1. Need some help with holiday meals? The new Instant Pot multicooker with sous vide will turn you into a kitchen superstar. With the holiday season on the horizon, you might be looking for some help around the kitchen. This Instant Pot multicooker with sous vide is almost like having a professional chef in your kitchen to prep meals for you — and it’s a lot cheaper, too. It’s not a pressure cooker like the original Instant Pot....

Turning tablets into laptops – Hybrids There is a recent trend in tablet computers, and it’s bound to catch on soon. Instead of releasing a standalone tablet, a few manufacturers have sold tablets along with keyboard docks. The result is a thin, lightweight, and ultra portable laptop computer. Manufacturers such as Asus, with the Transformer Prime, have led the charge here. Third party accessory manufacturers have gotten in, too, creating keyboard docks for many popular tablet lines, including the iPad....

Breaking the bad news to us is TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who believes that the average selling price (ASP) of the iPhone 14 series will rise by “about 15%”. Now it’s important to note that this doesn’t mean a 15% price hike. ASP is taking the sales revenue of all the models and dividing that by the number of units sold. ASP can go up not only as a result of a price hike but also because buyers are choosing to buy the more expensive models....

When it comes to Facebook, which has more than 2 billion users worldwide, anything regarding the social media site is likely to make a difference in your life. Like, for instance, nowadays as they are under fire for what transpired between them and Cambridge Analytica. In short, Cambridge Analytica is being accused of having pilfered Facebook users’ data by way of an online quiz, data which they then used to aid political campaigns....

Providing an update on its blog on Friday morning, NBN has continued to state that restoration could take days. “As at 8:00am on Friday 11 June, NBN Co has restored its infrastructure assets servicing approximately 54,000 premises in metropolitan areas of Melbourne, mainly in the city’s eastern suburbs,” it said. “As a result of impacts to other network infrastructure assets, approximately 75,000 NBN services remain affected across parts of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area, Yarra Ranges, Gippsland, Gisborne, Ballarat, and small areas of other storm-impacted regions of Victoria....

No, there are a couple of logical links which has led to this profound trend. The factor which has had the most critical impact on this shift is China’s smartphone market itself. You see, the majority of these new phones are from Chinese OEMs, and that’s no coincidence. Even Razer, which while is based out of the United States, has a significant share in regions like Hong Kong as far as gaming equipment is concerned....

Why Restart Is Required? How It Fix Most Of the Problems? If you ever contacted tech support, then you might have heard a question ‘Did you restart your computer’. Very often we have been told to restart something, be it your PC, television, smartphone, internet mode, or whatever other devices you are using. In fact, most of us are used to hearing it by now. However, have you ever wondered how a simple restart could fix anything?...

To get 25 percent off, you have to tell you’re a developer, as first uncovered by Ars Technica. l you do is head over to ’s developer site, fill in your email, wait for to send you a special code to get the discount. No proof of development experience is actually required. Instead of paying $600 for the 64GB xel C you can get it for about $450, a 25 percent discount....

If the test is successful in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, it might be headed to the U.S. If you don’t want to pay the $2 surcharge, it’s a compelling reason to stop sharing your details. But an extra fee isn’t the only reason you shouldn’t share streaming services. Keep reading to find out why it’s a terrible idea. Here’s the backstory Humans are terrible at coming up with strong passwords and even worse at using unique ones for each service....

In this article, we will discuss at least four reasons for the success of the attack, namely, public availability of governmentally-created cyber weapons (Section 2), the lack of security awareness amongst the employees of the affected organizations (Section 3), the slow reaction of the developers of anti-virus software (Section 4), and the lack of security updates for old operational systems (Section 5). At the end of the article, a conclusion is drawn (Section 6)....

At Mint, we believe in being fully transparent about the amount of data you’re using. If you use less data, we’ll tell you. If you use more, we’ll tell you that, too. That way, you can pick the wireless plan that’s right for you and your lifestyle, the way you might pick the right outfit for the day ahead, or the right Ryan Reynolds movie for the occasion. But why do we do this?...

