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Artifacts found in AmsterdamScreenshot: Shared with permission from Peter Kranendonk Amsterdam was settled at the beginning of the last millennium after a major flood at the mouth of the river Amstel altered the surrounding landscape to make it a strategic location. It soon became a trading and shipping city, and urban development began in 1300.…

Photo: AP The UK government’s Home Office released a report this week announcing plans for a forthcoming centralized biometric database of its citizens, compiling DNA, fingerprint, face, and possibly even voice data for law enforcement to access and share, according to the Telegraph. In addition to helping local police solve crimes, the Home Office report…

The ‘Tinder’ app logo is seen amongst other dating apps on a mobile phone screen on November 24, 2016 in London, England.Photo: Getty Tinder may be known primarily as a millennial hookup app but thanks to a little pressure from a 69-year-old, married Baby Boomer senator, the dating service is more secure. Tinder parent company…

Screenshot: YouTube Patreon, the service of choice for independent artists and creators, has once again cracked down on adult content makers. This week, a slew of Patreon creators who make suggestive material received notification that their pages were suspended or shut down. According to a report from Motherboard, the primary reason given to those hit…

Chinese company Vivo introduced the new frameless version of the smartphone V9. The model with the telling title Vivo V9 got 6GB more RAM and switched to a more powerful chipset and the new configuration of the cameras. If in the standard version Vivo V9 uses 4 GB of RAM and Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 626,…

In Russia will start to use electronic employment record from 2020. This was told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a government meeting. This will create a database that will store information about the whole labour activity. This will allow you to get rid of the problems associated with the loss and fake books or just…

Brand Alcatel, owned by Chinese TCL Communication, at the February MWC 2018 presented a number of novelties along with your first Android smartphone Oreo (Go edition) — Alcatel 1X. Now at MWC Shanghai hosted a presentation of a new budget smartphone Alcatel 1, also based on Android Oreo (Go edition), optimized for entry-level models. Alcatel…

Company OPPO announced the imminent start of sales in China of its new flagship smartphone the Find X. In Europe it should appear only in August. In China Oppo Find X available in red and blue colors at a price of about $ 754 for the version with 128 GB and $ 905 for 256…

It became known that Motorola, now owned by Chinese Lenovo is preparing not just a smartphone One Motorola Power based on the platform Android One, but another model. Details about her and render engines shared core resource AndroidHeadlines, citing a “reliable” source. Motorola One Motorola and One Power According to the source, the smartphone will…

Photo: Getty Thanks to poorly secured backend databases, a few thousand mobile apps are leaking an abundance of sensitive data, including personal health information, plaintext passwords, and financial transactions, according to researchers.  Mobile security firm Appthority disclosed the leaks this week, pinning the blame on app developers who have failed to properly authenticate to the…