Mobile Apps News 20 June 2025

Android’s PS2 Emulation Revolution: New ARMSX2 Emulator Brings PlayStation 2 Classics to Your Phone

ARMSX2 Debuts: Turning Android Phones into Mini PlayStations Have you ever wanted to carry a PlayStation 2 in your pocket? Thanks to a new app called ARMSX2, that retro gaming dream is closer to reality. ARMSX2 is an Android emulator that lets users run PS2 games on modern phones. It just hit a major milestone – version 1.0 went live over the weekend – marking the emulator’s first stable release notebookcheck.net. Early adopters could already test preview builds since August, but now the project is official, complete with open-source code and (soon) an easy install via Google Play Store economictimes.indiatimes.com timeextension.com.

29 October 2025

AI Models Are Scheming – Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Stop Deceptive AI Behavior

OpenAI’s New Sora App Turns You and Friends into AI-Generated Movie Stars

What is Sora? From Text Prompts to Hyperreal Videos Sora began as an OpenAI research model (announced Feb. 2024) that could turn text or static images into short, realistic video clips. It was first offered to ChatGPT users and researchers to showcase “hyperreal” video generation openai.com sciencefriday.com. The original Sora showed surprisingly high fidelity – so much so that Science Friday’s AI reporter noted it was “nearly impossible to distinguish” the AI clips from real footage sciencefriday.com. However, early Sora had limitations (struggling with physics and longer action scenes). The new Sora 2 model (just announced alongside the app) greatly

30 September 2025

AI Applications · Creativity · Entertainment Technology · Mobile Apps · NYSE:DIS · OpenAI

India’s ‘Swadeshi’ Chat App Arattai Soars to #1, Leaves WhatsApp Reeling – Can It Keep the Momentum?

India Today reports that Arattai “raced to the top spot in app stores, surpassing WhatsApp” indiatoday.in. In late September 2025 the Chennai‑based Zoho quietly saw its years‑old chat app shoot up the Google and Apple rankings, driven by a wave of patriotic downloads and social media buzz. As Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan noted on X (formerly Twitter), Arattai is “free, easy-to-use, secure, [and] safe” and fully developed in India hindustantimes.com – echoing Prime Minister Modi’s call to back “Swadeshi” tech. Pradhan’s post explicitly urged citizens to switch to Indian messaging tools hindustantimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com, giving Arattai a major visibility boost. Even

28 September 2025

India News · Mobile Apps · Social Media · Startups · Technology

Google Play Store’s AI-Powered Overhaul: Inside Google’s September 2025 Revamp of App Discovery and Gaming

Google’s Big Play Store Makeover – What’s New Google’s September 23, 2025 announcement (first reported by TechCrunch) details a host of new features designed to modernize the Play Store with artificial intelligence and a more engaging interface techcrunch.com. Below are the key new features and UX changes introduced: In summary, Google’s Play Store redesign introduces a rich mix of AI-driven personalization, integrated gaming services, and convenience features. From a more intuitive search experience to Netflix-like curated content feeds and an AI game assistant, the Play Store is evolving from a static app catalog into a dynamic platform tailored to each

23 September 2025

App Store · Artificial Intelligence · Gaming · Google · Mobile Apps · NASDAQ:GOOGL

Exploring the World from Above: Top Satellite Mapping Services for Web & Mobile in 2025

Google Earth offers imagery from global 15 m resolution down to sub-meter detail (30–50 cm) in many urban areas, plus 3D buildings and terrain across hundreds of cities, accessible on web, iOS/Android, and Google Earth Pro desktop. Imagery updates on Google Earth are rolling, with urban areas refreshed roughly every 1–3 years, rural areas 5+ years, major disasters updating within days, and new imagery patches released about twice a month. Google Earth Pro provides a historical imagery slider that lets users go back in time to view satellite and aerial photos dating back to the 1930s in some locations. Google

20 June 2025

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Live Satellite Images and Real-Time Maps: Top Platforms for Web & Mobile

NOAA Earth in Real-Time offers an interactive, real-time global weather map with live imagery from GOES geostationary satellites, updated continuously and accessible free via nesdis.noaa.gov. NASA Worldview provides more than 1,000 global image layers (MODIS, VIIRS, Sentinel-2, etc.) with many layers updated within three hours of observation, plus animation, date comparison, and data download, all in a free web app. Zoom Earth aggregates imagery from NOAA GOES-East/West, EUMETSAT Meteosat, JMA Himawari, and NASA Terra/Aqua MODIS, updating as frequently as every 10–15 minutes and offering a free web and mobile app service. Google Earth provides high-resolution imagery from Landsat-8 and aerial