Often we find ourselves in a situation when we want to leave a website or application at once. Perhaps we have accidentally entered on the wrong website and are being invaded by malware; maybe our teacher caught us playing Fruit Ninja in class; maybe our little brother looked over our shoulder just when we loaded this juicy XXX clip. Whatever the exact situation, every now and then we just want to quit whatever we are doing on our phone Right Goddamn Now. Android understands this need, hence why ever since the latest Android 7.1 Nougat update it has enabled a function called panic ...

Few months ago I wrote a post about an US photograph penalized with a fine and an arrest after causing an accident in which one person got hurt. Now it looks like the US gov’ is not letting the ever more bold drone pilots get away with their flying escapades. One Gene Alan Carpenter, 54-years old from Arizona, has been charged with hundering firemen efforts to combat the forest fire. His offense is a federal one, so Mr. Carpenter is likely to get into much trouble. His drone has been confiscated.This type of behaviour seems to be more and more common in the United States. Many of the ...

Tijeras, town in New Mexico. One Eduardo Barros has allegedly beaten up his girlfriend, mother of a child, and was threatening her with a gun. In the midst of horrible situation, Barros asked ”Did you call the sheriffs?”. Woman’s response is unknown, but we do know that the question was heard by a smart home device (specific type of the device is also unknown). Device misinterpreted the question as a command and called 911. Soon, police arrived at Barros’ homestead and, after a few hours of negotiations, managed to resolve the situation.Phew… while the device ...

The upcoming Sharp phone will seemingly be offered in as many as eight different colour variants (though none of them seem particulary beautiful) – white, black, purple, pink, red, green, dark and light blue. The more interesting part of the image is the dual camera setup that the FS8016 will have. Cameras will be vertically, with a regular LED flash beside them. Rear shot of the phone does not show a fingerprint scanner, so it can be assumed that one will be placed on the front of the device (if at all), probably embedded into its Home button. USB-C port can be noticed on the bottom ...

Instagram’s Stories feature have been significantly updated. Now you can respond to somebody’s Stories not only with a text message but also with either a picture or a video. All the tools available in an Instagram camera – all the stickers, filters, Boomerang and whatever else is there – will be available for these graphic replies as well, allowing Instagram’s user an even wider range of options to express themselves (because the options already available were not enough for too many narcissistic ignorants). New sticker is also available that contains the ...

An udentified hacker/s have put the word online; he/she/they have a decryption key that can save any computer attacked by Petya (or NotPetya. Semantics) and they will give it away – of course, not for free. Hacker’s price is a pretty steep 100 bitcoins, which translates into a significant sum of 250 thousand dollars. Such key probably belongs to the virus’ creators – proof of which may be fact that around ten thousand bitcoins have been moved out of the account associated with Petya (why such account has not been blocked days ago is beyond me). Reportedly, at least ...

Citizens of the state of Ohio, get ready to get tech-y! John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, has just signed a new budget. This budget contains a provision that allows delivery robots to travel sidewalks, as well as crossroads, throughout the state. Putting it simply, delivery robots can now move freely across the state. Ohio is the fifth American state to permit it, the first four being Idaho, Florida, Wisconsin and Virginia. The statute was promoted by Starship Technologies, a UK-based startup robot manufacturer. In other words, it was mainly because of them that the provision has passed. ...

Bithumb, a South Korean-based, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies exchanges, has been recently hacked, resulting in compromising a large number of user accounts and loss of over one million dollars worth of electronic currency. Money was not the thieves’ only prize, as they have also stolen personnal information of nearly 32 thousand Bithumb users. Information stolen included names and both physical and e-mail addresses.According to Bithumb, attack on the company was possible due to two factors: first one was one of the company’s employee’s home PC being ...

Summer! Time to get out and grab some tan (or to get sweaty and angry in public communication. Eff my life). Heat can be detrimental to a human body, we all realize that, but do we all also know that high (and low) temperatures are bad for electronics? Our wee little smartphones are relatively delicate tools and extreme temperatures can easily harm them – especially if their users do not know how to treat them. That is why I have decided to put down a small list of things to (not) do with your mobile on summer.1. Don’t charge your battery to the brim, or, if you REALLY have to, ...

Well, okay, not today, but soon! Have you ever seen ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”? Eponymous factory was a massive complex that spanned many kilometers. Factory’s system of fast travel was the Wonkavators, special elevators that could move not only up and down but also in every other direction. That is the kind of device that the German metallurgy concern ThyssenKrupp (cool name) is working on. Their Wonkavators will be able to move up and down, left and right and even diagonally. How, you may ask? Well, ThyssenKrupp’s elevators will not be moved by a cable, an ...