Category: <span>News</span>

Microsoft is blocking Windows 10 November 2019 Update, as well as the May 2019 Update, for users of some older versions of Avast and AVG anti-virus programs. According to Microsoft, it has identified compatibility issues with some versions of Avast Antivirus and AVG Antivirus that contains application that is version 19.5.4444.567 or earlier. The affected platforms […]

Facebook on Monday introduced “Viewpoints” – an application that will pay members of the social network for participating in surveys, research and other tasks. The purpose of the new market research app is to collect information directly from the people who use its services and use it to improve products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal […]

Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline. The cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because they died – unless someone with that person’s account details is able to log-in. It is the first time Twitter […]

A new Russian law is set to go in force in July 2020 that will see the banning of consumer gadgets that do not have pre-installed Russian software, reports BBC. Basically, electronics such as smartphones (including iPhones), computers, and smart TVs must be sold with locally-made Russian software pre-installed. This means that besides having the manufacturer’s […]

Tesla’s electric pickup truck’s unveiling went awry after the car’s armored “shatterproof” windows cracked during the live demonstration at a promotional event in Hawthorne, California on Thursday. The car dubbed as “Cybertruck”, according to Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, could survive a 9 mm handgun. However, the attempt to prove so failed miserably during the demonstration. […]

OnePlus, the popular Chinese smartphone maker, in a recent blog post announced that its security team has discovered a data breach on its website that allowed “unauthorized party” to access some customers’ order information. The customers’ order information included access to customers’ names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses. However, the hackers were unable to […]

T-Mobile on Thursday admitted that its cybersecurity team had discovered and shut down the data breach that allowed unauthorized access to prepaid accounts of its customers. The incident has been reported to the authorities. According to the mobile carrier company, none of the customers’ financial info, social security numbers, and passwords were compromised in the data […]

It is possible for managers to spend anywhere from 5 – 8 hours or more every week, just on employee scheduling.  Despite the high cost and risk around manual rostering, many companies are still using an Excel spreadsheet. But automating the process to schedule your staff with an app is one of the quickest ways […]

Photoshop is one of the most trustworthy programs for photo manipulation, editing, artwork creation, and graphic designing. That said, Photoshop is an expensive program, and buying it might be difficult for hobbyists or beginner photographers. Fortunately, there are many free alternatives to Photoshop, and GIMP is one among them. In this article, we have compared […]

Facebook developed an internal facial recognition smartphone app between 2015 and 2016 that allowed its employees to identify colleagues and existing Facebook friends who had facial-recognition settings enabled in their account, according to a report from Business Insider citing multiple anonymous sources. The app in question would use the built-in camera on the mobile device […]