But hey, it’s at least a cool party trick, right? Sure, but not if you use it the way Google did in its latest Pixel 4 ad. In it, a DJ adds uses an eight-phone rig to add or remove tracks from the music in a live performance. Swipe to turn the snares and kick drums on and off, for example. And that’s it. Just watch: What’s even the point?...
The bug, discovered by researchers from Checkmarx, stemmed from permission bypass issues in the Google Camera app. The issue (filed under CVE-2019-2234) affected Pixel phones, but further spilled over to devices from Samsung and other manufacturers. “An attacker can control the app to take photos and/or record videos through a rogue application that has no permissions to do so,” the researchers write. “Additionally, we found that certain attack scenarios enable malicious actors to circumvent various storage permission policies, giving them access to stored videos and photos, as well as GPS metadata embedded in photos, to locate the user by taking a photo or video and parsing the proper EXIF data....
If you’re not familiar with two-factor authentication (2FA) or two-step verification, it’s all about using an extra layer of security to prove the person logging into an account or device is really you. Even if someone steals or guesses your password, they won’t be able to access your information without another authenticator. Sometimes that means typing in a code you received on your smartphone or tapping on a prompt on a separate device....
In an internal memo sent to employees, the company said its offices will remain closed at least until September 7. Earlier in May, CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Big G hopes to cautiously move some workers back in starting July 6. “While conditions do vary from state to state, we need to see that the US outlook as a whole is stable before we move forward,” VP of Global Security Chris Rackow wrote in the memo....
The search giant told Android Police — which first reported the development –that the product is available through some retail partners while supplies last: The $399 Pixel 3a was a good option for people who wanted all Google’s goods including the software and the camera, but didn’t want to spend more than $500. However, after plenty of leaks and rumors, there’s been no concrete confirmation on when the Pixel 4a will launch this year....
The company accidentally messed up one of the digits in the phone listing, as spotted by AndroidPolice. Instead of (855) 224-6378, Google had initially put down (855) 244-6378. Credit: Web Archive So who did the wrong number connect customers to, you might wonder? The answer is actually somewhat underwhelming: the line simply didn’t work. We all know what happened when Deutsche Telekom gave the wrong number to customers looking to pre-order the then-new iPhone 5....
When Google updated Earth in 2017, it added a section to the site called “Voyager,” which offered guided tours of parts of the globe. The Voyager tours were hosted by the likes of BBC Earth and Sesame Street. It was part of a general overhaul to make Earth more useful to students and explorers than it was before. Now Google’s essentially expanding this so that anyone can do the same thing....
The company recently launched Nearby Share on ChromeOS and Android as a competitor to Apple’s AirDrop, allowing you to easily send files to nearby devices. The only problem is that it’s not super convenient when you’re trying to share files with your own devices. But as spotted by Chrome Story, the Chromium Gerrit has recently launched an experimental flag in Chrome called “Self Share,” which would let you… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory....
The site presently serves US-based visitors, but content for more countries and in more languages are slated to be added soon (Spanish is up next, reports The Verge.) Google’s site includes information about the disease, links to health advisory material from the World Health Organization and to public health departments for each US state, safety tips, data on the spread of coronavirus around the world, ideas for living well and working at home, and a donation drive to support the UN Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization....
Google officially announced yesterday that the Founder’s Edition was sold out. It pointed any latecomers to the Premium Edition, which offers a similar bundle of items to the Founder’s Edition. One would hope that ordering the bundles now — almost a month ahead of launch — would mean you’d get them on Stadia’s launch date, so you can join the rest of the first wave of Stadia supporters. But it turns out that’s not the case....
It might not be to everyone’s taste, but you’ve got to admit that looks pretty unique. Unfortunately, it’s not clear whether the final bike will end up looking like this; according to Electrek, the model above is its first prototype, which Harley Davidson says is “a styling exercise, not necessarily intended for mass production.” The bike is inspired by Harley-Davidson’s first motorcycle, Serial Number One, which wasn’t all that different-looking from a bicycle with a motor instead of pedals: Even if the aesthetics end up looking a bit different — I can imagine those white tires are going to end up real dirty, real fast — it could point to some features we might expect on a production model....
The project is far from the first attempt to detect signs of civilizations beyond Earth. Loeb has been criticized in the past for his dismissive approach to previous efforts to find extraterrestrial life and his argument that an alien artifact passed through our solar system in 2017. So why do Loeb and his collaborators think they have a chance of finding something where others have failed? There are three triggers that suggest they might....
— Xbox (@Xbox) July 6, 2020 The only thing we can be sure we’ll see is Halo: Infinite. I know that because the Halo Twitter retweeted the announcement with the words “Get ready,” which is about as clear an indicator as we ever get. Considering it’s been a year since we last saw the game, it’s about time we get a good glimpse at what the latest in Microsoft’s flagship series looks like....
Let’s take a look at what’s going on. Thankfully, the roads of the English capital aren’t going to be immediately overrun by the two-wheeled electric ride-on scooters. It seems that TfL has seen what has happened in the rest of the country and is taking a slightly more considered approach. Here’s how it’s going to happen, at a glance: The first step is to find suitable escooter operators and complete the tender process....
Rumors of this started a long time ago. In 2018, Bloomberg reported that in a couple of years Apple’s going to use its indigenous ARM chips for Macs and ditch Intel altogether. Later that year, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo supported this rumor by his own prediction. In February, Kuo said ARM-based Macs are coming in 2021. So, we might not see any hardware announcements, but we’ll see Apple making platform announcements, paving way for developers to move their apps to a new Mac architecture....
“Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period of time if you mine nickel efficiently and in an environmentally sensitive way,” Musk said on the call yesterday, Reuters reports. While Tesla did turn an unexpected profit last quarter, it’s a rare occurrence for the company. Despite this, Musk is still keen to keep Tesla on a path of swift growth rather than rationalize the EV maker into a profitable business....
The TV has a 55-inch 4K screen that has 178-degrees of viewing angle and goes up to 400 nits of brightness. The Honor Vision Pro’s frame’s pretty sleek at just 6.9mm thickness – so it’ll fit easily onto your wall. Honor’s new TV also has a pop-up camera, just like the one on phone like the OnePlus 7 Pro and the Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro, that allows you to make calls at 1080p video quality....
While many of my peers swear by productivity-focused apps, I like to keep my iPhone and work life separate for a hint of work-life balance. So even though I wholeheartedly embrace the digital times we live in, I find myself increasingly resorting to more, ahem, analogue methods. [Read: 10 smart note-taking tips that can boost your productivity] Let me tell you how this glossy, white surface — which became popular in offices and schools in the mid-1990s — has helped me improve how I work in the present day and how it can help you too....
You’ll probably see a lot of recognizable categories eating up your storage — apps, photos, and so on. But there is one, often rather large category, that may raise concerns: “Other”. It’s shaded light grey and often represents a significant proportion of the overall storage available. What is ‘Other’? For more detail, scroll down and tap the “Other” category (right at the end). It doesn’t say much — just that it includes caches, logs and other resources in use by the system....
Obviously, a movie that only passes the first test ranks quite low on the diversity scale. A movie that passed the third test (which, to clarify, automatically means it passed the first and second test) tends to be more inclusive. For our monthly Byte Me newsletter, we used data by Bechdeltest.com to create a graph showing how things have (kind of) changed since the first films came out in the late 1800s....
