Coronavirus Contact Tracing Plans For Androids and iPhones
Google and Apple are working on a tool which will allow them to trace your phones travels and alert you if you may have come in contact with someone who has tested…
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Tag: Android
Your Ancient Android Security Is As Firm As A Marshmallow
The results of recent research are not reassuring for the security conscious techie as it revealed that 42.1% of active Android users are on version 6.0 or earlier, the number...
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This Andriod Vulnerability Demonstrates The Importance Of a Good CV(E)
There is a security vulnerability affecting Pixel 1 and 2 devices, Galaxy S7 through S9, the Huawei P20 and various models of Xiaomi, Oppo and Motorola devices as well ... which has…
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Cortana Gets Some Fancy New Duds
Microsoft's Surface Event is in full swing and there are some interesting stars in the lineup which are rather different from past Surface devices. For instance, you can feast your eyes on…
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Switch Your Nintendo To Android
You may have heard of a project that takes advantage of a small hole in the Nintendo Switch which allows you to install the Lineage 15.1 Android OS. The project was released…
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Android Q Offers You The Power Of The Continuum
Ars Technica sat down with two Android engineers, Dave Burke, VP of engineering and Anwar Ghuloum, senior director of engineering and the lead of Project Mainline which is what the discussion focused…
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May You And Huawei Live In Interesting Times
It has been a rough week for Huawei, who seem rather confused that companies are reacting negatively to their business practices and involvement with their government. With the possibility of increased trade…
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Goggle At Google’s Vulnerable TFA Keys
It would seem that certain Bluetooth Low-Energy versions of Google's Titan Security Keys are not the best choice when implementing TFA into your life. Those with a T1 or T2 on the…
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Mozilla Firefox for Android Mothballing Until Fenix
Mozilla has just published a Google Doc that outlines their plans for Fennec (Firefox for Android). It looks like this document was supposed to coordinate Mozilla employees and volunteers, so the specifics...
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Sorry about that, you are going to have to post your smartphone usage stats to Facebook manually now
You may remember news back in the summer of 2018 about Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN, when it was pulled from the Apple store due to the fact it collected an...
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A real PNG in the arse for Android users
Careful what pictures you open up on your Android device as you may find yourself regretting looking at that meme. Among the 42 new vulnerabilities listed in Android's newest Security...
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Lenovo Unleashes Smart Devices with Alexa and Google Assistants
While Lenovo’s desktop displays and mobile PCs got most of the attention at CES earlier this month, the company also took the wraps off a number of smart devices for...
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Satya Nadella spotted heading into the woods with a shovel and dufflebag
It has been an interesting week to be Microsoft, as they have had to suggest to their user base that they might be better off moving to a competitor's product. Sebastian has…
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ZTE Axon 7 Oreo Update… But Probably Don’t Install It.
The ZTE Axon 7 had a troubled news cycle over the last year or so. While the company was working on updates, they were essentially slapped out of existence by the US…
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Filament Game Engine Open Sourced (Apache 2.0)
Yet another video game engine has entered the market – this time by Google. Filament is written in C++, supports OpenGL 4.1-and-up, OpenGL ES 3.0-and-up, and Vulkan 1.0 on Android, Linux, macOS,…
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Your Android may suffer a Meltdown
Researchers in Austria have found a way to utilize Meltdown to hack Galaxy S7 smartphones, a bad sign for security. It was previously discovered that ARM's Cortex A75 was susceptible to the…
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Intelligent fruit flies slower than Snapdragons
The Inquirer posted some findings from Ookla which is bound to be somewhat depressing for Apple users with Intel modems in them. This will not be a surprise for anyone who recalls…
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BlackBerry Launches Security-Focused KEY2 Smartphone with Physical Keyboard
BlackBerry’s upcoming KEY2 smartphone is a refreshed successor to last year’s KEYone that addresses most of the issues of its predecessor. At 151.4 x 71.8 x 8.5mm and 168 grams...
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