An app for detecting Chinese applications goes viral
This current situation of the coronavirus crisis has led many governments and citizens of different countries to look at China with different eyes, there are more and more application...
The best way to scan old photos with your mobile phone for free
We all have old photos in albums that we haven't been able to have in digital yet for different reasons: the photo is the only one taken, the shadows...
LibreOffice comes with a free PDF document editor
Although they have their detractors, PDF documents are a practical way of converting thousands of pages of contracts, invoices, delivery notes and other technical, legal or bureaucratic documentation into...
WhatsApp stops hoaxes: viral message forwarding has fallen by 70% after the new measures
The limitations on message forwarding activated by WhatsApp in early April to stop the spread of coronavirus-related misinformation have taken effect. In a statement, the company said that the...
IBM offers free training in COBOL during the COVID-19 crisis
In early April we saw the desperate search for COBOL programmers that was going on in some states of the United States. The reason: their social security systems for...
5 best Java frameworks for web app development in 2020
Client-side JavaScript frameworks are hugely popular right now, but they might not always be the best choice if you want to deliver a web-based experience to browser-based clients. If...
Mozilla is testing WebAssembly, securing Firefox as code is executed in sandboxes
A powerful new approach to securing web browsers, using a tool called WebAssembly, is getting its first real-world application in the Firefox browser. Developed by a team of researchers...
Which IoT devices collect data about our activities in the physical world?
A new app called IoT Assistant informs users about what Internet of Things technologies are around them and what data they’re collecting, researchers report.
People navigating through the digital landscape...
Now it’s easy to run Android apps on Linux, without emulators, with Anbox
A well known fact is that Android and Linux share the same root as operating system. However, running applications of that mobile operating system on a PC is not...
New Microsoft Office for Android: Excel, Word and PowerPoint in one app
After months of testing, Microsoft Office finally arrives at Android with the novelty of combining Word, Excel and PowerPoint in one application.
So you no longer have to download each...