EasyJet Admits 9 Million Customers Hacked
EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”. In a statement it said: “We take issues of security...
Samsung Announces 50-Megapixel Camera Sensor With AutoFocus
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced Samsung ISOCELL GN1, a new 50-megapixel (Mp) image sensor with large 1.2μm-sized pixels. The ISOCELL GN1 is Samsung’s first image sensor to offer both Dual Pixel and Tetracell technologies. Thanks to the relatively larger...
How To Make A Facebook Avatar
Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last year in other countries. Similar to Snapchat’s Bitmoji, the feature allows Facebook users to create a cartoon avatar of themselves. They can use the avatar in comments, Facebook...
Who Is Ignoring Your Follow Request On Instagram? Find Out Here
Have you ever wished for actually seeing who is ignoring your follow request on Instagram? Many Instagram users may not be familiar with this but there is a way in which we can actually see our pending follow requests. Here, we will talk about an...
Supercomputers Hacked Across Europe To Mine Cryptocurrency
Several high-performance computers (HPCs) and data centers used for research projects have been shut down this week across Europe due to security incidents. Security incidents have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, while a similar intrusion is rumored to have also happened at...
Apple Details Its Plan To Safely Reopen More Than 25 US Locations Next Week
Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores. Apple shut all of its stores outside Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China...
Zoom Hit With Sunday Morning Outage
Users of video conferencing platform Zoom are reporting issues internet hosting and becoming a member of conferences and the corporate is investigating, in response to the its status page. “Our team is investigating the root cause of issues joining Zoom Meetings. These issues appear to...
Google Chrome Will Soon Allow Users To Group Their Tabs Together
The tech giant company Google is rolling out a new tool to organize tabs in its Chrome browser and group them together, it announced Wednesday. We’ve all been there: 27 browser tabs open and struggling to find the one we need. Google wants to help. Users can...
How To Use Windows Defender Offline In Windows 10
Windows Defender Offline is a powerful offline scanning tool that runs from a trusted environment, without starting your operating system. If you come across a threat that's hard to find and remove, you can use the Windows Defender Offline.
How To Block Emails On Gmail
It can get annoying when most of the emails you get are junk, spam, or simply unwanted. It’s time to take control of your inbox and start weeding out the culprits. Today we’ll show you how to block emails on Gmail.
What Is M.2 SSD?
An M.2 SSD is a solid-state drive (SSD) that conforms to a computer industry specification and is used in internally mounted storage expansion cards of a small form factor.
How To Use Scientific Calculator On Your iPhone
The iPhone and iPod touch includes a built-in calculator app that's easy to use and handy since it goes where ever you take your pocket-size iOS device. That calculator is pretty basic, but it also hides a full-featured scientific calculator, and all it takes to...
What Is CyberCrime? How To Protect Yourself Against Cybercrime
Cybercrime is a criminal activity that either targets or uses a computer, a computer network, or a networked device. Most, but not all, cybercrime is committed by cybercriminals or hackers who want to make money. Cybercrime is carried out by individuals or organizations.
Facebook Buys GIPHY As Part Of Instagram Team
Facebook has purchased the GIF-maker Giphy and plans to make it part of the Instagram team. A report from Axios values the deal at $400m (£330m), but Facebook would not confirm the final price. In a blog post, Instagram’s VP of Products Vishal Shah said...
Google Chrome Will Soon Block Battery-Draining Ads Automatically
They tech giant company google announced on a blog post that it will automatically block annoying resource-heavy ads on Google Chrome that drain your battery life. “We have recently discovered that a fraction of a percent of ads consume a disproportionate share of device resources,...
How To Get ‘GTA V’ For Free | Offer Until May 21, 2020
The Epic Game Store is letting you claim the Premium Edition of GTA V, which includes “the complete GTA V story, Grand Theft Auto Online and all existing gameplay upgrades and content,” according to the studio, as well as the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which gives you additional content and $1,000,000...
Carry Minati’s ‘YouTube vs TikTok’ Video Removed For Violating Youtube’s Terms Of Service
YouTuber Carry Minati’s ‘Youtube vs Tiktok’ video was remove from YouTube for violating its ‘terms of service’. According to YouTube’s Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy, “Content that threatens individuals is not allowed on YouTube. We also do not allow content that targets an individual with prolonged...
Facebook’s Messenger Rooms Is Now Available Globally
The social media giant Facebook announced on Thursday that Messenger Rooms is now available to everyone on both mobile and desktop. The product is a more feature-rich and expanded version of the existing Facebook Messenger’s video calling function, and it allows up to 50 people...
7 Amazon Employee Dies From COVID-19
An Amazon warehouse worker in Indianapolis, Indiana, has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. According to theverge, “The death brings the known total of COVID-19 deaths at Amazon warehouses to seven, but Amazon’s process for notifying workers makes the true number difficult to determine. Several...
Donald Trump Extends Huawei Ban Through May 2021
President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from working with or buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed a national security risk until May 2021, via Reuters. While the ban doesn’t explicitly call out specific companies, it’s been used to virtually shut down US operations with...
