Month: <span>August 2019</span>

Voice Assistants make our lives easier and both Google and Apple have developed reliable voice assistants. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for Microsoft’s Cortana. Similar to other voice assistants, Cortana can set reminders, send emails, and do many other tasks. That said, a majority of Windows 10 users find Cortana to be an annoyance. […]

Facebook launches tool to let users control the information gathered from third-party apps and websites Facebook who is often criticized for violating user’s privacy on Tuesday finally rolled out its long-awaited privacy tool that allows its users to see and control all the data that third-party apps and websites share with the social media giant. […]

The console gaming industry has developed drastically in the past few decades. That said, many users still love playing retro titles. Unfortunately, the SNES consoles are no more in production. Consequently, the only way to play Super Nintendo games is by using a SNES emulator. These emulators are available for both PC and smartphones. Well, […]

Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company for selling virtual versions of Apple’s operating system, iOS, within a web browser to customers so that they can test them for security vulnerabilities.

Some users facing installation and reboot issues after latest Windows 10 Patch Tuesday Microsoft released the KB4512508 update for those on the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1809) as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday on August 13th. However, several users on a Reddit thread and on a Microsoft community forum reported that the update failed to install on their […]

As revolutionary as blockchain technology is, it is no secret that a number of flaws remain present. Notably, a number of existing blockchains are still unable to reach consensus on how to improve speed and scalability, without compromising on security and decentralization. Take Bitcoin for example. While the technology does offer a number of key […]

A security flaw in Kaspersky antivirus leaves millions of users exposed to online hack A security journalist Ronald Eikenberg at German computer magazine C’T revealed that a flaw in Kaspersky antivirus software allowed third parties to spy on its millions of users for years – even in the browser’s Incognito Mode or when you use […]

GitHub starts blocking developers in countries like Crimea and Iran, which are under US trade sanctions Microsoft-owned GitHub, the largest source-code repository in the world, is “restricting” users from countries that are facing US-imposed trade sanctions from using its online services. The countries affected are Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria, reports ZDNet. Last week, […]

Huawei launches ‘HarmonyOS’ to compete with Android Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech-giant, on Friday finally unveiled its much-anticipated in-house operating system, the HongmengOS, also known as the HarmonyOS in English, at the on-going Huawei’s Developer Conference in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province. “We’re entering a day and age where people expect a holistic intelligent […]

accessiBe’s founders from left to right, Dekel Skoop, Gal Vizel, and Shir Ekerling.  The world has over 4.4 billion internet users which is over 57 percent of the global population. This increasing access has been largely made possible through cheaper broadband access and the growth of mobile connectivity even in developing countries.  Yet, people with disabilities still […]