, promising a smoother, safer browsing experience.

The Islamic State has launched a mobile phone app for children, in which they are taught the Arabic alphabet, Islamist ideology, and a useful vocabulary of words such as “tank,” “gun,” and “rocket.”

The Daily Mail reports:  A new phone app allows Israelis to make video distress calls to emergency responders on their mobile phones. The country launched a nationwide platform in which emergency services can see live video of the victim, chat

Such is the scale of migration into the UK and around Europe that new banking service firms are developing products to cater to Europe’s migrants, hoping to turn a quick profit. One such product, recently launched by London-based start-up Monese,

(Ferenstein Wire)—The taxi industry has launched yet another high-profile attempt to conquer their arch nemesis Uber. The upcoming Arro, like many of its predecessors, is an app for hailing and paying for a taxi, much like other ride-hailing companies out of Silicon Valley. Every similar app, so far, has either completely shut down shortly after launch or failed to slow the rise of Uber.

Ferenstein Wire—China’s taxi-hailing monopolist, Kuaidi, has raised a whopping $2B to compete with the surging presence of Uber. Kuaidi controls 99.8 percent of the taxi hailing app market, after it recently merged with its Chinese competitor, Didi. Even with about

There are two great new email mobile apps from Google and Microsoft and both offer helpful features, such as location-aware emails and calendar scheduling. While both apps offer something unique, I think one way to compare them is based on a single metric: which app gets me to inbox zero fastest. I don’t enjoy email — I just want to get my daily digital chore done and get on with my life.

Uber is systematically wiping out taxis in San Francisco. As of last year, average taxi trips per month had reportedly plummeted 65 percent in just 2 years. In an effort to save the industry, a new startup, FlyWheel, has begun outfitting taxis with the Uber-like convenience of smartphone hailing and payments.

A smartphone app that permits users to post messages anonymously is causing some colleges to ban it from their schools’ wireless networks because some racist comments have been posted.