Samsung Electronics has appointed Roh Tae-moon its new mobile chief, taking over from co-ceo DJ Koh, who’ll continue to lead the chaebol’s IT and mobile communications division. Roh, 52, is said to be “an engineering maven,” according to Bloomberg, “who’s meticulous about phone features.” Roh joined Samsung in 1997 and has been a key player […]
Instagram is removing the IGTV shortcut button from the top right corner of the Facebook-owned app’s home screen, reports TechCrunch. First launched in June 2018, IGTV is Instagram’s long-form video service that was originally meant to rival the likes of YouTube. Instagram says it decided to remove the button after discovering that relatively few people […]
Many of you out there have already decided on your next phone, the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G. This will be Samsung’s top-of-the-line flagship for the first half of 2020 and is expected to be introduced on February 11th alongside the Galaxy S20 5G, Galaxy S20+ 5G, and the Galaxy Z Flip. Today, concept designer […]
Microsoft has long touted longer battery life as an advantage of the Edge browser and when they adopted the Chromium rendering engine they submitted many of their tricks and techniques to the Chromium open-source project. Now it appears the improvements may actually be adopted, Google Chrome engineer, ‘Chrome Cunningham’ confirming that Google plans to implement […]
Back in 2018, Instagram launched its longform video brand IGTV. We’re less than a month into 2020 and maybe the most prominent way to access IGTV is going away. TechCrunch reported Saturday that Instagram would remove the IGTV button that appears at the top right corner of users’ home screens in the main Instagram app. […]
Mozilla isn’t the only one grappling with a serious web browser security flaw. Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will fix an Internet Explorer security exploit already being used for “limited targeted attacks.” The vulnerability lets attackers corrupt memory used for the scripting engine in IE9, IE10 and IE11 in a way that would […]
The new Windows CryptoAPI CVE-2020-0601 vulnerability disclosed by the NSA can be abused by malware developers to sign their executables so that they appear to be from legitimate companies. This creates trust in the program, which may cause a user to be more willing to execute them. Most of the coverage of this vulnerability illustrates […]
Apple has started testing the location toggle button it promised to iPhone 11 users. Late last year, security researcher Brian Krebs discovered that the iPhone 11 Pro constantly checks for your location even if you disable Location Services. Apple explained that it’s because the new phones, including the non-pro iPhone 11, use an ultra wideband […]
Lenovo hasn’t made the best bets in virtual reality so far, but it seems like the company’s about to try again — according to a new FCC filing for the “Lenovo VR3030S,” which company docs identify as an upcoming standalone VR headset. Standalone means that like Lenovo’s previous Mirage Solo or the Oculus Quest, it […]
President Donald Trump’s bizarre friendship with his buddy Tim Cook is in trouble. With Apple once again refusing to allow the FBI to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone (two of them, actually, this time around), the president sent out a tweet the other day that said, “We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE […]
The second beta of iOS 13.3.1, released earlier this month, includes a toggle for disabling the Ultra Wideband chip in the device. Found by Twitter user Brandon Butch (via 9to5Mac), the toggle can be found by opening up the Settings app, selecting Privacy, choosing Location Services, selecting System Services, and then toggling off the “Networking […]
If you’re already a Google Fi customer, then you know that the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) does not allow you to use Google Voice. Although Google Fi and Google Voice numbers on the same account aren’t possible when using the former’s services, the search giant is taking the first steps towards making both these […]
