Google introduced Digital Wellbeing, at the I/O event last year, to help users curb their smartphone addiction. Under the same initiative, Google has now launched 6 new apps to help you spend less time on your smartphones. These experimental apps help users in different ways such as reducing smartphone usage, increasing awareness of time spent […]
Have you ever experienced being hacked in your Android smartphones and tablets? How do you feel? If you have already experienced hacking, well, you are not alone. Today, there are many people who become the victim of this malware and viruses attacks nationwide. As long as you have an Internet connection, in just one click […]
Chinese company Xiaomi has been providing us with well-specced devices since its inception and the one thing which acted as a sigh of relief for users, especially in India, is the budget smartphones by the company. Adding to its list of budget smartphones, Xiaomi has added a new one, christened the Redmi 8A, which is […]
We were expecting Apple to shift to USB-C port this time instead of continuing with the lightning port. Even many rumors indicated that Apple would finally make a shift with iPhone 11, but it didn’t happen. But this doesn’t meet it can’t happen at all. I mean, there is a guy who can turn an […]
After months of leaks and rumor mill operating at its full potential, Google has finally unveiled Google Pixel 4 and 4XL. Featuring a 90Hz display, a new camera module design, and interesting features galore, Pixel 4 XL is set to compete with the other flagships out there. Now that the new Pixel smartphone is out […]
You know about cyber security and mobile network vulnerabilities. You’ve heard of DDoS attacks. You might have even moved on from your petsname123 password. Reports show, however, that around one in three organizations have willingly sacrificed mobile device security for business performance. Although we’ve heard of these risks, their intangibility and a seeming lack of […]
Privacy scandals involving large social media companies are becoming more frequent nowadays. This time, web application security specialists report that the phone numbers used for multi-factor authentication and email addresses linked to the Twitter users accounts were “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes. The alleged error was revealed on the company’s official blog. In their post […]
As part of a new privacy breach that has surfaced recently, the micro-blogging site Twitter has admitted that it used users’ mobile numbers for ad targeting. Twitter’s “Inadvertent” Privacy Breach According to an official statement, Twitter said it made a “mistake” and unintentionally used users’ phone numbers and email addresses. Users provided the details for […]
The new Sony PlayStation version 7.00 firmware update now allows Android users to enjoy PS4 games on their mobile screens using Remote Play. The new PS4 software update will also allow users to plug in a PS4 and play games like God of War and The Last of Us Remastered on your Android smartphone. It […]
Digital forensics specialists have revealed the existence of zero-day vulnerability in the Android operating system that, if exploited, could grant threat actors full control of at least 18 smartphone models from various manufacturers. Among them, there are four models of Google Pixel. The information was confirmed by Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google’s Project […]
Google has discovered a new Android zero-vulnerability that allows hackers to gain unauthorized access to various Android smartphones. This discovery has been made by Google’s Project Zero team. New Android Zero-Day Vulnerability It is suggested that the Android vulnerability rests in Android device’s Linux kernel code, which provides cybercriminals root access to Android smartphones. On […]
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, Android. What’s more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild by the Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group—infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments—or one of its customers, […]
Apple is planning to launch the second generation of the iPhone SE in the Q1 of 2020, according to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Reportedly, the iPhone SE 2 will fall on the affordable range, however, it would still include the latest A13 processor with 3GB of RAM. Previous rumors have suggested that iPhone SE […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures. Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere—on your social media, on your message boards, on your chats, helping users perfectly express their emotions, making people laugh, and reliving a highlight. But what if an innocent-looking GIF greeting with Good […]
Samsung has shut down its last smartphone manufacturing factories in China, according to a report from Reuters. The move is part of Samsung’s strategy to “re-allocate [production] to other global manufacturing sites” to control the expenditure. Samsung Shuts Down the Huizhou Factory The South Korean tech giant has decided to close down its factory in […]
Microsoft Surface 2019 event has just culminated in New York. The company released all sorts of devices including the new Surface Earbuds, Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, Surface Pro X, and the much-awaited Surface Neo dual-screen device. But Redmond also announced another dual-screen device that didn’t make it to any leaks and rumors we […]
As part of another ‘smartphone explosions’ incident, a teenager succumbed to her smartphone’s battery explosion while she was asleep at night. The tragic incident took place in Bastobe, Kazakhstan. Another Smartphone Explosion Case As per a report by The New Zealand Herald, the 14-year girl named Alua Asetkyzy Abzalbek was asleep during night when her […]
As part of a new discovery, a security researcher found an exploit dubbed Checkm8 (to be pronounced Checkmate), which can allow for permanent jailbreaking of iPhones, starting from the older iPhone 4s to the iPhone X. Checkm8 Jailbreak Exploit The new ‘unpatchable’ flaw has been discovered by a security researcher going by the name ‘Axi0mx’ […]
Apple’s jailbreak just became easier. While a jailbreak is technically illegal, Apple users have been doing them since the launch of the very first iPhone. The motive being the increased control over the device, something that’s easily found in its archrival – Android. However, making these jailbreaks isn’t easy either, it’s a tedious process that […]
An iOS hacker and cybersecurity researcher today publicly released what he claimed to be a “permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit,” in other words, an epic jailbreak that works on all iOS devices ranging from iPhone 4s (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone X (A11 chip). Dubbed Checkm8, the exploit leverages unpatchable security weaknesses in Apple’s […]
It’s finally the time when 5G is not a distant dream! With an aim to attain faster and faster internet speeds, we finally have the next-gen 5G network soon to be commercially available to all. With this, smartphone makers are also readying themselves with new smartphones, all being 5G-ready. While there is some more time […]