Are you tired of phones turning into pocket computers? Do you want to take a break from being bothered by texts, Skype messages, mails and other nuisances? Then… turn off your phone! That, or buy Light Phone. Why would you want to do that? Well, if you want to stay in touch with your friends, family and co-workers but do not feel like carrying around anything larger than a credit card, Light is for you. This small, minimalistic cellphone has no text messenger and does not connect to the Internet, making it a good device for when you need to rid yourself of distractions, e.g. when on a ...

Eew… so, yeah. First there was Tinder, a dating app that ended up being a way to find people to have sex with. Then there was Grindr, doing the same thing but for men only. Then… okay, by now there are dozens of dating apps. This one, though, may take the cake in the Bizarre and Unneccessary competition. Gymder advertises itself as an app for finding gym-mates, people you can exercise together with, but come on… you do not do that and then slap the ”Tinder for Athletes” slogan on your product. The app itself is a pretty little piece of stalker technology, as it ...

It is rare for me to write about phones’ hardware here, but this time it would be difficult not to. Snapdragons, made by Qualcomm, are arguably the best CPUs for mobile on the market and the coming of a new one is always an important (again, arguably) event. Okay, enough with the preamble, lets get to the meat of the news. Just remember that these news are not 100% officially confirmed, so take them with a pinch of salt:– Snapdragon 845 is said to be complete by the mid-2018,– Samsung Galaxy S9 might be the first device with 845 on board,– CPU will be based upon a ...

It is only one month until the Great Britain’s General Election of June 8. Facebook is wary of a problem that can influence it and other important political events, namely the issue of fake news. False news are nothing new, eh heh, but have become particulary troublesome during the last US’ presidental campaign, during which both sides’ supporters accused one another of spreading fakes news about their candidates (example above – yes, supporters of that orange guy, that news is not real). Because of this, Facebook has issued a list of ten things you should do in ...

O tempora o mores… from what I heard, Facebook is working on roughly twenty five TV shows. Social website company plans on launching them some time in early June. According to a source who spoke to Business Insider, most of these shows are supposed to be lower-budget, five to ten minutes flicks, while few of them are supposed to be big-budget ”marquee shows”. If the report is to be believed, Facebook’s move into the television has two reasons; first, to have better control over the content its users views (how exacly does that work I do not know), and second, to ...

Dark clouds gather over Facebook. Hating is a large percentage of the portal’s content; cyberbullying runs rampant; illicit posts and videos become way more popular than they should be; fake news, whatever they actually are, sow disinformation. Mark Zuckerberg, owner and one of the creators of Facebook seems to think thinks that enough is enough and decides to increase the number of Facebook moderators from 4500 to 7500.It’s hard to say if this increased manpower will help alleviate the situation. Perhaps it is just a subterfuge meant to make Zuckerberg’s hands appear ...

Tired of using plain, boring smartphone? Do you want something new, fresh and yellow? My friend, Banana Phone is the device for you. Starting its life as a kickstarter project on Indiegogo, Banana Phone is a Bluetooth communicator that connects to your phone wirelessly. All you can do on it is making and taking and changing volume, but that is not the point – the point is that you’re talking on a banana. Banana Phone is said to have a large battery, enough for ten hours of talking, so you will never run out of juice when cruising town with your ap-peel-ing device. As a bonus, ...

Adam Mudd, 20, lived in Hertfordshire, small town in the United Kingdom. I say ”lived” because he will be spending next two years in a much less warm and comfortable environment of prison cell. Young man has been sentenced after proven guilty of numerous hacker attacks which netted him a considerable sum of five hundred thousand pounds.It all begun four years ago. Then sixteen years old, young Adam (who is also, by the way, autistic. As much as it saddens me to say that, this was probably the cause of the boy having too much spare time on his hands) wrote a virus that he dubbed ...

Smartphones are made bigger and bigger, no way around it. Just a few years ago, a four inch phone would be considered big as heck; today, 5ive and a half inch is considered normal. Don’t like it? Tough luck, you don’t have a choice. Unless…Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform, is home to a new smartphone project. Called Jelly, it is a two and a half inch small (!!) smartphone. Project’s funding is already over, with it collecting needed money in only an hour (!!!). Phone will be sold for 59 dollars, and should come out sometime in August, so get ready to grab ...

Not much of a smartphone news, I know, but I am sure some of you will find you interesting nevertheless. Overwatch, Blizzard’s ultimate success of a multiplayer shooter game, has seen three new characters introduced to the game. Now, Blizzard is taking one of the most popular of the game’s characters, D.Va, out of the game, at least for some time. The company has not revealed much info on the issue, only stating that, after the most recent patch, presence of that particular character has caused a large number of game crashes.Do not worry, D.Va players. Things like this are not ...