Your smartphone’s camera is a powerful piece of technology capable of much more than mimicking older devices. Tap or click here for ways to use your phone’s camera like a pro. If you have fond memories of the iconic look of disposable-camera photographs and the process of developing your photos, there’s a fun way to do all of this from the comfort of your phone, without wasting money or resources on individual cameras....
HTC’s VP of Industrial Design, Jonah Becker, has left the company less than a year after he was promoted to that position Becker became the VP of Design at HTC after Scott Croyle left the company last year. Scott Croyle, Jonah Becker and Claude Zellweger were among the chief designers from One & Co — a design company that HTC had acquired back in 2008. Becker will be succeeded by Creative Director Daniel Hundt....
Powering the MateBook D (2018) is an Intel 8th Generation Core i5-8250U processor that comes paired with 8GB of RAM. On the storage front, the notebook offers two options, one with 256GB SSD and the other with a 128GB SSD+1TB HDD combo. The MateBook D 2018 comes fitted with an updated Nvidia 940MX graphic processing unit. Powering the laptop is a decent 43.3Wh battery which is rated to last for 10 hours and offers a video playback time of around 8....
In November 21, Huawei finally got around to confirming that Android 5.0 Lollipop would be headed to the Ascend Mate 2. While no final date was provided, the manufacturer did say it would land sometime in the first half of 2015. Now, the company has come forward to confirm that those plans are still in motion, and that the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Ascend Mate 2 is still on track....
That’s why you need to be proactive when it comes to protecting your kids in the digital world. Tap or click here for 5 ways to protect your child online. Sadly, things appear to be getting worse — especially for folks with babies. A popular baby monitor is putting your entire family at risk of being spied on and more. I spy a hacker A new report from PCMag gives a dire warning for parents who own a popular baby monitor....
Image taken from The Fintech Times A start-up is a young company that is still in its phase of developing. Start-ups are usually small and have little or no funding. Such companies try to offer a product or service that is not currently available on the market and even if it exists, they provide it in a much better way. Most start-ups founders are under the impression that they are too small to get noticed by any hacker....
Scratching beneath that similar spec surface A casual glance at the spec sheet of the new iPhones would seem to indicate that the cameras of the XS and the XS Max are basically a photocopy of the iPhone X’s cameras – and this is also a good time to point out that for the first time in iPhone history, both the standard and larger variants of a device have exactly the same set of cameras (in the past, the larger Plus variant of has generally had better cameras)....
Between unusual error messages and checks being sent to the wrong bank account, there are still kinks in the IRS’s payment system that the government must work out. Tap or click here to see what you need to do if your stimulus goes to the wrong bank account. But, do you know who seemed to receive their stimulus checks without any problem? Dead people across the U.S.! As it turns out, if a person died between 2018 and now, the government still may have sent them a check....
Several users have noted that when they fire up an app that utilizes the camera, the Nexus 5’s processor maxes out stays there, causing some serious battery drain. It’s unclear how many people have been affected by the bug or if it plagues other devices with non-stock versions of Android. has only verified this issue with the Nexus 5. In the official Android Issue Tracker forums, a oject Member writes: Not sure if you’re afflicted?...
Experts David Sanger and Eric Schmitt along with two of the American officials have stated that the process of bomb encryption and protection is what supported them to analyze how such bombs works. A ban was also executed by the Department of Homeland Security on allowing electronic devices onto aircraft which are larger than the smartphones. The ban was implemented in ten countries in the Middle East and Africa. After U....
So we set ourselves today to answer one of the heavy burdened questions: Which one is worth buying? Should you purchase the classic Kindle Fire, the new HD version or the more advanced, LTE-friendly companion? What differentiates all of these tablets and of course, which one would win in a Kindle Fire vs. HD vs. LTE quality and price match? Scroll down to find out. Differences between Kindle Fire versions Features of the Kindle Fire family Kindle Fire tablets – perfectly suitable for content consumption Moreover, the original Kindle Fire enjoys the company of features such as Whispersync for Movies, Voice, Books, Games, which basically means that the user can continue his experience right from the point he left it last time, with ease....
