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Into The Dead 2 is now available on Android

Do you like zombies? Do you like endless runners? Then you will probably like Into The Dead 2. A sequel to a pretty popular Android game, ITD 2 puts you in a shoes of a man on a quest to save his daughter. That heroic deed can be achieved by running through seven chapters filled with hordes of living dead. To make it out alive you will have to either skillfully avoid the incoming fleash eaters or killing them dead with a large variety of weapons – and a dog. Game’s trailer make it look pretty cool, but beware; while the game is free to download, first ITD had a lot of micro ...

Maze Alpha X, a solid mid-lowranger

Maze Alpha X is the successor of a well-received (so I heard) Maze Alpha budget phone. Compared to its predecessor, X is a solid upgrade – it sports thinner bezels, larger screen ratio and better camera, among other things.Specifications:– 6′ screen, 18:9 ratio, Gorning Gorilla Glass 5,– 6GB RAM and 64/128GB ROM,– Sony camera, 16mpx main and 14mpx selfie shooter,– fingerprint scanner,– Helio P25 CPU,– Android 7.0 OS,– 4000mAh battery,– blue, silver and black colour variants.Phone will be released in November 17th, and can be ...

Facebook Messenger Lite available in the UK, US, Ireland and Canada

After its initial debut (more like life beta-tests) in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Venezuela, Messenger Lite becomes available in the West. What is Messenger Lite? Well, you know how Messenger is a massive piece of bloatware that clogs your smartphone’s memory like a cigarette clogs your lungs? Lite version of the app is all of the Messenger’s essentials with all the excessive fat cut off. No automated messages, no in-chat games, no photo attachments – just plain old texting.Sounds good? Hopefully it is. If you are interested, it should by now be downloadable from ...

Twitter might double its character limit

Tweeter will soon begin a, quote, ”small public test” to see what happens when some of its users are allowed to post tweets 280 letters long. Twitter has a few official explanations for this, but they all boil down to, basically, ”many people want to type in more”. It may also be Twitter’s attempt to draw in more users; Twitter is very popular (328 million users per month), but still has a way to go if it wants to beat Instagram (800 million) or, hah, Facebook (two billion, good luck with that).What do you think? Will longer tweets serve Twitter well or will ...

Bill Gates switched to Android

Just in case anyone cares…According to a recent interview that Mr. Gates gave on Fox News, the ex-CEO of Microsoft is now using phone with an Android operating system. He did not say which Android phone is he using, nor what device was he using before that. Presumably it was a Windows phone, but no one knows for certain. When asked about iPhone, he only said ”no, no iPhone”.That is all, at least unless you want to delve into realm of gossip and conjectures. Tweet Vote on ...

China blocks WhatsApp

Chinese government has a long and not very warm relationship with WhatsApp. The application has been hindered multiple times in the land of dragons and gunpowder: its voice chat, as well as video chat, was blocked, you could not send pictures et cetera. Now the Chinese have made a logical step forward and pretty much blocked the application from usage. They did it by blocking the possibility of sending text messages by the app, basically rendering it useless. You still can made video and audio calls with it, but you can just use your phone to do that, so meh. The way the Chinese government ...

Your heart holds the key to the future of mobile security

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 ...

Tits or no password, or how nRansomware demands nude pictures as its ransom

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 ...

New Android Oreo issue. It can cause your smartphone to restart out of blue

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 ...

HOMTOM HT 26, or a budget phone for simple needs

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 ...