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For many years, the Apple iPhone has been considered one of the most secure smart phones available. But despite this reputation, security issues that might affect millions of users came to light last week, when researchers at Google revealed they had discovered websites that can infect iPhones, iPads, and
Most of us, at some point of time, have experienced the perils of unbridled online content. It’s a problem with almost every widely-used medium of communication—the internet, television and social media. Even if we dislike the chatter we witness, we cannot curb people’s freedom of speech. Inflammatory
New York: If you think twice before downloading an app due to storage concerns, here comes a solution. Researchers have developed a software that cuts down storage requirements by at least 85 per cent for popular gaming apps on an Android phone. The software, called AppStreamer, “streams” data
I’m on the phone with a startup executive roleplaying as a frustrated customer, and a note along with a speedometer icon appears on my computer screen: Speaking slowly — You are speaking slower than usual. Try increasing your speaking pace. I speed up, and the message disappears, only to be
YouTube’s annual carbon footprint is about 10Mt CO2e (Million Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent), according to researchers — about the output of a city the size of Glasgow. But it doesn’t have to be that way, with a few easy design changes easily slashing that footprint
Twitter has the best memes from the latest Game of Thrones episode We have now witnessed the longest battle in the history of film and television, thanks to Game of Thrones, Season 8 third episode. HBO’s biggest TV Series has kept up to its hype and the
The days of the internal combustion engine as a commercial entity are coming to an end. Despite several false starts, the adoption of electric vehicles is accelerating faster by the day. According to a recent McKinsey study, 350 new electric vehicle (EV) models will debut by 2025 and as
DEF CON American police and the judiciary are increasingly relying on software to catch, prosecute and sentence criminal suspects, but the code is untested, unavailable to suspects’ defense teams, and in some cases provably biased. In a presentation at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, delegates
Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away — following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Any changes are likely to happen slowly, as companies assess how much consumers will tolerate. The repeal
Developer platform GitHub has warned that plans to stop copyright infringements online could have a major impact on open-source software development. Article 13 of the European Commission’s proposed Copyright Directive says service providers that store and provide access to large amounts of content uploaded by their users have to