What the eff is going on, or how Samsung phones sent pictures to your contacts on their own

A new, fresh Samsung issue is on the horizon, and it is an amusing one. It seems that Samsung phones are now capable of sending random pictures from our galleries to randomly chosen people on our contact lists. Thankfully, the issue does not pertain to ALL Samsung smartphones, but ”only” to the Galaxy series, mostly the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ and Galaxy Note 8.Nothing is known for certain at the moment, but a popular culprit to be blamed is USA’s T-Mobile division. American provider is in the process of changing its message standard from SMS to RTC, which has been said to ...

BlackBerry Key2 available for pre-order from BestBuy. Launches on July 13th

Pre-orders have been accepted for a few days now – sorry for being late to the story. BestBuy offers both black and silver colour versions of the phone for $649.99. BB Key 2 will be compatible with T-Mobile, AT&T, Cricket Wireless, AT&T Prepaid, Simple Mobile, Tracfone, Net10 and H2O. Its specification goes as follows:Specifications:– Snapdragon 660 chipset,– 6GB RAM,– 64GB/128GB storage,– QWERTY keyboard, naturally,– 4.5-inch 1,620 x 1,080p, IPS LCD display,– 3500mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0,– 12mpx main camera, f/1.8, 8mpx selfie ...

Benchmark of phone that may be iPhone x popped out on Geekbench

Benchmark of a device called iPhone11,1 has just been released on Geekbench. Two facts serve as a semi-proof for this device being iPhone X: first one is the fact that the iPhone X is coming out soon; second one is that quite some of the new devices’ specs coincide with what we heard about iPhone X.New benchmark covers a considerate portion of device’ specification. Among the more interesting parts of it are the Apple A12 CPU, 4GB RAM and the iOS12 operating system. Phones’ cores test looks pretty interesting: it scored 4673 in single core and 10912 in multiple cores ...

HTC’s tough times continue as the company lays off 1500 employees

Poor souls in question are… have all been working in HTC’s manufacturing division in Taiwan. Laying them off lowers HTC’s employee count by roughly 22%. Official word from the company is that the layoff has been done in order to once more become profitable.This is only the last in a long chain of HTC’s misfortunes. It all begun in February, when then-president of the company left to pursue a ”personal career plan”. Soon afterwards a hundred US employees of the company have been released as part of a merger of the smartphone and VR divisions. Speaking of ...

In lighter news, Australia now has a giant penis that can be seen from space

When happens when your news writer has too much time to spare? He writes about giant members, naturally. The mischevious manhood in question is carved into a dry lake bed outside of Geelong, Victoria, and is big enough for Google Maps to see it from space. Image first surfaced on the Facebook group Take The Piss Geelong, though the local community has reportedly already known about the carving for a few months. The carving may be remembered as the largest picture of a male organ to date. No group or single person has yet claimed responsibility for what has been dubbed an Aussie ...

New Motorola device pictures leak. Dual camera and more

The yet to be named device seems to be utilizing a glass build and vertical camera placement of Motorola One and One Power. Lack of Android One branding on the back suggests that it will not be shipped with the stock Android OS; instead it might launch as a part of the Motorola Moto series. This new device also seems to lack a notch, and seemingly returns to the 18:9 display.Unfortunately, the leak offers no information other than what does the phone look like. Tweet Vote on ...

Moto G6 and Moto Z3 Play on sale on Motorola and Amazon

Three new Motorola smartphones – Moto G6 and two variants of Moto Z3 Play – are now out in the US. Starting today, Motorola sells the two unlocked Z3 Play variants for less than %500 – a high price, although somewhat offset by the Motorola 2200mAh battery mod included in the package – while Amazon sells them for $50 less, but with the Prime Exclusive version apps pre-installed. As for Moto G6, unlocked one is available only from Amazon, so it too gets the Prime Exclusive treatment, for $235. ...

Tinder is finally encrypting its content

Tinder informs its users that it has finally managed to fix a semi-serious hole in its security measures. This hole allowed people with reasonable hacking skills to reveal not only Tinder users’ pictures but also their activities on the service; namely the left and right swipes. This info could be used to, for example, blackmail a Tinder user who does not want his Tinder data to get out. Now though you can sleep soundly, loverboys and girls, as your pictures have been encrypted since 6th of February and the rest of the data has been since June ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 9’s S-Pen is will be pretty nifty

Ice Universe strikes again! This time one of our favourite leaksters tweets us about the Galaxy Note 9’s stylus pen. According to the leakster, the upcoming smartphone’s stylus pen will be the most advanced one on the market. It will be able to long-range control a self-timer as well as music playback. Due to it being connected to Bluetooth, it will also allow us to do something ”unrelated to the pen”, whatever it might be. It is speculated that the device will also be a double for a wireless Bluetooth speaker. If so, then the device will probably be ...

Instagram will now allow you to add questions to Stories

Instagram is getting a lot of noise lately! It not only releases its own version of YouTube, IGTV, not only receives a Lite version, but now also adds a new feature: the ability to ask questions in its Stories. The answers to these questions have no upper letter limit (or at least not a significantly small one). This, when coupled with the already existing yes/no polls and emoji sliders (ugh…) means that your loyal, brain-dead Instagram followers will have plenty of ways to regurgitate as detailed an answer as possible.If the feature is not available on your Instagram then it should ...