Some of the most overt data harvesting has been condemned or shut down in recent years. Facebook came under fire for allowing Cambridge Analytica to access data for political purposes. Using a third party app, it deceived users into giving consent to access their data. And now, history looks to be repeating itself — but this time, it’s not just Facebook. Twitter and Facebook are warning users their data may have been harvested if they logged into third-party apps with their profiles....

A young company called ArcaSpace recently presented a propulsion system capable of elevating man to 30 centimeters above the ground. ArcaBoard, this unit of 145 cm x 76 cm x 15 cm, is fitted with 36 small fans that, with the help of onboard batteries, raise a driver (82 kg maximum) in the air for six minutes. A momentary pleasure for which you will have all the same pay nearly $ 20,000, with delivery expected in April 2016....

Before you schedule your next weekend activity, consider one of these best credit cards for entertainment. Amex allows you to buy your bigger purchases now and pay them off later with the Buy Now, Pay Later Plan It® program. It makes those more expensive items attainable, allowing you to get what you need when you need it with the ability to pay it off slowly over time. You also receive access to other card perks, like $120 back on Equinox+ annual memberships....

Xiaomi Mi LED Smart TV 4A Pro (32) Buy Now from Flipkart Mi LED Smart TV 4A Pro (43) If you want a moderately sized Full HD TV, the 4A Pro is a good option. Comes with the goodness of Android TV and PatchWall with support for all the apps from the Play Store. There is a decent quality 20W speaker on board and there are 3 HDMI ports and 3 full-size USB ports....

The new Fire HD 8 is now priced at $79.99, while the Fire 7 continues to be priced at $49.99. Both tablets are more durable than the iPad as measured in tumble tests. They also come with Alexa integration, X-Ray, Second Screen, Family Library, Screen Sharing, and more. The new Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 tablets go on pre-order starting from today and will start shipping from June 7....

You can simply speak up to turn down your heater, trigger a groovy music playlist, or bathe your living room in soft mood lighting. Some of these capabilities require buying specialized tech gadgets like thermostats, hubs, and smart light bulbs. But there’s an easy and cheap way to dip your toes into the world of Alexa smart home voice controls: TanTan smart plugs. What is a smart plug? Think about everything in your house that just simply plugs into an electric socket....

It is a feature that, however, had been missing from the first and second generation of Apple’s highly popular true wireless earphones, the AirPods. These relied on a snug fit to keep ambient noise out, rather than generate frequencies to counter them (as happens in ANC). However, Apple recently released an upgraded version of the AirPods, the AirPods Pro and along with a new design, one of the features that it brought to the table was ANC....

If your smartphone breaks, because either you dropped it on concrete or you just used it too hard, you have to take a trip to your local service center. According to SamMobile, someone in India recently had to get his Galaxy Note II serviced, so he took a stroll to his nearest service center and when he got it phone back, it was running Android 4.3. The build in question was signed on October 31st, which can only mean one thing: An over the air update should be days away....

Less than two weeks after Google unveiled the Pixel and Pixel XL running Android 7.1, the company has now officially announced Android 7.1. The first Developer Preview of the maintenance release of Nougat will be dropping later this month. Along with new APIs (API level 25), Android 7.1 brings with it some minor new features that help in improving the overall experience of using the OS. Some notable new changes and additions in Android 7....

announced at its I/O conference Thursday that instead you’ll approve specific permissions when you go to use that feature inside the app. For example, if you try an action that wants to use the microphone, location, or the camera, you’ll get a popup asking you to approve that particular function. The permissions are also designed to be simpler for you to underst exactly what you’re saying, “yes” to. Android M is a developer preview, so we’re not likely to see a formal release until later this year....

Are anti-phishing controls difficult to implement? There are many logical steps organizations can take to avoid phishing emails. According to Digital Guardian, here are a few steps organizations can take to avoid falling prey to phishing: Educate employees and conduct training sessions with mock phishing scenarios Deploy SPAM filters Keep systems up to date with latest security patches and updates Install an antivirus solution, schedule signature updates, and monitor antivirus status Develop a security policy that includes password expiration and complexity Deploy a web filter Encrypt sensitive company information....