Android Nougat: Name TBD New Homescreen Folder Icons Notifications get an Overhaul Set a Different Photo for the Lock Screen Even quicker Quick Settings New Wi-Fi Network Picker Easy Battery Saver Switch Suitable Quick Settings Multiple Pages in the Quick Settings Drawer Quick Access to the Calculator Open the Camera App from Anywhere The App Drawer Lives On Close all Recent Apps No Recent Apps Reconfigured Settings App Romp around the Settings App System UI Tuner brings a New Batch of Tricks Night Mode Saves Your Eyes Turn on Night Mode from Anywhere Calibrate Your Screen Tweak the Status Bar Split Screen View lets You Use Two Apps at Once Drag and Drop Text between Split Screen Apps Press Button, Switch to Split Screen View Updated Emoji Characters
Lenovo today launched its flagship Vibe smartphone in India: the Vibe X3. The handset sports a design that is similar to Lenovo’s recently unveiled Vibe K4 Note, including a metallic chassis and front-facing stereo speakers. The stereo speakers flank a 5.5–inch Full HD IPS display. Under the hood, the Vibe X3 is powered by a Snapdragon 808 chipset, an Adreno 418 GPU, and a 3GB RAM. Other specs of the handset include a fingerprint scanner at its rear, 32GB internal storage, a microSD card slot, and a 3,500mAh battery....
We have already heard from various sources and leaks that the LG G5 will feature a completely new all-metal design with a ‘Magic Slot’ at its bottom. Confirming those leaks to be legit once again, sources of The Verge have informed the publication that LG is indeed going in for a complete redesign with its upcoming flagship phone. The redesign is meant to make sure that the G5 looks “nothing” like its previous Android smartphones, and will see the volume buttons being relocated to the right edge of the handset....
The biggest cricketing event of the year — the ICC World Cup — started earlier today with a match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. This time around, the World Cup is being hosted in two countries — Australia and New Zealand. The event is 44 days long with 14 teams playing 49 matches during this period. The final is scheduled to be held on March 29th at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between the two best teams of the tournament....
In June, we saw what looked to be an HTC-branded Desire 610 with AT&T markings make its way onto the Internet, long before any kind of official announcement. While a launch date wasn’t mentioned in the initial leak, here we are just over a month later, and the device has gone official. The HTC Desire 610 is now available from AT&T, and it comes packing a ridiculously good price tag for the device you may be considering....
Almost every well-known Android manufacturer has dipped its toes in the smartwatch market, except for HTC. There have been quite a few rumors of the Taiwanese OEM working on an Android Wear smartwatch, but we haven’t actually seen anything from the company. But now, it seems HTC is very close to releasing an HTC One smartwatch, possibly in February next year. The latest hint about an HTC smartwatch comes from popular leakster evleaks, who says HTC fans will be able to own a One smartwatch by the second month of 2016....
In Summary FreeBuds 4i is Huawei’s latest attempt to provide an effective ANC at a relatively lower price point. It comes with a traditional TWS design and offers good noise cancellation, excellent touch controls, and decent audio quality. For a price of Rs 7,990, the FreeBuds 4i gets you features like ANC (and awareness mode), 10 hours of continuous music playback, fast charging, and a sound tuned for pop music....
It’s an interesting idea, and the container certainly meets its brief of looking like a lipstick rather than any other earbuds case I’ve seen: it’s shiny, black and has a tall, rectangular form and a square footprint – albeit with one of its corners angled rather than rounded. But look a little closer and the similarity wanes a little. There’s a USB-C port in one end for charging, and a range of technology-related rather than lipstick-related marking both near the USB-C port and on a sticker fixed to one side of the case....
As Shneiderman writes in his new book, Human-Centered AI, he’s somewhat modified his stance in the intervening years, giving greater weight to ending the tedium of performing the same tasks over and over. However, he remains sceptical that AI will surpass or successfully imitate human intelligence – scepticism that extends to new, highly contested applications such as emotion detection. What is important to Shneiderman, then and now, is designing computer systems so they put the user at the centre....
