Flashback, remake of the ancient classic platformer game, now available for Android smartphones

In a case of real flashback, a spiritual successor of famous Another World adventure platformer, Flashback, is getting a mobile remake. This old gem has you play Conrad, a man with no memory who must navigate futuristic setting of human colony in Titan in order to solve a mystery of alien’s plan to conquer Earth. Challenging gameplay requires the player to use both their wits and their trigger finger in order to complete the campaign, which offers an immersive narrative the kind of which is hard to find anymore in video games.Remake has been made by a somewhat untested studio called ...

Samsung Galaxy A80 soon available for pre-order in India. Price, specifications

Device can be pre-ordered between 22 and 31 July, after which it will reach store shelves in India. It is priced there at Rs. 47,990, which equals roughly 697 dollars – a very high price for the Indian market, but with it come equally high specs:– 6.7-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display- in-display fingerprint sensor- Snapdragon 730G 8-core CPU- 8GB RAM, 128GB flash memory- 3,700mAh battery, 25W quick charging- 48mpx sliding camera- Ghost White, Phantom Black and Angel Gold colour variants.Everyone who pre-orders a unit of Galaxy A80 will receive a one-time free of charge screen ...

Bulgarian job: the greatest hacker attack in the history of Europe

Bulgarian police has caught a 20-years old hacker responsible for what is the greatest (so far) hacker attack in Europe. Young hacker has managed to break into the data banks of bulgarian IRS and steal personal data of five million citizens. Considering that Bulgaria only counts a little over seven million people, the attack’s scale is really gigantic. The data stolen includes name, surname, home address and income.The hacker is a 20 years old Bulgarian. He committed theft on Monday, and the police caught him on Wednesday. The reasons behind the attack are currently unknown. Some ...

Google Pay now supports 13 more banks and credit unions in the US

Google Pay has expanded yet again, its long list of partners now made even longer by the addition of thirteen various US banks and credit unions. Newest institutions that support Google Pay are: Educational Community Alliance Credit Union (OH), Exchange Bank (GA), First Bank Hampton (NW), Incommons Bank (TX), Legends Bank (MO), Members Choice of Central Texas Federal Credit Union, MidAmerica National Bank (IL), Park Community Credit Union (KY), Priority Bank (AR), Republic Bank (PA), Republic Bank of Chicago (IL), State Bank of Waterloo (IL) and The Citizens-Farmers Bank of Cole Camp (MO). ...

Sky Children of the Light video game is now available for iPads and iPhones

Sky, originally billed as an Apple TV exclusive video game, is now available on more platforms. That is not all, though: the game is said to come out for even more platforms soon, namely Android, Mac and PC. Cool.Sky: Children of the Light is an adventure game with simple but beautiful graphics, much of which is spent in the air as our character flies across the beautiful world. The game can be played alone or with friends in a co-op mode. It can be downloaded for free from App Store, and contains microtransactions that cost 0.99$ or ...

It is very much possible that Russian secret services are using FaceApp for their own ends

FaceApp is not a new application, but it is currently living through a sort of ”renessaince” thanks to thousands of people using a new option to make their faces look older, therefore taking a peek at what they might look like in a dozen or so or more years. It is a fun thing to do, but, as is the case with many fun activities, there is a dark side to it. In the case of Faceapp its dark side is, sadly, Russia.The problem lies in FaceApp’s servers, places where the data of all the FaceApp users is being held. These servers are located in Russia. Russian government, not ...

iPhone-connected blood pressure monitors by Withings

Withings, a known developer of iPhone-connected health devices, has jut launched two new blood pressure monitors, BPM Core and the BPM Connect. BPM Core is an all-in-one device that can simultaneously record an electrocardiogram, measure blood pressure and listen to the heart via a digital stethoscope, all of that in just a minute and a half. As for the BPM Connect, it is merely an upgraded version of the Withings blood pressure monitor: its function is to take and view cardiovascular readings at home and, afterwards, share them with a medical professionals if needed. Both devices are ...

Peter Thiel, billionaire Silicon Valley investor, believes that Google should be investigated for treason

In his Sunday TV appearance, Peter Thiel said that he believes Google needs to be investigated by both FBI and CIA due to the company’s treasonous, as he put it, decision to work not with the US government but with the Chinese military instead. As is often the case in such, err, cases, Thiel has no evidence of Google’s wrongdoing: nevertheless, billionaire investor implied that not only the company is working for China, but that it has also been infiltrated by Chinese spies. The only real backing for Thiel’s opinion – at least only real backing that is known to the ...

Bruce the Aussie Slang Bot, Facebook’s aide for those who do not speak gibberish, I mean Australian

Ah, Australia. You never fail to bring a smile to my face with your tech-related news. Today I had the pleasure – and now you, the readers, will – of learning about Bruce, the Aussie Slang Bot. Bruce is a Facebook app designed for tourists. Its main objective is to quickly translate Australian slang terms into English that can be actually understood by normal people. Bruce offers translations of over one thousand Australian slang terms, which, granted, is most of them, but still misses some of the more NSFW ones, e.g. fuckwit, pissbolt or my favourite ”We are not here to ...

Fake iCloud unlocks. Don’t waste your time and money.

Many people have problems with Apple blockade called Find my iPhone (iCloud). Find My iPhone is a special security option available for all Apple products. The owner of the device creates a special login and password for his/her device. The information is not stored on any servers or websites so there is no way even for Apple company to know your password. If for any reason you lost or forgot your password you can contact Apple company to reset your account, but you won’t receive the password itself. To reset your login information you need to access the e-mail connected to the given ...