This new vulnerability has been detected in Androids 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 and 9. It allows the 3rd party to take control of smartphone simply by having its user open a .png file (a picture). Google has pointed out three vulnerability packs in the Framework subsystem: two of them can be found in every of the abovementioned Android systems and one is only ...

American scientists have discovered that there are rapid changes in the magnetic field of our planet. Reportedly, it is moving much faster than usually, going from 15 to 55 kilometers per hour in only twenty years. These changes influence devices based on a magnetic compass, like planes or smartphones - for example your compass app might not be working ...

If they are then this might be the smartphone for you. K-Touch i9's main selling point, its schtick and gimmick is its small size; it has a 3.5' display with very thin bezels and fat but not overly large bezels. Other than that, the mini-phone's specifics are: - plastic case, metal bezels,, - 4-core MediaTek CPU, 2,4GHz, - 2 or 3 GB RAM and 16 or 32 GB storage ...

Are you going out of town? Do you predict some hardships ahead? Think you will need a phone that can make calls, write texts and take a beating? Hammer 4+ might be just the right choice. This cellphone (that is right, cellphone) is closed in an IP68 norm - complying case, and also follows the IK05 durability standards. The rest of its specs do not break ...

Yaay, more funny pictures. Awesome. Unicode Consortium has just released the listing of emojis that will be released along with two new large operating systems, meaning they will come out sometime in second half of this year. 60 out of them will be new graphics, and other 170 will be recolours of old ones. Among new ones are onion, hearing aid and a person ...

Windows 7 will reach its official end of life on January 2020; that is when Microsoft will stop support that OS with further updates. Other than lacking features of more modern Windows', it will also mean that the system will become more and more susceptible to hackers' attacks due to its security measures getting quickly outgrown. If, for one reason ...

Passwords are fleeting. It is easy to forget them. When you cannot login into your, say, My Little Pony forum account, you give them your e-mail address and reset the old password to get a new one; when you cannot get into your e-bank account, you take a trip to their nearest post, show them your ID card and they give you a new password. When you forgot ...

According to a report from JPMorgan Chase analysts, it currently costs a bit over 4000 dollars to make one bitcoin. This would be fine, if not for the fact that, after being made, such bitcoin is only worth 3800 dollars - not the best deal out there. At the moment it is only worth mining bitcoins in countries that have special deals with electric power ...

29 beauty camera apps available on Google Play Store have been discovered by Trend Micro security firm to contain to contain malicious malware that steals user's photos. Some of them would screen advertisement for porn sites, while others would direct us to phishing websites. Stolen pictures were uploaded to a private server. The infected apps have ...

It is in YouTube's interest that the videos uploaded in it are popular. What makes videos less popular? Negative notes, largely. That is why, though of course no one will admit it officially, YT plans on removing thumbs down in an unforseen future. Google also has other, similiar ideas: remove the thumb down by default but leave option of seeing it, leave ...

Researchers from Hootsuite and We Are Social have figured out that the average human being spends roughly 6 hours and 27 minutes every day online in one form or another. This adds up to an impressive sum of 100 days per year spent surfing the Internet. Putting it in a more mathematical way, an average human being spends 27% of their life online. Record ...

Due to a complete lack of popularity, Google will be shutting down its ”social platform”. The close down will be gradual, with Google only starting to close down user's accounts on the April 2nd; the whole process is said to take up to several months. Every Google+ user can download his G+ data before that. Also, the G+ pictures will not be deleted ...