November 2017 - Page 2 of 3

Huddle Security Flaw Allowed Unauthorized Access

News November 17, 2017

‘Highly secure’ collaboration app exposed KPMG and BBC files. Imagine arriving at work, firing up your computer while you grabbed a cup of coffee, and sitting down to check your emails only to find yourself staring at a confusing screen. Instead of your usual email inbox screen, you’re looking... Read more

Star Wars Battlefront II Becomes Most Down-voted Comment In Reddit History

News November 16, 2017

Electronic Arts (EA) respond to gamer backlash over progression system. When EA decided to respond to its player-base’s concerns earlier about Star Wars Battlefront II and its loot boxes, it probably didn’t think that its post would break all records, and then some, for the most down-voted and unpopular... Read more

US Users Hit By Google Docs Outage

News November 16, 2017

Los Angeles, San Francisco and West Coast hit hardest; rest of G Suite unaffected. Google Docs users suddenly found themselves without access to any of their docs, when Docs itself became inaccessible late Wednesday afternoon. While the outage only lasted a few hours for a “significant subset of users,” panic... Read more

Samsung Galaxy With Linux Via DeX

News November 15, 2017

Samsung demos Ubuntu running on Galaxy S8 smartphone. In the heated race between Android vs iOS devices, the operating system really does play a major role in helping consumers decide which model to invest in. When it comes to these high-dollar purchases, most consumers tend to stick to operating... Read more

EaseUS MobiMover Free 3.0 for iPhone: Simple, Effective, Intuitive, Free

Desktop Mobile Software Reviews November 15, 2017

Effortlessly transfer photos, music, videos and more from your computer to your iPhone or iPad with EaseUS MobiMover Free. EaseUS MobiMover Free is a professional iPhone manager, that also doubles as a data transfer tool giving allowing you to export photos, music, videos, contacts, notes and Safari bookmarks, with... Read more

YouTube To Restrict Inappropriate Content Aimed At Children

News Social Media November 14, 2017

Crack down by Google-owned video sharing website is not a full ban. YouTube has announced that it is to restrict the availability of ‘creepy’ videos aimed at children and show popular children’s characters in violent and sexual scenes, if they are reported by viewers. YouTube’s new policy follows several accusations... Read more

Phishing Nets Hackers 250K Google Credentials Per Week

News November 14, 2017

Cyber-thieves’ quarter million haul of valid log-in names and passwords for Google accounts every week. Highly skilled hackers with unbelievable know-how may be infiltrating the highest levels of government, but the day to day cybercrimes are happening in a far more mundane fashion. According to a new study conducted... Read more

Facebook Fails to Fight Fake News

News Social Media November 13, 2017

Experiment backfires as dubious content gets bumped up news feeds. These days, the most caustic insult you can hurl at an online post is “fake news.” With the abundance of troll trash floating around about even the most mildly politicized topics, avid internet users are faced wading through the... Read more

Millions Of Dollars Worth OF Ethereum Frozen By Mistake

News November 13, 2017

Blunder over bug in code may freeze cryptocurrency wallets forever. An error in the code for Ethereum multi-signature (sig) wallets – and the subsequent attempts to repair it – have resulted in an estimated $300,000,000 of Ethereum being made inaccessible by anyone, possibly for ever. Parity, the software company behind... Read more

Self-Driving Shuttle Bus In Crash Two Hours Into First Day

News November 10, 2017

Human to blame, not the autonomous vehicle. A driverless electric airport shuttle bus that made its debut downtown Las Vegas was involved in a traffic accident just a few short hours after entering into service. Ironically, it seems that the human driver of the other vehicle involved was to... Read more

WhatsApp ‘Fake’ Downloaded More Than One Million Times From Google Play

Mobile News Social Media November 10, 2017

Fake Android update appeared in Google’s official app store. It is understood that more than a million people downloaded a fake version of WhatsApp onto their Android devices through the official Google App center, before Google realized and removed the fake app from the Play store. It’s easy to see... Read more

Legal Govt Tracking Of Mobile Phones For Data Mining

Mobile News November 9, 2017

Mobile phone tracking data ‘could replace census questions’. A recent UK government announcement just might prompt a few citizens to fetch their tinfoil hats: the Office of National Statistics (ONS), what in other countries might be referred to as the “census bureau,” has revealed that they’ve tested a data... Read more

IoT-powered home insurance launched

News November 9, 2017

UK-based Neos says smarthome tech may lower premium costs. For years, auto insurance providers have offered customers a simple way to lower their insurance costs via ‘black box’ tracking devices. Now UK insurance start-up Neos is working to bring the same savings to home owners’ insurance through smart tech. By installing... Read more

Shotcut – The Powerful Professional Video Editing Software

Software Reviews Video Editing Software Video Software Reviews November 8, 2017

We review Shotcut, the free, but feature-rich, open source, cross-platform video editor. Shotcut is a surprisingly powerful free video editor that makes even advanced editing straightforward, and dare I say it, rivals many aspects of similar expensive ‘pro-sumer’ software. And it proves proves that getting your hands on a... Read more

Adobe Predicts Online Mobile Christmas Shopping Will Break New Records This Year

Mobile News November 8, 2017

More than 50% of all web traffic will be from smartphones and tablets. Adobe Analytics has released its online shopping predictions for the upcoming holiday season and have estimated that online sales will be some $107.4 billion in the United States, alone – an increase of almost 15% on... Read more

Are Tech Giants To Blame For Russian Election Scandal?

News November 7, 2017

Facebook, Twitter, Google and others may have unknowingly played roles. There’s little doubt now that state-sponsored Russian operatives worked diligently to try and interfere in last fall’s US Presidential election – a notion that has both federal investigators and armchair social media experts weighing in day and night. However, more... Read more

Snapchat Drops Out Of App Store Top Ten

Mobile News Social Media November 7, 2017

Snap Inc (SNAP) no Longer a Top 10 iOS App Store app. For the first time all year, popular yet potentially dubious messaging and image-sharing app Snapchat, fell out of the top 10 in the iOS App Store rankings. Without a lot of information as to what could have... Read more

Twitter Erases #Bisexual From Site

News Social Media November 6, 2017

Outcry as Twitter blocks ‘bisexual’ searches. For a social media platform struggling to remain relevant, Twitter sure is raising some ire among users and critics alike. First, the company has a long history of ignoring threats of violence and accounts that explicitly violate its terms, despite vocal outcry and... Read more

FileHippo News

A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch