Google hiring special team to spot critical bugs in Android apps

As bugs in highly-sensitive apps on Google Play Store keep increasing, Google is now looking for security engineers to find critical vulnerabilities and focus largely on fake Covid-19 contact tracing and election-related apps.

The security engineers will manage a team that "performs reverse engineering, technical security assessments, code audits and design reviews of third-party Android applications and libraries," Google said in the latest job posting.

There's no such thing as a "safe system" -- only safer systems and Google said that its security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers.

Google messages app - Update

- Google messages app to get message category for efficient SMS management A couple of days back, we saw a possible option in Google Messages to let users auto-delete OTPs after 24 hours. The latest development suggests that the company is focusing more on the app's functionality, as it is now testing message categories.

Coronavirus can surive on smartphone screens for 28 days - Study

- While most of us have made wearing face masks and washing hands part of our routines, we often forget to sanitize the gadgets we're using, primarily smartphones, and a new study shows we should seriously consider sanitizing our devices. Source - Beboom

Amazon fire TV now allows live tv

- We are just a few days away from Amazon's Great Indian Festival sale that will last an entire month this time around. And today, Amazon has given us another new update With this update, users will see two new tabs namely 'Live' and 'On Now' on Fire TV's home page. The former will show you live TV channels from SonyLIV, Voot, NextG TV, and Discovery+. This includes popular channels, including Sony SAB HD, Colors HD, SET HD, Nick HD+, Dangal, DD National, News18 India, MTV Beats HD, SONY BBC Earth HD, Mastii TV Music, and Discovery.

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