In Summary A MAC address is a 12-digit unique identifier used for identifying devices and allowing communication with other devices on a network. It, however, also opens up the possibility of online tracking and profiling for targeted advertising, personalized search results, or even attacks at times. A private Wi-Fi address solves this by assigning a random MAC address to every network with which your iPhone or iPad establishes a connection to prevent it from being identified with the same MAC address and, in turn, limit tracking....

You’ll need to be a Chrome user. And tell the browser, which it does by default, to save and back up all your usernames and passwords. For example, saving your password to The New York Times in Chrome will automatically log you into the Android app. No need to find the password somewhere or reenter it. Android developers must add support for this feature into their apps for the magic to work....

Since typing from mobile is never comfortable, you are prone to make mistakes. Let’s admit it, sometimes we all have to reply to a message, post a status update, or create a resume from our smartphones. At that time, we try to avoid typing errors as much as possible. Using Grammarly is the best way to avoid typing mistakes on Android. The Grammarly Keyboard app is available for Android, and it’s one of the best grammar checker apps for Android you can use today....

Tungsta is a cloud-based wireless system for street lighting. The startup fundamentally wants to revolutionize the product with a significantly more modern and effortless product that works with new as well as existing setups. Tungsta comes with every feature you’d need for such a project and each of these can be controlled remotely. More importantly, they have integrated a series of sensors including one that can analyze the traffic condition and dim the lights accordingly....

HP Spectre x360 15 The HP Spectre x360 features a 15.6-inch 4K OLED display with a 90% screen-to-body ratio and a 30% wider color gamut. The increased screen-to-body ratio ensures a more immersive experience with the wider color gamut range adding for better visuals. At its core, the laptop is powered by the 10th-Gen Intel Core i7processor with NVIDIA GeForce graphics, and it offers up to 17 hours of battery life....

HP is a hilarious mess. They were once the leader of Windows Mobile smartphones, but when people started switching to Android, they ignored the platform. Instead, they decided to buy Palm’s webOS, release a handful of phones and tablets, and then suddenly kill the platform because the CEO who championed mobile was let go due to a sex scandal. Anyway, the company has changed their tune and launched a handful of Android tablets, but they haven’t really done anything in the mobile phone department....

HTC’s CEO Peter Chou has been replaced by the company’s co-founder and chairwoman Cher Wang. Chou, however, will not be leaving the company, and instead will be heading HTC’s Future Development Lab, which will be responsible for new and upcoming products of the company. Chou co-founded HTC along with Cher Wang in 1997. He became the company’s CEO in 2004. Under this leadership, the Taiwanese company grew from being just a contract smartphone maker for other companies to one of the leading smartphones brand in the world....

Back in February of this year, the Huawei Watch 2 and the Watch 2 Classic were officially unveiled with Android Wear 2.0 on board. At the time, both smartwatches were announced for the international market, with a launch date planned for the United States at some point. And now the wait is over. The company has officially announced that the Watch 2 is now available in the United States, with a price tag set at $299....

Improper error handling often looks innocent, but it can sometimes lead to rather dangerous vulnerabilities. Apple’s goto fail vulnerability is one classic example of innocent looking error handling code bringing unexpected dangers. The Apple’s goto fail bug was caused due to a single line of insecure code used for validating invalid certificates incorrectly. This resulted in invalid certificates being quietly accepted as valid in apple software. This article provides a case study of an improper error handling vulnerability using a custom vulnerable web application....

The game, however, still seems to be in its testing phase as it has only been released to the audience of certain South East Asian countries, but fret not, we have got a way out by installing the app manually with its data files and by using a VPN after which you will be able to play the game seamlessly. Download and Install Asphalt 9 APK Disclaimer: The following steps involve downloading an APK from a third-party site....

What was the rationale behind founding 24 Hour Data back in 2006? In 1995, I co-founded a company called Mactracks, which was an Apple Certified Service Provider and VAR. Over the years we helped several clients with Data Recovery projects. I noticed that the companies in the industry were not focused on customer service. They had a real “take it or leave it” attitude and were not sensitive to clients’ situations....

iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max might get the pill-shaped hole-punch cutout. A Twitter user Ross Young has shared an image showing the design. The two-hole concept is unique to Apple. Earlier, a developer named Jeff Grossman posted a Tweet with an image of an iPhone 14 Pro mockup showing a pill-shaped hole-punch cutout. iPhone 14 Series Leak Suggests The Devices Might Get More Expensive There are reports that the company will bring the hole-punch display, and the Face ID technology will be under display....

Yes, lovelies, according to my sources – and at least three different ones have confirmed it – Apple is working on a device that will showcase its gaming service, Apple Arcade. For those from a non-gaming planet, Apple Arcade is Apple’s service which lets you access several games for a fixed monthly fee (Rs 99 in India, USD 4.99 in the US – yes, India does get some lower rates for Apple products, you know!...

The final update to the Android 7.1 developer preview is now available, which means you can test it out on an approved Nexus device or tinker with the software if you’re a developer. says you’ll see the update “in the coming week” if you’re enrolled in the beta program. Or you can go flash it manually. Files are currently available for the Nexus 6 5X, xel C. ’s blog post doesn’t mention the Assistant, so it appears that will remain an exclusive to the xel ( lo app) for a while longer....

For, in some ways, the Redmi Note 7 represents perhaps a crucial stop in Xiaomi’s journey back to phone camera supremacy. When Xiaomi first came into the Indian phone market, one of its strongest points was the camera its phones carried. In those days, it was rare to see even an average (let alone exceptional) camera in the budget segment. In this scenario, we have devices like the Mi 3 and Mi 4, the Redmi 1S and Redmi 2 and the Redmi Note, all of which sported very good cameras indeed....

One way to endure your next flight is to entertain yourself on your mobile device, be it a smartphone or tablet. However, as you also know, you won’t be able to download apps in mid-flight, so you have to prepare yourself before you take off. While there are tons of apps on every app store, choosing the right one for a long flight isn’t that easy. Best plane apps to use As a general rule, you should go for plane apps that do not require you to log in to a server, a....

CNET has posted an image, which it claims is of the Samsung Galaxy S6, and Galaxy S6 Edge, which they received from sources at a South Korean electronics distributor.The image also reveals that Samsung may be planning to launch the edge variant of Galaxy S6 with a dual-edged design. The image shows five phones in the 3D render. The first phone on the left appears to be the Galaxy S6, while the second and third phones are in Versus-branded cases (one of the top South Korean smartphone case maker)....

After months of waiting, Lenovo has started rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Lenovo K6 Power and K6 Note in India. The handsets were launched in December last year running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Nougat update will bring all the new features that Google introduced with the OS to the phones including quickly switching between two open apps, split-view multi-window multitasking, improved battery life with Doze on the Go, built-in Data Saver mode, a revamped notification shade, and more....

Lenovo today unveiled a revamped version of its Yoga Tablet 10 that it had originally unveiled back in October last year. The new tablet, dubbed Yoga Tablet 10 HD+, comes with some major under-the-hood changes while still retaining the flexibility and design of the original. While the screen size on the new Yoga tablet remains the same in size at 10-inches, the company has bumped up the resolution to a much more acceptable 1920*1200....

LG has just announced the successor to the original G Flex at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. The G Flex 2 improves on its predecessor in every way, including a smaller screen to aid ergonomics and one handed use. The company has also improved the “self-healing” back on the handset that now heals in a mere seconds from minor scratches. Under the hood, LG has packed the G Flex 2 to the brim and has even included the latest generation Snapdragon 810 processor from Qualcomm....