Ever since 2014 Russia tried to make Apple to host its data servers in Russian territory. Now it turns out that the Reds have managed to accomplish this goal; Apple will move some of its servers onto Russian soil. In accordance to Russian law, the government there will have full access to the data kept in these servers: names, addresses, phone and e-mail contacts etc. It is unknown if iCloud data will also be accessible to them. Apple will have to keep every bit of data gathered for six months before removing it.In other words, American corporation and Russian government are now working ...
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Lenovo is working on a new tablet
This new model, one Tab V7, will be a rather atypical one. As shown on the render above, the 7′ display makes it closer to a large smartphone than a regular tablet. Its proportions will probably also be different than the regular 16;9; another difference. What is more is that very few tablets currently available on the market have rounded corners like the Tab V7 will. As for its specs, all we know is that it will come with 4 GB RAM, 32 or 64 GB ROM, camera, selfie shooter and Android 9 Pie OS. The Tab V7 will NOT have fingerprint scanner, though. Oh well.Currently there is no ...
Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, or the classic movie gets a VR game sequel
The game, which is supposed to be an adventure story played via virtual reality goggles, will tell the story of a son of the original movie’s Murray character. Young man has gotten himself into a time loop and, just like his old man, has to figure out the value of friendship and family in order to get out. Groundhog Day: LFTS will hit the stores by the end of this year. Game’s trailer can be watched here. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Wi-Fi 6 and reverse charging for Galaxy S10
Samsung Galaxy S10 will be officially presented during the Samsung Unpacked conference on February 20th: all that we have to go on info-wise until that time is gossip and leaks such as today one. According to a leaked FCC certification, Galaxy S10 will come out in three variants: SM-G970U, SM-G973U and SM-G975U. These devices will all support both Wi-Fi 6 Internet connection as well as reverse charging. That is all. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Turns out 29 camera apps in Google Play Store were stealing our pictures
29 beauty camera apps available on Google Play Store have been discovered by Trend Micro security firm to contain to contain malicious malware that steals user’s photos. Some of them would screen advertisement for porn sites, while others would direct us to phishing websites. Stolen pictures were uploaded to a private server. The infected apps have been taken off the store by Google, but not after being downloaded supposedly millions of times already.Whoopsies. Moral of the story? Stay ugly in real as well as in your ...
Sprint Galaxy Note 9 gets an Android 9 Pie update now
Update is currently rolling in Over-The-Air. Firmware version N960USQU1CSAA weights 1.9GB and offers a large number of interface, Samsung keyboard and other changes. Those who own unlocked Galaxy Note 9 units in Sprint will have to wait a bit longer; probably a few weeks. Tweet Vote on HN ...
YouTube considers removing thumbs down
It is in YouTube’s interest that the videos uploaded in it are popular. What makes videos less popular? Negative notes, largely. That is why, though of course no one will admit it officially, YT plans on removing thumbs down in an unforseen future. Google also has other, similiar ideas: remove the thumb down by default but leave option of seeing it, leave the thumbs down but hiding the counter (useless) and others.What do you think? Majority of the Internet seems to believe that this would be simply a cheap way to make YouTube’s life easier at the expense of viewer’s ...
Scientists have counted how much time are we spending online. It is quite a lot
Researchers from Hootsuite and We Are Social have figured out that the average human being spends roughly 6 hours and 27 minutes every day online in one form or another. This adds up to an impressive sum of 100 days per year spent surfing the Internet. Putting it in a more mathematical way, an average human being spends 27% of their life online. Record breakers are Philippines, who can spend even 10 hours every day online; lowest on the ranking are Japanese, who spend ”only” 3 hours and 45 minutes every day in the ...
Samsung Galaxy F and Galaxy S10 on a kind-of official teaser
One of Asian Samsung channels have recently published a teaser video advertising its newest product, a famous Galaxy F foldable. The video has been quickly taken down, but not before a speedy fan managed to save it and put on YouTube. This has probably been Samsung’s intention anyway – we all know how much Samsung enjoys its teasers… During the video a large-screened, thin-bezeled device is being shown on-screen, which may or may not be Galaxy S10, another flagship by Samsung. Whether or not that is really it we will learn in three weeks, during the Samsung Unpacked ...
A guy illegally recorded a game video, YouTube took it down, he published it on Pornhub instead
O tempora o mores… Kingdom Hearts 3, a rather atypical (for European standards at least) anime-esque action game with Disney characters included, has been released a few days ago. A few days before that, though, one wisecrack on the Internet has published a less-than-legal gameplay video of it on YouTube. YT quickly took it down, though, as the material in the video infringed Square Enix’, game’s creators, copyrights. Thusly denied player decided that he or she will publish their video one way or another and… took it to Pornhub instead. Technically, Pornhub follows ...