Apple is currently facing flak from different corners for shipping their half-baked Maps with iOS 6. The major issue here is that the Apple Maps are absolutely unusable in most places, specially outside US. Many people believe that Apple has let down its customers by forcing upon a crappy app in order to satiate their ego. Why did Apple get into Maps? No, it’s not just to beat Google in their own game....

Der Spiegel published an internal NSA catalog that offers spies backdoors into a wide range of equipment from major IT vendors. The document includes backdoors for hard drives from Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung, for Juniper Networks firewalls, networking appliances from Cisco and Huawei, and unspecified equipment from Dell. The products listed in the catalog are designed by the Advanced/Access Network Technology (ANT), the agency has built capabilities to compromise any kind of device, They’re also able to infect BIOS firmware of targeted systems for long-term cyber espionage....

Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer Is Ending Soon When the tech giant Microsoft announced the launch of Windows 10 it also announced that during the first year of life of its operating system, users who had an original license of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 could update it for free to Windows 10 to use it in the new operating system of the company. Additionally, you can Buy Windows 10 Product Key too....

This PC has an Intel quad-core i5-3470 Processor, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, a DVD drive, a 2TB hard drive and a new 16GB flash drive. That should be plenty of storage capacity and horsepower to get you through your usual daily tasks, such as web browsing and content consumption. There are four USB 2.0 ports and another four USB 3.0 ports to support all your peripherals. Speaking of peripherals, this bundle includes a brand new keyboard and mouse, as well as a new 23....

Starting out as a… game boy! He may now be the director and founder of a multi-national company, but Carl Pei’s first job for a company was when he was in just sixth grade at a (wait for it) game store. It was for just a week in Sweden because kids in Sweden are allowed to do different jobs from grade sixth to ninth for just a week. He mentions that he shrink-wrapped games, restocked shelves and ate hot dogs for a week there....

It doesn’t stop there. The web giant owns — among other things — Gmail, YouTube, DoubleClick, Nest and Waze. These apps know what you’re watching, where you’re going and what you’re interested in online. If you’re tired of being tracked and sharing your entire personal life with one company, switching away from Google is easier than it sounds. Whether you’re looking to create documents, browse the web or watch videos, these alternatives have all your needs covered....

So it has become a big target for malicious programs or just annoying, like extensions that change your browser without authorization. However, the tech giant Google is doing something about it. As the Google Chrome for Windows has just received three changes to help users recover from software infections. Some extensions may change your settings – like the default search engine – without your consent. When the browser detects this, it displays a dialog box suggesting that you can reverse the change:-...

The tech giant Google, in order to try to counter this reality, has launched Android (Go edition) that brings various enhancements and optimizations in various parameters. After its debut in Android 8 Oreo, the tech giant Google announced the Android 9 Pie with even more news. Emerging markets, typically with more modest device hardware and specs, are the big target of this Go edition of Android. Standard Android versions are often too cumbersome and demanding for entry-level devices....

Unlike other better known as Google Photos, Gmail or Maps, these three new applications arise from the company’s software research branch with which to experiment and test new functions for smartphones. Below, we detail some of the associated functions. The tech giant Google has an application ecosystem more than extensive. On the one hand, we can find the most popular apps, for both iOS and Android. However, the tech giant Google also has a good number of not so well-known apps, among which are the experimental applications, software with which the tech giant Google tests the implementation of new technologies to develop final versions....

Using human intelligence and machine learning, Google was able to heavily combat spam content and fake reviews on Google Play this year. The company says the effort led to removing millions of reviews and ratings being removed from the Play Store and thousands of malicious apps identified for suspicious reviews in just a week. Fake ratings and reviews help a poorly made or malicious app in ranking higher in Play Store lists and thereby reach a wider audience....

I don’t remember the last time when I admired a mobile app the first time I used it. Flipboard may be! But GroupShot bowled me over the very first time I used it. As the name suggests, GroupShot is an app for iPhone photographers who are keen to get that perfect group/family picture. The concept isn’t new at all. It’s based on the photo combining program developed by Microsoft in 2007, which was eventually included in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 under the name of Photo Fuse....

We’ve already seen tons of COVID-19 related scams spreading. Tap or click here for ways to avoid falling victim. Now, we just found out about a more traditional cyberattack. Millions of people had their personal information exposed in a massive data breach at a popular hotel chain. Has your private data been stolen? Marriott International announced this week that it was hit with a huge data breach. The company has a history of breaches like this, with one impacting hundreds of millions of guests a little over a year ago....

In many cases, the stolen information is put up for sale on the Dark Web. But in a recent data leak impacting users of a popular VPN service, hackers released the stolen data to the public for free. The stash of information isn’t a small amount, either. Through investigations, it was determined that nearly 500,000 login details had been compromised. Keep reading to see if your data was exposed....

However, the tech giant Apple’s marketing manager, Phill Schiller has now come to explain why this rejection occurs. Valve recently unveiled Steam Link, a major evolution in the world of games that allows playing on the smartphone Steam account games. Following an announcement for both mobile platforms, Android and iOS, the news came that the application for iOS had been rejected by the tech giant Apple, thus preventing its installation....

Huawei has laid some extra stress on swimming and claims that the Honor Band 3 can be used by swimmers and the custom mode will populate swim times, calories burned amongst other parameters. The Honor Band 3 is light at 18 gms and is also offers a continuous optical heart rate monitoring technology. Workout optimization is done via the five zones including warm-up, fat-burning, aerobic, anaerobic and extreme. Huawei claims that the algorithm is optimized for ten different fitness scenarios and is designed to measure the heart rate more accurately....

Scarcity is the root of all our major problems For generations, most of the world’s problems have been attributed to the scarcity of resources – who has it, who doesn’t, and what means will be undertaken to control it or obtain it. Wars, inequality, hunger, and economic turmoil ultimately boil down to the haves and the have nots on a global scale. Now, likely as an outcome of this overall scarcity, a Central European conflict instigated by Russia upon the nation of Ukraine is leading towards massive increases in global petroleum and natural gas prices, in addition to causing potential interruption of about 25% of the world’s grain supply that is locked up in Russia and Ukraine....

Also: The best Samsung phones: Explore a new Galaxy Samsung’s recent public commitment to software upgrades, including for the Galaxy A53 5G, is a significant reason to consider the A53 5G over a Google Pixel 5A 5G. Samsung is offering one year more support than Google, and it has already proven over the past couple of years that it is serious about timely Android security updates. I am personally not a fan of Google’s Pixel hardware due to device failure, bugs, and substandard cellular reception....

You know the drill. Maybe you looked up a pair of running shoes online and suddenly ads for that brand start popping up everywhere – on your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. It feels like a rather desperate salesman is tailing you and incessantly asking you to “Please buy this. You like this, right?” I once had an especially persistent iPad case ad follow me around for two weeks. It gets creepy and annoying, to say the least....

The Gionee S6 Pro comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD display with 2.5D curved edge alongside Corning Gorilla protection. The device is powered by a octa core SoC clocked at 1.8GHz and paired with 4GB of RAM. On the storage front the S6 Pro offers 64GB of internal memory alongside a microSD card that can accommodate up to 128GB. Camera setup on the Gionee S6 Pro includes 13-Megapixel Sony IMX258 primary sensor with LED flash, 5P lens and F2....

This version is available for the tech giant Google’s Pixel smartphones and other smartphones with support for Android P beta. Recently users with this system have verified that the battery saving mode has been activated at one time or another. But, the most strange and interesting thing about this case is that the tech giant Google itself has already come to the public simply to say that this feature is accidentally activated by the tech giant Google itself, hence it is the clear fault of Google....