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But just because a pandemic is raging doesn’t mean these crooks changed their classic playbook. If you get a scam call, expect the same garbage as usual with a dash of COVID-19 paranoia thrown in for good measure. Tap or click here to see what coronavirus phone scammers are saying. Researchers estimate that billions of dollars have been lost due to phone scams and fraud. And without proper knowledge, many more vulnerable people are likely to get swindled....

The Xiaomi Mi A2 is the successor to the Mi A1 from last year. This means that it carries the Android One branding which in turns means it runs on a stock version of Android. So just like the Mi A1, the Mi A2 lacks plenty of features which are pretty common in Xiaomi’s Redmi devices running MIUI. One such feature is App lock which is missing from the Mi A2....

And then there were two. Two supported Microsoft desktop operating systems, that is. As of Jan. 10, 2023, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 8.1. (Support for Windows 8 ended seven years earlier, in January 2016.) The Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU) program also ends on that date; customers who had paid the ESU subscription price got a three-year extension from the official January 2020 end-of-support date for Windows 7, but the door slams shut once and for all at the start of 2023....

Whoop Unite is an employee wellness program where the company sells its activity trackers to its partners and/or employees. The employees can then participate in programs and competitions, each one with the goal of improving their overall health. For example, Whoop says that at Hitachi Vantara, some employees are using Whoop to participate in a sleep challenge. Using insight provided by the Whoop band, employees will learn how to improve sleep habits, which in turn should help improve their overall performance at work....

The problem with storing data is that sometimes accidents happen. We don’t want to lose our data personally, but we absolutely don’t want to lose client’s data or have to do a job a second time because of a technology snafu. Tap or click here for five steps to backup your data like a pro. Recovering data can cost thousands. This is one of those situations where sports can lend a good life lesson....

“Servicing profiles” let admins automatically deliver monthly Word, Excel and other Office suite updates for specific users or groups. Microsoft has now delivered tooling that allows admins to align these updates with Windows Patch Tuesday updates. The new capabilities, described as ’top customer asked capabilities’, updated servicing profiles to cover customization, rollbacks, device exclusions, blanket and exclusion targeting, and the ability to control deployments to devices with a smaller disk space than the 5GB lower threshold previously available....

Add to this the fact that iOS updates can greatly affect battery life. Some updates give battery time quite a boost; others take it away. More often than not, users complain that iOS updates cause a drop in battery life. Sometimes this is real; sometimes, it’s just an effect of installing a new operating system and users not giving the platform time to stabilize. And it seems that there was a problem with the iOS 15....

Those of us who have lost important files in the past know what a pain it is — and how much valuable time it takes — to recreate them or make new copies, if that indeed is possible. Thinking ahead and taking the time and attention needed to ensure the protection of data valuables is well worth it and doesn’t cost that much. There’s really no excuse anymore not to do this: Automated backup into the cloud or to onsite storage is simple to set up and inexpensive....

Lei Jun led Xiaomi plans to raise something between $4.7 billion to $6.1 billion from its IPO at the Hong Kong stock exchange. This, while being markedly lower than Xiaomi’s initial expectation of around $10 billion, is still a substantial amount. The capital raised from its initial public offering is said to fuel its growth in international markets, especially in countries of South Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Xiaomi is currently going strong in China and India and has recently expanded to a European market with its entry into Italy....

Earlier this year, Xiaomi launched the Mi Max in China — a smartphone-tablet hybrid with a 6.44-inch display. This was not the first time that a smartphone company tried to launch a tablet with voice calling capabilities, but none of them fared particularly well. The Mi Max, however, has turned out to be an exception to this. As per Xiaomi’s co-founder Lei Jun, the company has sold 1.5 million units of the Mi Max in China since its launch in the country two months ago....

