Google is preparing to bring its desktop Chrome apps to mobile platforms including Android and iOS. As spotted by The Next Web, Google is working on a toolkit to help developers build new Chrome apps and port their existing ones to mobile devices.The Next Web uncovered this toolkit in a Github repository managed by Michal Mocny, a Google software developer. The toolkit will help developers create n their apps for the mobile platform from start to finish, including mobile device design, bug testing and compilation....

Android Police reports that Google is planning on releasing an ultra-thin Pixel laptop running Andromeda — the ChromeOS-Android merger — in Q3, 2017. The laptop will be the results of years of work between Google’s Pixel, ChromeOS, and Android team. It is being developed to fully showcase Andromeda in its glory. Codenamed ‘Bison’ and known informally as ‘Pixel 3’, this ultra-thin laptop will sport a 12.3-inch display and will be powered by Intel’s m3 or Core i5 processor....

(A screenshot from an HP ad) The prospect of another recession lowered profitability and even, gasp, an uncertain future fills tech leaders with a peculiar horror. How can the future be uncertain when tech companies have always been used to creating it? It was bracing, then, that Google CEO Sundar Pichai muttered heresies the other day. He demanded, of all things, more productivity from his staff. He spouted heinous concepts....

Android gamers rejoice! Rockstar games has released the mobile version of their massively popular PC game — Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — for Android devices. The game has been optimized and tweaked to work properly on mobile devices and take advantage of all the features they offer. War Drum Studios, the developer of the mobile version of the game, have added cloud save support to the game so that Rockstar Social club members can sync their progress across all their Android devices....

Applying multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the best things that can be done to help secure user accounts from being compromised – but as with any other cybersecurity measure, malicious hackers are attempting to find ways to get around it. An example of this has been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Mitiga, who uncovered a campaign combining phishing with attacker-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to circumvent MFA. SEE: The biggest cyber-crime threat is also the one that nobody wants to talk about The attacks target the cloud-based Office 365 accounts of executives – mainly CEOs and CFOs – in order to send fraudulent emails requesting financial transfers to be made, by sliding into ongoing, legitimate email conversations about business deals, but with a fraudulent request for payment....

But locking your home up doesn’t guarantee security. Home burglaries can happen even if your deadbolt is locked. Criminals are resourceful enough to get around the precautions we have in place — whether that’s kicking in the door or using a high-tech method to gain access to your home. That’s why it’s more important than ever to protect yours the right way. Break-in methods are always evolving, and a recent paper published by researchers at the National University of Singapore revealed just how easy it could be for criminals to use advanced technology to access your home....

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are behind the invention of robot called “Root”. Research Associate at the institute said “Right now, coding is taught at a computer keyboard. It’s an abstract process that doesn’t have a relationship to the real world. What Root does is bring coding to life in an extremely fun and approachable way. Kids with no experience in coding can be programming robots in a matter of minutes....

It’s a shared Wi-Fi network aimed at making neighborhood devices communicate better. It’s a free service and allows you to extend the low-bandwidth working range of devices and assists in your devices staying online even when they are outside of your home’s Wi-Fi coverage. Here are the details By sharing a small portion of your available bandwidth with your neighbors, it allows for all connected Ring devices to function together....

Just a day after some screenshots of Android 5.0 on the Galaxy Note 4 made their way to the Internet, the folks over at SamMobile have published a video showing the firmware in action on Samsung’s latest phablet. The video provides a walkthrough of the re-designed system apps from Samsung, which have all been given a heavy dose of Material Design. The Settings menu, which has always been messed up in high-end Samsung devices, still retains its tabbed interface, though it looks much sleeker now thanks to Material Design....

Once the attackers use the honeypot system, thinking they have reached the intended target, all actions are recorded and all modified and newly-dropped files are captured. In this way, a great deal can be learned about potential adversaries, their Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTP’s) and how they would circumvent the organizations actual production security controls. It allows for truly proactive security intelligence gathering, although there are some caveats. The Issue With Honeypots A honeypot is a great weapon in the arsenal of defensive security teams....

Be careful when you find giveaways too good to be true online. You can save money by being a savvy spender and using the right resources. Tap or click here for a few ways to find the cheapest gas prices near you. Here’s a popular gas station scam that could get you. Criminals are trying to trick drivers into buying fake gas station gift cards. Fall for the con and you could lose your credit card information....

Gionee Marathon M5 will be launching in Bangalore next week, i.e November 24 and to start with, it will retail as online exclusive. We expect the phone to be priced around Rs 18,700 (or in fact a little lesser). The M5 is fitted with a 5.5-inch HD display and draws its power from a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735 processor coupled with a 3GB RAM. On the storage front, the phone offers 32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot that can further accommodate 128GB....

Today, Google started rolling out an update for the Google+ app for Android adding some “snow, search and love” to the app. In addition to this, there are also some general bug fixes and performance improvements on-board. To celebrate the holiday season and that snow storm in the parts of US, Google has introduced the ability to add snow to your photos. You can add falling snow to your images by simply opening them and then shaking the device....

In order to beef up privacy, Google is now offering incognito mode for Google Maps. It is similar to the incognito mode on Chrome browser and YouTube. When you are using incognito mode, Google will not store browser history or collect other information. This feature will come in handy when you don’t want Google to track the places you search and visit. If you are worried about companies getting your location data, then simply opt-out of being tracked....

For this, the company bets nothing less than one of the main designers of Apple. Manu Gulati leaves Apple for Google After years of rumors, it has now become public that the tech giant Google has set up its processor division. According to the information, the company hired one of Apple’s top processor designers. Engineer Manu Gulati will work in Mountain View to design the company’s processors as head of the division....

During the Google I/O 2022 opening keynote, several improvements and new features were announced involving Android Studio, Jetpack Compose, developing apps for Android tablets, Wear OS improvements, Google Play and a new Health Connect platform. Here’s a quick rundown of the new developer tools announced during Google I/O 2022. Android Studio gains live edit There are two new releases of Android Studio, to software suite and tools that developers use to create Android apps....

The tech giant Google is now testing a more basic and simpler version of its search, to give users more features with the lowest resource consumption. It’s not official yet and is not even widely available, but the tech giant Google will be developing a Lite version of its Android search app. The tests are ongoing in Indonesia and India. The basic idea is to give access to all of Google’s content but to consume the minimum resources and, mainly, data of the plans of the users....

Google Maps will now automatically notify you when your stop is approaching while on a public transit and you should get ready to get down. This will ensure that you will not end up missing your stop or forget your belongings while in a hurry to get down on your stop. The feature was previously present in a very old version of Google Maps but was given the boot when the app got a huge redesign....

With the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL going on sale, the iFixit team has done what they do best — posted a detailed teardown of the phone. The teardown of the mid-range Pixel 3a reveals that most of the components used are modular in nature thereby making in-house repairs easy. This even includes the USB-C port which means replacing it would be a relatively inexpensive and easy in-house affair....

Word on the street is that Google is axing the Nexus project moving forward, as far as smartphones go, and is instead planning on launching a pair of HTC-manufactured, Pixel-branded handsets later this year. There have been a gluttony of leaks and rumors regarding both the Pixel and Pixel XL at this point, but one area of interest that has been largely left off the platter up to this point is expected price points....