After its initial debut (more like life beta-tests) in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Venezuela, Messenger Lite becomes available in the West. What is Messenger Lite? Well, you know how Messenger is a massive piece of bloatware that clogs your smartphone's memory like a cigarette clogs your lungs? Lite version of the app is all of the Messenger's ...
Tweeter will soon begin a, quote, ”small public test” to see what happens when some of its users are allowed to post tweets 280 letters long. Twitter has a few official explanations for this, but they all boil down to, basically, ”many people want to type in more”. It may also be Twitter's attempt to draw in more users; Twitter ...
Just in case anyone cares... According to a recent interview that Mr. Gates gave on Fox News, the ex-CEO of Microsoft is now using phone with an Android operating system. He did not say which Android phone is he using, nor what device was he using before that. Presumably it was a Windows phone, but no one knows for certain. When asked about iPhone, ...
Chinese government has a long and not very warm relationship with WhatsApp. The application has been hindered multiple times in the land of dragons and gunpowder: its voice chat, as well as video chat, was blocked, you could not send pictures et cetera. Now the Chinese have made a logical step forward and pretty much blocked the application from usage. ...
If you thought that unlocking your phone with your pretty face is high-tech, get a load of this. A group of researchers is working on a method of unlocking devices with just your heart, or rather its size and shape. It will require your phone to be equipped with a miniaturized version of a low-level Doppler radar which will scan your heart's dimensions. ...
The whole story sounds like a mediocre joke, but hey, stranger things happened at sea. According to MalwareHunterTeam, a new ransomware has just emerged. Its name is nRansomware and its shtick is that it does not demand money but nudes. Yes, you read that correctly. When nRansomware infects your PC, it blocks you from accessing it until you take ten naked ...
This particular issue touches Google Pixel XL. Report from Android Police states that updating Pixel XL to version 8.0 causes that smartphone to often restart with no clear reason. Issue has been reported to Google but the company says that it is, quote, ”Won't Fix (Not Reproducible)”. Going back to Android Nougat fixes the issue, which ...
iPhone, Huawei, HTC, Samsung... there is a large number of serious players out there on the smartphone market, each of them selling modern phones for a big buck. Not all of us users feel the need to own the newest, bestest mobile device, though; not everyone needs artificial reality or virtual assistents in their lives, and not everyone feels like paying ...
CCleaner is a pretty well known cleanup software, used for safe removal of files from your computer. Well, this time it turned out not to be so safe to use... an unknown group of hackers (or a single hacker, for all we know) have replaced an original version of the application with the same one, but with a nasty malware hidden within it. The hacker/s ...
Haha... this phone... hehehe... this phone has it all. Outwards look similiar to iPhone X? Check. Outlandishly bad specifications? Check. OS from three years ago? Check. Lying straight to client's face? Check. What is it about lying? Oh, just a small matter of phone's specifications saying one thing while the render shows something different, like having ...
As most of Apple users probably know, each week Apple chooses one ”App of the Week”, highlighting the application of their choice and making it free to download for seven days. This time the honour of being the App of the Week belongs to INKS, normally a $2.99 mobile game that is an interesting take on the classic pinball... I guess you could ...
If you are interested in this news then you probably already know what a twitterstorm is, but I will explain just in case. When Twitter was created, it was made for people to write short, 140-signs messages, slim, compact and straight to the point. What, though, if someone wants to write more? They can, in a roundabout way - they have to post one tweet, ...