Google unviled on Saturday, a new app “device lock controller”, that can help banks and other credit providers collect debts. The Device Lock Controller app does not appear when you search Google Play or when you look through the Play Store landing page for all apps made by Google. However, the developer of this app is clearly Google.
On other hand , Google reported that launched this app in collaboration with a Kenyan carrier called Safaricom, according a post in July 28, 2020, titled “Growing access and inclusion with more affordable smartphones“.
Earlier, the firm announced the Arabic version of its application “Read Along” on International Literacy Day, which is a free application that provides an enjoyable interactive experience to help children from the age of five improve their reading skills in Arabic, with the help of a virtual character within the application named “Diaa”, provided that the application is currently available for Android users just.
Also, the app distinguished by not requiring the need to connect to the Internet, and here Read Along uses Google’s speech recognition technology and for young readers to share visual and verbal notes while they read books available from around the world.
On other hand, almost 100 million children between the ages of five and 17 in the Middle East and North Africa have experienced school closures since the Covid-19 pandemic began and many are relying on alternate means of education, according to Unicef.
Read Along, which was launched in March last year in India before a global roll-out, works even when users are offline. It is free to use and does not contain advertisements to avoid distractions, according to The National.
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