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As Apple app-tracking change nears, Chinese tech firms fight back

Apple CEO Tim Cook on stage during an Apple event in September 2018. (credit: Valentina Palladino) With Apple’s big app-tracking policy change just around the corner, Chinese companies drew a warning from Cupertino that their efforts to circumvent the change will not be successful. At the same time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to shift […]

Google flags its iOS apps as “out of date” after two months of neglect

Enlarge / The current state of Google’s iOS app lineup. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s major iOS apps have been seeing serious neglect for the past few months. On December 8, Apple’s App Store started requiring all apps to show privacy “nutrition labels” in their app store listing, where developers self-report what data an app uses […]

Sex with Neanderthals was common for early Eurasian Homo sapiens, DNA says

Enlarge (credit: Hajdinjak et al. 2020) DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe adds more detail to the story of our species’ expansion into Eurasia—and our complicated 5,000-year relationship with Neanderthals. The earliest traces of our species in Eurasia are a lower molar and a few fragments of bone from Bacho Kiro Cave in […]