A significant software re-write will be needed to fix a bug with Skype for Windows. The bug allows the attacker to gain system-level privileges, meaning the potential havoc that can be wreaked pretty much runs the entire gamut of malicious activity, from stealing or deleting files to installing malware on the host PC.
Rhee said he aims to harmonize Alphabet's various projects related to the Internet of Things, or IoT, a term that encompasses any device that accesses data online. This is not to say the mobile is not making money, more that Apple has done an excellent job in monopolizing smartphone profits. Eventually, he was made the head of Samsung's R&D team 1,...
Not surprisingly, when somebody at Land Rover suggested that they drive a Range Rover Sport plug-in hybrid up to the arch, local authorities said bluntly that it couldn't be done. The stakes were high, as Jaguar Experience's Phil Jones explained that his team had no way of proving that this PHEV could handle this challenge during testing.
Iceland's National Energy Authority stated that this was more than households use on the island nation of 340,000. In the past few months, the soaring prices of cryptocurrencies, whose algorithms get more and more complicated and energy consuming, have driven many mining facilities to move to Iceland.
Evan Spiegel , CEO of Snapchat's parent company Snap , had previously announced the changes in an earnings call in November and then unveiled them later in the month. Snapchat announced the redesign in December previous year, with a focus on separating "social from media". Wall Street responded with a long-abandoned enthusiasm: Snap's sto...
The $449 HomePod is all of these things, and it drives me insane. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news. The HomePod just isn't very useful for most people. Just remember that HomePod only works with Apple Music (for now) and that it doesn't work at all with Android phones even though it has a Bluetooth 5 radio inside and th...
The developing Detective Pikachu movie will see the venerable Pokemon franchise finally make its live-action debut. Smith plays a teenahe whose father is kidnapped, which leads him to Pikachu (Reynolds) and a young journalist (Newton) who team up in order to find him.
There's a lot that digital assistants like Alexa can do for you these days even if they're not doing the bulk of the data processing on the device itself. Amazon acquired home security provider Blink in the final days of 2017. Amazon .com, Inc. shares rose $20.00 (+1.49%) in premarket trading Monday.
The AMD desktop APUs, released almost a year after the company launched its Ryzen family of processors, are meant to deliver superior console-class HD gaming performance on a desktop, according to the chipmaker. The chips are available today, and computer makers are expected to launch PCs with the chips in the coming months. Besides this, the new...
The previous consensus among scientists was that the oceans were rising at a steady clip of a little more than a tenth of an inch annually. Based on 25 years of satellite data, however, the research shows that the pace has quickened. The data aligns with the current rate of sea level rise of about 3 millimeters or 0.1 inches per year . Experts...
Amazon wants you to fall in love with one thing this Valentine's Day, and it's these sweet, sweet deals on video games , consoles and accessories. The massive French publisher Ubisoft nearly always strongly supports new platforms from launch, but the company tried something a little bit different for the Switch by partnering with Nintendo on...
Instead of meeting a tight deadline and ticking all the boxes on the checklist, development teams will be able to push back some features if they're not polished enough. The change came after too many new features were being released with bugs due to the demanding schedule. This includes a framework for third parties to develop apps that will wor...
Lists pretty much does what it sounds like, allowing people on Facebook to make a list of whatever they like - To Do's, travel wish lists, New Year's resolutions and more. Over the course of 2017, eMarketer found some 2.8 million U.S. users under the age of 25 left the platform. Facebook is reportedly introducing out a new feature called List...
The Instagram Stories feature also saw user backlash when it was first released in summer 2016, but ended up being a popular feature among the app's millions of users. Another one tweeted saying that the Snapchat update is the worst thing after U2's album. While YouTube and Facebook have actively courted online creators, Internet personalitie...
The total solar eclipsed kicked off the SDO's bi-annual eclipse season that lasts for around three weeks. In a partial solar eclipse, the moon, Earth and Sun are not exactly lined up, but some parts of the moon cast a shadow on the sun's surface.
Chinese vendor Vivo has already unveiled the Vivo X20 Plus UD with an in-display fingerprint sensor. The device will run on Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box and will have a 3000mAh battery reservoir to fire up the Galaxy S9 . The company's version of Android 8.0 Oreo comes with numerous changes found on Google's Nexus and Pixel devices, but...
In the meantime, Qualcomm's freshly announced X24 LTE modem will support 2 gigabit-per-second speeds, the first of its kind to do so. The Snapdragon X24 LTE modem delivers 2x the speed of the Qualcomm's previous generation Gigabit LTE modem , thanks to 7x carrier aggregation in the downlink, as well as 4×4 MIMO on up to five aggregated...
HTC saw many executives depart and Chang was among the few veterans left. His position seemed useless as HTC sold nearly all of its smartphone design and engineering team to Google . Chang leaves months after HTC released its well-received 2017 flagship, the HTC U11 . The sources familiar with HTC roadmap have revealed to The Verge that the n...
But the center core booster ended up hitting the Atlantic Ocean at 300 miles per hour and about 328 feet from the floating platform where it was supposed to land. The fix, he said , was "pretty obvious". Eventually, Musk hopes that Falcon Heavy will be able to take humans to Mars , and is aiming to put a person on the red planet as soon as 20...
Scoring is tracked as well, thanks to a built-in IR signal inside the ball that talks to the LCD scoreboard. Rocket League has found its way onto a variety of gaming platforms, such as the PC and consoles, and now if you're looking for a new way of enjoying the game, you'll be interested to learn that Hot Wheels has announced a real-life Roc...
If it determines that you are indeed visiting a domain with irritating ads, the filter will check network requests on the page against ad-related URL patterns in order to block those ads. "However, if a site continues to maintain non-compliant ad experiences 30 days after being notified of violations, Chrome will begin to block ads on that site",...
Prices for the latest X4 start from £42,900 - an increase of more than £4000 on the outgoing vehicle. That equates to more space inside, particularly for rear passengers, while the boot has also grown to 525 litres, meaning it should be practical enough for most families.
Alphabet Inc ( NASDAQ:GOOGL ) has no doubt seen the success that Facebook-owned Instagram enjoyed by copying Snapchat's Stories format, and now it wants a piece of the action. Users must first go to g.co/ampstories using any mobile web browser and search for any of the publishers listed above. Outside of Search, Google will be expanding th...
After rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo late previous year, the company has now officially started pushing out the stable Android 8.1 Oreo, which makes the Nokia 8 among the first few phones to receive the latest update. While at the front, we have an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with a 1.12um sensor and f/2.0 aperture for selfies and video calli...
Google is now calling its next Android phone operation system Android Pistachio Ice Cream, it is reported. The design will mean more new Android phones with cutouts at the top of their screens to fit cameras and other sensors. As evident from latest distribution numbers, Android 8.0 Oreo is running on just around 1 percent of active devices whi...