Yahoo had finally abandoned the risks, that it had left itself to returning to the ring of communication applications. Yes, I am talking about the ‘Yahoo Together‘ which is the new messaging application that is designed for groups. The groups are a type of conversations that can include from two contacts until they become overcrowded. They are very useful for communicating news to a group of people simultaneously and opens the door for work teams to remain in communication with each other....

Your Computer Is In Danger! Update Windows Immediately Your computer is at risk and you should update Windows immediately. No, it is not one of the classic security alerts designed to force you to download an update but a real danger that threatens computers with Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10. All should be updated to the latest version of the operating system as soon as possible. The security problem hanging over users of outdated computers has to do with Windows Defender, the firewall included with the standard system....

Yu, a subsidiary of India’s number 1 smartphone brand — Micromax — recently launched its first high-end smartphone: the Yu Yutopia. In fact the Yutopia is the first proper flagship from an Indian OEM. Up until now, Indian OEMs have only dabbled in the budget to premium mid-range segment, with no one bold enough to release a phone that is worthy of being called a flagship. Yu wants to change that with the Yutopia, and it is even calling the device ‘the most powerful phone ever....

Sounds fancy, right? ll, kind of. Overall design Despite what its name might imply, the Blade V8 o is neither juice blender, nor is it an 8-inch phone. Bad jokes aside, the Blade V8 o has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, three gigabytes of memory, 32 GB of storage expable up to 128 GB via microSD, a 3140 mAh battery, is powered by a Snapdragon 625 processor. It runs Android 6....

Earlier today, Google rolled out the final build of Android 7.1.2 Nougat. The second maintenance build of Android Nougat comes with some minor new features and fixes plenty of bugs plaguing various Nexus and Pixel devices. While the OTA and factory images of the update are already live on Google’s website, the OTA update should also make its way to all compatible Nexus and Pixel devices over the next few days....

WoW! Apple To Launch Its First Foldable iPhone The concept of a foldable smartphone is not unusual to the designers of the tech giant Apple. However, it doesn’t mean that soon the tech giant Apple could launch a new iPhone to follow this new format. As before Apple, we will see the presentation of the South Korean giant Samsung’s first foldable smartphone, which will take place on 20th February. However, we all know very well that both manufacturers, of course, Apple and Samsung are analyzing this new trend....

The China-based Android smartphone manufacturer today announced the Mi d, a 7.9-inch Android tablet starting at $240. It comes in a spectrum of colors features Nvidia’s newest mobile processor, the 2.2GHz quad-core Tegra K1. The system-on-a-chip was announced earlier this year at CES. It’s a mobile processor with 192 graphics cores, which chief executive n Hsun Huang had originally positioned as being fit for a mobile game console. There’s no indicator that’s what Xiaomi is going for here, but it sure is a powerful piece of hardware....

Xiaomi is no longer the unicorn of the smartphone market that it was once hailed by everyone. The company has been outgunned by other local Chinese OEMs like Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo. Nonetheless, this does not mean the company does not release impressive handsets — far from that. The company’s budget mid-ranger, the Redmi Note 3, is still the most impressive handset that I have used this year. Not content with packing so much of a ‘smartphone’ in just Rs 13,000, Xiaomi recently unveiled the Redmi 3S in India....

Gone are the days when an enterprise could be secured by a network-centric approach based on perimeter security. APTs have arrived and it’s all about data now! Hardly ever do we see any data-centric security approaches these days. In my previous two articles here, I have explained about APTs and how to crack their maze. Today, I am going to find out what we can learn from these APT-based attacks and what alternative approaches an enterprise needs to follow to combat them more effectively....

Earlier the feature was spotted on the beta versions of both Android and iOS. Whatsapp has confirmed that the feature is arriving for all the users. If the user missed the group call, there would be an option of “Tap to Join” to join the group call. Whatsapp Group Calls gets New Feature to Join the Missed Calls The joinable calls feature is out for everyone. Moreover, Whatsapp has also confirmed that the new feature will not affect the security and privacy of end-to-end encryption....