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 ...
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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 ...
Samsung Galaxy A6 will launch in the UK in summer
During a press release from June 29th, Samsung officially announced that smartphone Galaxy A6 will launch on, quote, ”this summer” in the United Kingdoms. Device will be available from an unknown variety of Samsung partners. It will be available in black, gold and lavender colour variants.Specifications:– 5.6′ display, 720×1480 resolution, Infinity Display,– 1.6GHz CPU, 4-core,– 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, microSD up to 256GB,– 16mpx rear camera, 16mpx selfie shooter, adjustable LED flash,– face unlock, fingerprint scanner,– Samsung ...
Verizon makes its expensive plans more affordable for US military
New promotion has been announced by the US connection provide Verizon. It now offers a number of discounts for US military personnel as well as their families. Active-duty military, reservists, Gold Star families and veterans net 15% off one line, $35 off two lines, and $40 off three or more lines. This promotion also applies to Verizon’s Beyond Unlimited and Above Unlimited plans. Military families are also eligible for a $200 MasterCard prepaid card if they activate a new LTE phone on a new line. In order to receive the discount, one needs to log into their Verizon account and ...
Sweet Jesus, again?, or how it took Facebook two months to fix a large data leak
Long story short, a huge data leak involving well over 120 million monthly users of a quiz website Nametests.com, which’ quizes Facebook published, has been found out on April 22nd. The finding has been done by one Inti De Ceukelaire from Belgium. IT turned out that the quiz website stored users’ data in extremely easily to hack JavaScript format. After Inti reported his findings to Facebook, it took the company two months to act – data leak was fixed on June 25-th. During this time the website was not closed and has been gathering more easily accessible information.Come ...
Huawei wants to release a gaming smartphone this year & other news
A few weeks ago, Huawei has unveiled its new GPU Turbo technology. This piece of tech is reportedly capable of significantly boosting the the gaming performance of a number of smartphones. It looks like Huawei plans on using this tech, too – according to according to Huawei’s president Jim Xu, the company is currently working on a smartphone dedicated specifically to gaming. We do now know this device’s specs; it is said to be unveiled by the end of 2018. In other news, Huawei has announced that its first 5G-enabled device will be released in June 2019. The company is also ...
Motorola announces an August 2nd event. Three new phones may be unveiled
The event’s teaser fails to deliver any information about what exacly is the ”big announcement” that Motorola is going to make in Chicago. People wiser than me assume that Motorola will unveil three new smartphone models: Moto Z3 flagship that has been rumoured to release around this time, and two Android One smartphones. Guess we shall learn more in tad over a month. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Airbag for smartphones? Why not
The history of this device has begun on the dark day when hilip Frenzel, mechatronics student on the University of Aalen, accidentally broke the display of his iPhone. Repairs did not work and a week later the display broke once more. Instead of shedding a tear over all the beers that he will not be able to afford and buying a new phone, Frenzel instead put his mind to work to create a device that will help everyone to avoid such nasty accidents in the future. Thus, the prototype of Spider-app was made.The device was made with simplicity and functionality in mind (it was mostly made via a ...
Facebook is not going to record you, honest
Long story short: according to the British newspaper Metro, on June 14th Facebook has applied for a patent for its invention, a software that allows for remote control over smartphone’s sound record capabilities. Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly stated during his hearing with the US Congress that Facebook has never and will never spy on its users. We can feel completely safe in the knowledge that FB is not working on a spying software to actually spy on us. No sir they are not. Vice-President of Facebook, Allen Lo has stated in an interview that the reason FB wants to patent its ...