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Google has gone ahead and released the Google Now Launcher (GEL) on the Play Store for all Nexus and Google Play edition devices. Up until now, the launcher was only available exclusively to the Nexus 5. It was rumored since eons that Google plans on releasing the Google Experience Launcher on the Play Store for all Android devices. Sadly, the second part of the rumor did not turn out to be correct as right now, the launcher is only available to all the Nexus and Google Play edition devices running Android 4....

As part of an exclusive interview with The Verge, Google says that the Chat will be based on Universal Profile for Rich Communication Services. The company has already been working on bringing the RCS support by partnering with OEMs and offering Jibe RCS Cloud Platform. The Chat shows how serious Google is when it comes to pushing its own messaging service. RCS or Rich Communication Services is an enhancement layer based on SMS or MMS....

Google has started rolling out an update for Play Store that makes the action bar smarter. The action bar will now automatically act as a search bar when you open the Play Store first and disappears as soon as you scroll down or navigate to any category. The update was teased on Google+ by Kirill Grouchnikov (brownie points to you if you are able to spell his last name correctly!...

The Pixebook Go comes with a finely painted magnesium casing to keep the weight down and offer better portability. It comes in at 13mm and has a 13.3-inch touchscreen up front. There is a sleek matte finish design, which can be availed in two color options: Just Black and Not Pink. At its core, the Pixelbook Go runs on Intel’s lineup of processors, namely the M3, i5, and i7, paired with 8GB/16GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB/256GB of storage....

Google Photos has been one of our favorite free options for photo storage, and it’s a shame to see Google shifting away from what made the service so popular. Tap or click here to see 20 tips to help you take control of your photos. How does the 15GB cap work and what counts against it? We have that info, as well as some free alternatives to Google Photos that you can try....

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ have been on sale for a few months now. Samsung has rolled out quite a few updates since the release of the handsets to squash all bugs that the handset initially shipped with. However, despite Samsung’s best efforts, the Galaxy S8 and S8+ continue to suffer from weird Bluetooth issues. This is not entirely Samsung’s fault though since there are thousands of Bluetooth chips out there, with every device having its own implementation....

The new Galaxy S6 features the next iteration of Samsung’s Touchz UI—or Touchz Nature UX, or whatever it’s called nowadays. (I actually asked for clarification on the name of the overlay, even Samsung couldn’t give me a straight answer.) It’s built on top of Android llipop this time it’s been drastically scaled down, though Samsung still has a ways to go before it’s no longer guilty of Blue-ing up the Android interface....

However, we all know very well that technological start-ups spend millions of dollars to find bugs in their apps, but sometimes that is not enough. Uber, the private driver and cab service company that has become an alternative to the taxi has a staff of 200 security experts dedicated solely to look for bugs and exploits that endanger the private and billing information of its customers. These 200 experts were not able to find a security bug that did locate an Indian hacker, as earlier we have reported....

But as budget phones continue to get smarter, another important question has emerged: Is it worth it? th high-end phones creeping into the four-figure range, it’s a question that’s begun to take on considerable weight. expect a Galaxy S7 to have a better processor, camera, display than a Galaxy A5, but is it twice or even three times as good? Or are we just paying extra because of its top-of-the-line specs bring?...

JailbreakMe is a browser based jailbreak tool which means that you just need to point the safari browser of your iPad to http://jailbreakme.com and it will do the jailbreak for you! The best part of jailbreak iPad is the possibility of enabling Flash on the device! Anyway, here is a simple guide to Jailbreak iPad 3.2/3.2.1 using JailbreakMe 2.0 Star Guide to Jailbreak iPad 3.2/3.2.1 using JailbreakMe 2.0 Star Download iTunes 9....

As you might all know by this time, Google has come out with a brand new social networking service to rival the ever-growing Facebook, aptly named Google+. The service is currently invite only, but is getting a lot of traction from early users (including me). In case you are already on Google Plus and wishing to move all (or selected) Photo albums from Facebook to Google+, you would first need to transfer the photos to your Picasa account and then link them up on your Google+....

