For the parents out there that give their kid(s) device time, Google wants to make it a little easier to keep tabs on the details. Google has announced the Family Link app, which allows parents to monitor a variety of different aspects on the device they let their kid(s) use, down to the screen time each app gets. The new app is only available by invite-only at this point, and only for those in the United States....

In an effort to keep accounts secure, people have been creating hard-to-remember passwords, using upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters for years. Now, the person who came up with those guidelines said that we’re doing it all wrong. Are your account passwords weak? We’re talking about someone that you’ve probably never heard of. His name is Bill Burr and he used to work for the U.S. government. He is considered to be a password guru and created the “bible” on passwords in 2003....

“The takedown of this online market for the resale of hacked or stolen data disrupts one of the major ways cybercriminals profit from the large-scale theft of sensitive personal and financial information,” US Justice Department (DOJ) assistant attorney-general Kenneth Polite Jr said in a statement. Prior to the forum’s seizure, hundreds of databases of stolen data containing more than 10 billion unique records for individuals had been offered for sale, the DOJ said....

IMF holds a total of 6 flags that one needs to fetch to complete this challenge. The difficulty level increases slightly at each flag. The VM emulates some restrictions/filtering both at the application and network level from real world scenarios and how easy it becomes for an attacker when bypassing the same. Also, this VM was released back in October 2016, I got to know about it while browsing vulnhub and found it interesting so thought to give it a try....

More than two months after it made its Chinese debut, Huawei’s Honor sub-brand launched the Honor 6X for the European and US market. The $249 handset features a dual-camera setup at the rear, which up until now was only found in phones priced above the $400 range. Oh, and Huawei says that it is targeting the millennial who follow the “double or nothing” motto. The budget handset from Honor features a 5....

1. That display – 18:9 gets a Honor-able mention Let’s get one thing out of the way – for all the talk of the dual dual cameras (more of which later), the most striking feature of the Honor 9i is the 5.9-inch FHD+ (2160 x 1080px) display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, making it the third device with that futuristic display in the sub-Rs 20,000 segment (the others being the Micromax Canvas Infinity and the LG Q6)....

The Galaxy Note7 is the latest flagship by Samsung and packs a whole bunch of new features as it becomes the Korean giant’s shiniest and most powerful baby ever. This begs the question: How does the specifications of the Note7 fair when compared to the Galaxy S7 edge or the Apple iPhone 6s Plus? Well, we decided to make it easier to see where each of those devices excel....

The GST council is said to have deferred the proposal of hiking the rates on fertilizers and footwear due to the current economic slowdown and impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic. As per a report on CNBC-TV18, the council felt apt to increase the taxes on mobile phones considering it’s one of the sectors which seemingly had less impact from the ongoing economic slowdown. ICEA, the industry body, had earlier stated that the increase in GST would be detrimental for consumer sentiment and in turn impact the local manufacturing of smartphones....

It could be the way you are charging your phone. You’re not supposed to leave it plugged in all night. Click here to learn the right way to charge your phone and get the most out of its battery. If your smartphone’s battery keeps tapping out before the day is over, there are a few tweaks you can do to help it along. Certain functions in your smartphone are constantly draining your battery....

While few file managers let you view or play media files directly, most will steer you to a third-party app. ES has built-in support for photos, videos, and music. For example, you can open any folder containing pictures. Then start a slideshow with a delay time of 1-15 seconds between each image. You can even cobble together a custom playlist by adding individual tracks or albums to your now-playing list....

The announcement comes just about eight months after the cloud computing giant first introduced the Google Distributed Cloud Edge, and Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offerings. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is still in preview, with general availability expected later this year. The new AI and database services found in Distributed Cloud Hosted will be available within the next year, Google Cloud said to ZDNet. These hybrid offerings are especially important for customers with highly-sensitive workloads that shouldn’t leave dedicated facilities, customers that have to meet data residency requirements, or companies that want ultra-low latency....

Well, from what has been known throughout these last hours, the tech giant Google has decided to close the Project Tango in the next month of March 2019. For those who do not know, this is a project that allows developers to create spectacular applications based on the cameras of Android devices. The biggest drawback of all this is that the manufacturers needed to integrate specialized and more expensive cameras into their devices, which has greatly hampered the growth of the project....

Google loves its widgets, and for anyone using the Google Now Launcher on their Android device, there’s a new widget to take note of. That is, if it’s popped up for you just yet. As revealed by Android Police, Google appears to be rolling out a brand new, transparent “sub-widget” for the Google Now Launcher’s standard search widget. The report indicates Google has been testing the idea for awhile, server-side, but has apparently begun rolling out to a wider audience now....

Triada was first mentioned in an article by Kaspersky. According to the analyst, Triada was “one of the most advanced mobile Trojans” they had ever encountered. The main purpose of Triada was to install apps that send spam and display ads. The Trojan made use of rooting exploits that bypassed security protections in Android and modified the Android OS. In other words, the malware was now capable of tampering with any installed app....

“It might seem counterintuitive to step up our investment in physical offices even as we embrace more flexibility in how we work,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post. “Yet we believe it’s more important than ever to invest in our campuses and that doing so will make for better products, a greater quality of life for our employees, and stronger communities.” Over the past five years, Google has spent more than $37 billion building up physical infrastructure in 26 states....

Google, one of the entities under the parent umbrella of the newly-formed Alphabet, is sporting some new logo duds. On Monday, September 1, Google officially unveiled a brand new logo for the company which, according to the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, reflects “all the ways you use Google.” The reason for the change is to better establish that Google is no longer just a place you visit on your computer, but that Google’s footprint is in just about everything at this point....

Since the doorbell is in a prime location to watch for unusual activity or potential crimes, Ring’s Neighbors app lets neighbors share videos and screenshots. Law enforcement has occasionally also used Ring footage during criminal investigations. Tap or click here to see how it works. Obtaining footage usually involves a request to the doorbell owner, but Ring could be handing over data without your knowledge. Read on to see how police can get your footage without asking you first....

If we take a look at the company’s older handset series, we will find that the company always launches a different variant of devices aimed at the different type of users. As per a tweet shared by the journalist Evan Blass of VentureBeat, Asus is about to launch Zenfone 5 Lite will feature a quad-camera setup, that means, dual-camera setup on the front and back. — Evan Blass (@evleaks) February 9, 2019 If we take a look at the leak, the purported ZenFone 5 Lite will feature two 20-megapixel cameras at the back and two 16-megapixel cameras at the front....

In the coming weeks, Google said it plans to deploy MUM (Multitask Unified Model), its latest AI model, to improve Search results for users in crisis. First, Google says MUM can better understand the intent behind people’s questions. Additionally, MUM in the coming months will improve Google Search’s spam protections, potentially bringing down the portion of unhelpful or dangerous results. Google will be able to roll out these improvements globally, given that MUM can transfer knowledge across the 75 languages it’s trained on....

In Summary Adding shortcuts to your iPhone’s Control Center lets you access tasks right from the lockscreen, without unlocking the phone. iOS lets you add a number of shortcuts to the Control Center, but as in most things, some are more useful than others. Here are eight shortcuts that will make your iPhone a whole lot more easy to use. No unlocking needed. Why use shortcuts? Apart from giving you quick access to the features that you use regularly and saving you from the trouble of unlocking your smartphone, looking up the feature or app, and then finally using it, having a number of useful shortcuts present on your Control Center can actually help your phone keep private and safe....