An ethical “white-hat” hacker exploited Apple’s own apps in December to show how a malicious website could gain unrestricted access to a user’s camera and microphone without consent using flaws that have since been patched. Former Amazon Web Services security engineer, Ryan Pickren, discovered seven zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari that could be used
Month: April 2020
The newly launched iPad Pro 2020 is coming with a security feature that disconnects hardware microphones when the lid of the device is physically closed. Though, this is not a new feature as Apple started using this security measure in 2018 with MacBook units equipped with Apple’s T2 security chip. The development was highlighted on
Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly shared video calls. Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID, as these may be guessed or reused. Meanwhile, it will change virtual waiting rooms to be on by default so hosts have to manually admit
OnePlus 8 Pro and OnePlus 8 phones are set to launch on April 14. Ahead of this, the company has been teasing features of the two phones bit by bit. In a new report, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau reveals the price estimate of the OnePlus 8 series. Separately, DisplayMate has tested the OnePlus 8 phone’s
On April 3, 2010, the iPad wasn’t really an iPhone and not quite a Mac. The latest iPads blend the best of both worlds —and that’s been an evolution a decade in the making. Apple’s iPads are powerful and versatile machines. But to understand how they got to be that way, it’s helpful to
Scroll through any social media website long enough, and you’ll eventually see a screenshot of a ridiculous conversation or similar text that seems outrageous. As it turns out, your instinct is right—most of these are actually fake. You might not know that it’s really easy to doctor the text on a website and capture a
Sick of sharing those generic Zoom video call invites that all look the same? Wish your Zoom link preview’s headline and image actually described your meeting? Want to protect your Zoom calls from trolls by making attendees RSVP to get your link? ZmURL.com has you covered. Launching today, ZmURL is a free tool that lets
Xiaomi Mi Bunny Watch 4 has been launched in China with up to eight days of battery life on a single charge and dual cameras. It has an impressive list of specifications which includes 4G support and artificial intelligence (AI) integration. The Xiaomi Mi Bunny Watch 4 is a little bulkier as compared to other
Swiggy has launched an initiative to support its delivery partners who test positive with the novel coronavirus. With the initiative, Swiggy Hunger Savior Covid Relief Fund, the food delivery company is aiming to raise Rs. 10 crores that will be used to cover the health expenses of not only coronavirus-infected delivery personnel but also their
Nvidia has today announced its high-end GeForce RTX 2080 Super and GeForce RTX 2070 Super GPUs for a new generation of gaming laptops. In addition, the company has updated its Max-Q technology for thermal and power management in slim gaming laptops, which it says allows for better performance in more portable devices. Nvidia is also
NSO Group, the team behind the 2019 WhatsApp spyware attack, says Facebook proposed buying “Pegasus” software to better keep tabs on iOS users’ activity. Notoriously controversial NSO Group have released court documents that show Facebook had attempted to purchase a powerful piece of spyware known as Pegasus. Using Pegasus, after a user clicked a
Google is giving the world a clearer glimpse of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking of where users go and what they do as a public good in the midst of a pandemic. In a blog post today the tech
Redmi Band has been unveiled during Xiaomi’s Mi Fan Festival 2020 event. The new smart band comes with a colour display and supports a list of fitness-tracking features that can be useful for recording activities such as cycling, running, and walking. It also provides heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking. Similar to the recently launched
Google has released a mobility report measuring the response to social distancing measures taken by governments around the world, including India, using location data from its users. Scores of countries have asked their citizens to stay at home and locked down public spaces. In its report for India, the trends have been categorised in six
Nikon is providing its entire portfolio of online photography classes for free until the end of this month, the company announced on its website. Nikon’s move to make the classes available for free comes as a measure to help people learn new skills as they are stuck in their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak around
