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As per a study carried out by Corning, durability is one of the most crucial considerations that users in the three of the largest smartphone markets — China, India, and the United States — take into consideration when buying a smartphone. Moreover, it is claimed to be a factor that is twice as important as some of the features like the screen size and camera quality. Taking these factors into consideration, with the Gorilla Glass Victus, the company has decided to focus not just on making the glass either scratch or drop resistant, but instead, making it so to be able to withstand both scratches and drops....

Also: All the best Black Friday gaming deals The G Cloud entered a market with increasingly stiff competition. Not only did it have to prove its worth versus gaming on tablets and smartphones, but it also had to contend with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s forthcoming Edge gaming handheld. When I tested it out, I found the G Cloud to be a gaming device with excellent hardware that was occasionally held back by the ongoing growing pains of cloud gaming services and the usual quirks of Android....

Update: Sn0wbreeze 3.1.3 v1.5.2 released The best part of Sn0wBreeze is the ability to preserve baseband which means if you’re on an older firmware (means you’ve 05.11.07 or older Baseband) and go to firmware 3.1.3 using Sn0wBreeze, you’ll then be able to unlock your iPhone 3GS, 3G and 2G . Sn0wBreeze 3.1.3 currently supports iPhones only. In order to jailbreak iPod Touches, you need to checkout redsn0w 0.9.4. iPod touch 3G is currently not supported by either of them....

Download Windows 8 Developer Preview Starting 8PM (PT) this evening, anyone with a Windows Live ID will be able to download the developer preview of Windows 8 on their 32-bit or 64-bit machines. And guess what, there is no activation required whatsoever. Unlike the previous times, where having MSDN/Technet subscription was mandatory to download the dev builds, Microsoft has made it easier for general users to have a taste of Windows 8, by opening it up for anyone with a Windows Live ID....

President Donald Trump is furious that Mexico will not pay to build the Wall to stop migrants. And so he decided to launch a nuclear attack in Cancun. Putin’s troops invaded Norway because they had errors in their GPS. Switzerland is tired of its neutrality and has therefore decided to attack Liechtenstein. When we see the insanities of Elon Musk, one is obliged to imagine all the ridiculous situations that could lead us to a third world war....

We have done lots of IL grammar so far. As I warned you earlier, Reverse engineering could be exercising both offensive and defensive motives. Now, it is time to crack some real things with the association of IL opcode grammar knowledge. Ideally, this article taught us how to reveal sensitive information from the source code in order to bypass security constraints such as user credentials validation, extending software trial evaluation period and bypassing serial keys limitation without actually having the access of real source code....

Construction accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP, but while other traditional industries, like manufacturing, have increased productivity over the years, productivity has remained almost stagnant in the building sector. According to the European Commission, construction productivity has only increased by 1% in the past two decades. And with operational profitability often being only 5%, there is little room for error. That’s led to a boom in technology development in the space to increase efficiency....

Last year, the company updated the Social Network News Feed to reduce the number of stories from sources that publish “clickbait” headlines that conceal or exaggerate information, which served as the basis for new updates introduced by the company. The company, as explained in a statement which is actually Signed by the Arun Babu, Annie Liu, and Jordan Zhang, the engineers of the social media giant Facebook. The social network giant Facebook will now take into account the clickbaits at the individual publishing level, in addition to the domain and Page level, in order to reduce the bait holders more accurately....

Ofcom has ruled that network providers will be able to charge more for full-fiber connections, which is expected to encourage private telecoms companies to invest more aggressively in the technology, as they eye more generous profits. The decision is part of new regulation published by Ofcom to guide the telecoms market for the next five years, at a moment of deep change. The UK’s copper telephone network, some of which was installed over 100 years ago, is currently helping deliver broadband to 96% of homes in the country – but the service is now being replaced with next-generation connectivity in the form of full-fiber networks....

