Renders have surfaced on the Russian Facebook-esque social network VKontakte (because rusky cannot play with everyone else and have to do everything their own way). Their Yota Phone 3 is quite an original project. Its main feature seems to be dual display setup; phone has both a regular front screen and a monochromatic one on the back cover. Why the secondary ...
Do you know a company called Shenzhen Neo Electronic? It is a chinese tech manufacturer who produces, among other things, Internet cameras that can be installed in a varity of household items. Now imagine yourself buying their webcam and installing it in your child's teddy bear, so you can keep an eye on her/him even when away from home. After some ...
It did not work out with smartphones, so now FB is trying out a different device avenue. Word on the e-street is that FB is working on a video chat device nowadays. The thing is said to be the size of a laptop; its features include touchscreen and ”smart camera”. Everything else that we know is that it is in prototype phase and that it will ...
Oren Peli, writer and director of the infamous ”Paranormal Activity”, works on an app that will allow its users to find, create and join events in their neighbourhood. Application is called Spot. Surprised? Do not be. Before venturing into the creepy movies industry, Mr. Peli worked as a computer software programmer (according to WikiPedia, ...
Device's specs have not yet been revealed, but it is believed that it will share more or less of its specification with its predecessor (same Android 7.0 OS, same dual rear camera setting), BL5000, while improving on some. BL7000's improvements are said to include a huge 7060mAh battery (compared to BL5000's already very impressive 5050mAh - I think ...
”Smartphone zombies”, they are called - people who walk the streets with their heads bent down to their smartphone screens, unaware of their environment. They are prone to walking into other people or objects on their way, sometimes saying ”Excuse me” before going back to whatever their smartphone's screens offer them at the moment. ...
Hurray! Or not, if you like it. I am the one writing this article, though, and I utterly hated Instant Search, so deal with it. Again, hurray! Introduced to Google in 2010, Instant Search is a feature that you all know, even if not by name. You know how, when typing something into a Google Search Engine, suggestions used to appear under the text ...
It seems that China believes all of its Uyghur muslim minority to be possible terrorists. Chinese government have just passed a bill which forces all the Uyghurs - denizens of the north-western province Xinjiang - to install an official spyware application on their mobile devices. Putting technical details aside, that app's job will be to feed the government ...
According to Gizmodo, a technology and science website, Parity Wallet service has been struck by hackers. Parity Wallet is basically a virtual currency bank, working as a storage for bitcoins, ether and other kinds of cryptocurrency. Ether coins was what this group of hackers were after - three consecutive attacks netted them a sum of 153 thousand ether ...
Facebook's last attempt at the mobile industry, Chacha and Salsa phones, was not a success. Devices were quirky and did not offer much in return for putting up with them. This was years ago, though, and Facebook seems to once again be confident enough to try its hand in making smartphones. According to the latest news, Facebook has patented a design ...
Tomorrow, on July 22nd, a global Pokemon Go event will begin. The goal of the event will be to catch a given, presumably large, amount of Pokemon. If enough pocket monsters are caught (sounds dirty), the first Legendary Pokemon ever will be revealed in the Grand Park, Chicago. If that beast will be defeated by the end of the day, it will begin to appear ...
Long story short, australian government prepares to present a new bill which, if passed, will allow its intelligence agencies access to all messages sent using web communicators such as Facebook. How? By forcing FB and other such companies to decrypt communication of any of their users suspected of terrorist activity. Companies, Google among them, defend ...