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It’s been a month since Facebook Places was announced, which is still very much “US only”. So anyone outside US, even if you are an US citizen travelling abroad, cannot access and experience this location based service. Thanks to the VPN technology, anyone, yes ANYONE with an iPhone (or other smartphones), any where in the world can access Facebook Places! Access Facebook Places From Outside US Currently, Facebook Places is accessible via Facebook for iPhone app and touch....

Thankfully, the iPhone hacker Will Strafach has successfully developed his new tweak to enable HDR photos on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G! I guess, I don’t need to mention that you would require a jailbroken iPhone 3GS/3G on iOS 4.1 in order to get this tweak to work. But then iOS 4.1 jailbreak is not yet available to the public, but it will be available as soon as it’s ready....

If you think you’d like to become a digital nomad, you should be aware that it’s not nearly as difficult or expensive to become one today as many people believe. There are any number of affordable self-paced courses available to help you develop skills for well-paid remote jobs. And you don’t need a lot of expensive equipment, either. In fact, it’s probably best not to have much because there is far more opportunity for theft and damage while traveling....

Google today announced the winners of its first ever Google Play Awards at I/O 2016. The winning apps come from a variety of different categories and have been crowned the winner for their beautiful design, innovation, and for following the Material Design guidelines. The company had announced the nominees for the Google Play Award earlier this year. You can find the complete list of nominated apps here, while the list of winners across the various categories have been mentioned below:...

Apple’s in the “let’s put shiny things in a box and sell them with a 40% margins” business. Meanwhile, Google is in the “let’s track every little thing you do on the internet in order so we can show you better ads” business. Apple knows this, and so does Google, which is why Safari on iOS is set to block cookies by default. Cookies are the little files that most browsers store locally to keep track of people....

Google unveiled its new online Google Store earlier today — an online home for all the different gadgets it sells. However, the Nexus 5 was missing from the website, and the Google Play listing of the handset also said that it was no longer available for sale. Google has now officially confirmed to The Verge that it has indeed stopped selling the Nexus 5. A report towards the end of 2014 had suggested that the Nexus 5 was no longer in production and will soon vanish from retail stores once it stocks depleted....

Google Pixel 4 Photos Leaked on Telegram The sources of the leaked images are still not trusted, as Mishaal Rahman, a member of XDA, said on Twitter that the pictures were circulated in a small telegram channel. The photos were posted by a group member who denied knowing the official sources of the leaked images. It is still not confirmed whether the leaked image is of Pixel 4 or Pixel 4XL....

I’ve been using the Pixel 6a for the last two weeks, replacing an alternating rotation of the Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 as my main Android device. There are some clear corners that Google cut to get the Pixel 6a down to half the price of its biggest sibling, but the overall experience hasn’t suffered one bit. Design The Pixel 6a carries over the same design as the 6 and 6 Pro, using the camera bar on the back of the phone to break up the charcoal, chalk, and sage color options....

Previously, Google has been reported to remove over 900,000 inactive apps from Play Store that haven’t been updated for 2 years. The reason for removal is not using the latest privacy and security for users. Google is getting interested in showing users full details about what app can run on your device or, if not, what is required to run and can it run on your other active devices....

In business intelligence [BI], “there was always this idea of governing BI and of self-service, and there was no reconciliation of the degree of trust and the degree of flexibility,” Google’s Gerrit Kazmaier told reporters last week, ahead of the Google Cloud Next conference. “At Google, I think we have cracked that code to how you get trust and confidence of data with the flexibility and agility of self-service.” To accomplish that, Google Cloud is unifying its business intelligence products under the Looker umbrella, combining Looker and Data Studio to form Looker Studio....

With every new release of Android, whether small or big, there is always some activity over at AOSP. With the first Android 5.0 Lollipop running device — the Nexus 9 — making its way to stores and hands of the public, Google has started pushing the full source code of Lollipop to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Google has created a new branch for Lollipop “lollipop-release” in AOSP and the build being upload carries the build number LRX21M....

However, the tech giant Google is working with publishers on a news product called Stamp that would submit articles in a similar design to a mobile magazine, similar to Snapchat’s Discover service as we told earlier. This new unofficially confirmed project of the tech giant Google, Stamp could be announced as early as next week, according to the American daily The Wall Street Journal. This project would be an evolution of AMP, a product that helps load media articles faster....

Last year was all about rumors and reports of major smartphone OEMs struggling to integrate an in-display fingerprint scanner in their devices. This year though, that dream is going to turn into a reality and Vivo gave everyone a glimpse of it at CES 2018. The Chinese OEM had a working smartphone at CES 2018 with an in-display fingerprint scanner. Plenty of videos about the phone have gone live since then showing the in-display fingerprint scanner in action....

It’s a common issue that hardware manufacturers fit little devices reacting to water. Called Liquid Contact Indicators (LCI), these are tiny color-changing stickers that are placed in various places inside a device – usually near ports, SIM card slots, and other ingress points for water. Not only are these used to indicate that water has actually made its way into a device, but also to know how far the water spread....

There is plenty of battery saver, battery optimizer software available for Windows 10 computers, but none of them works. Actually, you don’t really need to have a battery saver app to enhance the battery performance; you just need to know your laptop’s battery properly. To get appropriate details about your laptop’s battery, you can use Windows 10’s hidden battery report tool. The hidden battery report tool will show you the estimated battery life, its capacity over time, etc....

According to the recent studies, Researcher from Binghamton University in the US managed to find out that hackers can easily exploit smartwatches or any other fitness tracker. Their algorithm “Backward PIN-Sequence Inference” can capture anything a person type on any keyboard or Keypads with about 80% success on first attempt and 90% success with 3 tries According to the sources, Researchers linked data from the embedded sensors in some wearable technologies like Smartwatches or any other fitness tracker along with the “Backward PIN-sequence Inference Algorithm” to crack private PIN and Passwords with high precision....

Now, you may be wondering why these items are being released now. You can thank U.S. Copyright Office for that. Under the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act,” a year’s worth of literature, art and films from 1923 have been released into the public domain. Creative works from 1924 will be released next year and the pattern will continue in the later years. The best works of 1923 released These creative works, which vary from e....

Take the iPhone. There’s always something new to discover there. Tap or click here to learn how to send hidden messages. Apple’s latest reveal showcased a handful of cool new products and features we’d like to get our hands on. Colorful new iMacs Apple introduced its powerful M1 graphics processor in the Mac Mini and MacBook line last year. Now it’s here in the new smaller, slimmer iMac. The M1 chip offers 85% faster CPU performance and twice the GPU....

As useful as these speakers can be, they can also have serious privacy issues. For example, Alexa and Google could be spying on your meetings or private conversations. You don’t want that smart speaker invading your privacy, so you need to keep it from happening. Here are some settings you need to change on your device — stat. 1. Mute your smart speaker mic Smart speakers are built to record requests and store data as part of their design....

Google Maps, specifically, is a game-changer for many smartphone users. In previous years, this handy app was the best way to get where you needed to go in the shortest amount of time. Now, Google has loaded the program with so many features that Maps can effectively help you plan an entire trip — complete with directions, ETAs, recommendations and traffic reports. But the features don’t stop there. Google is continuing to develop its Maps app with a variety of useful features, and a recent update is pushing several real-time driving enhancements to users across the world....