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New Weather Apps - Sep'20 (Week - 01)

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This week we have brought brand new weather apps worth trying. 1.  CliMate Released date: 25Jul2020 Downloads:  50+ Size: 2.37 MB Version: 1.15.2  Climate is surely a new entrant to the play store but not just another basic weather app since it offers all the features of a weather app without any ads and in-app purchases with a clean and simlple UI along with loads of customization options. Features: Themes support. Complete weather report for a week. Customizable units Parameters such as temperature, wind speed, Humidity, Pressure, UV Index available. Sunrise and Sunset. Widget support. Graphical representation of the data. Mostly shows accurate data.

Google is cleaning up Play Store

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Google has removed over 0.7 mn apps from the play store in 2017 that violated its Play store policies and among them, more than 70% were removed in 2016. In a blog post, Andrew Ahn (Product manager) has stated that "Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and take action against them earlier. In fact, 99% of apps were identified and removed before anyone could download them since these apps contained abusive content. This was possible through significant improvements in our ability to detect abuse - such as impersonation, inappropriate content, or malware - through new machine learning models and techniques." Based on the below three factors these apps were removed from the Play Store. Copycats : More than a quarter of a million were removed that attempted to deceive the users by emulating a well-known app. Inappropriate Content : Apps that contain or promote inappropriate content such as pornography, extreme violence, hate and illegal activities.

Chrome OS 64

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Google has updated the Chrome OS recently to Chrome OS 64, precisely Version 64.0.3282.134 (Official Build). This update brings quite a few new features to all the Chrome devices, including various improvements based on how Chromebooks with the Google play support will be able to handle the Android applications. This Official build lets users take screenshots on Chromebooks with a 360 degree hinge up which a welcome addition. The traditional shortcut (hold volume down and power keys) of Android is borrowed to capture a screenshot. Revamped Intent Picker for Play Applications (Same window by default with override)  Lockscreen Performance Improvements  Enable VPN for Google Play Apps  Enhancements to protect media pipeline for Android  Android Container Auto Update Optimizations  Touchscreen pairing settings  Split-Screen mode for tablets Improved pop-up blockers Critical security fixes which include additional browser migrations to protect the devices from the Sp

OnePlus 5 gets Face unlock feature with Oxygen OS beta

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OnePlus 5T has very fast and secure FACE UNLOCK (though OP says that it is not that secure) which has surprised tech world, right after that OP had promised that it would bring this fantastic feature to the OP 5. As promised, OP  has finally extended the ability for users to authenticate its OP 5  smartphones by using facial recognition. The company started officially rolling out its Android-based OxygenOS 5.0.5 which adds Face Unlock feature to the older OP 5 smartphone. Face Unlock uses the front-facing camera on the phone, along with special software, to identify your face with 100 identifiers so you can unlock it without typing in a code.  Besides this, the third Open Beta for the OP 5 adds an app shortcut for the Recorder app on the phone’s launcher. It also includes some optimizations for vibration, fixes a connection issue with 5G Wi-Fi, and has a number of other unnamed bug fixes and improvements. Finally, this beta release includes the important security patches