For instance, there’s a new elaborate cellphone scam spreading that can literally cost you thousands of dollars. Here’s a hint: If someone on the phone asks you for your account verification code, please don’t comply — it’s most likely a scammer waiting to strike. Can you just imagine the damage that could be done if a scammer is able to make changes to your account? Read on and learn how to protect yourself from this emerging scam....
You can see it with companies like Facebook, which uses highly targeted ad campaigns based on profile data to generate billions of dollars in revenue. Tap or click here to see how Facebook uses your data for advertising. Some believe there may be a way to harness Big Data for the common good. The Chinese government has developed an app that uses internet data from Chinese citizens to tell users whether they’ve been near a person infected with the deadly novel coronavirus....
Taking into account the rise in occurrences and growth of Distributed Denial of Service attacks, CSP’s would be of serious interest of these attackers in the ongoing war for bandwidth. Access to this treasure trove directly via the CSP or indirectly via one or more of its customers could easily take malicious DDoS operations to the next level. Is this a real threat and how could an enterprise which uses cloud services, help protect against such a threat?...
One thing is sure – certain aspects of IT plumbing are going by the wayside. “Unless someone wants to work at one of the public cloud providers or collocated data centers, IT staff should be moving away from hardware management, OS management, and related skillsets as these will soon be primarily done by the public cloud and collocation providers,” said Steve Padgett, global CIO at Actian. Overall, the trend has been toward demand for architects and designers, Padgett continued....
With all the listings, you can quickly determine the value of an item you have based on past sales of similar ones. Sites like eBay have made listing items even easier for trading card sellers. Tap or click here for our report. But coin collectors haven’t had it quite as easy. Until now. Have some old coins lying around? They may be worth something. Even if you don’t want to sell them, why not find out how much they’re worth?...
Have you ever gone out and your car didn’t start? The life was sucked out of your battery and it just won’t turn over. In some places, it’s so cold people have heaters to keep their engines from freezing overnight. But the cold also affects our tech. Why you need to protect your phone Yes, even our cellphones have trouble in extreme conditions. Think about it, when it’s really cold out, you wear gloves and wool socks to keep your phalanges nice and toasty and so does your phone....
Earlier this week, the CyanogenMod team released the CM11 M1 Nexus edition for all the Nexus devices currently supported in AOSP. The team then announced that it will start rolling out the CM11 nightlies by the end of this week. True to its word, the CyanogenMod team has started rolling out the CM11 nightlies for quite a bunch of devices. This includes the different variants of Galaxy S3, HTC One, Moto X and Note 2....
It’s not the same as many other pains. It enjoys a more refined quality, one that seeps into well-washed pores and hovers over already-strained nerves. Over recent months, one of these first-world pains has recently been plaguing regular flyers. Most of all, regular flyers on Delta Air Lines. Also: These are my 5 must-have devices for work travel now Since the pandemic began to ebb and customers began flying regularly for business and leisure – sometimes at the same time – Delta experienced an ever more exasperating problem....
The site just launched a dedicated Android hub, which features repair guides for 252 of phones tablets. There are also resources for repairing smartwatches TV devices like the Chromecast. And you can buy parts tools to fix your device yourself. The iFixit founders told us that the challenge with Android is the vast array of devices, but with enough community input it would be able to build out its resources....
On Techviral, we have already discussed the best video editing software for Windows. Video Editing Software for Windows 10 not only lets you edit the videos but also allows you to convert videos into any other format. Let’s say you have an MKV video but want to run it on a Television that only supports MP4. In such a case, you need first to convert your MKV video into MP4 format to run it on television....
ke has done with most of its system apps, the company is now updating these two directly from the ay Store. This gives flexibility to add in a new feature, fix a bug, or make other tweaks without pushing out an Android update. But there was a bit of a mystery in how this was being implemented. The apps appeared for some, then were gone, then were back again, then were gone again… they don’t appear in the ay Store or in my list of previously updated apps....
Developed as a way to keep all of your meet-ups in one place, the Events app is sort of a Facebook calendar that lets you see what you’re doing find things that might be fun. Inside the app, you can check out nearby happenings, make plans with your Facebook friends, import your personal calendar as well, to avoid any scheduling snafus. The app appears to retain much of the design language of its iOS counterpart, so don’t expect it to match the look of the Material Design-styled Messenger app....
We will explain everything you need to know about Snapdragon 845 here, but to summarize, the new chip promises 30% more graphics performance compared to the previous generation, 25% speed in heavy applications, reduction of up to 30% in the consumption of energy and more features for artificial intelligence thanks to advances in the Hexagon 685 Digital Signal Processor (DSP). In the overall performance test (considered CPU, GPU and RAM) performed by Android Police with AnTuTu, the Snapdragon 845 was ahead with more than 265,000 points while the second placed, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro (with Kirin 970 processor), registered almost 214,000 points....
Assassin’s Creed Identity is the adventure game series’ closest mobile approximation of the open-world console experience, while ’s own Spaces app offers private rooms for pals to share links ideas. so noteworthy this week are the entertaining One Tap Tennis, the Cardboard-ready live music performances of Rhapsody VR, the build-your-own-pop-star saga that is Britney Spears: American Dream. Assassin’s Creed Identity Assassin’s Creed Identity ($5) has its own status figured out well enough: it’s a scaled-down version of the historical adventure series that keeps the action while losing some expansiveness....
Most of the icons have been slimmed down converted to grayscale to help contrast against the bright red trim. The button that hangs out in the bottom right-h corner is now colored red to make it to easier to see against the noise of the + feed. The social network’s integrated otos application also received the same design makeover. y this matters: Rather than release one overwhelmingly massive software update, is slowly pushing out its new Material Design aesthetic app-by-app....
The RTM of Windows 7 SP1 [KB976932] is available for Free, but validation is required in order to download it. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) doesn’t include any major new features, but it is a relatively important update that includes previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Windows 7. It also includes new improvements to features and services in Windows 7, such as improved reliability when connecting to HDMI audio devices, printing using the XPS Viewer, and restoring previous folders in Windows Explorer after restarting....
108 Million Pixels! Let’s begin with cameras as that’s the major highlight of this device. There are five cameras on the back of the Mi Note 10 and that’s not something we’re used to seeing. And the best part is, all five cameras serve a purpose. By this, we mean to say there’s no depth sensor or anything that’s there just to fill up space. The primary sensor is a 108MP shooter and what this means is you get immaculate details....
The Chrome team today announced the release of Chrome 41 beta for Android. The new version of Chrome comes with a number of bug-fixes and performance improvements, but most importantly, it includes a pull-t0-refresh gesture to refresh web pages. If you are on the top of a web page on the latest beta of Chrome for Android, you can simply pull down the page to refresh it. Google states that pull-to-refresh works on most websites and in my testing, the gesture worked flawlessly across all the sites I tried it on....
That’s because a engineer says the company is nearly finished with a new compression algorithm called Brotli, which can crunch data up to 26 percent more efficiently than the currently used compression. Chrome web performance engineer Ilya Grigorik took to his + page to announce that the code has reached the “intent to ship” stage, which means it should be hitting stable versions of the browser very soon. Brotli is an open-source compression algorithm, which replaces the current Zopfli....
Popular phishing and malware scams tend to follow global trends and current events. This isn’t a coincidence. A timely cover story is far more likely to attract victims than random scenarios. Tap or click to see how malware and scams spread after the holidays. And right now, no story is more timely than the coronavirus epidemic. People around the world are looking for ways to protect themselves from the virus, and scammers are claiming to have the answer....