‘Reflection’ is not only exclusive, it is also the default tone for new iPhone X. However, if you want then you can listen to it from the below link to YouTube video and Twitter post. This is the first time that the tech giant Apple has launched a ringtone as an exclusive ‘feature’ of a new iPhone model. — Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) November 1, 2017 While ‘Reflection’ replaces ‘Aperture’ as the default tone of the iPhone X, the famous melody is still available in the Sound settings so you can reconfigure it as a ringtone (by opening the Settings application and navigating to the Sounds panel – > Ringtone)....

The company launched its MacBook Air at the WWDC event in early June, and interestingly it is the first product from Apple that retains the latest M2 chip. Now we also have it’s beyond performance details. How Powerful M2-Powered Apple MacBook Air 2022 is? Apple has introduced the M2 chip in only MacBook Air & MacBook Pro with the claims of increased performance. It also introduced a new variant of 24GB unified memory....

Battery Life: Prominent Issue of Smartphones There have not been improvements one a wide scale to make the batteries last longer. Some of use hope that fuel cells will provide the needed solution. It would seem that the manufacturers of the other components have invested in making them more energy efficient, and therefore making devices last longer. Intel has released the new 22nm chip, the Ivy Bridge that is up to 20% more energy efficient than the previous generations, Samsung has released the mighty Galaxy S III with wireless charging capabilities, but even so, these so called “mobile” devices are not truly mobile, having to be recharged daily....

From the looks of it, the Ather 450X looks like any other EV scooter, with a slim aesthetic profile and three different paint options to choose from White, Grey, and Green. Besides the regular 450X model, the company is also introducing a Collector’s Edition 450X, which takes a more premium approach with better graphics and a bunch of other goodies offered to customers during pre-ordering. The EV scooter will be available in two performance packages: 450X Plus and 450X Pro, with the Plus subscription starting at Rs 1,699/month and the Pro coming in at Rs 1,999/month....

Over the weekend, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless all announced that they’d be ceasing sales of the Galaxy Note 7, and would not allow for exchanges to replacement units. Sprint was still looking into the matter, but, as of now, that has changed. The Now Network has officially announced that it is ending sales of replacement Galaxy Note 7 units, following a growing number of reports that replacement Galaxy Note 7 devices are catching fire....

The Honor 5c is Huawei’s latest budget handset for the European, Chinese, and Indian smartphone market. The company’s previous mid-range handset, the Honor 5X, did particularly well, but suffered from poor performance issues which it has managed to fix with the 5c. For its price, the Honor 5c packs in plenty of grunt and while all of its competitors come with a gigantic battery, Huawei has gone for a combination of a relatively modest 3000mAh battery and an efficient 16nm based Kirin 650 chipset to deliver outstanding battery life....

Best Security Implementations to Do In Windows PC Below we have listed some tips that you need to implement in your Windows PC that will tighten the security of your computer. #1 Passwords We all know the use of passwords for our various online as well as offline accounts, it prevents all of these accounts from being accessed by someone else and also prevents the inside material from being hacked. Windows also use up the account access with which you can create your new account where all your data will be managed in altering window, there is a password encryption option available for these user accounts that helps to protect the other users from getting into your account....

Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and his team published a study explaining how they created malicious audio files to take advantage of security holes in modern electronic device accelerometer systems. Using a $5 cost speaker, they were able to hack smartphones and wearables to perform different tasks while controlling them remotely. In their tests, they managed to take control of a Samsung Galaxy S5 and a pair of Fitbit bracelets....

For information or to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome browser, Microsoft Edge and Firefox researchers could get $150 thousand, $125 thousand and $80 thousand respectively. The lowest amount of compensation offered for vulnerabilities in Adobe products is $60 thousand. The security company Exodus Intelligence offered award of $500 thousand which is much higher than the amount that the Cupertino giant, Apple is willing to pay. Earlier, the corporation opened its reward program for information about vulnerabilities and bugs in its own software....