However, the series of leaks Vault7 seems endless. As the famous leakster Wikileaks has already made public the tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hack WiFi routers, the tech giant Microsoft’s Windows computers, the tech giant Apple’s devices or Samsung televisions, among other devices. Four months after that initial publication, WikiLeaks continues to launch a trickling trickle every week. If in previous releases we have shown malware to hack Linux computers or computers with different versions of Windows....

The study was conducted by iPass, a leading provider of global mobile connectivity. iPass surveyed 1,700 working professionals across Europe and the US about their connectivity habits. iPass asked participants to rank the importance of WiFi among other human luxuries and necessities on a scale of 1-4. Where 4 belongs to the least important and 1 belongs to the most important. The survey showed some amazing results nearly 40% of participants preferred Wi-Fi over the other three choices....

The home routers typically operate in the band of 2.4GHz and 5Ghz ensuring good coverage and penetration of the signal even in areas with many “obstacles”. However, with the 802.11ac standard (1 wave) can only communicate at the speeds of 1.3 Gbps. Currently, there are already some certified devices available with the “version 2”, the 802.11ac that ensures communication speeds up to 6.8 Gbps and other improvements compared to version 1 (802....

Google is gearing up to merge Android and Chrome OS into one, which means you will soon be seeing notebooks and PCs powered by Android. But why is Google making this move? According to a new report from Recode, there are several reasons, and one of the biggest ones is mobile. “Perhaps the critical reason Google is favoring Android is its birthplace: Mobile phones,” writes Mark Bergen. “The greatest threat to the Alphabet company is that its revenue, derived largely from desktop advertising, will dwindle as smartphone usage spreads....

To demonstrate the power of root, one trick you could always play on unsuspecting users was to tell them to change to the root user with the command su and then have them issue the following command: The rm command is used to delete files and folders. In conjunction with r (recursive) and f (force), you would delete everything from the root folder (/), thus rendering your system unusable. Back then, any command that required administrative privileges was run via the root user....

As a side effect, millions of Americans are now paying for something each month that they’re not using: sports. With HD sports channels often considered an add-on cable package, the lack of activity hasn’t stopped providers and ISPs from continuing to charge customers. Tap or click here to see how to shrink your monthly internet bill and charges. If you’ve been holding out on the hope of a refund or reprieve for your live sports packages, we’re sorry to say that won’t be happening any time soon....

Under the new alliance, Nokia would adopt the Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy and add additional functions in areas such as imaging. This partnership has lit up Twitter and the blogosphere, and has left many Fandroids fuming, as they were hoping Nokia to choose Android over Windows Phone 7 as their primary smartphone OS. Why Nokia ditched Android? During the Q&A session of the just concluded press conference, Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, revealed that Nokia did talk with Google about adopting Android but decided that it “would have difficulty differentiating within that ecosystem” and the “commoditization risk was very high — prices, profits, everything being pushed down, value being moved out to Google which was concerning to us....

Tools Used: Aircrack-ng Suite Wireshark Reaver Bully WiFiPhisher Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Attacks Against Access Point Password The choices of attack for a neighboring Wi-Fi hacker vary with different configurations of Wi-Fi access points. Specific Wi-Fi security standards are associated with particular security weaknesses that the attacker would target. Open Hotspots Although rare, open Wi-Fi access points are still extant in certain homes. When open access points are deployed in homes, it could be out of ‘generosity’ towards neighbors or sheer insouciance towards security, or both....

Someone should have told Samsung. Remember how there was an exploding issue with some of their phones? It led to many recalls. Turns out as a Texas family recently learned, the problem has not yet been solved. This time it was not a phone that exploded, but a washing machine. But did the laundry get clean? OK, whether or not the clothes actually got washed is probably the least of anyone’s concerns....