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging on, months after the outbreak began. And depending on which part of the country you live in, things are worse now than ever. Thankfully, there is now a real-time COVID-19 map that will tell you just how risky it is for you to venture out in your area. Tap or click here to find out the risks. With the pandemic continuing to make headlines, you might have missed hearing about a mysterious salmonella outbreak that began a few weeks ago....

How do you boost sales of a product that’s already been out on the market for a few months? Launch it in a new color. That’s exactly what Google plans to do with the Nexus 5. Admittedly when I first heard this rumor I thought it was total BS, but now, thanks to Android Central, it appears legit. One of their readers sent in a photo taken from what appears to be an employee only Sprint email saying that a red Nexus 5 will hit Google’s Play Store on February 4th....

Some of the more popular schemes used by cybercriminals are phishing attacks, website misdirections and cloned sites. They often build real-looking websites that copy a legitimate brand or service’s official site to fool you into giving out your personal data, credentials and financial information. These fake websites may even have domain names that look and sound like the real thing, but they have completely different IP addresses that are hidden in plain sight....

Mainstream look that still stands out When Xiaomi first started out in the country, it was a brand that focused on clubbing relatively high-end specs with competitive pricing. And while that worked out pretty well for the company (they never let us forget they are no.1), the design was not really a USP of mainstream Xiaomi phones. That seems to be changing. Of late, Xiaomi has been launching smartphones that not only fit its “relatively high-end specs with competitive price” strategy but are also setting new standards when it comes to design....

For example, even an older programming language like C, originally developed in the late sixties, is still popular and widely used today. And now, aside from C, another coding language dinosaur from the past is about to make a comeback. Read on and see why this programming language is not going away any time soon. Eyes on the COBOL Have you ever heard of the COBOL programming language? It stands for “Common Business-Oriented Language” and it was developed in 1959....

This is not the first time consumers have sued a smartphone maker. This timer around Samsung users have sued the company over broken camera glass; yes, you heard it right, broken. Users have filed a class-action suit against Samsung for hiding “widespread defect” in the Galaxy S20 model camera glass. One might wonder in what way the company is responsible for broken camera glass. Well, the class-action lawsuit alleges Samsung knew about the defect on Galaxy S20 phones and hid it purposefully....

Google surprised us with a “Feature Drop” earlier this month. The update arrived with several new features like Portrait Blur, automatic call screening, improvements to Google Duo and better quality Google Maps. We now learn that the update has more to offer. The December feature drop update for Pixel 4 and 4XL comes with support for dual frequency GNSS. With the update in place, Google Maps on Pixel 4 and 4Xl will become better when it comes to location tracking....

The Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro will go on sale in India from next week. The budget mid-range handsets from Xiaomi are all set to rule the sub-15k smartphone market in India thanks to the insane price-to-performance ratio they offer. The Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro pack a beefy 4000mAh battery along with other top-notch internals. This ensures that despite heavy use, the handsets are capable of lasting a day of heavy use on full charge....

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ go up for pre-order from March 2nd in most countries and will hit the retail stores by March 16 in most regions. Until the time the Galaxy S9 hits the market though, you can use one of its high-resolution wallpapers that have been extracted from its system dump on your existing device to help you pass time. Almost all the wallpapers have a resolution higher than QHD (2560×2560) so they will look good on almost any Android device out there....

EaseUS: – An Insight EaseUS is a data recovery tool that allows you to recover your lost data from almost any kind of device and of any format. Although there are other tools for the same purpose in the market, there are quite a number of reasons why EaseUS dominates them all:- ⦁ It’s extremely simple. ⦁ Supports a wide range of file types. ⦁ Can recover data from almost any kind of device....

So, when you forget to charge it overnight, and it dies unceremoniously at lunchtime, you might feel lost or incomplete. Luckily, it doesn’t mean that all the functions are dead. There are a couple of handy features on your iPhone that still work. Read on to see the functions that remain operational on your iPhone, even though its battery has died. Here’s the backstory No power on your iPhone means that you can’t receive calls, check emails or scroll through social media....