Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For many nation states, cyber warfare has become an attractive option because it can be conducted without making great efforts or consuming a lot of resources. And while most people think these attacks are conducted directly by a government, government-sponsored hacking…
Acer’s Little Modular PC Magnetically Snaps Together Like Lego Blocks
Acer’s Mini Modular PC Has Lego-Like Blocks That Snap Together Acer just announced at the press conference, the Revo Build Mini PC, a little modular desktop computer that is made at home. It is a set of PC parts that are stackable and magnetically snap together like Lego blocks, making…
Facebook’s new digital assistant “M” is like Siri, Cortana or Google Now, but with a human touch
You might recall that last month we told you about a virtual digital assistant being dreamed up by Facebook, with the code name Moneypenny. Today, the new assistant has been introduced by Facebook, and it is being tested on the Facebook Messenger app. Called Facebook M, the assistant can do…
Study finds that Android lock patterns tend to be too simple, just like passwords
A study conduced by a woman named Marte Løge, a graduate of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, found that Android users choose to set similar lock patterns that might be too easy for others to figure out. The study looked at 4000 patterns created and discovered that 77% of…
Samsung’s gambit: Is dropping features and being more like Apple really that good of an idea?
What kind of industry is this? When you think about it, it really is ridiculous that an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars is seeing most of that dough go to just one single company — Apple. Yes, yes, Samsung makes money off Android devices, too, but nothing like…
Microsoft’s NewsCast app reads the news to you just like a radio does
Microsoft is working on a new app called NewsCast that is supposed to give you a more productive commute by reading the news to you over your phone. While available for iOS devices only, at the moment, the app is being tested internally at Redmond, although you can click on…
Do you like the design of the new Motorola phones? (poll results)
Yesterday, we sought to put an end to an internal argument: Are the new Motorola phones nicely designed? As we mentioned in our original post, we had a difference in opinions at the phoneArena offices, with some swearing by the new Moto look, whilst others felt they looked awfully generic,…
Leak shows how a Google Nexus 6 with a fingerprint reader would have looked like
Back in January, Motorola’s former CEO, Dennis Woodside, confirmed that Motorola and Google originally planned to equip last year’s Google Nexus 6 with a fingerprint reader. If you’ve been wondering how a fingerprint-sensing Nexus 6 would have looked like, a new leak from China might help. As the former Motorola CEO…
Police scrap anti-violence poster that looked like it showed an officer beating a person with a riot stick as they begged for mercy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A police force has scrapped an anti-violence poster after Twitter users said it showed an officer with a riot stick hitting a victim begging for mercy. The image was supposed to promote a campaign to stop drunk and violent people entering…
Hit racial hatred trolls with ‘internet asbos’ and treat them like sex offenders, MPs say
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans People who post racial hatred on social media should be treated like sex offenders and served with “internet asbos” banning them social networking sites and preventing them from hiding behind fake identities, a group of MPs alarmed by rising anti-semitism have…