Posts

1. React swiftly For a company that churns out devices so quickly and is known for its turn of speed, Samsung’s reaction to the entire “explosive” crisis has tended to be generally on the slow side. Official reactions tended to trickle in hours and some times even days, after reports, giving rumor mills ample time to run amok. In the age of light speed social networking which thrives on negativity and bad news, that was not very clever....

Several possible new features have been mentioned, but a new one has arrived. The front camera of the iPhone 8 can bring a 3D sensor, which can detect depth and make the facial recognition. This new rumor comes from a source which has in the past revealed in advance many of the features that Apple introduced. KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has now revealed that the tech giant Apple will be preparing to introduce a 3D sensor on the new iPhone that will strengthen the front camera....

In 2006, Jeff Howe coined the concept of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is an act of outsourcing a job, previously done by workers, to a large group of people in the form of an open call. Nowadays, crowdsourcing is used by many commercial and public organizations. A widely known example of an organization using crowdsourcing is Wikipedia Foundation Inc. It is a non-profit charitable organization maintaining an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows any internet user to edit its articles....

Security on our smartphones and tablets, the devices that hold plenty of attention about us, is an incredibly hot topic as of late. With programs from a variety of agencies and organizations built to track, mine and otherwise store data collected from mobile devices, especially our smartphones, it’s a conversation that will not go away for quite some time. Now, a new topic has been revealed, with documents revealed by Edward Snowden, that showcases plans for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Five Eyes Allies (organizations in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom) to essentially hijack the Google Play Store to inject malicious software on smartphones and tablets that download apps from the digital storefront....

The YotaPhone 2, with its dual-display design, was shown off in early December 2014, and has recently gone on sale in Europe with plans to bring the device to the United States never hidden. However, whether or not the device would find its way onto the network of a carrier still remained up in the air. It would certainly be a boon for the small manufacturer, especially if the device launched on one of the major wireless networks....

Recently the RansomFree tool was released, which according to information, aims to protect our PC from all types of Ransomware. RansomFree tool was developed by the security company Cybereason. According to the company, RansomFree can block about 99% of Ransomware variants. For this, “misleading behavioral techniques” are used to detect and block Ransomware. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a computer threat that in recent times has come to “haunt” thousands of users around the world....

The design makes a lot of sense, as the Nexus 6 is said to to feature a 5.9 display, giving it a larger screen than both the Galaxy Note 4 ione 6 us. It also matches previous leaks, as the Motorola-built device looks like a much-larger Moto X. One peculiarity is the messaging icon, which could be a reboot of the main SMS/MMS app that ships on some Android phones, yet was nixed on the Nexus 5 in favor of Hangouts....

A man almost died after falling asleep with the smartphone while he plugged in his phone to charge next to him in bed before he went to sleep. Wiley Day, a 32-year-old American, recently suffered a life-threatening accident. However, the Huntsville resident told AL.com that “I could say it was probably the equivalent of being shot.” Exactly what happens will simply shock you. As the man fell asleep with the iPhone on his bed (as usual), but when he woke up, as he moved on the bed, a cord around his neck was attached to the exposed metal ends of the charger, which were released from the Causing a strong electrocution....

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL went on sale in the United States today, with customers who pre-ordered the device also getting their hands on it. To complement the beautiful 5-inch and 5.5-inch displays on the handsets, we have a collection of some beautiful wallpapers for you. All the wallpapers have a resolution of 1440 x 2560 (Quad HD) meaning they will scale perfectly even on the Quad HD screen of the Pixel XL....

Even if you recently updated Chrome, it’s time to do so again. Google’s last update fixed 10 giant flaws hackers used to slip into victims’ browsers and launch cyberattacks. Tap or click here for the backstory behind these nasty animation bugs. Here’s all you need to know about the dangerous exploit for CVE-2022-1096. It’s putting your browser at risk. Here’s how to protect yourself. Update now Think of the bug Google noticed as a gaping hole in a shield....

Today we all are involved in the virtual world than the real world. As we keep on sharing WhatsApp messages, Facebook status, and lots more. Their use is developing day by day. And the person is only smart when he/she is bright in this virtual world. So we are here with the trick which can show your smartness in WhatsApp messages and in facebook status etc. You can Write WhatsApp Messages & Facebook statuses using Cool & Funky Fonts on your Android smartphone, you can easily implement cool and funky fonts....

The Pixel C will come with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 but upon registering yourself as a developer, you can download the developer preview of Android N and access the split screen feature on the Pixel C. In order to avail this offer, you need to sign up here and wait for the updates from the Pixel team. Ideally Google will mail the unique discount code in a few days and upon receiving this you can purchase the Pixel C from the Google Store....

Fortunately, you have several alternatives to choose from. But every alternative comes with its own security risks. Before we move on to discuss the risks and how to avoid them, we need to know what file sharing is, the various ways of sharing files, are and how they work. What Is File Sharing? According to Techopedia, “File sharing is the practice of sharing or offering access to digital information or resources, including documents, multimedia (audio/video), graphics, computer programs, images and e-books....

Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, the company’s first attempt at a smart watch, wasn’t exactly well received by the market. It shipped with hilariously premature software that crippled the battery life and made notifications useless. It also shipped with support for only smartphone, the Galaxy Note 3. It doesn’t matter that the software got better and compatibility increased a month or two after the product started shipping, because people read the initial Gear reviews, got a bad taste in their mouths, and decided to skip the watch....

And with each passing year, these little slabs of glass and plastic become more deeply integrated into our daily lives as they launch new features to let us track our health, pay for our groceries, start our cars, scan our way onto the train and much more. They’ve become so omnipresent in our lives that we – consciously or not – now think about them the way we think about our clothes or our shoes....

Once that’s all decided, it will migrate the requested data. You’ll be able to set up and explore your new Pixel. While that takes place, Google doesn’t say how long the process will take. Which will obviously depend on how much data you’re moving.

Honor, Huawei’s sub-brand, teased the incoming View 20 smartphone earlier this month. And now the handset is officially official. The Honor V20 is another powerful handset filled to the brim with noteworthy features, all packaged together in a handset that won’t break the bank for many future owners. There is a 6.4-inch LCD display with 1080p HD resolution, and a Kirin 980 processor under the hood. There are two variants, one with 6GB of RAM and the other with 8GB....

This Bug Gave Users Access To Strangers’ Google Photos Have you saved your private photos in Google Photos? If so, then you should know that recently, the security researchers have found a critical error in this well-known storage service Google Photos with Android TV. As through Android TV, you can access private images of other users, which are hosted in Google Photos, and that should only be visible to the users who are ‘associated’ in shared albums....

On Thursday, researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research & Intelligence team, together with Intezer security researcher Joakim Kennedy, published a blog post on the malware – dubbed Symbiote because of its “parasitic nature.” The team discovered Symbiote several months ago. Symbiote differs from today’s typical Linux malware, which normally will attempt to compromise running processes, and instead acts as a shared object (SO) library that is loaded on all running processes via LD_PRELOAD....

From Stanford comes the news of a new battery of water to store clean energy. A rechargeable hydrogen-manganese battery is designed for network storage: it has high capacity and long life and promises low costs. Large-scale storage of electricity has taken root in the energy market. Today, storage devices such as lithium-ion, lead-acid, redox and liquid metal batteries offer a future for the industry by increasing investments. On the other hand, all these options, in one form or another, are still far from meeting the storage needs of the network....