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VAIO stated last year that its new Windows 10 Mobile handset would target business buyers with mid-range specs. The company also added that the handset would provide support for the operating system’s PC-like Continuum mode, which is great. As for the hardware, VAIO’s unnamed smartphone is expected to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, along with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. While those are definitely not high-end specifications, they are not bad at all, seeing as how Windows 10 is much more fluid without requiring top-notch hardware to run it smoothly....

Foxconn generally hires thousands of temporary employees throughout the peak season to meet the seasonal demand of newly released iPhone models. The company typically renews workers’ contracts every month from August until January. The company then reduces the influx of temporary employees once the demand decreases. However, this time around, Foxconn has cut many of those contract jobs months earlier than expected. Weaker demand for the iPhone throughout late 2018 is believed to be the reason behind the cut....

In this article, we show quick and easy tips you can use to clear the temporary files (cache)from your phone, leaving you with more storage. You can see the trick in action in this video from YouTuber iTwe4kz titled “one weird trick” garbage. Let’s go through the full process that was tested on an iPhone 6 Plus. This method works best if you have less than 1GB of storage left....

However, the game was inspired by the graphic novel in which Superman kills The Joker for destroying the city of Metropolis and forcing him to murder the love of his life, Lois Lane and their unborn child. The game allows the player to take up the role of several characters from the DC comic book universe in a 1-on-1 fighting experience. However, it does seem strange that Samsung would be announcing the Injustice Gods Among Us version, especially when the game was announced a long time back....

The existence of this report was not accepted until 2008 by the German parliament, the Bundestag, who have struggled hard to keep the files private. However, two years later, Robert Fleischer, an UFO enthusiast from Exopolitic.org found that the Government had actually assigned the job of discovering the existence of extraterrestrial life to its scientific department, said The Express. The fight for the X-files has been to some extent to that of a David and Goliath fight, with Frank Reitemeyer, the German blogger dragging the Bundestag to court over the country’s lack of transparency related to its UFO research....

The GIF in question was sent by a 29-year-old John Rayne Rivello of Salisbury, Maryland, in December 2016 to a Dallas-based Newsweek Journalist, Kurt Eichenwald via Twitter as he was upset with his critical coverage of President Donald Trump. The grand jury along with the U.S. Department of Justice issued a series of indictments against Rivello, who is accused of sending a flashing Pepe the Frog image with the intention of inducing an epileptic seizure in Eichenwald, who is already suffering from epilepsy....

Google warns that surfing on Google.com is dangerous, here is why!Why Google.com is not safe? The world’s most visited website with approximate 1.7 billion visitors per month and a Alexa rank of 1 in world as well as United States can redirect users to malware laden websites according to Google’s own admission. This was discovered by Reddit user who mentioned this on a thread. It warns that “some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous [ones] that install malware on visitors’ computers....

According to the users, the fingerprint scanner on the new Pixel phones is not quick enough to respond to the touch of the user’s finger, which is making it difficult for them to unlock the phone. Now, Google has provided an explanation (although not a convincing one via Engadget) for the sluggish performance of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro fingerprint scanner. It has responded to a complaint tweeted on the Made By Google Twitter account by a user @ianxcom1....

Every month Google is receiving dozens of millions of DMCA takedown requests from copyright holders, most of which are directed at its search engine only. However, with Google Fiber being rolled out in many cities, notices are targeting allegedly pirating Internet subscribers are becoming more and more common as well. These include regular takedown notices but also the more controversial part is the settlement demands which are being sent by companies such as Rightscorp and CEG TEK....

Google in a blog post said that they’ve noticed “continued demand” for the Voice and Vision Kits “especially from the STEM audience where parents and teachers alike have found the products to be great tools for the classroom.” Now, the search giant has released updated versions of its Voice Kit and Vision Kit that are not only easy to assemble but also more widely available. This will give students and educators an easy, cheap platform for developing and programming their own “smart” gadgets....

