Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:03:47 +0000
We identify the three most dangerous Android features that can be used to infect your smartphone with malware, and explain how to use them correctly.
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A contact recently told me that Apple handles thousands of inquiries from people who have forgotten or misplaced their Apple ID logins every day. That’s probably why Apple recently made it easier to access your Apple ID using any known email address.
But Apple reps are also inundated with requests related to third-party apps over which they have no control. As the EU looks to force Apple into allowing apps from alternative app stores onto its devices, a practice known as sideloading, the user experience with Apple devices — and the flood of inquiries and complaints — is about to get much, much worse.
Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 11:13:09 +0000
New technique to hack almost any fingerprint-protected Android smartphone in just a few hours.
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 07:47:07 +0000
What information the smartphone vendor receives when GPS or GLONASS are active on your phone.
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Speakers ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) developers to law firms grappled this week with questions about the efficacy and ethics of AI during MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital conference. Among those who had a somewhat alarmist view of the technology (and regulatory efforts to rein it in) was Tom Siebel, CEO C3 AI and founder of CRM vendor Siebel Systems.
Siebel was on hand to talk about how businesses can prepare for an incoming wave of AI regulations, but in his comments Tuesday he touched on various facets of the debate of generative AI, including the ethics of using it, how it could evolve, and why it could be dangerous.
Let me just preface this by saying: No, the saga we’re about to dive into isn’t in any way related to April Fools’ — as far as I can tell, anyway. After all, we’re at the start of May.
And yet, one of Android’s best-known phone-makers is putting out a new device with such eye-rollingly off-the-mark claims, I can’t help but wonder if maybe they got mixed up on months and meant this to be a joke. It’s so hilariously and obviously ironic, I’m just not sure what else to make of it.
So here it is: Motorola’s got a new business-aimed Android phone called the Motorola ThinkPhone. It’s the first time the company — which has been owned by Lenovo since 2014, when Google broke our hearts and pawned the brand off after a glorious 20 months of control — is bringing a classic Lenovo name into the Motorola and Android arena this prominently.
Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:36:36 +0000
How electronics repair services treat customer privacy, and whether you can trust your data to them.
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Credit to Author: sergeykashchavtsev| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:05:02 +0000
The accelerometer inside any smartphone can act as a wiretapping microphone. How dangerous is it?
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