Whether it’s singing embarrassing songs into apps like Tik Tok or eating cinnamon to the point of vomiting, there’s no shortage of viral challenges teens film themselves doing for clout. Tap or click here to see how teens and kids are nearly burning down their houses for social media fame. But the latest online challenge to emerge is thankfully far less dangerous. Instead of trafficking in stupidity, this challenge grew out of misinformation about how the universe works....

After this case became known and the world was shaken, a new one emerged, brought by WikiLeaks and revealing the tools the CIA uses to spy on smartphones, computers and even televisions. WikiLeaks unveiled Vault 7, a file set consisting of a total of 8,761 documents from the CIA, the United States Intelligence Agency. These documents contain lines of code that allow those who own them to have the CIA’s ability to hack into an iOS system, Android, and many others....

When iOS 15 dropped last September, all iPhones that were able to run iOS 14 got that update, which is quite remarkable given that the older handsets were six years old at the time. But this time around it’s likely that the older iPhones will get the chop. According to the quite reliable Apple tipster LeaksApplePro, writing for iDrop News, these three handsets won’t get iOS 16: iPhone 6SiPhone 6S PlusiPhone SE (2016 edition)...

And, staying with this particular device, we also have a pointer to the future of smartphone cameras, which have very definitely not plateaued yet. The HTC One’s 4 megapixel camera has OIS, Optical Image Stabilisation, and I’m convinced this is a technology we’ll all be using within a year or two. HTC is very proud of OIS in the One, saying ‘Leading the industry standards, it can counter motion on two axes and operates at an unprecedented frequency of 2000Hz, which means it detects pitch and yaw movements of the camera, and adjusts for those movements, 2000 times a second....

Even though it can be an anxiety-inducing ordeal, most of the time you’re perfectly fine. Symptom checkers don’t have a real doctor running them, and they can’t account for biological nuances in your body, either. And in the age of COVID-19, overzealous checking can lead to dangerous health risks. Tap or click here to see how to actually tell if you have COVID-19. It looks like the only thing that many symptom-checking apps are giving people is anxiety....

The last time this happened, it came in the form of a garbled text message that featured foreign-language characters that phones would have trouble rendering properly. Tap or click here to see how this prank worked. And now, a new form of the “phone-crashing text” prank is here in the form of a malicious image. Unlike before, however, this one looks just like a normal picture. Why on earth is it crashing people’s phones, then?...

After 2020, many of us found ourselves spending a substantial amount of time at home. Especially when multiple people are in the same property, the fight for capacity can lead to a host of connectivity issues. Connectivity drops, bottlenecks, lagged content streaming and downloads, and slow speeds are all common problems with home internet services – and it may not be the fault of your provider. Also: How to optimize your network for remote work and learning Below, we explore common reasons why your internet might be slow and offer suggestions for how to fix them....

But, the trend appears to be these days is that the Cyber attacker is going straight for the proverbial gusto: The online financial accounts of the victim. No matter how much the victim may change their login credentials, the Cyber attacker still seems to find a way to those accounts without leaving a trail behind. But, it is not the just the online financial accounts that the Cyber attacker is going after, they are also targeting the entire financial industry as a whole....

It’s Twitter Lite. Yes, the progressive web app Twitter launched a few months ago. A couple of days back, I accidentally ended up on the website and found myself quite satisfied with its feature set. Twitter must have made some significant changes recently as when I tried it after its original launch; the app lacked a sense of responsiveness I expect from a social networking platform. Nevertheless, as an experiment, I added Twitter Lite to my homescreen, enabled notifications for it and disabled the native Twitter app....

Nomophobia is well and truly real. While I might be inching towards one extreme end of “screen time”, I’m sure a lot of people would fit in this scale of high screen time in their day-to-day lives. Other than the obvious ‘addiction’ issue, high screen time can be detrimental to our eye health. What is Blue light or HEV (High Energy Violet) Light? Please bear with me as I take you back to your primary grade Physics, where you were taught that Light is made up of different colors....

They might be using the internet on your dime and slowing you down. Tap or click here to find out if your neighbors are stealing your internet. Maybe you simply need to reboot your modem and router. Don’t just go unplugging things and then powering it all up. Tap or click here for the only way that tech pros reboot their routers. Here are 10 ways to boost your home Wi-Fi and reduce the risk of connection failures....

Before going to sleep, I used to do what millions of other people do: I put my iPhone on to charge overnight. But why do we do this? Also: Using the wrong USB-C cable can damage your tech. Here’s how to avoid that An iPhone can go from zero to 50% charge in about 30 minutes using a 20W charger, and then go to being fully charged in under two hours....

That’s why it’s extremely important to backup all of your files. The last thing you want is to have valuable documents encrypted with ransomware and have to pay a crook just to get access back to your own stuff. Finding the right backup service can be tricky since they’re not all created equal. You need a company that you can trust. Kim uses and recommends the award-winning service, IDrive. It protects all of your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android devices with just one account....

Windows is so commonplace, many of us don’t realize that it has special features that boost your computer’s speed, stream media to multiple devices, share content with your family, and customizable options to make it your own. Windows has come a long way in the past 30 years, and the number of handy tricks may surprise you. Here are a few of the most interesting tools in the Windows 10 arsenal....

Since there are discounts only for Business members, there’s a lot of money for you to save. Not only that, but you can also sell products to businesses, saving cash you would otherwise spend on outreach and marketing campaigns. Speaking of job hunting, did you know that on LinkedIn, anyone can see your searches? If you’re unsatisfied with your current job and want a new one, your boss knows you are searching for a replacement....

The WiFi Alliance has detailed out the major features of the WPA 3 and the new authentication protocol is expected to be available later this year. New protocols and standards often prescribe to higher security standards and also offer better features while addressing the shortcomings of the previous protocols. Let us take a look at what the WPA3 has to offer and how the new features will help enhance security....

Here, we look at what a top coding bootcamp can do for your employment chances and how to optimize your odds. Will you get hired after graduating from a top coding bootcamp? Many prospective tech professionals ask, “Are bootcamps worth it?” According to graduates’ employment success and the two studies below, the answer appears to be yes. In their analysis of 370 bootcamps, Switchup determined the average employment rate for graduates at the Big Five tech companies was 6....

In fact, the number of vulnerabilities in Apple’s products is rapidly catching up with companies like Google and Microsoft. A report by Atlas VPN (based on data from Telefonica Tech Cybersecurity) shows how vulnerabilities found in Apple products surged by 467% during the second half of 2021 to 380 exploits, a dramatic rise from the 67 uncovered during the first half of 2021. In fact, this puts the number of vulnerabilities found in Apple products in the latter six months of 2021 a stone’s throw away from the top generators of vulnerabilities – Google (511 vulnerabilities) and Microsoft (428 vulnerabilities)....

Clearly, WhatsApp is going through some turbulent times. However, it seems like the messaging app’s problems are about to get worse. At its 41st Annual General Meeting, Reliance Jio announced that WhatsApp will be soon available on its line of feature phones. While that’s certainly a positive news for the messaging service’s numbers, it will also contribute significantly to its fake news epidemic. There are a handful of factors responsible for this....

Why Business Needs Chat Bot? When a customer has a question, the chatbot will respond with a composed answer. If the question is too difficult, the chatbot will pass it on to a customer service individual. Chatbots can also perform customer feedback surveys by sending the customer a message. There are two different types of chatbots that you should take into consideration. One operates through a scripted rule. It will respond only if it detects keywords or if it receives a certain command....