According to DigiTimes, the Taiwanese supply chain rumor website that makes technology journalists want to rip their hair out, the second generation Nexus 7 will be on store shelves next month (July) and it’ll cost at least $229. It’ll come with 16 GB of internal storage, though there’s no word as to whether or not that’ll be expandable via microSD. I doubt it. So what do we know about this thing?...

Some days, it seems like we’re truly living in the golden age of wireless tech that companies like Apple keep promising us. Other days, you come home to your PC setup or charging station and see that there are still an awful lot of wires hanging around. Unfortunately, that’s not going to change anytime soon. There is, however, a way to keep those connections neat and efficient while speeding up your connectivity to boot....

Below we’ll recap all of the announcements, and detail when and where you can buy what’s new. A Kindle with a stylus: The Kindle Scribe Preorders start today for $339.99, and shipping will begin in time for the holidays. That price includes a stylus, which magnetically connects to the side of the Kindle Scribe. Halo can now watch you sleep Also: The 4 best sunrise alarm clocks The Halo Rise uses the wake-up light to gently wake you up in the morning when you’re in a light sleep stage, which should mean that you wake up feeling more rested....

Meta has started to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chat as a default for Messenger chats and, as a companion to it, launched a new online E2EE storage service dubbed Secure Storage for backing up chat histories. It’s also going to trial an unsend feature like the “delete for all” option in WhatsApp group chats. Facebook enabled E2EE for Messenger in 2016 but users needed to turn on encryption for each chat thread....

Mozilla announced Friday that with its latest release users can tweak the grid of most-visited sites that appear when opening the browser. Users can pin sites they find or tweak the panel of pages Firefox creates based on browsing history. You can grab the Firefox Beta on ay. Firefox also includes a series of Home nels that users can add to the browser. These are web apps from popular services like cket, Instagram, or Vimeo....

And now, a new chapter has been added to the 2019 rivalry with the Redmi Note 8 Pro and the Realme XT confronting each other and claiming to be the best option in this highly competitive segment. Both come with quad cameras with 64-megapixel main sensors, large displays, big batteries and offer terrific performance for relatively not too much money. But if you had to pick one of the two, which would you go for?...

Mini on the outside Seen the latest iPad Pro from Apple? The one with thin bezels, FaceID, second-generation Apple Pencil? Well, do not get your hopes up too high because the iPad Mini looks nothing like it. Now take the fourth generation iPad mini… no, wait, take the third generation iPad Mini… no, actually you have to take the second generation of the iPad Mini or even better just take the first generation of the iPad Mini, and that is pretty much how the new fifth-generation iPad Mini looks like....

In Summary The Redmi Watch is the first smartwatch from Redmi. It comes with a 1.4-inch LCD display and a number of features, the most notable of which is GPS, which tracks your runs and walks even when you do not have your phone with you. The watch is priced at Rs 3,999 and is compatible with both Android and iOS devices, but faces stiff competition from the likes of the Amazfit Bip U....

So if the Redmi Note 7 Pro could speak, this is what it would have said to us about our first impressions. (Note: the conversation is totally fictional) It’s great to be talking to you again. Actually sooner than we expected. This is the third time we are talking to a Redmi Note in about a year I think? Yeah, it’s been busy. Grandad – the Note 5 and Note 5 Pro – arrived in February last year and then, dad (the Redmi Note 6 Pro) hit the market in November....

Jia Jia was first trotted last year by engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China. The real looking robot Jia Jia can hold a conversation and can even make facial expressions when asked. The proud creator of Jia Jia, Chen Xiaoping who is the team leader too had showcased his prototype at an economic conference organized by banking giant UBS in Shanghai’s futuristic financial center. The creator predicted that AI robots like Jia Jia can perform a various task in nearby future....

For the three months to the end of March, the company added 29,000 customers across all fibre connections, and said the average monthly data use of fibre increased from 460GB to 491GB. Overall, Chorus saw its amount of broadband connections decline by 2,000 to 1.181 million, with the company blaming it on COVID-19 and the impact it had on network migration and population growth, which it said led to broadband growth being constrained....

The ability to log in from anywhere using cloud applications is convenient for employees, but it’s also a potential new opportunity for cyber criminals, who, with a set of stolen passwords, could gain access to sensitive information. There’s even the prospect of hackers abusing cloud services to launch ransomware attacks and other malware campaigns. But there are steps that can be taken – and mistakes that must be avoided – to ensure your organisation’s cloud security strategy both delivers a productivity boost and keeps users and the network safe from cyberattacks and incidents....

An SBOM (pronounced S-Bomb) is a record containing the details and supply chain relationships of the components used in building software. Since most programs today are made by assembling existing open-source and commercial software components, it’s essential to know the name and specific versions of all these elements. For instance, a program using Apache Log4j2 versions 2.17.0 is vulnerable to Log4Shell attacks. One using Log4j2 2.17.1 or newer is as safe as houses....

The good news? There’s hope on the horizon thanks to the COVID-19 vaccines that are rolling out. We’re still in the early phases of vaccine rollouts, but many people hope to get their first shot soon. Who, where and how you can get vaccinated differs in each state and with each phase of the rollout. Those COVID-19 vaccine scams going around sure don’t help things, either. If you’re trying to nail down when you are eligible to get immunized, a new site can help....

Weighing in at 1.48 kilograms, the laptop contains Intel Alder Lake i5, i7, or i9 silicon, up to 64GB of DDR5 memory, up to 4TB of NVMe storage, and an optional Nvidia RTX A1000 GPU. The 16:10 display is available in 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 resolutions that both run at 60Hz, and the 72Wh battery is claimed to provide 14 hours of use. In the 15-inch 5570 model, Dell is offering similar silicon with the option of a Nvidia RTX A2000 GPU whilst the 17-inch 5770 has the choice of Nvidia RTX A2000 or A3000 GPUs....

Also: I cut my video streaming bill in half, and so can you Thankfully, cable companies have finally lost their monopoly, not that that has stopped them from continuing to raise prices. But the alternative to cable is a bewildering menu of services that collectively add up to … well, almost as much as one of those old cable bills, if you’re not careful. Your smart TV or streaming device can handle independent streaming services like Netflix and HBOMax and Apple TV+, but things get more complicated when you want to replace the stuff that used to be delivered over the coaxial cable....

Have you ever come up to a scenario where you were not able to access a website because it was blocked by proxy? Then you need to use DNS tunnelling concepts to bypass the proxy. By using DNS tunnelling, a user will be able to access a website even though the proxy is blocking the website. Normally when you consider a proxy server, all the HTTP traffic will be received by a proxy server, but no DNS traffic will fall on a proxy server....

One of the best recent examples of a major recall is the Takata airbag fiasco. Millions of cars were filled with faulty airbags that could maim or kill drivers upon impact which led to widespread service appointments and replacements for a vast number of makes and models. Tap or click here to see if your call is included in the recall list. If your car ever has a recall, it’s usually up to you to go check for it....

AirTags can be placed with anything you don’t want to lose, such as your wallet, purse, laptop, keyring or even the TV remote. Tap or click here for five pro tips to get the most out of your Apple trackers. It’s summer and we know you’re itching to enjoy the great outdoors. While roughing it can be quite the adventure, you’ll have an even better time if you can keep track of all your stuff (and your family!...

Easy Ways to Speed Up Firefox in Less than 10 Minutes Here we have discussed some implementations that you need to perform in order to speed up your browser. #1 Click-To-Play Flash Content The very first thing I noticed and went through, when I start using a new browser is to disable Flash content or set it to “click-to-play“. Most of the websites use Adobe Flash Player to load videos and other contents such as ads....