You can now link your Hello account to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn with Firefox Hello sharing. Those who click on the link will be able to begin a chat with you in Firefox Hello. Additionally, Project Silk brings better animation and scrolling to OS X, and Safe Browsing malware detection can now be downloaded for OS X and Linux. To use the new sharing option, you’ll first have to add your social networks by visiting Services for Firefox, clicking on each service you want to add, and then hitting the Activate Now button....

A new SUMO search experiment launched by Mozilla on September 6th, 2021 is testing 1% of the Desktop user base with Bing as the default search engine. The study is expected to probably run until the end of January 2022. “From Sept 6, 2021 1% of the Desktop user base will be experimenting with Bing as the default search engine. The study will last into early 2022, likely wrapping up by the end of January,” reads the SUMO study description for September 2021....

This software focuses on military-grade voice recognition and authentication. The other product that the company is working is called KnuPath, which is basically a processor that is designed to offer a new architecture for neural computing. Goldin stated in an interview about how he came to founding the startup: KnuEdge’s starting principle was being focused on speech recognition in the presence of noise. It essentially authenticates a person’s voice for computers, web and mobile apps, and IoT devices with only a few words spoken into a microphone in any language and in real-world noisy conditions, and potential industries that could take advantage of such a thing is the health-care, banking and entertainment industry....

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes close-ups of Ceres’s strange white spots but can’t explain themNASA’s Dawn has taken close-ups of the strange and intriguing white patches seen in the middle of the huge Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s first orbiting revealed that Ceres showed more evidence of geological activity on its surface such as landslides. The first footage from Dawn spacecraft also revealed some strange and intriguing white patches in the middle of a huge and dark crater....

Ubuntu Snappy Core 15.04 has received internal modifications in order to work perfectly with Linux kernel 4.2, and it uses the linux-raspi2 package that was shipped by the Ubuntu Kernel team recently on the official Ubuntu software repositories. The all new Ubuntu Snappy Core 15.04 boasts of several new features including a port that now has a fully supported Linux kernel package. Among the most important ones, are the new I2C and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) communication protocols, as well as the enablement of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) access by default....

More and more smartphones are expected to be upgraded to Android 6.0 in the forthcoming months. It seems that the team now wants to reduce the time between the release of Android 6.0 Marshmallow and what would then be CyanogenMod 13, and so the team has made an early start. CyanogenMod 13, which is based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, is already in the works, as the team working on CyanogenMod has started updating the relevant code on their public Gerrit repository....

Leaked specifications reveal that the Nexus 6 successor will feature a 5.7-inch 2K OLED display manufactured by Samsung with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor on the inside. The reports suggests that rumors of Samsung supplying the screen for Huawei’s Mate 8 phablet are likely to be true. The two devices are also likely to use identical displays. The decision to go with a 2K display comes as a surprise given that Huawei has been critical of giving consumers this level of resolution on smaller screens, expressing concerns over battery life and whether it can be viewed with the naked eye....

Now, we have another instance in which a Canadian man claims that his Nexus 6P handset exploded in the middle of the night while it was charging. Luckily, it seems that there were no injuries sustained. The Reddit user whose handle goes by the name ‘yamz66’ claims, “It was around 3AM and I woke up to a loud pop and was immediately in a thick cloud of smoke, sparks, and a bright red glow coming from my phone on my night stand, the same place it had been since the day I purchased it Nov 1, 2015....

Camera: 3.2 MP Dual sim standby time: upto 26 days System: GSM 900/1800 + WLAN; GSM 850/1900 +WLAN User Interface: Nokia Asha Softwrae Platform Dimension: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm (H x W x T) Talk time: up to 17 hours 4GB Micro SD included in box, expandable upto 32GB Display: 3.0″ QVGA TFT Capacitive Display. Connectivity: Micro USB connector and Charging, 3.5 mm AV jack, 2mm charger connector....

According to the latest reports, two Nokia Android smartphones will be made by Finland’s HMD Global. The reports suggest that the smartphones might be available to buyers before the end of this year. The reports also suggest that Nokia will bring out two versions, one with 5.2-inch display and the other with 5.5-inch display. Both the Nokia Android smartphones will sport 2K resolution (QHD) displays and will come with IP68 certification, which effectively means they will be highly resistant to water and dust on the similar lines to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy S7....

