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All systems have an app dedicated to finding and securing security in the event of loss or theft, and the tech giant Google has now renewed its own. Android Device Manager gives place to Find My Device. For many, this may be a new application, but the truth is that Android Device Manager has been on the smartphone’s of the tech giant Google since 2013. This is one of the apps that no one expects to use given its specificity and help it provides....

I have been using the OnePlus 5 for over a week now, and as things stand right now, the phone comes with a major deal breaking bug: spotty Wi-Fi connectivity. While phones do ship with a few issues at launch, it is usually addressed soon after launch. OnePlus has also rolled out a couple of OS updates for the 5 since its release last week but they have failed to address the Wi-Fi connectivity issues plaguing the handset....

Have you ever wondered why some security awareness programs fail? Sometimes it is because trainees simply fail to apply what they learned; other times, trainers’ approach to designing and implementing the training programs and then delivering it to their audience is not effective. Failure to involve and engage trainees prevents them from learning and retaining the concepts and techniques presented to them. According to annual trends in InfoSec, human error is still the primary cause of many severe security breaches today....

After being made the CEO of Google earlier this year due to the restructuring of the company under Alphabet, Sundar Pichai has made his first series of executive shuffles. Pichai, who earlier used to oversee the development of Chrome OS and Android, has promoted Hiroshi Lockheimer from the VP of Android to senior VP of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast. Additionally, the CEO has also promoted Neal Mohan as SVP of display and video advertising....

How do Smart Buildings Affect the People Inside Having a smart building can add to the general living and office happiness, and having a happy work environment can only bring the business more benefits. Common building functions like heating, lighting, ventilation, plumbing, and so on, can all be interlinked and overseen easily after a building is “smartified”. Not only does a smart building equipped with quality low voltage solutions like electromechanical devices and electrical switches like these ones help save electricity, but thanks to their simple management, many other resources can be monitored and preserved as well....

Perhaps the easiest way to download Facebook videos is via DownFacebook. It is an online service that doesn’t require you to download or install anything. All you need is your web browser with Flash Player installed and an internet connection. It provides you with two ways to download videos from Facebook – one, by pasting the URL of the Facebook video you want to download in the box or two, by simply appending “down” before Facebook in the URL....

Geeks usually become geeks at an early age, and they typically start by taking a screwdriver to the gadgets mom and dad have laying around the house. That desire to take things apart continues into adulthood, and luckily, there are people who are paid large sums of money to work in a field called “Competitive Analysis”. These people buy the latest and greatest consumer electronics equipment, meticulously document everything about their internals, and then sell that data to companies who want to know how their competitors do what they do....

The study observed and reported 25,000 different tools used for the most diverse scams on the internet, from phishing to security breaches. In all, researchers at Google and Berkeley have identified more than 3.3 billion stolen credential that was exposed by third-party breaches. In between March 2016 and March 2017, phishing and keylogging tools were used to steal an average of 248,000 accounts every week. In other words, there are approximately 1 million credentials stolen per month....

Google Camera is definitely not an app used by Instagram snapping celebrities today, nonetheless it is a robust, no nonsense camera app that gets the job done for Nexus users. With today’s update to v3.2.042, Google is making the app even better by re-introducing some of the features that were found in previous versions of the app. This app was also included by Google in the second Developer Preview of Android N and it has now been released with an update....

Lack of lighting is one of the biggest issues during video chats. Most of the times we need to switch on multiple lights to correct lighting. In a bid to address this problem, Google is offering a low-light mode on its Duo chatting app. The low-light mode automatically detects low lighting and adjusts the picture so that the face is visible. Google says that this feature will also help users save electricity and is useful in regions plagued by frequent power outage....

The announcement to be held will constitute a series of new products including new Pixel smartphones – Pixel and Pixel XL (Dear Google, Please bring the “tap-to-reveal-battery” feature to phones) , a 4K chromecast which will be either called Chromecast Plus or Chromecast Ultra, and Google’s very own stock design for a Daydream VR viewer device. Other than that, nothing else is known currently including the venue and timings. The Pixel smartphone will represent the smaller 5″ Sailfish device and the Pixel XL, as the name suggests, 5....

We have recently discussed the details of the upcoming Pixel 7 series display, which doesn’t come with any new upgrades. By the way, its leaks suggested the same display as the Pixel 6. Pixel Tablet Got USI Certification, What to Notice? Google unveiled its Pixel brand Tablet at Google I/O 2022 event, while the launch is set for the following year. The company has already mentioned that Android will power this device....

9to5Google firstly noticed this feature while they were decompiling Play services APK. According to folks of 9to5Google, the company started working on this feature at the beginning of March this year. As we all know, Apple already allows Android users to find nearby AirTags with their “Tracker Detect,” but Google also wants to introduce its tag-scanning feature for Android. Google Soon Allow You to Detect Unknown Tracker Google is also planning to add this feature directly into Android that you don’t have to use a separate app in the future....

Google is reportedly offering to invest up to $880 million (1 trillion won) to help LG Display in boosting its production of OLED panels for smartphones. The company is making the offer in a bid to secure supplies of flexible OLED panels for future Pixel smartphones. It is unclear if Google will be using flexible OLED panels on the Pixel 2 as we have not yet heard anything on that front yet....

For starters, Datally shows how much bandwidth each and every app on your phone is consuming. Supplementing this feature is a nifty chat-head style bubble that pops up whenever an Internet-connected app is active and displays in real-time the amount of data being drained during the particular session. However, the most stand-out trait of Datally is its ability to completely block an app from using mobile data. This is something that has not been available natively unless you have a phone running Android Nougat or above....

Those tiny blue links to cheap Canadian prescription drugs is how Google pays their employees. The company’s Q4 2013 financial results say that money made via those little blue links is up 31% compared to the same quarter a year ago. The problem is that the money earned from said links decreased by 11% during the same period. Wall Street doesn’t care, however, since they’re happy that Google just keeps on growing like an unstoppable imitation Viagra dispensing machine....

Google’s Motion Stills app allows users to create GIFs using their phone’s camera. However, this app has only been available on iOS devices up until now. Google is finally bringing the app to Android nearly a year after it was launched on iOS. It’s a simple app that lets users create short and looping videos to share around social media. The app has pretty simple functionality too. Google claims that the Android app comes “with an improved trimming algorithm that guards against pocket shots and accidental camera shakes”....

But this may be far from the truth. The Fuchsia, a new operating system that Google is developing, may be the answer for the replacement of systems that it currently have. Aired early on as a solution for IoT, Fuchsia may well have a different fate. One year after work began to create it, Fuchsia is now beginning to have a face and to reveal what it might bring in the near future....

PhotoScan asks the user to take four separate images of the printed photo and then puts them together to create a high-resolution digital copy of the image. Usually if one takes a picture of the printed photos, the resulting image is plagued with distortion and glare (especially for the gloss finish). PhotoScan, however, makes use of computational photography to iron out the undesired effects. Thanks to the Automatic edge detection the app crops photos to the proper size and will also be able to set the orientation....

This globally-recognized day is our annual reminder to consider the environment and take stock of our efforts to preserve the planet’s future. Most tech companies aren’t huge organizations with international influence, thousands of employees, and billion or even trillion-dollar market capitalization. So what can smaller companies do to elevate their environmental stewardship? Here are some ideas. Reuse or donate old electronics Some organizations throw away functional electronics on a regular schedule....