The intention of this article is to show how dangerous a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability can be. It will be presented for the D-Link DIR-600 router (Hardware Version: Bx; Firmware Version: 2.16, which was the latest version at the moment of writing this article). The CSRF vulnerability is a known issue for D-Link routers (just enter D-Link CSRF in Google). I decided to take a look at this problem and finally present how the CSRF vulnerability in three places of admin panel can be used to get unauthorized remote admin access to this device....

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]hinese company Gionee recently bestowing you lots of models some are expected to release soon and some are previously released. Gionee had a very influential internet source appearance in India. Gionee is deliberately but certainly growing lots of fan in India. Recently the Chinese company released the new Gionee F103 in India, this phone is available in your nearby Gionee stores and online internet-based marketing websites. Gionee F103 – Specifications, Price & Release Date Gionee F103 Release Date and Price Gionee F103 was first announced in September 2015, and later it was released in October 2015, it is currently available in India through online websites and in your nearby Gionee stores....

Google: Banning Huawei Could Be A ‘US National Security RISK’ The tech giant Google is trying its best to convince the US government that banning the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei could simply put the US security at risk. According to the well-known media portal, Financial Times, the argument is based on the vulnerability of the system that the Chinese giant Huawei will need to adopt in their devices. For the tech giant Google, the fact is that the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei is forced to offer its own operating system, which will be based on Android, and it will be more harmful....

Google introduced a very simple but handy fingerprint scanner gesture on the Pixel and Pixel XL that allows one to quickly bring up the notification bar by swiping down on the sensor. When the Pixel and Pixel XL were torn down by iFixit, it was revealed that the handsets share the same fingerprint sensor as the ones found on the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X. This bummed 6P and 5X owners that despite featuring the same fingerprint scanner, Google won’t be bringing this new fingerprint gestures to the handsets....

Today, however, the company has temporarily backed off from that proposition and the version of Allo launched today will store all non-incognito messages, entirely contradicting Google’s statements. The records, additionally, will be stored until unless the user manually deletes them which obviously, won’t happen in most cases. This essentially means Google will be able to read every text you send for improving the platform. You can avoid this by chatting inside the incognito/private mode where your messages will be end-to-end encrypted....

Hackers are using various techniques like social engineering, connected apps or phishing attacks to steal your credential data. However, to prevent such invasions, Google has just launched a new Advanced Protection Program. Google’s new Advanced Protection Programm is very useful for those who have the greater chance of being hacked by a virtual attack. If you are a journalist, business leader, a political campaign team member, or just someone who values and needs maximum security, the search giant is now offering an extra layer of security....

Mark your calendar for tomorrow morning as Google confirmed that it is holding an announcement event for Google + on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. Titled “A Morning with Google+”, the live Google+ hangouts broadcast will begin at 12:30PM ET. We know that Google will discuss some changes to Google +, but the exact nature these changes is unknown. Google was elusive and only said that the Google+ team will be sharing a few updates....

Will Google announce a new version of Android at Google I/O next week? Probably not, if we were to go by last year’s I/O, which focused solely on developers and was devoid of any talk about an update to the OS. However, while the introduction of the next major iteration of Android may not happen anytime soon, we might just have gotten a glimpse of one of the changes it will bring, courtesy of an image posted by Google itself....

Over the past decade Nvidia accelerated computing… started the modern AI revolution," Huang said in a keynote address. “Now AI will revolutionize all industries.” Huang presented laid out his strategic vision for Nvidia, which involves delivering products across a four-layer AI stack: hardware, system software and libraries, software platforms like Omniverse; and AI and robotics application frameworks. “The first wave of AI learned perception and inference,” Huang said. “The next wave of AI is robotics – AI planning actions....