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The ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab has identified location tracker SDKs in 450 different apps that have been downloaded at least 1.7 billion times. These 450 apps belong to a wider range of categories like travel, tourism, food apps, health, and fitness. Recently, WhatsApp got embroiled in a huge controversy over its privacy policies, and that eventually led to a major shift in its user base to apps like Signal and Telegram.

Co-founder of King, owned by Activision Blizzard, will become the chairman, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

By category, the social media apps lead the usage with 76 percent of the users using them on a daily basis.

To see if a smartphone app could help women self-administer acupressure for cramps, researchers randomly assigned 221 women to use the app or to stick with usual care for six months.

Lenskart has invested $1 million to introduce 6over6's technology in India. 

According to the study, people who use the apps to track their physical activity are probably more active than the apps show.

The results showed that smartphones open up non-stigmatising and self-managing avenues of care for the people with depression because smartphones can help them monitor, understand and manage their own mental health. 

The smart report feature helps uncover latent diseases and predict risk of future ones and to expose any latent ones.

More than 70 percent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party companies like Google and Facebook, a new study has warned.

Next time you eat an apple, you can know its specific constituents by looking directly inside it using your smartphone, thanks to the engineers who developed an app that can 'scan' an object and reveal the information about it.

Researchers from Northwestern University in the United States found that 13 speedy mini-apps called `IntelliCare` significantly reduced 50 percent depression and anxiety

The main reason behind draining of battery are the background apps that keep running. Here are the killer apps that heavily drain your smartphone battery.

A new research suggests that depending upon a smartphone app for pregnancy is not at all a good idea.

According to a study of pedometer apps Runtastic, Moves and Accupedo by researchers from University of Toronto, fitness apps have lower accuracy than standard pedometers in tracking how much users walk daily.

"Tor" software is free and Facebook users with Android smartphones can install a mobile Tor app called Orbot.

The new smartphone application helps connect rescuers with lifesaving AEDs and victims with sudden cardiac arrest.

On the surface, many people view Snapchat as the 'sexting app.

 Get Durga puja bhog delivered at your doorstep or avail guide to your favourite Puja pandals this year through various smartphone apps.

A US-based startup claims to have developed a new software for smartphone apps that can sense when a notification would just annoy you.

With more than 1,200 apps being released daily, an Indian-origin researcher and his colleague have discovered a number of ways to determine which smartphone apps will be the most successful.