Starts with S, follows 2019 trends to a T The Vivo S1 ticks every box when it comes to trendy design elements of 2019. It comes with a tall AMOLED display that covers up most of the front of the phone. The display carries a small dewdrop notch on the top that holds the primary camera. Thin bezels surround the three sides of the display while there is a relative thicker chin below it....
YouTube has several other advertising formats, and they can look very different when viewed on a mobile phone. For example, some can appear as an in-stream pop-up, while others are bumper ads — short, non-skippable video ads. But there is one type of advertisement that can be dangerous. Read on for what to look out for and how to avoid falling victim to possible scams. Here’s the backstory Kim recently browsed YouTube on her mobile device, and a strange message popped up....
The iMove report, Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the Evidence [PDF], also found that future investment in physical transport infrastructure must be assessed in unison with opportunities to invest in digital work ecosystems. “Arguably, the global COVID pandemic interrupted Australian life more than at any time since the Second World War and gave rise to an unchosen ‘policy challenge’ for millions of Australian workers, and their families, friends, and housemates,” the report states....
While drones can take stunning videos and still photos, they usually have a bit of a learning curve. Plus, they can be a bit bulky to take with you when traveling, and that’s likely to be when you want one most. But if those are the only things holding you back, your wait is over. You can get a user-friendly folding drone for under $100. Also: The 4 best drones: Which flying camera is right for you?...
It was the well-known Pangu Lab, a team of researchers well known for its jailbreak tools, which has just unveiled ZipperDown, a vulnerability that affects thousands of iOS apps. ZipperDown and its impact on iOS According to Pangu Labs analysis, ZipperDown is based on a programming flaw that most iOS apps have. From what they’ve learned, and in an analysis of 168,951 iOS apps, 15,978 of them, about 10%, have the present vulnerability....
It was not a computer but a data server that was running since 1993 without unplanned downtime. The old server was built by Stratus Technologies and was set up by an IT application architect Phil Hogan in the year 1993 at Great Lakes Works EGL. The server was developed to be used in a variety of uptime-dependent connections, including in industrial applications, as well as payment processing. The server was last modernized in early 2000’s, most of the parts of the server have been swapped out with spares obtained from a third party....
The problem with TikTok is that it specifically targets teens, it doesn’t offer parental controls, and it’s very easy to cover your steps and delete your activity. TikTok is in the news again because the FTC fined the app’s maker AND it’s surpassed 1 billion downloads, according to SensorTower (a site that tracks app downloads). Allegations of illegally collecting kids’ data The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week that the operators of the TikTok app have agreed to pay a settlement of $5....
Because of this sense of competition between hackers, it’s inevitable that malware will only become more aggressive as time goes on. For a perfect example, look no further than the TrickBot malware — a program designed to compromise emails. It’s been around for a while, but now, researchers have noticed it’s spreading fast due to a sneaky trick it pulls on hapless accounts! TrickBot’s new tricks have put security researchers on alert, but not everyone is sure of the best techniques to stop the rising threat....
You want to keep your battery in top condition, but at the same time, a dead one renders your phone useless. Have your charging habits stayed the same throughout your smartphone history? Have you been doing things right or wrong when it comes to keeping the juice flowing to your phone? Your battery’s performance will decline over time no matter what, but there are ways to slow down the process....
U.S. President Trump Doesn’t Want to do Business With Huawei Those who have been staying updated with the latest tech and gadget news will know about the ongoing trade war between the US and Huawei. In case, if you don’t know, let me tell you that it all started a few months ago when the Trump administration included the Chinese company Huawei under the dreaded entity list. The previous month, Donald Trump had reversed the ban on the Chinese company, allowing US companies to do business with Huawei....
The Nomad 1 is available now for $1,399 (down from $1,599) in the Step-Thru and High Step models. In order to test a bike that could work for everyone, I spent time with the Step-Thru model, which is designed for people with heights between 5 feet, 1 inches, and 6 feet, 4 inches. The High Step option, for taller riders, has a crossbar positioned between the seat post and front forks....
It’s gotten to the point where it’s difficult to go places where there aren’t cameras present. Some have even experienced the presence of excessive spy-cameras in unorthodox locations like vacation rentals and bathrooms. Tap or click here to learn how to find hidden cameras in an AirBnB rental. But imagine what would happen if surveillance camera feeds got mixed up in today’s security climate? In-home smart cameras getting live feeds from other homes would be an absolute privacy disaster....
Most, if not all of us, have pivoted from in-person, brick-and-mortar shopping to buying most of our goods online. COVID has changed the way we live, and most of us avoid quick store runs for purchases that can be made at retail sites online instead. Looking for deals? Here’s what’s on sale for August that you should buy now. With that convenience of online shopping, though, comes risks of scams by social media ads offering prices that are incredibly low....
But even if a hard drive you buy turns out better than expected, dishonest advertising can make you wary of purchasing anything from that manufacturer again. After all, there’s no way to be sure about what else they aren’t telling you. Tap or click here to see 6 free ways to check if your hard drive is faulty. And now, one hard drive manufacturer is under fire for apparently downplaying the speed of its products....
But also has ambitions beyond just turning your phone into a debit card. In announcing Android y, the company said the app will store your gift cards, loyalty cards, special offers. And soon, redeem them pay all with a single tap of your phone. A peek at the version 1.0 A uncovers that some of these features have snuck their way out, although not all of them are quite ready....
The pandemic reshaped ideas and practices for how elementary, middle and high school students — and their teachers — learned and taught computer science (CS for short). Kim Wilkens is a doctoral student at the University of Virginia. She’s studying K-8 computer science education. Wilkens also is the founder of Charlottesville Women in Tech and the nonprofit Tech-Girls. Wilkens told ZDNet that the method and practice of teaching K-12 computer science are shifting....
The tch Urbane is available now through the Store, where it’s currently the most expensive Android ar smartwatch. It has a round metallic watch body in silver or gold colors, includes a leather watch b. This is ‘s third Android ar smartwatch in less than a year. The company started off with the G tch, a dull plastic timepiece that was basically an early showcase for ‘s software. It’s no longer for sale in the Store....
Try explaining to Leonardo DaVinci that one day people would create art without a canvas, paints or brushes. How do you comprehensively detail to people in the 1930s that you can put food in a metal box, and it will be hot within two minutes — without coming across as a lunatic? To people from the previous century, our rudimentary technology today will seem like magic. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t have fanciful dreams of what the future would be like....
Internet began to smoke last week when the first signs of existence of what would be a new Nokia 3310 began to appear, that famous smartphone that we have all had in our hands at least once in our hand, protagonist of millions of “memes” and deprived of making us spend the hours dead playing the classic “snake” game on it. A couple of weeks ago we knew the first details of the new Nokia 3310, which would inherit from its predecessor (with more than 16 years of history), a hyper-resistant housing as well as a great autonomy....
The lawsuit filed by the Americans, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeks collective action status on behalf of all affected Facebook users and claims for unspecified damages. The social network giant Facebook Inc. is offering its users greater control over their privacy by facilitating data management and redesigning their menu of configurations, the firm said on Wednesday in response to the scandal over the alleged use of information by millions of people for a political consultancy....