Airtel has announced that its Digital TV users will now get premium content from CuriosityStream for the first time. CuriosityStream is home to documentary films and series. This announcement takes the partnership between Airtel and CuriosityStream, which started in November last year, one step further. CuriosityStream TV channel will be exclusive to Airtel and will
Zoom has claimed to have shifted its focus towards user privacy and security, and the company recently even started restricting uninvited attendees from virtual meetings. However, security researchers are able to highlight its loopholes through an automated tool that can bypass the measures and find 100 Zoom meeting IDs in an hour. The tool called
Hotstar — now Disney+ Hotstar — has finally caught up with the times. Over five years after its launch, India’s biggest streaming service, by some metrics, is finally offering Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Prior to this, Hotstar was limited to stereo sound. For now though, it’s restricted to just the Star Wars series The
Lenovo and Motorola on Friday announced that it will be extending the global warranty of products till May 31. This extension in product warranty is applicable on Lenovo and Motorola smartphones and accessories whose warranty was expiring between March 15 and April 20. The company is offering a free extension of almost 75 days on
The Apple Store appears to have leaked the official name of Apple’s next iPhone, as a listing for an iPhone 8 screen protector was updated on Thursday to reflect compatibility with “iPhone SE.” In what looks to be an update pushed out by Apple, the Belkin InvisiGlass Ultra screen protector now shows support for
Whoops! Apple inadvertently revealed the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags, in a support video uploaded to its YouTube account today. The video, “How to erase your iPhone,” offers a tutorial about resetting an iPhone to factory settings. Around the 1:43 mark, it instructs users to turn off “Find my iPhone” as part of the
T-Mobile this morning officially announced its exclusive partnership with the new streaming service, Quibi, set to launch on April 6. The service will be made available for free for a year to T-Mobile customers on its unlimited wireless family plans. The streaming service, founded by Hollywood media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been specifically built for
Whether you’ve just bought a new laptop to replace an old one or upgraded to treat yourself, you should make some small investments in time to ensure the best experience down the road. Here are the most important things to do when you get a new laptop, no matter which OS it runs. 1. Update
Xiaomi may be working on a phone that has a 144-megapixel primary camera sensor, according to a tipster on Twitter. The phone is believed to be either the Mi 10S Pro or the Mi CC10 Pro. While there is no official confirmation on the same, it should be noted that Xiaomi has been among the
Facebook has launched a standalone Messenger app for PC and Mac. This means that you can now use Messenger on your desktop computer, as long as it’s running Windows or macOS. These desktop apps have arrived nine years after Messenger debuted. At its 2019 F8 conference, Facebook announced that a Messenger desktop app was in
A report on Thursday claims Apple is readying a hotly anticipated successor to its affordable iPhone SE and could debut the handset as soon as Friday. Citing a tip from a “highly trusted reader,” 9to5Mac reports Apple is on the verge of releasing a second-generation “iPhone SE” and could make an official announcement on
AWS today announced that its DeepComposer keyboard is now available for purchase. And no, DeepComposer isn’t a mechanical keyboard for hackers but a small MIDI keyboard for working with the AWS DeepComposer service that uses AI to create songs based on your input. First announced at AWS re:Invent 2019, the keyboard created a bit of
Disney+ has arrived in the land of Bollywood. The company on Friday (local time) rolled out its eponymous streaming service in India through Hotstar, a popular on-demand video streamer it picked up as part of the Fox deal. To court users in India, the largest open entertainment market in Asia, Disney is charging users 1,499
Xiaomi Mi Band 4 and Mi Band 3 are reportedly getting the ability to unlock Windows laptops straight from the fitness trackers with their latest firmware update. This is the first time the two fitness trackers from Xiaomi are receiving a new functionality after November. Although the Mi Band 4 has been receiving updates every
Just as Intel and Nvidia have announced their latest hardware for gaming laptops, Asus has unveiled its brand new dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 gaming laptop built around the new Core i9-10980HK CPU and GeForce RTX 2080 Super GPU. The highlight of the new laptop is of course its secondary screen, which Asus says will appeal