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Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts

08 December 2024

Newsletter: In 24 Hours, Filipino Teams Built 13 Apps for Social Good at FlutterFlow HackFest: Impact Challenge

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The FlutterFlow HackFest: Impact Challenge, hosted by FlutterFlow Developer Group (FFDG) Manila, showcased the talents of Filipino developers during a 24-hour hackathon aimed at addressing global challenges. Held from November 22-23, 2024, in Taguig City and Makati City, the event saw 13 teams creating apps aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on health, education, and sustainable communities. Grand prize winner Team Null developed Sustancia, an AI-powered nutrition app, while Team Flux’s Inspectrum utilized eye-gaze tracking for ADHD and ASD detection, earning second place. Team Neosolve's gamified productivity app Procrash secured third. The event benefited from mentorship and guidance from industry experts, and the innovative apps tackled real-world problems with solutions like waste management, accessibility, and mental health support. Demonstrating the power of FlutterFlow to accelerate development, the hackathon reinforced FFDG Manila’s mission to inspire Filipino tech talent and drive positive social change. FlutterFlow played a pivotal role in the hackathon, empowering participants to rapidly develop their ideas into functional apps through its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and powerful features. The platform enabled teams to focus on innovation and problem-solving without getting bogged down in complex coding.

21 August 2023

Newsletter: What makes a messaging app secure?

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We’ve published multiple comparisons of secure messaging apps with end-to-end encryption, shared recommended settings, and described the respective flaws of these apps. But what about folks who want secure messengers but who aren’t exactly tech-savvy? This blogpost is just for them – based as it is on an extensive study and published report entitled What Is Secure? by a group of experts from the agencies Tech Policy Press and Convocation Research and Design.

15 August 2021

Two PH teams in GiveSIGHT and World MAQI are finalists in global space data competition for COVID-19

07/31/2021 03:30:48 PM


Our two teams had been recently selected by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as global finalists for the all-virtual Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon held last this past June. 

15 June 2021

TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp are the most-used apps kids used —Kaspersky study

06/12/2021 08:37:03 AM


A recent study by Kaspersky Safe Kids has revealed what children around the world that over the past year 'til present, their interest was about “software, audio and video” and “e-commerce” have grown, while “internet communication media” and “computer games” have decreased by a bit. 

23 August 2020

Newsletter: Pinoy app addressing pandemic impact won the Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge

08/23/2020 01:44:48 AM



Author's Note: As cliche as it sounds, Pinoy Pride has made it again, but in the mobile and pandemic-ish way – and I mean it in good context, huh? 

Look. There's a group of our data analysts from CirroLytix who made it big to the COVID-19 themed Space App Challenge organized by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). This makes up for being one of two Filipino groups who made it as global finalists.

Know more of them by reading the press release below.

07 June 2020

Newsletter: The rise of adware: Kaspersky found three compromised popular mobile apps in three months

06/02/2020 03:44:35 PM

Author's Note: There are three mobile apps that are apparently, compromised in over a quarter. That is what Kaspersky has found on this edition of Newsletter.

These apps, containing modules of the harmful unwanted software called “adware” is potentially harming millions of users. How did the researchers of this global cybersecurity company find them? Read more of that story below: