Of course, a large number of these accounts are either fakes or no longer used (because, for example, their owner died), buuuut ”FB has two billion users, but some of them are fake, gone or dead” would not make a good title.Anyway, real or not, Facebook does not plan on letting such a milestone pass without acknowledging it. Social website prepares a few surprises for its users. One of them, perhaps the largest, is a personalized video. It supposedly shows the user’s contributions to Facebook, but it will probably end up showing your posts that earned the most likes and ...

Yesterday afternoon I had a (dis)pleasure of informing you about Petya, a new and dangerous virus. In summary, Petya is ransomware. Ransomware is a virus that blocks access to your device and only unlocks it after you pay a given sum of money to the hackers who created it, like a ransom. The virus is mostly after company networks, but there are cases of private computers being hacked as well.Sounds scary, does it not? One day you are coming back home and powering up your PC, only to find out you cannot access it because some jerk of a hacker said so. Thankfully, a way of protecting your ...

Pinterest, Amazon, The New York Times, Reddit, Wired, Business Insider, CNN and more – all of these websites are down and unavailable in many parts of the United States. East side of the country seems to be particulary hard struck by the issue. What is the problem? News’ title says it all. Many large US websites are down ever since today’s morning. A number of errors pop up when an attempt to enter the site is made.Problem seems to be connected to Fastly, a cloud hosting service service that supports the backends of all the affected websites. According to Fastly’s ...

Watch out! Unknown group of hackers (it is speculated that the group is based in Russia) has created an effective and difficult to beat computer virus that quickly spreads over Europe. Originally only a number of Russian and Ukrainian companies and facilities, like Russian Rosneft and Boryspil airfield in Ukraine were targeted, but the virus has soon made its way to Romania, Norway, Poland, Great Britain and other European countries. Petya is a highly advanced ransomware virus. It works by locking access to the user’s computer, returning it only after the hackers receive a steep ...

It sucks, but ever since 2014 our Google Mail messages have been scanned by Google. Scanning a mail does not mean that someone actually read it, of course, but it does mean that someone got the general gist of what you are usually writing about. Internet security is, as of late, one of the hottest topics world-wide, which may have prompted Google to stop doing this – at least officially (yeah, I do not really trust corporations).Diane Green, Senior Vice President of Google Cloud, announced that some time this year Gmail stop scanning user’s mails and will instead test a new ...

Phone with the model number A11 has just passed telecommunications regulator; its FCC identification number is 2ALBB-A11. That, unfortunately, is all that we know, as the documentation does not give away one bit of phone’s specification. This, then, may be a good occasion to recollect what we know about the device.Essential Phone is a startup project of Andy Rubin, ex-Senior Vice President of Android Mobile. It will be run by Android OS, but Mr. Rubin promises that it will be free (yeah, right) of Android’s vices like overgrown software and planned obsolences. What else? Well, ...

The first one is MT6763:– eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores, 2.0 GHz,– ARM Mali-G71 MP2 GPU, 700mHz,– display quality up to Full HD,– eMMC 5.1,– main camera up to 24mpx or double 13mpx, video up to 1080p,– LTE modem supporting Cat. 6 connection.Second one is MT6763T:– eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores, 2.5 GHz,– ARM Mali-G71 MP2 GPU, 770mHz,– display quality up to 4k,– eMMC 5.1,– main camera up to 24mpx or double 13mpx, video up to 4k,– LTE modem supporting Cat. 6 connection.Differences between the two do not seem to be too large ...

Most of the time we heard that Orea will be the next Android’s name. Wrong! According to this leak, Android O will in fact be called Oatmeal Cookie. There are at least two bits of evidence for that. First is a phrase ”oc-dev” that repeats through the phone’s system code multiple times; second is a picture taken from the Google I/O presentation, where a phrase ”R.drawable.oatmeal_cookie” appears in one of the code lines.I must admit that this is some legitimate proof. Unless it was an elaborate prank that Android played on us all, it can be said with an ...

While ago I wrote about an old phenomenon that is prison contraband and a new way of committing it, namely by drones. Lets say there is a convict who wants some XXX material to read, a cellphone for calling his dearest grandmother and a few grams of cocaine to make his stay in prison a bit more tolerable. Using his contacts, he (or she – lets be fair) orders a delivery. The order is being collected by someone ”on the outside”. That outside person then buys a drone worth one hundred bucks (reasonable price, seeing how it can be used multiple times and how much said person ...

This Chinese phone case has a cool little effect to it – it changes its colour when affected by high temperature. Normally, the case is red, but when touched by something of around 35 Celcius degrees it temporarily changes to yellow. The above picture, well, pictures this very well – holding the phone in your hand leaves cool, yellow marks on the case, making it look like some kind of postmodernistic painting worth at least 500 thousand dollars. Hot summer is probably the best time to play around with it.For a Chinese gadget, case is pretty well made – it is said to be ...