Lets go ahead and learn about the newest scientific marvel of technology. After all it is not like the object in question is a half sci-fi that will not become an available reality in the next ten years. Always better to stay ahead when it comes to unneccessary information! Anyway, a group of scientists from Tokyo have published a study in which they describe self-repairing smartphone screens. Japan scientists are working on phone screens that will be extremely easy to repair – all it will take to smooth any crack on the surface will be to apply some pressure onto the phone. Drop it, ...

It is time for more Terror From The Web stories. Redactors of Polish website Androidcompl found out that an extremely popular mobile game Dune! (5 million downloads and still going) possesses a large number of functions in its system which only tasks are to collect as much private information about the user as possible. Among the info ”stolen” is the app user’s country and localization, phone’s OS and phone number, battery level & other. The app is also connected to the third-party libraries which may be able to find and gather much more data.That does not sound ...

New set of augmented reality tools will soon be available for Facebook Messenger. These new toys are called ”World Effects” and they allow putting 3D objects into the frame. Tool comes with a large number of pre-existing objects, but the more interesting option may be creating your own short, 3D messages to then render on the screen.”World Effects” are aimed mostly towards the younger generations of Messenger users. It is probably Facebook’s goal to compete with Snapchat and its very similiar ”World Lens” feature for young people’s attention. ...

Guess they got what was coming to them… a group of eight British citizens responsible for up to 49 cases of smuggling contraband to prisons in the period of two years has been caught by the police and put under arrest. Two leaders of the group have been sentenced to six and seven years in prison (Craig Hickinbottom, 35, was the main ringleader). The organization have smuggled over one million pounds worth of contraband over the course of their illegal activities. Funny part is that the police had no luck apprehending the criminals themselves; it was only after they were caught on ...

Blow the sad trombone and play the world’s smallest violin, as Essential Phone is not selling well at all. According to EP’s Essential Camera application’s download figures from Play Store, roughly 50 thousand units of the Andy Rubin’s smartphone have been sold during the phone’s four months long release. Too bad, so sad. There are a few reasons to believe that the actual sales are lower, though; some of these devices could have been resold and signed to new account/s, Essential’s developers have probably used multiple accounts to test their apps out on a ...

Remember that time when a drunk drone pilot crashed his vehicle into the White House? Yeah, other people remember it too. In response to the growing popularity of drones and their pilots lacking in the ”common sense” department, New Jersey lawmakers are moving ahead a state law that will make flying a drone illegal when under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. I am weeping salty tears at the thought of ending my days of smoking pot, drinking beer and flying a $500 worth of heavy materials and sharp, moving rotors into other people. Sniff.The bipartisan bill has already ...

Niantic, creators of Pokemon Go, are continuing their unending effort of upgrading their game. New pocket monsters and game modes are well and good, but Niantic obviously feel the need to add something more to their augmented reality, namely dynamic weather conditions. The idea is that the in-game weather will change to that of a real world, naturally separate for every gamer’s region. If there is a mean blizzard outside your window, the world of Pokemon Go will be covered in snow; if it is raining, drops of virtual rain will dot the screen. Weather conditions are also supposed to ...

As is often the case with Android viruses, Tizi spread by infecting popular Google store apps. If you wonder why the past tense, it is because the virus has already been contained, or so does Android claim. Tizi’s immoral activities concentrated on infecting the more popular messenger apps like Facebook and Twitter and scanning them for any personal data available. That is not all it did, though; it could also scan our calendar and GPS, as well as record our voice chats! Versatile little basterd…Android believes that Tizi was using vulnerabilities in older, pre 7.0 Nougat, ...

Before you purchase an iPhone, iPad or iPod from someone else, make sure that Find My iPhone Activation lock is turned off and the device is ready for you to use.This tool supports IMEI or Serial Number of any Apple device that can be blocked by Find My iPhone application.Why is diffrent then iPhone iCloud Check (Activation Lock)?This service also supports Serial Number. Also, results are not stored in cache. This means that each time you check the device, you get fresh results! Tweet Vote ...

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Short Message Service! Happy birthday to you! Twenty five years and one day ago the first SMS ever was sent*. It read ”Merry Christmas” and was sent to Richard Jarvis, the then CEO of Verizon, who received it on his Orbitel 901 cellphone (or, as we would call it today, a large brick).SMS has been worked on since 1985. Heard researcher of the project was a German called Friedhelm Hillebrand. It is thanks to him (because of him?), as well as thanks to the limited technology of the time he worked in that ...