Mrs. Ahrendts is leaving the company after five years on her post, during which she has, by the way, made more money than the CEO Tim Cook himself. After leaving, which will complete in April, her goal is to ”pursue new personal as well as carrier goals”. The new vice president will become Deidre O’Brien, ex-chief of HR. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Monthly Archives: February 2019
New renders of Nokia 9 PureView
91mobiles have just published the newest renders of the upcoming Nokia 9 PureView smartphone. The device will probably be revealed during this month’s Mobile World Congress, but this will not stop us from taking a peek at it, naturally. Renders are showing us a device with notch-less, 5.99′ screen and, most importantly, 6x main camera setup. Sadly, we do not know the specs of this camera. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Some iPhone apps save your screen data without your consent
According to Tech Crunch specialists, some of the apps available on the App Store take both screen pictures as well as button usage data without the knowledge of their users. The guilty apps are the ones that use analytical tools made by the Glassbox company. Those tools put special programming code into the infected app that then infects the smartphone the app is installed on; it then sends data it gathers back to the app’s publisher. Not only are these informations collected illegally, as the companies using Glassbox do not inform their users about it in the user’s agreement ...
Serious Android vulnerability requires a fix
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 in the Android 9. Proper patches have already been released or will be released soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Specs of Samsung Galaxy Watch Active leaked online
According to people from XDA Developers, Samsung’s still unannounced Galaxy Watch Active will have these specifications:– Exynos 9110 CPU,– 1.3-inch display, 360x360p,– 230 mAh battery,– Bluetooth 4.2, NFC and LTE support,– Bixby AI assistant,– GPS,– pedometer, stress and sleep monitor, barometer, heart rate monitor, gravity sensor,– Tizen 4.0 OS,– possible dual SIM model.It is possible but unknown if Samsung will reveal this smartwatch during the MWC ...
Person that found out a FaceTime bug was a teenager
Remember how last week it turned out that FaceTime allows you to hear other people even before they pick up their group call? It turns out that the person who found this bug was a mere fourteen years old boy called Grant Thompson. Boy has reportedly figured out that something is wrong when he tried to gather his friends for Fortnite game. Apple has decided that the kid is legible for the Bug Bounty, a special program where Apple gives financial rewards to people who help out by finding glitches in their products. Young Thompson can earn from 50 to 200 thousand ...
Oh dear, oh my, Earth’s magnetic field is shifting
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 correctly if you are close to one of our planet’s poles. At least the changes do not influence GPS apps such as Google Maps.If it scares you, all I can say is that we, humans, have nothing to do with these changes. They are ...
Unlocked Moto X4 now available for $190 at Walmart
If you were looking for a decently priced mid-ranger, now is your time. Walmart offers unlocked Moto X4 from the Android One program for only 190 dollars. If you pre-order it today, the device should reach your doors by February 9th. Unlocked variant of this phone is also available from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon, but only for its usual price. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Biockracking, or what in the world is that
This new term means basically hacking electronics with your own body – no, not like that. In 2017, a group of American scientists from the University of Washington have accomplished a rather sci-fi-ish task of coding a computer virus into a human DNA and then using said virus to break into a computer. They have managed to do this by (I will describe it as summarily as possible) creating a synthetic strand of DNA and manipulating it so that, when read by a computer, it would make the machine read it as a command that allows to take control over it. It is a very significant step on the ...
Newest Galaxy S10 features leaked
Yep, it turns out there were still things that we did not know about Samsung’s upcoming smartphone series. The news seem to concentrate on the series’ cameras. According to the Chinese site QQ, the now-known unknown features are:– camera AI improving picture-taking, enhanced low-light shots and computational photography support,– selfie camera can record 4K video at 60 frames per second,– optical image stabilization,– triple 12mpx + 16mpx + 13mpx main camera for both Galaxy S10 and S10+,– 10mpx + 8mpx lenses for the Galaxy S10+ selfie ...