Drains

Apple has allowed yet another fraudulent app to sneak through its review process, and this one managed to scam several users out of thousands of dollars. On February 16, the developers of Rabby Wallet warned that a fake iOS app was impersonating their crypto wallet on Apple’s App Store. Ironically, the legitimate app was still under review by Apple, while the fake app was live for days before Apple finally removed it from the App Store on Monday. 🚨 A FAKE iOS app has resurfaced. Please note that our iOS app is…

Ever found yourself scrolling through social media late at night and accidentally buying something you regretted? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to an advertising expert about recent research into how social media can overload our brains and make us buy products we don’t need or want. Matthew Pittman is a professor of advertising at the University of Tennessee in the US. In 2022, Pittman and his colleague Eric Haley, conducted three online studies on Americans aged 18-65 to examine…

Here once again are the strangest ever comic-book heroes; they have featured in movies and TV shows for decades but are still so evergreen in their oddity that their wacky high-concept premise – mutant masked underground crime-fighting turtles with a love of pizza and the names of Renaissance artists – pretty much has to be explained all over again every time they are revived.Well, this new animated origin story for the chelonian adventurers is unexpectedly funny, with a rather stylish crepuscular design. You’ve heard of…

The Galaxy S23 Ultra is one of the most expensive smartphones one can buy today. If someone buys the phone and loses it, they will try every way possible to find it. But what if they drop the phone in a reservoir that holds 6.5 billion liters of water? Then they would probably not try retrieving the device. However, an Indian government official went to unimaginable lengths to find his Galaxy S23 Ultra. Rajesh Vishwas, a government-appointed food inspector in Chattisgarh, India, accidentally dropped his Galaxy S23 Ultra…

Image Source : PIXABAY These mobile games consume maximum data in India: Know why Popular mobile games in India like Call of Duty Mobile, and Carrom Pool: Disc Game, Candy Crush Saga have been identified as some of the most data-intensive games. This analysis revealed that these games gather up to 17 out of 32 various data points, which encompass personal information…

A government official in India has been suspended from his job after he ordered a water reservoir to be drained so he could retrieve his smartphone, which he had dropped while taking a selfie. Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped his Samsung smartphone in Kherkatta dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week, The Times of India newspaper reported. Vishwas first asked local divers to jump into the reservoir to find the device, claiming it contained sensitive government data. But after the initial efforts…

Android smartphones from various manufacturers have reportedly been found to be infected with malware out-of-the-box, affecting users from multiple countries including India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, Russia, and the US. The software can compromise the affected user's privacy and lead to a poor user experience due to excessive battery usage. The Guerrilla malware can also update itself and implant additional software on the victim's phone to collect personal data and inject ads into regular apps, according to security…

Samsung One UI 5.1 based on Android 13 was announced during the launch of the Galaxy S23 series in February. While the update brought several improvements to the devices, including an enhanced camera experience, it was reported to cause excess battery draining on Samsung Galaxy devices. Specifically, the Samsung Keyboard app was said to increase the battery usage on the devices. Now, Samsung, too, has confirmed the issue on its community page for Malaysia. The company has also shared the fix to this problem by bringing in…

Facebook as a company has a troubled reputation, thanks in part due to its unethical practices. Now, a former Facebook data scientist, George Hayward, who worked on Facebook Messenger, has accused the company of “negative testing,” a technique which allows companies like Facebook to run down the battery life of users’ phones without their knowledge to test features, images, and app performance.As reported by The New York Post, Meta fired George for refusing to take part in the negative testing process. He then filed a…

Over the last year, Big Tech firms have laid off over 70,000 people worldwide. Workers at major technology companies such as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, and Salesforce have been laid off in large numbers. Tesla, Netflix, Snap, and Spotify have also cut several jobs, but their layoffs are markedly smaller than larger firms. A former Meta employee has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the firm, claiming that Facebook knowingly drains users' phone batteries under the guise of testing features. The ex-worker…