Running Android 10+ and Microsoft Teams? Hope You Don’t Need 911
It is not often that a software bug on your phone is life threatening, unfortunately that is very much the case on at least some Android phones running version 10 or higher…
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Sixth Time’s The Charm For Alphabet, Meet The Pixel 6
The rarity of new hardware is nothing new right now and of course affects the new Pixel 6 but that is not the only challenge as there are only a dozen countries…
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Android Still Gathers Personal Data And Sends It To The Mothership
Android phone vendors like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme have been in the news several times over the years as researchers published their findings about the amount of data that the handsets…
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Google’s EPYC Tau VMs
Google's new Tau VMs will be powered by third generation EPYC processors from AMD and the specifications are impressive. There will be up to to 60 vCPUs per virtual machine with each…
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Want To Play With A Spectre Exploit For Yourself?
The Spectre exploit certainly lives up to it's name, living on to haunt older hardware like Intel's Skylake family of CPUs but the news is not all horrible. Google have released proof-of-concept…
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CloudReady OS Being Bought By Google
If you haven't heard of CloudReady OS you are not alone, but it is something interesting to look into as it can turn an old PC or Apple computer into a Chromebook. …
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Qualcomm and Google’s Three Years Of Android Updates
Qualcomm and Google hit the headlines with an announcement that they will now "support 4 Android OS versions and 4 years of security updates." This is certainly not a bad...
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The Hidden Cost Of Android? 350MB Of Phoning Home Every Month
Keep your eyes open for what might be a new class action suit against Alphabet, as a lawsuit has been filed by four parties in several states in the US claiming that…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #602 – Intel Exits NAND Storage, Radeon 6K, Google Kills Again and More!
In every long running series, there's usually another episode. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes, it gets taken out behind the woodshed and edited into acceptability. On the menu tonight, we're serving up…
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The Future Of Google Nest Secure Is Anything But
Google has killed off a long list of software and hardware over the years, from things barely missed like Google Wave, to products with a much larger roll out such as the…
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Google’s Virtual Hardware Releases
Google's Launch Night was a bit different from previous years, as is tradition in 2020, which didn't stop them from rolling out a bevy of new hardware or putting on a bit…
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Seismology On Your Android Phone While You Sleep
There is a large ongoing conversation about COVID-19 contract tracing apps and if they should be remain voluntary or if the app should be pushed to all compatible phones; leaving it to…
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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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Google ARMs Itself With Whitechapel, A 5nm Custom Chip
Google is taking a gamble, designing their own custom ARM chip to function as the main processor in upcoming Pixel devices; phones at first and possibly Chromebooks further out. They do already…
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The Big Cloud Providers Try To Shore Up Internet Routing Security
The big names in Cloud services including, but not limited to, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Akamai, and Netflix have announced a project to tame the current insecure mess which is routing on…
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DIY Virtual Traffic Jam With A Bucket Of Old Phones
Simon Weckert entitled his recent piece of performance art, 'Google Maps Hacks' and before you tune out completely you should consider the implications revealed by his wagon of old phones. He connected…
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Resistance Is Futile, Your IoT Standards Will Be Absorbed
For better or worse, the various companies which have been battling for supremacy have come to a finale which does not leave a clear victor, instead we will see a conglomeration of…
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Google And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
If you have enjoyed using Google's Cloud Print service then we have some bad news for you, as it will die December 31, 2020. The service was rather interesting, if you connected…
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