To make things a bit easier for Americans, President Biden enacted the American Rescue Plan Act early last year. The idea behind it is to give those affected by the pandemic some financial relief in the form of a stimulus check. The logistics of getting the checks to qualifying citizens are handled by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). But many didn’t receive theirs. Your taxes might also be impacted if you took advantage of the Advance Child Tax Credit....

Google today announced that it has enabled merchant support in China allowing local developers to distribute their apps in more than 130 countries worldwide. Developers in China will be able to upload both free and paid apps on Google Play, though they will have to sign up for a Google Wallet account as well for the latter. The company will be paying out developers via wire transfer in USD currency....

Google today announced the release of Chrome 58 for Android with a bunch of performance and stability fixes. Among other things, the update also makes it easier to manage your downloads through the Downloads page. The lack of a proper Download page in Chrome so far made it very difficult to manage your existing downloads and see all the files that you had downloaded so far. With the new Download page, you will now be able to easily manage your existing and ongoing downloads as well....

st year, Chrome gained a download button that let you save web pages for viewing when your connection is spotty, says some 45 million of them are downloaded every week. That’s why in the latest version of Chrome for Android, is making it even easier to save web pages for offline reading. Instead of tapping the overflow menu hitting the download button, you’ll now get the option when you long-press on a link....

Many things can cause websites and emails to load slowly. It could be your browser, your computer or a website problem. Tap or click here to see which browser is best for your needs. The first culprit to investigate is your internet connection. Speedtest.net is a simple way to find out if you’re getting what your service provider promises. How to check your internet speed Just visit Speedtest.net and click “Go” in the middle of the screen....

The increasing dependence on the Internet and the recent spur of attacks are beginning to create greater concern. The fear is not just based on the possibility that a cyber attack could simply cause the non-availability of information and services we are now accustomed to. The Internet has not just reshaped the way we obtain news, communicate with others, take care of our finances, watch TV and listen to music, but it is also permeating other essential fields of our lives....

AVG has been one of the most popular Free antivirus software for a long time but has always been accused of being too slow and heavy to use. However, starting with AVG 9.0 you will see a lot of difference in both speed and stability. As per the company’s press release – The new version brings “significant enhancements in speed and levels of protection.” The best known of the free anti-malware products, AVG 9....

Google has started rolling out a new version of Play Store – 4.3.10 – that contains some major new features and changes, both visible and some under-the-hood. Firstly, the new Play Store includes a “Recently updated” section, which as its name suggests, lists all your recently updated apps and games. This new section is a blessing in disguise for people who have hundreds of apps installed, and who have enabled the Auto-Update option enabled....

The History of Phishing: The Phishing Method was established in 1987, and it was first disclosed in 1995. Phishing is the technique where an attacker gathers all information from the victim’s machine, like his Username, Passwords and Credit Card details, etc. Phishing technique allows a user to enter his credentials on a fake site which looks like a real website with a login page like gmail.com, yahoo.com and Facebook.com Procedure to create phishing page:...

Must-haves? Well, for the spec sheet and press release joy maybe, but the more time I have spent with high-end devices, the more I have realized that a lot of the features that are trumpeted about are not the most-used. In fact, they seem to exist for the sole purpose of satiating some invisible inner urge of the critic rather than the consumer. No, I am not saying that these are totally useless....

In 7 years and a bit, the membership grew to 600+ million users. At this moment Facebook rightly holds the second place of the most visited websites in the world. How many users will we see after 10 years? An amazing moment in the evolution of the company was when the giant, Google, felt Facebook’s breath on its neck. This happened in a week of March 2010 (HitWise Data), when Facebook surpassed the mammoth corporation and became the most visited website in USA....

Cybersecurity firm Zscaler said that newly registered domains appeared in April 2022 and have been designed to mimic the legitimate Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. ‘Warez’ sites containing pirate material, including software and games, are notorious as hotbeds of malicious malware packages, including Trojans, information stealers, adware, and nuisanceware. SEE: Microsoft warns: This botnet has new tricks to target Linux and Windows systems Cracked forms of software are on offer for free and users who download the software are usually trying to avoid paying for software licenses or gaming content....

There is no shortage of file browsers and managers on Android. Most of them have been developed years ago and continue to evolve and add features, others are comparatively new but also feature-packed. But most times, you don’t need the hundred bells and whistles of these apps, you just want an easy way to open folders and copy and edit files, all in a simple interface. If you’re looking for this kind of app, you should check out File Wrangler....

Hours after LG announced its first curved OLED screen equipped handset – the G Flex – Samsung has released an advert for its smartphone with a curved OLED display – the Galaxy Round. The advert is in Korean, which should not come as a surprise since Samsung does not intend to release the Galaxy Round outside of Korea. In the advert, Samsung compares the curved OLED screen on the Galaxy Round with an egg, a baby’s hand and many other curved objects to show how swiping across the Galaxy Round’s screen is a breeze, thanks to its curved display....

Free Android smartphone apps loaded with advertising such as Angry Birds may be a boon for your wallet, but the apps cost your hset some battery life, according to a new study. Researchers from rdue University in collaboration with Microsoft claim that third-party advertising in free smartphone apps can be responsible for as much as 65 percent to 75 percent of an app’s energy consumption. The study used a specially developed tool to analyze the energy use of 21 Android ndows Mobile apps....

It has not been long since Realme stepped in the smartphone business but the brand is already one of the top five smartphone brands in the country, and is seen by many as the closest thing Xiaomi has to a real challenger, thanks to its similar product proposition. After launching the Realme 1 and Realme 2, the brand has now added a new number to the list, the Realme 3....

Samsung, instead of a radical makeover, however, decided to play it safe and mend the things it got wrong with the Galaxy S8. The new Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are largely incremental upgrades with new camera features as their cornerstone. We got to spend a brief time for both the phones, here’s what we think of them so far. From the outside, you’ll be hard-pressed to differentiate the new phones....

Chrome 37 is hitting devices already—my Nexus 5 received the update Thursday night. ong with the new design, the Chrome Releases blog reports you no longer need to re-sign in to any other sites while signed in to Chrome. has gradually been upgrading its core apps with Material Design, starting with + recently moving on to the Drive suite. th Chrome, you’ll notice more animation when opening a tab or touching any of the menu buttons....

Because virtual machines can perform the same processes as actual systems, they are also able to track and record the activity trail of users. These capabilities makes them incredibly useful tools in the quest to learn more about digital forensics, as they can produce evidence to be used to enhance understanding and application. For example, Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) was first launched by the tech community in 2007 and has become essential software for forensic investigators, as it allows for seamless recreation of a digital crime scene using real, discovered evidence....

Let’s use the internet as an example: if you are reading this article on a mobile device, your current bandwidth is almost surely at least ten times larger than what we had back in the office I worked at in the early 2000’s. It was a branch office of a multinational company and, for our 500 users, we only had a meager 128K connection. Of course at that time our needs were quite different and given the fact that our office was located at a remote site and the Internet was used only for basic browsing and receiving emails, the limited connection we had was actually sufficient....