In a bid to boost tourism in Japan, the Japanese government is set to introduce this system in order to woo the tourists from across the world ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tourists will be able to choose this scheme and share their personal details in airports. Government officials expect that this step will vanish the fraud of credit and debit card. 300 souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and other organizations have endorsed to participate in this experiment....

These malware variants pave the way for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The DDoS attack can disrupt, disable or shut down a service, website or a network. This is done by crashing or flooding the website with too much traffic, resulting in overwhelming a website or network with more traffic than they can accommodate. In this article, we will shed some light on the Kaiji malware, including how it works and what preventive measures we can take....

While there are some simple and sensible ways to block smart speakers from listening in, (like, you know, unplugging them) it’s apparently not always enough. Privacy is important and we always advocate taking steps to stay protected but this comical new device might just be a bridge too far. A device perfect for the tinfoil hat crowd Smart assistants can easily turn your house into a smart home and with a smart assistant control everything with just your voice....

Lenovo today launched the Phab 2 Plus in India. The latest budget smartphone from the company packs a gigantic 6.4-inch Full HD display. It will be competing against Xiaomi Mi Max which comes with a similarly large 6.44-inch screen. What makes the Phab 2 Plus special is that it features dual 13MP camera at its rear with a image processor from Fujifilm for better low-light imaging performance. The dual cameras allow the handset to offer some nifty Augmented Reality tricks that you will not find in other smartphones....

The set of cameras are closely arranged in a matrix layout on the top left corner and their core purpose of existence is to essentially let you click the same scene from multiple perspectives with a click of a button. There are several ways LG employs this array of information. For starters, you can, of course, select a particular sensor and click a single shot from it. Or you can press a button and produce sixteen images, all taken from a different angle....

LG has just announced the G3 Beat, a smaller version of its latest flagship — the LG G3. The handset sports the same floating arc design as its bigger sibling but packs in modest specs compared to it. On the front of the handset is a 5-inch 720p display, surrounded by ultra-thin bezels that give it a screen-to-body ratio of 74.1%. Internally, it is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1....

Despite the fact that the LG G3 launched in May of this year, and went on sale soon enough afterwards, it looks like LG has seen fit to launch a new color scheme for the device, specifically just for Best Buy. The blue color-scheme for the LG G3, succinctly called the Blue Steel, is an exclusive handset for the big box retailer, Best Buy, and it will be available only for three carriers: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon....

Let’s admit, iPhones are always known for their excellent cameras – both rear and front. So, it does make sense to use iPhone’s camera to fulfill the need for a webcam for your Windows/Mac computer. Steps to use iPhone as Webcam for your PC or MAC Although iPhones can be used as a webcam, they will never mimic the Webcam in the traditional sense. Instead, smartphones record the phone’s camera stream and then send it to the PC or MAC....

A good, big tablet is hard to find Android tablets, like the Nexus 9 Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, seem to be going the way of the 4:3 aspect ratio, but stuck with 16:9 on a 10.1-inch 1080p display. The result is a tablet that looks like shrunk one of its TVs. ly, it feels like it weighs as much, too; I’m in the process of reviewing the Galaxy Tab S2 now that I’ve felt how light tablets can get, I don’t think I’d want a 10-inch tablet as hefty as this one....

y this matters: The HTC 10 really nailed the fundamentals, but our review found didn’t offer anything groundbreaking to set it apart from competitors. ’ve always found the company does well with design, something must believe in as well given that HTC is likely the manufacturer behind the xel xel Xsmartphones. It appears to have gone all in with both those angles in its latest duo that is trying to recapture some more marketshare....

On the day that Microsoft announces that they’re going to buy Nokia’s mobile phone business, HTC decided to drop quite a few press releases. Starting with the low-end, the Desire 300 is a device I covered last week, but I mistakenly called it the HTC Z3. It’s your typical run of the mill 4.3 inch 800 x 480 pixel dual core smartphone with an anemic 512 MB of RAM....

We are facing a mobile with high-end specifications and apparently a transparent back, although its mobile part is almost secondary. The reason for being this phone lies in its secure enclave, the place to store cryptocurrencies, personal keys and all your digital identity. HTC EXODUS 1 SCREEN: 6-inch Quad HD+, 18:9 ratio PROCESSOR: Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 RAM: 6 GB STORAGE: 128 GB OS: Android Oreo (8.0) FRONT CAMERA: Dual 8MP + 8MP with natural bokeh effect REAR CAMERA: Dual 16 + 12MP with “high-quality zoom” BATTERY: 3500mAh PRICE: 0....

HTC has been consistently rolling out software updates for the One. The company recently started rolling out the Android 4.3 with Sense 5.5 update for the Intentional variants of the device. The company has also been very transparent with the end users, informing them of any delay in its roll-out process. Today, the company confirmed to Engadget that it aims to roll out the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Google Play edition of the One within 15 days....

Huawei has gone to the MWC 2019 with the Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop as the main novelty. This equipment, which extends the X range of the Chinese manufacturer, offers a full-size touch screen of 13.9-inches and aspect ratio 3:2, which occupies 91% of the surface of the front, as explained by the company in its presentation of products. This panel offers a resolution of 3000 x 2000 pixels, a density of 260 dots per inch (PPI) and brightness of 450 nits....

But when the two are put together, I can’t resist wondering about the source and speculating about the ramifications. Especially when the negative feelings are being directed toward a seemingly innocent gadget. Please imagine that many experts regard this particular gadget with such disdain that they say, according to the San Francisco Chronicle: “Hard no!”, “Never,” or even “wasteful.” A gadget that’s wasteful? Perish the very concept. Gadgets always and only exist to make the world a better place and ultimately save it, surely....

Due to the long public demand for these features, in the video, Mosseri dubbed them as “finally features” and says they are “one of those things we [Instagram] really should have gotten to a long time ago”. The scheduled posts feature is aimed at helping creators and businesses plan their content ahead of time. With the update, creators will now be able to schedule their posts up to 75 days in advance....

Currently, there is only an option to react to stories by sending an emoji or a message that shows in the inbox. However, with this new feature, users can react to the story without sending a message to that person. The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri announced the rollout of the new feature via video on Twitter. Now Like People’s Instagram Story Without Sending a DM Now, users can like a Story by tapping the heart icon, similar to the regular feed post....

A few months back, we had seen a detailed infographic from Pingdom about the average internet speed across the globe. That data was based upon the information provided by Akamai, the world’s largest CDN provider. Now, Dando vueltas a lo de siempre has come out with a similar infographic based upon the data sourced from Internet World Stats Broadband Penetration, which lists out the average broadband speed and costs of Top 20 nations....

At WWDC yesterday, Apple announced the eighth iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 8, which was covered on our sister site iPhoneHacks — check the announcement, the top features, and the additional goodies. Being an Android lover at heart, but an open-minded gadget fan too, I can’t help but look at this new version of Apple’s ecosystem with both fascination and criticism. The company that we saw yesterday took a big departure from the Apple of old, a sign of the strategy switch post-Jobs....

And Apple certainly wants you to shoot professional-quality content with the iPhone Pro’s camera. In fact, the company made an entire advertising campaign out of it. But bigger sensors also mean bigger files. How much bigger? Well, an uncompressed 48MP ProRAW photo will be 75MB in size, and when using ProRes, 4K video will use as much as 6 gigabytes per minute of your iPhone 14 Pro’s storage. For those of us that go photo crazy and want to use the 48MP ProRAW capabilities of the new sensor, that is quite a lot of file space if you shoot a lot of exposures (say 100) during a single photography session or start recording five or 10-minute 4K clips....