Month: June 2022

Google has announced the roll out of Switch to Android applications for all Android 12 smartphones. The application was earlier only available for Google’s Pixel smartphones. Google had previously rolled out the application for iOS smartphones via the Apple App Store. The application will help Apple iPhone users to switch seamlessly to Android smartphones running
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Sam Bankman-Fried, chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images FTX is swooping in to buy crypto lender BlockFi for pennies on the dollar, sources told CNBC. The term sheet is
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One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing “its pattern of surreptitious data practices.” “It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being
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Solana Labs Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko joins Emily Chang to discuss their announcement of a new Web3-focused Android mobile phone Saga, along with an open source software toolkit, Solana Mobile Stack; and how they want to take on phone and app ecosystem giants like Apple and Google.
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The notorious North Korea-backed hacking collective Lazarus Group is suspected to be behind the recent $100 million altcoin theft from Harmony Horizon Bridge, citing similarities to the Ronin bridge attack in March 2022. The finding comes as Harmony confirmed that its Horizon Bridge, a platform that allows users to move cryptocurrency across different blockchains, had
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Alphabet unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday. In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia
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Acer has launched the new Aspire 5 (A515-57G) gaming laptop in India with the latest 12th Gen Inter Core i5 processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU. The new gaming laptop features a 15.6-inch IPS display with slim bezels and full-HD resolution. The laptop is currently available for purchase through both, offline and online, channels.
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) BepiColombo mission successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury, capturing 56 intricate images in the process, according to the agency. The joint project developed by the ESA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is tasked with examining the least explored planet in the inner solar system. During its closest approach
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Fire-Boltt Rage smartwatch has been launched in India. The smartwatch sports a 1.28-inch full-touch HD circular display with 240×240 pixels resolution. It has been claimed to support 60 sports modes, including running, cycling, swimming, and more. The Fire-Boltt Rage smartwatch comes with 24/7 dynamic heart rate tracking, sleep monitoring and SpO2 level measurement. The newly
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Cybersecurity researchers have documented a new information-stealing malware that targets YouTube content creators by plundering their authentication cookies. Dubbed “YTStealer” by Intezer, the malicious tool is likely believed to be sold as a service on the dark web, with it distributed using fake installers that also drop RedLine Stealer and Vidar. “What sets YTStealer aside
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The Realme GT Neo 2 (Review) was a brand-new smartphone and the first to launch in the Neo series in India. Despite its lacklustre camera performance, it still made for an excellent mid-range gaming smartphone with its 800-series Snapdragon SoC, beefy cooling system and an attractive price tag which started at just Rs. 31,999. Recently,
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