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The CyanogenMod team has snuck in a very handy feature in one of their recent CM11 nightlies — the ability to jump back to the last app being used by long pressing the Recents app button. The feature is not exactly unique as it has already been present on other ROMs like Paranoid Android and Carbon since quite sometime. Nevertheless, it is nice to see CyanogenMod add this incredibly handy feature to their ROM especially since they are very picky about adding features that deviate the user experience greatly from stock Android....

Opera Touch is the latest proposal for the field of mobile systems and has one idea in mind: to use only one hand. The idea of Opera for this new browser is to ensure that it can be used in mobility and in a simple way. Unlike most existing proposals, the Opera Touch can be used with just one hand, especially thanks to the FAB (fast action button). The browser that is used with one hand This virtual button is at the centre of all the action and allows access to all areas of the Opera Touch....

This article will detail the network sniffing attack technique, explain what MITRE ATT&CK is, tell you a little about network sniffing, show some real-world examples of network sniffing and provide some tips for mitigation and detection. What is MITRE ATT&CK? MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. Beginning as a systems engineering company in 1958, MITRE has added new technical and organization capabilities to its knowledge base — including cybersecurity....

Most Android Antivirus Apps Don’t Work A website called AV-Comparatives has recently tested 250 antivirus applications for Android, and all are available in the Play Store. But, among all of them, only 80 of them have been able to detect at least 30% of malicious apps, yes, it means less than two-thirds of the options do almost nothing. According to the site, the idea of testing several programs that promise security for users of the tech giant Google’s well-known mobile operating system, of course, Android began in 2017, when an app called Virus Shield promised to do a full scan on the device, but did nothing but show a progress bar only....

Ivan Poupyrev is a name you’ve probably never heard. Sony and Disney, however, are companies you’re very familiar with. Ivan worked at Sony for eight years and at Disney for five years in the field of interaction design. He’s not the guy that puts pixels on screen, but instead he figures out how you interact, for lack of a better word, with an object. As an example, one of Ivan’s projects was to turn an ordinary household plant into a musical instrument....

On June 9, the Lenovo-owned Motorola will announce something new. The company even used the old RAZR to tease whatever that new thing is. That new thing is apparently two new smartphones, which won’t actually be called Moto X this time around. We’ve heard now that Motorola will apparently change things up this year and call their new flagship phones the Moto Z Play and Moto Z Style. And Verizon Wireless is still getting a variant of at least one of these handsets, and they’ll be called something to the effect of “Moto Z Play DROID Edition....

Although Motorola’s presence in the MWC is very limited, the company has given away some interesting tidbits on its future. One of the prominent announcements made was about launching its very own smartwatch later this year in addition to the Moto X successor. The company’s Senior VP of Product Management, Rick Osterloh claimed that Motorola’s upcoming smartwatch will address some main user concerns like styling and battery life. Motorola has previously launched a smartwatch-like device with the MotoACTV fitness and activity tracker, which turned out to be a failure eventually....

The teaser is not available in other languages, so Motorola will first launch the smartphone in China before launching it in other regions. The announcement is made on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. It shows the upcoming device as a “new benchmark for image experience.” Long-Rumored Motorola Frontier 200MP CameraPhone Confirmed However, Motorola hasn’t revealed the name of the upcoming smartphone. According to the reports, the device might be named Motorola Frontier, which might feature Samsung’s HP1 sensor....

Motorola today launched the ‘special edition’ Moto G5s and Moto G5s Plus. These two premium budget handsets are based on the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus, respectively but come with their own share of improvements and additions. The Moto G5s features a metal unibody crafted from a single piece of high-grade aluminium. At the front, the G5s has a 5.2-inch Full HD display, up from the 5-inch panel found on the G5....

