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A newly discovered Android Trojan known as “GriftHorse” probably made away with millions of dollars. The Trojan asks you to enter your phone number to win a prize. That “prize” is a recurring subscription to a useless service. We have a list of known infected apps. If you have any of them, you should uninstall them as soon as possible. A new Android Trojan known as “GriftHorse” did just that (via Zimperium).
Usually, when people hear about Chinese Android-based tablets, they run for their lives, expecting poor build quality or low performance. Or, in many cases, both. However, there are the occasional exceptions of tabs coming out of that corner of the world that are budget-friendly, snappy and reliable, all in one package. Oh, and not clones.
Now Ainol has bumped the prices a bit, but it’s not like you won’t get what you pay for and probably a few extras.
Asus‘ attention in the smartphone space might be mostly on its ZenFone 4 series, but the company has not forgotten about the ZenFone 3 series, namely the ZenFone 3 Max. Today, the Taiwanese company announced it has kept its promise and update the battery-focused smartphone to ZenUI 4.0.
As a recap, ZenUI 4.0 is Asus’ Android skin that hopes to shed some of the bloat from previous iterations. When Asus first announced ZenUI 4.
They’re plastic.
Somewhere in this strange timeline of ours, we decided that glass phones were in, and plastic phones were out. Cell phones became fashion pieces, proving to our friends that we could afford such luxuries, with a premium “feel in the hand” becoming a significant factor in reviews.
At this point, I think we can all agree we’re a little tired of these fragile little pocket computers. Nearly everywhere I look, there’s some poor chap with a smashed phone.
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Google’s second-generation Nest Hub smart display can now track your sleep stages (light, deep, and REM). The Calm app is also coming to the smart display in December. Sleep Sensing on the Nest Hub will become part of Fitbit Premium in 2023, which costs $9.99/month. When we reviewed the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) in March 2021, we were impressed with most of the standard smart display aspects of the device.
Smart TVs give us access to thousands of hours of content at our fingertips. However, they’ve been known to act up now and again. If you’re having trouble with your TV or you’re hoping to sell it to someone else, it may be time for a reset. Here’s how to reset a Samsung TV.
See also: Got a new Samsung smart TV? Here are the best apps to download
How to reset a Samsung TVNo matter which TV you have, the steps should be the same.
Update: May 1, 2020: The regular Quibi free trial for 14 days is now active. We have updated this post to reflect that.
The Quibi short-form video streaming service is less than a month away from launching. On April 6, people who sign up can watch 50 programs with many more on the way. They range from scripted dramas and comedies to reality shows, documentaries, and daily news programs. All of them have episodes that are just 10 minutes or less in length.
Pokemon Go might still be on top of the augmented reality game throne, but for all the dinosaur lovers in the world there’s another great option. Jurassic World Alive borrows heavily from the hit Niantic title, but with the unbeatable draw of cool dinosaurs.
Since it’s been out for a few months now, players have already discovered a wealth of tips and tricks for Jurassic World Alive. We’ve collected them into this neat little list that’s sure to grow your dinosaur collection.
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The Mediatek Dimensity 1050 is the company’s first mmWave 5G SoC. The new chip will seamlessly switch between mmWave and slower sub-6GHz 5G. Mediatek will tap TSMC and its 6nm manufacturing process. Mediatek is joining the mmWave 5G party with the Dimensity 1050, its first-ever system-on-chip (SoC) supporting the fastest flavor of 5G.
Mediatek is one of the leading providers of smartphone semiconductors, with its chips used in a wide range of devices.
Darwin Bell/Flickr While supplies of clean water might not be something that Westerners worry about, the reality is that in some parts of the world, millions of people die every single year due to contaminated water and unfit sanitation equipment. But what does this have anything to do with the Android OS? Apparently a lot, as a former NASA engineer by the name of John Feighery has developed an Android app that allows health workers from Bangladesh to record water quality test results in real time and map them accordingly.