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Google alternative Ecosia is on a mission to turn search clicks into trees. The Berlin-based not-for-profit reached a major milestone earlier this month, having used ad revenue generated by users of its privacy-sensitive search engine to plant more than 100 million trees across 25 countries worldwide — targeted at biodiversity ...

Apple has another antitrust charge on its plate. Messaging app Telegram has joined Spotify in filing a formal complaint against the iOS App Store in Europe — adding its voice to a growing number of developers willing to publicly rail against what they decry as Apple’s app “tax.” A spokesperson ...

Google Vice President of Engineering Dave Burke provided an update about the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) that Google developed in partnership with Apple as a way to help public health authorities supplement contact-tracing efforts with a connected solution that preserves privacy while alerting people of potential exposure to confirmed cases ...

Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will make signing in to a site a bit more straightforward. Image Credits: Google Chrome already uses the W3C WebAuthn standard ...

p Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point in the rest of your program. This allows you to avoid writing out ...

In this Kivy Python tutorial, you will learn how to use Kivy for Python app development. By the end, you’ll understand how to start building cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, and Windows using Python. Python is a powerful, flexible, and beginner-friendly programming language that has rapidly grown to become one ...

Your bi-monthly dose of tech industry and developer news, brought to you by the Gary Explains Newsletter   Full Windows 10 Desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4: Thanks to the efforts of projects like “rpi4-uefi” and others, it is now possible to install Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi. Here ...

One of the great things about having Python installed on your Windows machine, is that you can access it from anywhere. Simply pull up a command prompt and you can start entering commands, installing new modules via pip, and feeling like a badass hacker! In order for this to work ...

Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build useful tools like word processors and spreadsheets. Let’s find out how to write to ...

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of information, where each unit of data is separated by a comma. Hence the ...