Kakkar’s parents are teachers at Delhi University. Rita Kakkar, his mother is in the faculty of chemistry department and Subhash Kakkar, his father is a teacher of management studies. A final year student of DTU’s information technology department, Kakkar will be joining Google, California with a compensation of Rs 1,25,74,200 ($190,000) after he completes his study in 2016. The highest offer made so far in DTU campus has been Rs 93 lakh....

Affected users took to Google’s issue tracker, support forums, and Reddit, to complain that their phones are being trapped in a Qualcomm EDL (emergency download) mode, instead of Android leaving their handsets effectively useless. For those unaware, EDL mode is a Qualcomm-enabled feature that can allow you to recover data from a device and perform tasks like unbricking the device, unlocking the bootloader, or modifying protected device parameters. Majority of the complaints dated back to June where Google Pixel 3 users reported issues such as waking up to a dead phone after an overnight security update or while listening to music....

The bug was discovered by Project Zero’s Felix Wilhelm on July 21. According to Wilhelm, the flaw deals with the fact that Actions’ workflow commands are “highly vulnerable to injection attacks”. These workflow commands act as a communication channel between the Action runner and the executed action. “The big problem with this feature is that it is highly vulnerable to injection attacks. As the runner process parses every line printed to STDOUT looking for workflow commands, every Github action that prints untrusted content as part of its execution is vulnerable....

Better safe than sorry The upgrade in the bounty program should not come as a surprise to those aware of the recent malware attacks. Its been days since news of the Judy malware attack broke. For those unfamiliar with it, the attack consisted of a number of apps that existed on the Play Store which would install adware onto their user’s devices. There were reports that over 40 apps were infected with this malware – one that managed to get past Google’s malware filters and although Google did remove these apps from their Play Store, it is being reported that those 40 apps were cumulatively downloaded over 40 million times....

The upcoming console is named GPD WIN Max 2 and by the face of the specifications, it does looks impressive. GPD WIN Max 2 with Ryzen 6800U Specifications and more According to GPD, the upcoming console will run on AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU under the hood with Zen 3+ CPU micro-architecture on-board. The graphics part will be handled by a Radeon RNDA 2 graphics processor. GPD WIN Max 2 with Ryzen 6800U Specifications and moreSteam Deck Vs....

According to the Toronto Sun, the woman was following a route on her car’s GPS while driving in the bad night time fog in Ontario when it directed her to drive onto a boat launch at Little Tub Harbor. Since, it was raining and visibility was difficult, she ended up driving straight into Lake Huron as her GPS instructed her to keep going. Despite the vehicle becoming completely submerged in the icy water, the woman was able to roll down the window, grab her purse, and swim to shore before the car completely sunk, according to the police report....

PWNoRAMA will take place in Singapore between 23 and 24 March and the organisers are giving a total prize money of $500,000 for hacking a number of smartphone. The top prize of $100,000 is however reserved for the crown jewel from Apple. The $100,000 will go to the hacker who can exploit iOS at its deepest kernel level through Safari browser. Target smartphones are give as below iPhone 6s iPhone 5c Galaxy Note 5 Galaxy S6 Nexus 6P LG G4 HTC One M9 Sony Experia Z5 BlackBerry Leap Lumia 950...

While the exact amount of ransom paid was not known, Calvin Harden Jr., an IT vendor who works with the village reported that the police had paid $500 while the villagers seem to differ and told the news persons that $606.00 was paid to the hackers. In all probability a amount of 2 Bitcoins was paid to the hackers. According the Harden, the hackers didnt access the Police Department information but merely shut it down and made it inaccessible, “It didn’t encrypt everything in the police department....

Though these vulnerabilities get fixed with each new iteration of routers and firmware upgrades, fresh opportunities keep appearing for hackers to look into. Security researchers have revealed a vulnerability in the WPS protocol of routers. WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) uses a hard-coded PIN number that is pre-stored in routers allowing for easy wireless connections with various devices. A discrete flaw in the protocol’s implementation of the request-response model makes it relatively easier to crack as compared to WPA or WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access) password....