It seems that China believes all of its Uyghur muslim minority to be possible terrorists. Chinese government have just passed a bill which forces all the Uyghurs – denizens of the north-western province Xinjiang – to install an official spyware application on their mobile devices. Putting technical details aside, that app’s job will be to feed the government with much of the owner’s private information – all of his or her WeChat history, their Weibo activities and more. If someone tries not to install the app, they will be facing a ten days of lock-up (and ...

Lenovo P2, one of (so I heard) UK’s most famous budget phones, is not being sold anymore. P2 was a TechRadar exclusive, and the carrier has recently informed the public that it will not continue selling the device. After being available for half a year for the price of £199.99, only two units of the phone are left in the whole of Great Britain (!). These two units can be bought from Amazon for a much less considerable price of £360.Taking even a budget phone off the shelves after mere six months seems like a rash thing to do. Then again, perhaps it happens more often than I ...

According to Gizmodo, a technology and science website, Parity Wallet service has been struck by hackers. Parity Wallet is basically a virtual currency bank, working as a storage for bitcoins, ether and other kinds of cryptocurrency. Ether coins was what this group of hackers were after – three consecutive attacks netted them a sum of 153 thousand ether units (ethers?). Not impressed? Well, this amount of ether translates into roughly 32 million dollars. There. Parity Wallet’s losses would be much greather were it not for a group of so-called white hat hackers, people who beat ...

Facebook’s last attempt at the mobile industry, Chacha and Salsa phones, was not a success. Devices were quirky and did not offer much in return for putting up with them. This was years ago, though, and Facebook seems to once again be confident enough to try its hand in making smartphones. According to the latest news, Facebook has patented a design of a modular phone. Cool? I guess.Anyway, patent itself does not mean much. Device may be in production or it may be in early development stage. It can come out by the end of this year or never. Whatever happens, ...

Tomorrow, on July 22nd, a global Pokemon Go event will begin. The goal of the event will be to catch a given, presumably large, amount of Pokemon. If enough pocket monsters are caught (sounds dirty), the first Legendary Pokemon ever will be revealed in the Grand Park, Chicago. If that beast will be defeated by the end of the day, it will begin to appear in Pokemon Raids even after the Go Fest is over.If you cannot attend the event for one reason or another (for example you do not live in Chicago), you can watch it being streamed live on ...

Long story short, australian government prepares to present a new bill which, if passed, will allow its intelligence agencies access to all messages sent using web communicators such as Facebook. How? By forcing FB and other such companies to decrypt communication of any of their users suspected of terrorist activity. Companies, Google among them, defend against it, saying that decrypting messages will create backdoors that can be used by hackers to commit their illicit activities.Who is right? Who is wrong? You be the judge. Who will win, the government or the companies, security (and ...

Smartphone, originally shipped with Android 6.0 and then updated to 7.0, is getting another OS update, this time to 7.1.1. Right now the update is available to the users living in Hong Kong and Indonesia, but rest of the world will probably not have to wait long for its turn. Update includes July 2017 security update, use of round icons, Duo video chat app, sending gifs on Allo, Messenger and Hangouts directly from the keyboard & more.Updating your phone should take around fifteen minutes of uninterrupted Internet connection. Make sure to have your phone powered up when it happens! ...

Yeah, Internet in China. We have all heard the stories of Chinese government blocking content that it deems unfit for its citizens. Facebook? No dice. Twitter? Please. Any information that puts the government in a bad light? You are just asking for trouble. Well, now it seems that a very special bear has been, just for a day, a number One enemy of the Chinese government.Someone on Weibo (basically a Chinese Twitter) took it upon him/herself to create a meme comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping and former US president Barack Obama. The picture went viral fast (do not ask me why, I ...

Not only there, but also in the rest of Western Europe and even Japan. Financial Times news source believes that Essential has held talks with some of the Great Britain’s networks over an ”exclusive deal”, similiar to the talks the company has held in the US. Speaking of the United States, Niccolo de Masi, chief operating officer of Essential, stated that Essential’s launch in the US is, quote, ” imminent”. Make of it what you will.Just as a reminder, Essential Phone is an upcoming, highly hyped device from the hands of Andy Rubin, an ex-CEO of Android. ...

McAffe, company known mostly for its antivirus software, warns about a new virus making rounds on the Google Play Store. The virus’s name is LeakerLocker and it is another of the lately ”popular” ransomware. If you are unlucky enough to get infected, LeakerLocker will block your phone and give you an ultimatum – either you pay a hefty ransom or the virus will send your browser history and other personal data to everyone on your contact list. Brr… Damn, LeakerLocker! Just reading this made me immediately go and clear my own browser.As I mentioned above, ...