If you thought that unlocking your phone with your pretty face is high-tech, get a load of this. A group of researchers is working on a method of unlocking devices with just your heart, or rather its size and shape. It will require your phone to be equipped with a miniaturized version of a low-level Doppler radar which will scan your heart’s dimensions. If your heart is in the right place (ha!), your phone will unlock automatically. It is said that the unlock will work over a pretty long range, too, up to 100 feet.Researchers (I do not know the group’s name, sorry) believe that ...

The whole story sounds like a mediocre joke, but hey, stranger things happened at sea. According to MalwareHunterTeam, a new ransomware has just emerged. Its name is nRansomware and its shtick is that it does not demand money but nudes. Yes, you read that correctly. When nRansomware infects your PC, it blocks you from accessing it until you take ten naked pictures of yourself and send them to a given e-mail address. Then these pictures will be verified by the hackers and supposedly sold on the dark web*, with the user supposedly getting back access to his/her PC.nRansomware does not look ...

This particular issue touches Google Pixel XL. Report from Android Police states that updating Pixel XL to version 8.0 causes that smartphone to often restart with no clear reason. Issue has been reported to Google but the company says that it is, quote, ”Won’t Fix (Not Reproducible)”. Going back to Android Nougat fixes the issue, which proves that the fault is on Oreo’s side.It looks like it will take Google some time to solve this problem. Perhaps it is a good idea to hold off updating to Oreo until ...

iPhone, Huawei, HTC, Samsung… there is a large number of serious players out there on the smartphone market, each of them selling modern phones for a big buck. Not all of us users feel the need to own the newest, bestest mobile device, though; not everyone needs artificial reality or virtual assistents in their lives, and not everyone feels like paying an equivalent to monthly salary or more for what we use mostly for communication with friends and family and coworkers. If you are this kind of person, HOMTOM HT 26 is the phone for you. HT 26 has specification good enough to, well, use ...

CCleaner is a pretty well known cleanup software, used for safe removal of files from your computer. Well, this time it turned out not to be so safe to use… an unknown group of hackers (or a single hacker, for all we know) have replaced an original version of the application with the same one, but with a nasty malware hidden within it. The hacker/s were professional enough to even make sure that their CCleaner has proper certification. ”Evil” CCleaner worked exacly the same as its original counterpart, except the malware within it allowed the hacker/s access to the ...

Haha… this phone… hehehe… this phone has it all. Outwards look similiar to iPhone X? Check. Outlandishly bad specifications? Check. OS from three years ago? Check. Lying straight to client’s face? Check. What is it about lying? Oh, just a small matter of phone’s specifications saying one thing while the render shows something different, like having single-lens 8mpx camera instead of dual setup depicted on the render or a middling 2mpx front camera making it rather hard for Face ID to actually work. What Goophone X has going for it are two things; ridiculously ...

As most of Apple users probably know, each week Apple chooses one ”App of the Week”, highlighting the application of their choice and making it free to download for seven days. This time the honour of being the App of the Week belongs to INKS, normally a $2.99 mobile game that is an interesting take on the classic pinball… I guess you could call this one ”paintball”, though perhaps ”inkball” would be more truthful.So, what is INKS about? Basically it is pinball, but with some puzzle-solving and very aesthetically pleasing style. Seriously, just look ...

If you are interested in this news then you probably already know what a twitterstorm is, but I will explain just in case. When Twitter was created, it was made for people to write short, 140-signs messages, slim, compact and straight to the point. What, though, if someone wants to write more? They can, in a roundabout way – they have to post one tweet, then another, and then more if needed, which, while absolutely possible, is tad cumbersome.So, what is the news? According to The Next Web, an earlier unknown function is now hidden in the Android version of the Twitter app. This ...

Most of us have lots of Facebook friends (I have ten, but I am me). These friends often consist of a variety of people – actual friends, acquaintances, coworkers and associates, teachers, bosses, family. Often we want to share something on FB that we would rather not have all of them seeing. Facebook surely noticed this First World Problem and decided to deal with it, even if the way it does so can be considered unsavory.FB is testing a new function that will allow its user to create new, private profiles. What does ”private” mean? In this case, it reportedly means that ...

Facebook is going through a number of changes and additions lately. Many of them can be summed up by sighing and saying ”Why bother? FB is good as it is”. Such was my reaction when I heard today’s news.The new function works in a way similiar to Tinder. Every Facebook user is said to receive a list of people he or she can hit on – it is uncertain whether this will just be your friends list or a new list somehow concocted by the portal itself. Next to every person there will be ”to date” and ”not to date” options. If you decide to try to ...