Software
9 Tips From APAC Game Developers In COVID-19
While the tech industry is no stranger to dealing with rapid change, we’ve never faced a challenge like this. But amid the disruption, we’re seeing a silver lining emerge: the world is in this together, and people are reaching out to one another like never before. The gaming community is no exception. As it continues …
Where TikTok Has Been Downloaded The Most
Here are the countries where the social media app TikTok has been downloaded the most. These countries recorded the highest number of TikTok downloads as of June 30, according to Priori Data, a Berlin-based analytics firm. Highlights At the top of the list is India, with 99.8 million downloads. According to analysts, this translates to …
Canonical Enables Linux Desktop App Support With Flutter
Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve seen more than 80,000 fast, beautiful Flutter apps published to Google …
Deepening End User Engagement With An Enhanced Ecosystem Program
Developers across the open source ecosystem build incredible technologies and spur innovation. Partners in this innovation are the end users who utilize these new technologies. End users are an invaluable part of the virtuous cycle of the open source ecosystem. In this cycle, developers get feedback on their projects, vendors build on top of or …
How Open Source Software Is Fighting COVID-19
Learn about four of the thousands of open source projects combating the spread of coronavirus. Work is hard right now. COVID-19 makes it a challenge to stay focused and motivated. But it was cathartic for me to do some research into how the open source community is responding to the global pandemic. Since the end …
Verizon Teams Up With Google To Offer Next-gen Cloud Gaming Experience
It’s no secret; Verizon Fios is the perfect platform for gamers, and we’ve now taken it one step further by teaming up with Google for a significant gaming announcement. Verizon and Google are partnering to deliver the best games to more gamers than ever before. With Fios, there’s no added surcharges, no broadcast or regional …
Better Than Zoom: Try These Free Software Tools For Staying In Touch
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous amount of changes in how people work, play, and communicate. By now, many of us have settled into the routine of using remote communication or videoconferencing tools to keep in touch with our friends and family. In the last few weeks we’ve also seen a number of lists …
Google Meet Premium Video Conferencing Free For Everyone, Everywhere
Google Cloud announced it’s making Google Meet, Google’s premium video-conferencing solution, free for everyone with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to G Suite’s business and education users, such as simple scheduling …
The Most Vulnerable Applications Used By Cybercriminals In Cyber Attacks
Watch out, these applications have vulnerabilities with the highest share of exploits used by cybercriminals. Microsoft Office Suite, Android applications, and browsers are the three most common targets of cybercriminals during cyber attacks, according to the latest analysis of the AO Kaspersky Lab which was conducted for Q3 2019. These three accounts for 95.41% of …
Contribute To Open Source Healthcare Projects For COVID-19
Many of those that are familiar with the maker movement, including me, believe there is a significant opportunity to apply open source design principles and mass-scale collaborative distributed manufacturing technologies (like open source 3D printing) to at least partially overcome medical supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, an Italian hospital saved COVID-19 patients’ lives by …