On January 18th 2019, ZTE has announced that it accomplished first ever successful 5G connection, compatible with the 3GPP Rel-15 protocol and in NSA mode. The connection has taken place in Shenzhen, one of China cities taking part in China Unicorn’s pilot program. The phone that served to undertake the connection was a prototype model with the built-in 5G connectivity. Other than the phone call, other functions of the smartphone have been tested: browsing websites, online video watching and Weichat group ...
Monthly Archives: January 2019
773 million e-mail addresses, 21 million passwords – one of the largest leaks in the history
Long story short, people from Wired, a monthly American magazine on technology, have recently found out that a large, combined hacker attack under the code name ”Collection#1” have gathered over 87 gigabytes of e-loot. Among it are 773 million e-mail addresses, which perhaps is not bad in itself, and 21 million passwords to some of these addresses, which is bad indeed. All this data has been gathered over a number of lesser attacks and has all been stored on the Mega hosting platform. It is not improbable that your address and password are among them; it might be wise to change ...
Far Cry New Dawn: new trailer is out
Hallelujah, the first real trailer of the new Far Cry is out. Set for release on March 28, New Dawn is next sequel (or a spinoff, like Primal? Difficult to say) in the extremely popular open world shooter Far Cry franchise. After fighting bad guys in various exotic parts of the world, from Africa to the US northlands, this time we will be staying on the American soil but in new, somewhat postapocalyptic, times. That is right, ladies and gentleman, Far Cry is taking us to the gloriously colourful post-apocalyptic future. What does this mean? Seemingly chainsaw guns, baddies with motorcycle ...
Motorola is working on a new Razr smartphone
Best school is oldschool; at least that is what Motorola seems to suggest. According to The Wall Street Journal, Motorola plans to release a new Razr smartphone during the upcoming MWC event. Younger ones from you may not remember it, but Razr was a series of flip phones very popular around years 2004-2007. We do not know if the new smartphone will be a flip phone or a more modern foldable device, but it is more likely to be the latter – flip phone would most probably not cost 1500 dollars, which is supposed to be new Razr’s cost.WMC 2019 will take place in 25th – 28th ...
Google patented the design of Google Pixel 4
We will probably have to wait until autumn before we will be able to see Google Pixel 4 live, but it is today that we can take a first look at this upcoming smartphone’s design. Graphics that depict it can be watched here, here and here. The graphics present us with a few interesting bits of information: they show us a single main camera, fingerprint scanner and, last but not least, a nearly completely borderless screen. The design does not include, sadly, any specifications: all we know is that the smartphone will run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 ...
Galaxy S8 gets its January security update
The update has already come out for those who opted into the Android 9 Pie beta; the rest of us have just received it now. The update ups the phone’s software version to G950FXXS4CRLB. If your phone does not download it automatically then go to Settings > Software update and select it. Galaxy S8+ update is not available atm but should be soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Photo of Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus leaked
Redditor known as hissick27 have recently uploaded a picture of something that may or may not have been Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Plus smartphone spotted live. Judging by what can be seen on the picture, it just might be it: dual selfie camera checks out, as do the Samsung’s One UI buttons at the bottom of the device. Device’s bezels are also as thin as they are being advertisted as.Units of upcoming smartphones are often given to the company workers for testing, so while such a find as the picture above is rare, it is not unprecedented. It also means that the device in the ...
Ghostbusters 3!
It is not often that IMEI writes about filmography, but there are some flicks that just cannot go unmentioned. A teaser trailer has just been released, promising us nothing else but the third Ghostbusters movie! The short teaser tells us very little, but that very little is well enough to give us some ideas about the movie’s plot. The sight of the Ghostbusters’ car hidden in some shack in the middle of nowhere suggests that the group has split up and ceased their anti-supernatural activities. The fact that the unnatural forces seem to manifest in the shack itself might mean that ...
EA has officially cancelled the open-world Star Wars game
More video game news, and more bad video news at that. Remember the rumoured open-world Star Wars game where we were supposed to play as a bounty hunter and have lots of fun adventuring across the stars? No? Well, never mind now; the project has been cancelled. Shutdown follows the shutdown of the game’s developer, Visceral Studio, the one responsible for the awesome (well, mostly) Dead Space trilogy. The game went through a bit of a turmoil ever since its inception; at first it was supposed to be a linear action-adventure similiar to Uncharted, then, after EA bought out Visceral, the ...
Hole in Fortnite’s security allows hackers to steal from players’ accounts
Fortnite, one of the currently most popular video games, is in trouble. Analytics from the Check Point company have recently exposed a major flaw in the game’s protection. Without delving into the technical details, it allows hackers a relatively easy access to the players’ accounts, giving them the possibility of stealing their V-bucks currency. Ouch… Epic Games is already at work to fix the issue. In the meantime, players are encouraged to use the two-factor authentication security; it should be enough to keep their accounts ...