The app stores encrypted website logins, bank account cards details, even if you lose your phone, the app syncs them via Dropbox or -Fi so you can recover them for your new device. You can also generate secure passwords for each of your accounts, all controlled by a master password. View in ay

Similar implementations like d2tw (Double Tap 2 wake) or sweep2wake have been seen in the past on various Android devices, thanks to custom kernels. However, these implementations have always been very buggy, rarely worked as intended and had quite a heavy impact on battery life. ) The Nexus 5 is the latest handset to get this feature via custom kernels. However, the good news is that this time the kernel developers have actually re-worked the code, making it work flawlessly with lesser wakelocks, leading to a drastic reduction in power consumption....

If the Nokia 6, as HMD is calling it, is any indication of what’s to come from its licensing deal, there isn’t too much to get excited about. Squarely aimed at the budget market, the phone features a 5.5-inch D screen, 4GB of RAM, a 16Mcamera, 64GB of storage, a 3,000 mAh battery. Under the screen is a Snapdragon 430 processor, while the phone does run Nougat, it remains to be seen what kind of skin HMD has applied to it....

MacBook Pro. iPad Pro. iPhone Pro. AirPods Pro. That “Pro” word doesn’t just add a greater level of prestige to the device in question, but it also allows Apple to add dollars to the price tag. Sure, the buyer also gets more – for example, the “Pro” iPhones have better cameras, longer battery life, advanced features such as ProMotion, and a design that uses different materials – but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the main reason for adding a “Pro” version of a device is to allow Apple a new product with some serious marketing artillery behind it....

Dual cameras were introduced a while ago but in 2016 the technology caught on like wildfire. Everyone started talking about dual cameras after a number of brands stacked them on the back of their smartphones including companies like Apple, Huawei, LG and Honor. And one feature which became a rage after Apple introduced dual cameras was the ability of the smartphone’s camera to create a bokeh effect in the user’s pictures....

That means planning ahead and using your subscription service(s) to download what you want to watch onto your smartphone, tablet or computer before you leave. Why before you leave? Partially so you can keep an eye on your internet data cap. Tap or click here to learn which is better: unlimited data or a capped plan. Don’t stream movies while you’re out and about. It’s a surefire way to chew through your wireless data plan — and that’s if you’re fortunate enough to even have stable coverage along the way....

You can expect HD 720p and Full HD 1080p video at 30fps, calling for those that have a preference. It can capture an ultra-wide angle for those that have a lot of family they want to catch up with, too. With its speedy auto-focus and auto-lighting technology, you’ll never have to worry about blurry images cast onto the other side of the screen. You can also capture images on this handy webcam, and if you want to upload an image, the webcam can capture 8MP images with one click....

And then there’s Feren OS. Feren OS isn’t just a pretty face, it’s a face that you’ll find much comfort and familiarity in. It’s both immediately familiar and new at the same time. What is Feren OS? Feren OS is a version of the Linux operating system that leans heavily into the KDE Plasma desktop with plenty of tweaks, such as substituting the Nemo file manager in place of Dolphin, to make it as elegant as it is user-friendly....

Striking the right notes Let us get straight to what really matters – for their price, these truly wireless earphones sound very good indeed. Part of the reason might be the 14.2 mm drivers (which are actually among the largest in the TWS segment), but knowing how loosely driver size is linked to actual performance, we feel Xiaomi has just worked a little extra on the tuning of these earphones....

It actually works!! The tablet runs on Android OS It contains a mini USB port, a mini SD card slot, a SIM card slot and video out 2GB RAM It has a camera (VGA probably) Wifi and 3G enabled Resistive touchscreen $35 is the price when the government place an order for 1 million units. The tablet is expected to be available in 1 year from now, mid-2011 It will not be released in retail market to start with It will be made available exclusively to Indian students and will be supplied to the universities directly by the government....

While most of us folks are either busy cribbing about the poor battery life of the Moto 360 or actually order one, the folks over at iFixit have gone ahead and given the smartwatch a teardown treatment. The teardown reveals quite a few interesting tidbits about the Moto 360 including the presence of a TI OMAP 3 processor — which is based on the 45nm fabrication process. It was already known that the Moto 360 was powered by an OMAP processor from TI, but no one in their wildest dream would have imagined that Motorola will end up using a 2 year old processor on its smartwatch....