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Following a 911 call, with a threat to blow up the Ubisoft Montreal headquarters if a $2 million ransom wasn’t paid, the giant game development company’s headquarters was evacuated before the Montreal police confirmed the threat as a mere hoax. Ditch Sms-Based Two-Factor Authentication – Microsoft Executive Advises After investigations into the incident, Montreal police … Read more
Receiving a text message to your device while trying to log into your Facebook account makes it hack-proof, right? Well, from Microsoft’s point of view, that’s not totally the case, and it is explainable. Over the years, internet users have been made to recognize SMS-based two-factor authentication as the default security measure for their online … Read more
Does your AirPods feel too heavy in your ears? Then this might be some great news. It seems sci-fi movies are finally becoming a reality, and the likelihood of being able to travel into time is getting stronger. Israeli tech company Noveto Systems has started testing its futuristic technological equipment, Soundbeamer 1.0. What is Soundbeamer? … Read more
Following many reports that some Android apps are bundled with an Adware Trojan named HiddenAds, Google has removed 21 apps from the official Android app store, with users advised to uninstall the apps from their devices immediately. Avast, a Czech cybersecurity company, made these findings on Monday, 26th October 2020. According to Avast, the said … Read more
2020 might see Google take the place of Samsung in the prolonged iOS vs. Android battle. In the past, we’ve seen tough competitions between phones like the iPhone 7 and the Samsung Galaxy S8. This year, however, Google’s Pixel 5 looks like the biggest threat to iPhone 12’s success, with their launch dates almost coinciding. … Read more
You must have heard about VPNs, and how they are a must for the 21st century. You might even be considering some VPN options to purchase, but you just need some clarifications on how a VPN works, and it’s understandable. In case you’re not aware already, VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. You’re most probably … Read more
Lenovo has taken ChromeOS to another level: we now have tablets as Chromebooks. When I first got to know about the ChromeOS, I was like: “why should I waste hundreds of dollars on this shit?” In one simple sentence, the operating system looked really crappy. To compound the problems, an OS Google designed to be … Read more
The Microsoft Windows operating system is growing, partly due to compatibility with Android smartphones. Apple, that has always been a hot competitor for Microsoft are not relenting in their efforts. Seeing the compatibility of Surface tablets with Windows computers, they came up with new technology and named it Sidecar. Launched with MacOS Catalina and iPadOS … Read more
We’re all on the web to search for information. There are over a billion different websites live on the internet. Manually searching for what you want from these plethora of websites is simply like searching for a needle in a haystack, no, – an ocean. Who would want to search for a needle in an … Read more
If you’re deep in the world of computing, you’d have owned, or heard about a Chromebook. They’re pretty cool computers that run on Google’s ChromeOS. The ChromeOS simulates the Chrome browser environment. You can do just anything possible from the Chrome dashboard on ChromeOS. Reviewing ChromeOS, one couldn’t call it a full operating system, and … Read more
