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so fresh intriguing are Hound, the conversational virtual assistant from SoundHound that can decipher elaborate queries, supernatural adventure game Fahrenheit: Indigo ophecy Remastered. Streamlined walkie talkie app Roger zany arcade game Thumb Drift round out this week’s picks, you can find out much more about each below. Clash Royale You might have already heard about Clash Royale, as it soft-launched weeks back in several other countries, but now it’s available everywhere....

In Summary Chaos Control is a GTD-based task manager that lets you prioritize tasks and actions to stay on top of your projects. Prioritizing actions helps you cut down on unnecessary clutter and anxiety, which, in turn, makes it easier to focus on important matters on your agenda. Using Chaos Control, you can manage your goals and plan your actions accordingly in both your professional and personal life. Chaos Control is available both on computers and on cell phones, so you are always in the loop wherever you are....

“After a slow start, Europeans now recognize cloud for its support for new apps and also as affordable compute and storage for existing ones,” it said. While European businesses have undergone a major shift to cloud in pursuit of speed, scalability and innovation, the top concerns over using public cloud were security and privacy around data protection and disaster recovery (32%), and application security and protection (31%). Lesser concerns were lack of internal governance over public cloud storage (26%), lack of performance (23%), and compliance (21%)....

Assembling jigsaw puzzles is fun, and there’s always a great deal of satisfaction when you slide that last piece into place. But there’s not a whole lot that can beat finishing a puzzle and winning money when you do. And now, you can win anywhere between $1 to $1 million with The 2 Million Dollar Puzzle. That’s right. MSCHF, the company that brought you The Million Dollar Puzzle, is back with another chance to win big....

This year has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride for the CyanogenMod team. First, the founders and core members of the team founded a company — Cyanogen Inc. — with an aim to become the third largest eco-system in the mobile world. This led to some community backlash initially, and some members leaving the team, but all is well now. Then last week, the company received another $23 million in funding allowing it to look beyond smartphones....

Riding on the problem is a memo that only worsens the situation: in it, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth implies that it is okay to expose the user if that makes the social network grow. Known for being outspoken and not measuring words, Bosworth is a high-ranking member of the social network giant Facebook and currently serves as vice president of the company’s virtual reality division. He knows how few behind the scenes and plans the company, after all, went to work on Facebook in 2006 when the social network was still strongly focused on connecting students....

The digital currency is created through a process called crypto mining. Many people have gone to great lengths to develop elaborate crypto mining operations, spending thousands of dollars on high-end machines that run day and night. Others have taken to sneakier methods for hopefully getting rich. That’s when cybercriminals use the power of someone else’s computer to do the work. Now, a popular antivirus software company is openly adding crypto mining to its user’s devices and taking a cut of the earnings....

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is the most radioactive device of today and the tech giant Apple itself advises its all iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users simply to keep the iPhone 7 away from the head. As the tech giant Apple says that “The iPhone has been examined and appears “applicable limits” for RF exposure, but obviously, that’s not good enough to hold the phone against your head”....

What is Ransomware? If you don’t know, Ransomware is a type of malicious program that prevents victims from accessing their files and folders. The creator of Ransomware encrypts the victim’s documents, pictures, databases, and other files and demands a ransom to decrypt them back. A few years ago, we saw a massive ransomware attack known as Wannacry or WannaCryptor. The Ransomware targeted computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. How to Secure Your PC from Ransomware attacks?...

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It is something that Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has accustomed us to. Date indicated in the calendar, new functions for Facebook and for its messaging application. No, this time it’s not WhatsApp, but Facebook Messenger that receives new details, animations and Valentine’s extras for couples to show eternal love. It seems that Valentine’s Day is one of the most active in terms of chat. Couples do not stop throwing cuddles in the form of messages....

But sometimes you want something a little easier on the eye, Falcon o 3 is a good choice. Third-party Twitter clients have to fight an uphill battle: the social network caps the number of users who can connect with any given third-party Twitter app, impairing one’s ability to grow a large user base. It’s been a thorn in the side to Falcon o developer aquin Verges in the past, as after hitting the limit too many times he gave up on updating the rather excellent Falcon o....

If you or someone you know needs to file, there is a way to speed up the process. Tap or click here for an app that can help. The sheer number of unemployed has led to an outbreak of criminals filing fake unemployment claims in unsuspecting victims’ names. Not only that, but cybercriminals are now creating spoofed unemployment sites, luring victims there by sending spam text messages and emails to steal personal information....

While Google may have released Android 4.4 KitKat, some OEMs are yet to update their device to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Samsung is one such company, busy working on the Jelly Bean update for the Note 2. Two test firmware for the Note 2 leaked back in October, giving us a glimpse of all the new features that the update would include. The Android 4.3 update would be the first Android OS version update that the Note 2 will receive ever since it was launched last year in September....

The LG G6 is still a few months away from its official unveiling, but first renders of the phone have already made their way to the internet. The renders show that the G6 will carry a design similar to the G5, right down to the fingerprint scanner and dual-camera setup at the rear. The dimensions do suggest that the G6 will be slightly slimmer than its predecessor (72.43 vs 73....

When Microsoft purchased Nokia’s mobile division, they also took with them most of Nokia’s engineering talent. Although Steve Ballmer tried to reenergize the Lumia smartphone brand, Satya Nadella has killed Lumia slowly but surely. Under Nadella, Microsoft took a huge impairment charge for Nokia, laid off several Nokia engineers as part of job cuts and killed/axed almost all Lumia smartphones under development. The part of Nokia that was responsible for designing smartphones and smartphone related R&D is pretty much dead now....

The most important trend I’ve written about, perhaps my biggest obsession, has been the disruption of the media industry business model using the technologies of the Internet. I’ve long recognized that the emergence of the web is a powerful publishing technology; the development of what was called Web 2.0, coupled with the explosive use of blogging technologies, added a powerful additional feature. There is a double use -– the computer screen is both the publication and printing press — in that screen can also publish back....

Windows is the most used operating system worldwide. I have met a lot of IT guys in my country and also other computer elites. My discovery was that 90 percent of them use Windows. I felt maybe that was just in my country, then I decided to contact some friends from UK, USA, India, and Pakistan, and they said the same about the wide use of Windows OS in their countries....

It’s no secret anymore that Big Tech tracks what we do and packages up our data to sell to advertisers. Tap or click to stop one of the biggest offenders, Facebook, from following you around the web. If you’re super privacy-conscious, maybe you’re ready to nuke your private info floating around the web — or as much as you can, at least. Tap or click to erase yourself from the internet....

Net profit after tax rose 55% year-on-year to NZ$42 million, operating revenue increased by NZ$6 million to NZ$483 million, while EBITDA jumped from NZ$326 million to NZ$347 million. As Chorus continues transitioning away from copper-based services, fibre broadband once again took up a larger share of the telco’s total revenue when compared to years prior by chipping in NZ$267 million. Fibre broadband now accounts for 55% of the telco’s revenue, an increase of 7 percentage points compared to the same period in the year prior....