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 ...

Facebook lately has, or at least believes it does, a huge problem with bots and fake accounts. Company tries many differet things to solve it. Latest idea of Zuckerberg & Company is to make people use selfies in order to verify their accounts. New system is already being tested in a small, closed group.How will it work? Simply. You know captcha, right? Different methods of verifying if the user is a real person or a bot? Typing numbers and letters provided, answering a question et cetera? Facebook’s idea is like that, except what the user has to provide is her/his selfie picture. ...

Smartphone is nowadays one of the most important, if not -the- most important, every day use objects in our lives. It is a great multitool thatnot only serves as a mean to complete multitude of tasks, but also holds various important information about its user. Browsing history, text messages,bank account info and more can be collected from our device if anyone gets their grubby hands on it. Still, many of those things do not require an evilhacker to take hold on our phone and crack its security – lots of info can be stolen by people simply peeking over your shoulder. To that, Google ...

Impressive. Price of bitcoin grows very fast despite many voices against it – for example Ulrich Stephan from Deutsche Bank categorically denounces it as an untrustworthy investment. Opposition does nothing to stem its grow, though, as a single bitcoin is now worth 9093,26 dollars. Is it a financial bubble, ready to pop at any moment? Or is it the future of the financials? I do not know. All I know is that, if you want to mine bitcoins yourself, you need to buy a very good graphics card and prepare for some solid electric bills.Spend money to make money, I guess.Edit, 15:37: Breaking ...

If you are Imgur users, you probably already know about it; if not, keep reading. Imgur has just announced that three years ago its servers have come under successful attack by an unknown hacker/s. Attack took place in 2014 and the company has only learned about it now, and only thanks to the help from a third party – namely Troy Hunt, web security expert and owner of the Have I been pwned website. Three years, huh? Either the cyber-thieves that attacked Imgur excel at their chosen profession or Imgur’s security, to put it lightly, sucks a*s.Roy Sehgal, chief operating officer ...