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  • Microsoft Just Announced Great Upgrades to a Whole Bunch of Its Computers

    Image: Microsoft Besides the new color offerings. Microsoft has also, mercifully, axed the worthless 4GB RAM option that’s persisted in both the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro lines. When we last looked for the best $1,000 laptop we actually had to exclude the $1,000 Surface Laptop because of its paltry 4GB starting point. That is…

  • You Don’t Need to Sneak Weed Past Security at LAX

    Photo: Getty The Los Angeles International Airport now allows passengers to bring weed into the airport. According to LAX’s website, cops are chill about weed in their facilities: Los Angeles Airport Police Department will allow passengers to travel through LAX with up to 28.5 grams of marijuana and 8 grams of concentrated marijuana. However, passengers…

  • That Presidential Alert Test Will Annoy the Hell Out of You on Wednesday

    Photo: AP The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is finally testing the new U.S. “presidential alert” system after the initial test was delayed for nearly two weeks. The alert is planned to go out to approximately 225 million compatible phones across the U.S. on Wednesday at 2:18 pm ET. The message should read: “THIS IS…

  • Microsoft Makes Surface Headphones Now

    Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Microsoft just announced a whole lot of stuff at an event in New York, but it saved the weirdest for last. The company, best known for its software and nice computers, is now making headphones. The Microsoft Surface Headphones come in a grey color similar to the platinum found in its…

  • After Massive Breach, Facebook Says Hackers Didn’t Use Your Login to Access Third-Party Apps

    Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) Last week, Facebook disclosed a massive attack that compromised around 50 million login tokens—tokens that many feared could have been used to access thousands of third-party services, including Tinder and Airbnb. The social network’s ongoing investigation concluded today that this has not happened. In a statement to Reuters, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s…

  • Apple demonstrated how the quality of pictures, iPhone XS

    Apple has published a selection of images made by users to the iPhone XS iPhone XS Max and posted on social networks Instagram and Twitter with the tag #ShotoniPhone. The photos show what results can be achieved using Smart HDR, improved side in the “Portrait” and dynamic depth of field. A complete collection of favorites…

  • Samsung offers the Russians free to change flagships every year

    The company Samsung Electronics introduced a leasing programme Samsung Forward. From October 1 to participate in flagship smartphones Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Galaxy S9 and S9+. At the moment Samsung Forward available in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Murmansk and Nizhny Novgorod. The program allows you to pay immediately the full cost of the smartphone and make…

  • Durov explained the leak of user data in Telegram

    Recently in the network there were reports about discovered vulnerabilities in the desktop application Telegram. When using peer-to-peer P2P connection during the calls, it was possible to obtain the IP addresses of the users. In the mobile app P2P connection can be disabled and the desktop this was not an option, yet the developers have…

  • Launched the world’s first commercial 5G network

    The North American operator Verizon Wireless has announced the launch of the world’s first commercial network of the fifth generation. Work service Verizon 5G Home began on 1 October in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Note that the mobile communication 5G the service is not available. Verizon uses mmWave technology for home connections. The…

  • Found a new way to hack iPhone using Siri

    Another way to circumvent the security system Apple found and showed in the video the user Jose Rodriguez (Jose Rodriguez). Vulnerability in the new iOS 12 allows you to bypass the password and get access to photos and contacts on a locked iPhone. A similar method was discovered in 2013 on iOS 7, but then…