And not only because you will be running in them. Not even only because they will probably cost so much that you will not have much money left for food. Verily, subsidiary of Google Alphabet, has reportedly just finished working on prototype smart shoes. These boots are reported to have special functions implemented for the sake of their user’s health (you know that the old days are over when a person wearing shoes is a ”shoe user”). We know very little about these functions: at least some of them are informational, letting you know that you have gained weight or that you ...

MyScript Calculator 2 is, well, a calculator. Why is it so cool? Mostly because of its single, but pretty great, gimmick, namely the fact that it can read longhand writing. Check out this app’s gifs online, it can read even the most crooked writing. It is also very handy and intuitive – for example, if you make a mistake in calculation, you do not have to start everything all over; you can simply remove the mistake and put the correct value in its place. Results can be literally put aside for further use later by sweeping the calculation away on the screen. MyScript Calculator 2 ...

This new vulnerability has been detected in Androids 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 and 9. It allows the 3rd party to take control of smartphone simply by having its user open a .png file (a picture). Google has pointed out three vulnerability packs in the Framework subsystem: two of them can be found in every of the abovementioned Android systems and one is only in the Android 9. Proper patches have already been released or will be released soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...

American scientists have discovered that there are rapid changes in the magnetic field of our planet. Reportedly, it is moving much faster than usually, going from 15 to 55 kilometers per hour in only twenty years. These changes influence devices based on a magnetic compass, like planes or smartphones – for example your compass app might not be working correctly if you are close to one of our planet’s poles. At least the changes do not influence GPS apps such as Google Maps.If it scares you, all I can say is that we, humans, have nothing to do with these changes. They are ...

”Band of Bastards”, newest addition to the highly praised cRPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is out now. The game tells the story of Henry, the main protagonist of the original game, and his adventures with a band of rather merry mercenaries. For more information go to the game’s Steam page or watch this trailer. Better yet, do not talk about it and just buy it; the DLC is pretty cheap, and if it allows you to spend more time in the fascinating world of Kingdom Come… what is not to ...

If they are then this might be the smartphone for you. K-Touch i9’s main selling point, its schtick and gimmick is its small size; it has a 3.5′ display with very thin bezels and fat but not overly large bezels. Other than that, the mini-phone’s specifics are:– plastic case, metal bezels,,– 4-core MediaTek CPU, 2,4GHz,– 2 or 3 GB RAM and 16 or 32 GB storage room,– microSD slot,– 8mpx main camera, 5mpx selfie shooter,– 4G LTE connectivity, Dual SIM,– facial recognition,– 2000mAh battery,– Android 8.1 Oreo,– ...

Are you going out of town? Do you predict some hardships ahead? Think you will need a phone that can make calls, write texts and take a beating? Hammer 4+ might be just the right choice. This cellphone (that is right, cellphone) is closed in an IP68 norm – complying case, and also follows the IK05 durability standards. The rest of its specs do not break any records, although it was never HAMMER’s goal to make it a strong device. HAMMER 4+ comes with 2.8′ display, 2mpx camera that records videos in 480×320 p, 128 megabytes of space (upgradeable to 32 gigabytes with a ...

Yaay, more funny pictures. Awesome. Unicode Consortium has just released the listing of emojis that will be released along with two new large operating systems, meaning they will come out sometime in second half of this year. 60 out of them will be new graphics, and other 170 will be recolours of old ones. Among new ones are onion, hearing aid and a person on the wheeling chair. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Windows 7 will reach its official end of life on January 2020; that is when Microsoft will stop support that OS with further updates. Other than lacking features of more modern Windows’, it will also mean that the system will become more and more susceptible to hackers’ attacks due to its security measures getting quickly outgrown. If, for one reason or another, you will still want to keep using this OS after it dies, it will be possible… but you will have to pay up. Microsoft will offer the so-caled Windows 7 Extended Security Updates for a fee of $25 per year, with price ...

Passwords are fleeting. It is easy to forget them. When you cannot login into your, say, My Little Pony forum account, you give them your e-mail address and reset the old password to get a new one; when you cannot get into your e-bank account, you take a trip to their nearest post, show them your ID card and they give you a new password. When you forgot the combination to your bitcoin wallet… well, that is where problems start.Heh, ”problems”. More like ”an impenetrable wall that will leave you with a cold, nagging feeling of hopelesness and misfortune”.Such is ...