The widespread malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users is believed to be carried out by the “Lazarus Group,” a state-sponsored hacking group linked to the North Korean government. According to researchers, this group has been involved in some notable crimes, such as the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, an $81 million Bangladesh cyber theft in 2016 and the worldwide WannaCry ransomware attacks in May this year. Citing the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reported that the cyberattacks credited to North Korean hackers also included the leaking of personal information from 36,000 accounts from South Korea’s biggest and one of the top five cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Bithumb, in June....

Work in Progress Anbox is described by its creator as a container based approach to boot a fully functional Android OS on top of a Linux Distro. Right now though, it is limited to Ubuntu. The project utilizes Linux Containers technology to achieve this. Alongside this, it also promises an integration of every Android app into the existing desktop environment of your Linux distro. Thus making them seem like any other application....

However, Windows 95 would still give many among us some nostalgic moments. Would you like to relive those moments? Yes now you can, thanks to Andrea Faulds, a 19-year-old developer in Scotland, who has managed to get Windows 95 to function fully in the browser without any plugins. Visiting Fauld’s masterpiece in the browser is a incredible nostalgic moment. The 20-year-old operating system comes fully functional in pure JavaScript which is amazing....

Earlier this year, Privacy International got a legal victory, according to which, if a person requests the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal to search the data GCHQ obtained from the NSA for information collected on them, they would have to do so. Further, the Tribunal are required to provide the information, if they find something. However, the catch is that the request has to be made before December 5, 2015. To make it easier, Privacy International has provided “Did GCHQ Illegally Spy on You?...

According to Nvidia, the GTX 1660Ti is aimed at those users who are still playing on systems with GeForce GTX 960-levels of performance, or with GPUs slower. Like the GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GTX 1660 Ti features numerous architectural enhancements that accelerate performance, improve efficiency, and deliver a superior gaming experience. Built on 12th-Gen Turing Architecture, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does not feature any Tensor Cores or the RTX cores, which means no ray tracing or DLSS....

OnePlus Nord N10 5G: Specifications The OnePlus Nord N10 5G features a 6.49-inch FHD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution display with a 90Hz refresh rate that brings a fast and smooth display experience, whether you are gaming or watching videos on the smartphone. It comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which can be expanded up to 512GB via microSD card for storing all your favorite apps, games, movies, and songs....

There is rumour in the market that the “OnePlus 2” is the next phone from OnePlus and Courtesy to information leaked online by benchmarking app, GeekBench, there is a device named OnePlus One A2001. This information confirmed that OnePlus 2 will come with Snapdragon 810 SoC. A report on GizChina had also noted how OnePlus CEO Pete Lau had said that OnePlus 2 is likely to be launched in the third quarter of 2015....

Especially, OnePlus has problems with problems sending MMS on some carriers, Bluetooth connectivity with in-car systems and most importantly issues with touch screen sensitivity. However, though, it looks now like these problems are finally fixed. There is finally some good news for the users of OnePlus One, as the latest release of Cyanogen OS Version YNG1TAS2I3 is meant to fix all the above three problems. The same was posted on the Cyanogen’s website....

Oppo Joy Plus is a natural successor to its predecessor to Oppo Joy. It sports a 4-inch WVGA display which gives a resolution of 480x800p display. Oppo stated that the Oppo Joy Plus will be available in white coloured variant with a frost matte gold frame and another variant with blue rear cover and electroplated frame. Oppo Joy Plus is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6572 dual-core processor. It will run on 1GB RAM and have an internal storage of 4GB which can be expanded upto 32GB through a microSD card expansion slot....

The vulnerability has been deemed as critical and assigned CVE-2016-5696. Called the Linux TCP Bug, the flaw affects about 80 percent of all Android devices in circulation which means a billion plus Android smartphone owners should be worried. Android operating system is affected by this bug because Android ecosystem is built on a modified version of the Linux kernel. The Linux TCP Bug allows potential hackers probe servers or users for active connections and then sniff the packet sequence....