What’s a modem? What’s a router? Why does it matter when the Wi-Fi keeps going down? Don’t get your Ethernet cables in a tangle! America’s digital goddess is here to help with some simple explanations for all that frustrating language. Your home network Before we talk about modems, we need to talk about networks. People used to just have a single family computer in the living room for internet access....
As we saw in the first episode, The build-up where Cora, who lost her husband and discovered a new goal to hunt down this serpent in Essex. At the end of the second episode, Cora and Will took a walk on the beach to the location, and Will found a fossil, which left us with slight curiosity for the third episode. Let’s discuss further when episode 3 will release and at what time....
Across 1 As per myths, you can kill a werewolf with it. As per OnePlus, they are great for the ears. (6,6) 5 In pursuit of appiness? You might have to pay more in the coming days at this App Store. (6) 6 It’s not just human beings, even the company that never settles needs it to survive. (6) 8 Give too much Horlicks to the Lenovo K6 Power, and this is the result....
Yesterday, Huawei unveiled its latest flagship phones for Europe: the P20 and P20 Pro. And like almost every other flagship phone that has been announced since the iPhone X was released last year, the P20 and P20 Pro also feature a notch display design. If you are a notch hater, that’s not a particularly good news. But then, with every other OEM adopting the notch display design on their smartphones, I guess its time to embrace the notch....
700 MHz band There was no bid for the 700 MHz band. This band is considered to be the best for 4G deployment. There’s a kind of consensus in the industry that 700 MHz would be the best spectrum for 4G deployment as it has been deployed in various other countries. The spectrum is expected to provide great coverage and indoor penetration. 700 MHz spectrum also has a robust ecosystem internationally both on the vendor side as well as on end consumer devices....
Unfortunately, scammers are paying attention to these trends, too. That’s why they’re shifting to text messages as part of a new strategy to trap victims. Tap or click here to see one of their favorite tricks. Text message scams are on the rise, and it’s getting harder to tell them apart from real alerts sent by businesses and shipping services. If you want to keep your money and data safe this holiday season, here are some phony texts you need to watch out for....
Right now, Google is on stage announcing new things. That includes not only the new Nexus 5X from LG, but also the new Nexus 6P from Huawei. So with new Android devices just announced, what better time to announce how many active devices there are in the world? Google’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, confirmed on stage that there are currently 1.4 million active Android devices across the globe. According to Pichai, those numbers were confirmed and recorded just in the last 30 days....
Two-factor authentication – a combination of something you remember (such as a password) and something you have (a smartphone or a token) – offers far better security than relying on passwords alone. And while SMS-based authentication is better than nothing, what’s even better is hardware-based authentication. I’ve tested dozens of hardware-based security keys, and the one that I use to secure my online accounts is the Yubikey 5C NFC. This, for me, is the ultimate security key, offering simple, easy-to-use, yet effective security....
A few months ago, Google finally unveiled its own anti-theft protection service for Android devices known as Android Device Manager. The service was included as a part of the major Google Play services update that it received at I/O this year. While Android Device Manager works out-of-the-box to locate your device, it has one major gripe. The ability to lock the device or wiping it remotely does not work out of the box....
Dropbox is not limited to basic actions and those who come to know it, and know it well, can discover some awesome things about it. One of them is that it can be equipped with different add-ons which help users to do a lot of stuff, such as to automatically back up their files on the cloud, host a website, send email attachments, write forms and much, much more.Well, in the following lines we’ve gathered some of those best add-ons or Dropbox apps, as we like to call it, that can help users get the most out of this cloud-based platform....
16 Impressive Spy Gadgets But what gadgets will you need? There are lots of such devices on the web, anything you ever dreamed about and stuff that even 007 himself would have killed for. We’ll take a look at the most important gadgets for a spy and let you know what the must-haves are. I tried to summarize the secret spy gadgets in 6 categories, all of them playing a crucial in a spy’s “life”....
Until recently, YouTube Vanced (later just Vanced) was one of the most popular YouTube alternatives on Android. It offered several YouTube Premium features for free and some innovative features that the native YouTube app liked. However, Vanced developers announced on March 13 that they would be removing all download links for the indie app. We were in the dark about the exact reason why, and several rumors suggested plausible theories....
But how much of a difference does ART really make over Dalvik? Someone over at Reddit shot a video showing the difference on a Nexus 7 (2013) running the same AOSP based KitKat ROM with the same amount of apps installed. Since ART is a native runtime, it will significantly help in reducing the loading times of applications while burning through less CPU cycles. There should also be an overall improvement in app performance and switching between various apps....
The Vivo X21i is the third smartphone in the X21 lineup, with the previous two phones being the Vivo X21 and Vivo X21 UD. The former features a Snapdragon 660 processor, whereas the latter features the highly touted under-display fingerprint sensor. Unlike the original Vivo X21, the all-new X21i comes with a MediaTek P60 octa-core chipset under the hood. The new chip from the Taiwanese chipmaker also features an in-built APU for handling AI tasks....
“Biologist” is an umbrella term encompassing many professions involving studying life and living things. Biological engineers, conversely, use engineering principles for biological study and problem-solving applications. Here, we dive deeper into the difference between biological engineering and biology. We examine the duties, requirements, and career outlook for each profession. What do biological engineers do? Biological engineering’s goals are solving biological problems and enhancing biological processes to better suit societal needs....
Let’s first take a look at the potential costs to your business if you don’t implement HIPAA training at your company. Then we’ll review HIPAA training requirements for organizations covered by the act. While the act sometimes seems rather vague (e.g., it never mentions the word “firewall” but instead mentions the need to “implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access…”), what is clear is that security breaches of personal records in healthcare organizations have the government coming down on offending parties like the proverbial ton of bricks....
Suddenly we were all going to be shut down. Almost everything would close. We’d have to adjust. Oh, how we’d have to adjust. I confess there was only one thing that worried me about the pandemic – other than the perfectly obvious concerns about catching a potentially deadly virus. Look, I don’t want to get too personal here, but I need to sweat. Yes, every day. I need to burn off physical and mental elements that fester within and upon me....
(A note: we recommend you take a look at the full-sized images and make your own judgments too. For what is a better photograph often depends on the perspective of the views: for instance, saturated colors appeal to some while others tend to be picky for true to life images. Pick the winner across each segment as you go forth and at the end, you might have a winner of your own....
More: eSIM vs. SIM: What’s the difference? How to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone Below I’ve listed three simple methods to transfer your contacts from Android to iOS, with the first one being my go-to if you’re just starting to set up your iPhone. Note: In order for the service to work, you’ll have to be in the iOS Setup Assistant, which is the start-up page when you first turn on your new iPhone....
OnePlus has started rolling out stable Android 13-based Oxygen OS 13 for the OnePlus 8 series, 9R duo, and 10R. The company announced it via multiple official community threads. This comes after the OnePlus 9/9 Pro received an Android 13-based Oxygen OS 13 firmware update. For the OnePlus 8 family, it is currently rolling out only in India and North America, while the update of 9R/RT and 10R is ‘region-specific....
