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New ZTE Nubia just passed TENAA certification

Device is listed as NX907J, and I am glad to say that the TENAA certificate is quite informative about it. New ZTE phone weights 163g and measures 155.3×77.2×7.95mm. It has a 5.5′ HD display, 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage. Phone is powered by an 8-core, 1.4GHz processor and runs on Android 6.0.1. Its cameras are 13mpx at front and 5mpx at rear. All of that is kept alive with a 2900mAh battery.There is no price nor release date on the device, but we do know it will be available in at least black and platinum colours. Spec-wise, it seems to be a medium-low device; as such, it is ...

Facebook has over two billion users. Hurray, whee, yaay

Of course, a large number of these accounts are either fakes or no longer used (because, for example, their owner died), buuuut ”FB has two billion users, but some of them are fake, gone or dead” would not make a good title.Anyway, real or not, Facebook does not plan on letting such a milestone pass without acknowledging it. Social website prepares a few surprises for its users. One of them, perhaps the largest, is a personalized video. It supposedly shows the user’s contributions to Facebook, but it will probably end up showing your posts that earned the most likes and ...

Samsung’s Walk Mode app is a pointless, annoying and overall ridiculous battery drainer

Long story short; Walk Mode is horrible, don’t download it, kk bye.Sigh… okay, I guess I have to tell you a bit more. Walk Mode is a smartphone application released by Samsung. The app is only available in India as of now and pray to god it will stay there, I mean, there is no info on its global release date. Walk Mode is advertised as a notification app, warning the user of any danger that presents before he/she as he/she walks while using phone. Sounds pretty neat, no? What could it be? Some sort of augmented reality tech, an object detector that will alert us of cars, ...

An easy way to defend against Petya

Yesterday afternoon I had a (dis)pleasure of informing you about Petya, a new and dangerous virus. In summary, Petya is ransomware. Ransomware is a virus that blocks access to your device and only unlocks it after you pay a given sum of money to the hackers who created it, like a ransom. The virus is mostly after company networks, but there are cases of private computers being hacked as well.Sounds scary, does it not? One day you are coming back home and powering up your PC, only to find out you cannot access it because some jerk of a hacker said so. Thankfully, a way of protecting your ...

Large number of popular US websites down, reason unknown

Pinterest, Amazon, The New York Times, Reddit, Wired, Business Insider, CNN and more – all of these websites are down and unavailable in many parts of the United States. East side of the country seems to be particulary hard struck by the issue. What is the problem? News’ title says it all. Many large US websites are down ever since today’s morning. A number of errors pop up when an attempt to enter the site is made.Problem seems to be connected to Fastly, a cloud hosting service service that supports the backends of all the affected websites. According to Fastly’s ...

Petya – newest and meanest ransomware attacks Europe

Watch out! Unknown group of hackers (it is speculated that the group is based in Russia) has created an effective and difficult to beat computer virus that quickly spreads over Europe. Originally only a number of Russian and Ukrainian companies and facilities, like Russian Rosneft and Boryspil airfield in Ukraine were targeted, but the virus has soon made its way to Romania, Norway, Poland, Great Britain and other European countries. Petya is a highly advanced ransomware virus. It works by locking access to the user’s computer, returning it only after the hackers receive a steep ...

BlackBerry is allegedly working on two new phones

Thanks again, Evan!. This time Evan Blass, our Leakster Extraordinaire, has dug up a juicy rumour that will please all the BlackBerry fans. According to Blass – and he is right more often than not – BB is working on two brand new (okay, brand will be old) smartphones bearing codenames Krypton and Juno. Hopefully these new additions to the BlackBerry roster will wipe off the rather so-so impression that the BlackBerry KeyOne left. Tweet Vote on HN ...

New rumours about LG V30. Glass body, wireless charge

Famous Twitter leakster going by the name OnLeaks believes that the LG V30 smartphone will be supporting the wireless charge technology. Due to this, OnLeaks also believes that the phone will be covered with glass body (so that it can better conduct wireless charge?). OnLeaks also believes that LG V30 will come with; dual camera, rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, 5.7′, QHD display, Snapdragon 835 CPU, 4 or 6 gigabytes of RAM as well as 3200mah battery.The device is said to be released on August ...

Motorola Moto X4 delayed, Moto E4 out in the US on June 30

Originally, both devices were supposed to be released by the end of this month. Now, though, it seems that Moto X4 will be delayed. Why is that? Rumour is that the reason is Qualcomm’s difficulties in producing sufficient numbers of the Snapdragon 660 CPUs, which were supposed to be used in Moto X4s. Speaking of which, not much is known about X4’s specification, but we do know it will have a 5.5-inch display, 1080p and a 3800mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0. Tweet Vote on ...