A new concept for a potential LG-made wearable has surfaced from @evleaks and it looks slightly different from your conventional accessory. While this bracelet won’t be able to display notifications, it can double as a capacitive stylus as you can see from the image above. We would call this feature revolutionary, but unfortunately, it looks strikingly similar to a Kickstarter backed project called FLAXUS which successfully reached its goal in April last year....

The design seems largely inspired by OnePlus’ 5T from the antenna lines to the poking rear camera to the lava red color option (which Lenovo calls “flame red”, very original indeed). The specifications are rather standard as well. It features a 5.7-inch Full HD+ display on the front and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625 octa-core chipset. The internal storage varies from 32GB to 128GB and there are two RAM options as well — 3GB and 4GB....

In Summary One of the most notable highlightings and the biggest app update in macOS Big Sur comes for Safari, which now gets (improved) support for third-party extensions. The latest version of Safari (version 14) comes pre-loaded with macOS Big Sur but you can get it on a lower version (Mojave or Cataline) by updating the Safari app from the Mac App Store. Extensions are basically modules (or tiny apps) that allow you to add an extra bit of functionality to the browser and get more out of it....

Samsung is all set to unveil the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ in Barcelona, Spain on February 25 — a day before MWC 2018 starts. The Korean company will be unveiling its flagship smartphone in Barcelona after a gap of one year. While the Galaxy S7 was unveiled at MWC 2016, Samsung did not unveil the Galaxy S8 at 2017’s MWC. Instead, the company held a special Unpacked event in March for the device....

Over the last year or so, HTC has worked on bringing some of its stand-alone apps into the Google Play store, making updates easier to handle. Now, HTC has added yet another app to the mix. On Tuesday, January 13, HTC released its stand-alone internet browser app, normally called HTC Browser (and called as such in the app’s description), and titled it “HTC Internet.” With the new app, users will be able to make use of features like “text reflow,” which will fit the width of a block of text to comfortably match whatever zoom level the device might be at....

It is no secret that updating an Android device is a complex process and requires a lot of major companies to come together and work on it. While Android update speeds have improved greatly in recent times, it is still not as good as iOS devices. In a bid to make people understand how complex and long the update procedure for an Android device really is, HTC has released an infographic explaining how the updates are made....

HTC doesn’t want to be “Quietly Brilliant” anymore. They want people to know about their devices. How do they plan on doing that? By increasing the amount of money they spend on advertising. How much more money are they going to spend this year versus last year? According to Focus Taiwan, the digital marketing budget will go up by 250%. The traditional media marketing budget will increase by 100%....

Vitaly Kamluk who is the head of APAC Global Research and analysis team, Kaspersky Lab reported that India is among the top five countries that are infected by Ransomware Malware. Statistics states that India Takes the first position in the list of countries that were commonly attacked by Teslacrypt Ransomware in the period of March to May 2016, and ranked fourth in the list of countries that were attacked by Locky Ransomware in the same period of time....

Sadly, not all the companies think its neccessary to follow the Android UI guidelines and release an iOS port or a slightly tweaked design of their app on Android. The official Instagram client for Android is one such app which blatantly ignores the Holo guidelines and looks somewhat like an iOS port. Taking things in their own hand is the two-man team of Holofication Nation. The team’s goal is very simple — Make a decent Holo-fied version of popular Android apps....

BitLocker is another of the known tools for encryption. If you really think about encrypting information then you must learn about TrueCrypt. If you’re looking for a powerful way to encrypt everything from system drives/ HDD hard disk, TrueCrypt is an open-source tool that will help you to lock up your files. Read on as we show you how to get started. TrueCrypt is tool that encrypts data or information using on-the-fly technique....

The operating system is called Remix OS on Mobile (ROM), and it comes with “Remix Singularity” which is what drives the dockable connection. The concept is nothing different than what others have been doing – you connect your phone to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse via a dock, and use Android as a complete desktop OS with apps like Google Docs or Clash of Clans running in floating windows, taskbars, and whatnot....

The ThinkBook 15 is a powerhouse when it comes to your back to school or business needs. Its six-core AMD Ryzen 5 5625U Processor goes up to 2.3GHz but boosts up to 4.3GHz for when you really need the processing power. You’ll also get 16GB of RAM so any major spec-heavy tasks will perform smoothly on the laptop. With 15.6-inches of Full HD display at your fingertips, you can work on building amazing projects, be it a Microsoft Word document or a video for a class....

Most of the companies that ruled the PC industry at one point of time are now entering the highly competitive mobile and tablet industry. Most of them, however, have met with little to no success. Lenovo has released quite a few Android tablets in the past but none of them stood out from the competition. The company is looking to change all that with its latest Yoga line-up of tablets....

Fortunately, Finder has a handy trick up its sleeve by way of tags. Tags allow you to not only tag files with categories but also make it possible for you to gain quick access to the tags you use the most. I’m going to show you how to use the tag feature in Finder. I’ll be demonstrating with macOS Monterey, but you should be able to make use of the feature even in earlier incarnations of macOS....

Those overpriced and heinous looking headphones that all the kids seem to be wearing these days are made by a company called Beats. HTC, looking to associate themselves with someone cool, decided to buy a significant chunk of Beats a few years ago. They then etched the Beats logo on the back of their phones for a while, and also played around with the equalizer settings so their phones had more bass, because kids sure do love that dubstep, don’t they?...

Huawei to Use Russia’s Avrora OS as Android’s Replacement Well, if you have been staying updating with the latest tech news across the world, then you might know that Google already broke all commercial relations with Huawei. That simply means, that the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei will no longer use Android, including all Google apps. The decision already sparked a trade war between the United States and China. After the decision, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei has already experienced some significant challenges like what operating system they will use on their future phones, what will be the Google Play Store alternatives, how will they attract users to use their new OS, etc....

Now 16TB M.2 SSDs do indeed exist, but they’re not $20. Try closer to $3,000. OK, so while I knew it was a scam, I had to find out what made these fake drives tick. So, I bought one. Don’t worry, the scammers don’t benefit from this sale because I always claim a refund and report the seller for selling fake products. I’d ordered this fake drive about a month ago, and today it arrived, and I was so excited that I ripped it out of the box and plugged it into a system (an isolated, sacrificial system, there’s no way I’m plugging a random drive into my main systems)....

The new avatars will have new facial shapes assistive devices like cochlear implants, hearing aids, and wheelchairs. It allows the users in the US, Canada, and Mexico to appear as virtual selves in stickers, feed posts, Facebook profile pictures, and more. 3D Avatars Available to Instagram Stories & DMs Meta has also teamed up with NFL to bring Super Bowl LVI shirts for avatars. Now, users can outfit their avatars with limited-time shirts of Cincinnati Bengals or Los Angeles Rams....

Prior to joining FireHost, Dr. Cunningham was the chief of cyber analytics for Decisive Analytics Corporation in Arlington, VA, where he acted as the principal lead on several research and development efforts. In this role, he led the authoring of a comprehensive paper on cyber workforce framework implementation that has been adopted by a partner nation as its cornerstone cyber future framework initiative. Dr. Cunningham was also the lead computer network exploitation expert for the U....

Sometimes, choosing the most interesting questions to highlight is the best part of my job. This week, I received questions about Zoom tricks, private browsing, turning handwritten notes into text documents, and more. Do you have a question you’d like to ask me? Tap or click here to email me your digital life questions directly. Video call faux pas Q: I’ve heard horror stories of people going to the bathroom and having secret conversations after a video call is over, but they are still being recorded....