16-Year-Old PUBG Mobile Addict in India Dies After Skipping Meals, Water for Days

16-Year-Old PUBG Mobile Addict in India Dies After Skipping Meals, Water for Days Another young chap lost his life toPUBG Mobile addictionearlier this week. Yeah, the COVID-19 pandemic has everyone stuck at home to curb the spread. This has led a lot of young individuals to resort to gaming in their free time. A 16-year-old boy recently passed away while playing the popular battle royale game, PUBG Mobile, days on end without taking any breaks....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 357 words · Jeffrey Rangel

95% Chinese iPhone Users Would Abandon Apple Instead of Leaving WeChat: Survey

95% Chinese iPhone Users Would Abandon Apple Instead of Leaving WeChat: Survey Recently, US President Donald Trump signed an executive orderbanning TikTok parent ByteDance, and WeChatfrom any transactions with US companies. This order could mean that Apple will be forced to remove WeChat from the App Store across the world. Earlier, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had said thatremoving WeChat could result in a 30% declinein iPhone sales because of its impact on Chinese audiences, and now another survey is highlighting a similar potential issue for Apple....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 408 words · Amy Welch

Airtel Offering 1000GB Additional Data with New Xstream Fiber Connections

Airtel Offering 1000GB Additional Data with New Xstream Fiber Connections As we continue our extended work from home, forced vacation of sorts, having reliable and fast internet connection is of utmost importance. As a result, ISPs have been offering new and exciting features, speeds, and plans to capitalise on these new, more intensive requirements. Airtel is today trying to make its own Fiber service, Airtel Xstream Fiber Broadband, more appealing to potential customers by offering an additional 1000GB of data with new connections....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 350 words · Diana Ray

Amazon Alexa Could Have Been Hacked to Access Private Data, Voice History

Amazon Alexa Could Have Been Hacked to Access Private Data, Voice History Researchers at cyber-security firm, Check Point, have detailed multiple critical vulnerabilities inAmazon’s Alexa voice assistant, making it highly susceptible to hacking. In a report published today, the researchers said that certain Amazon/Alexa subdomains were vulnerable to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) misconfiguration and Cross Site Scripting.“Using the XSS we were able to get the CSRF token and perform actions on the victim’s behalf”, they said in an official blog post....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 313 words · Jacqueline Lane

Amazon Surpasses Flipkart to Become India’s Top Online Smartphone Channel: Report

Amazon Surpasses Flipkart to Become India’s Top Online Smartphone Channel: Report Amazon India surpassed Flipkart to emerge as the top online smartphone channel in the second quarter of 2020, according to a new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research.Amazon had a 47 percent market share, followed closely byFlipkart at 42 percent. As per the report, smartphones from Xiaomi, Samsung, and OnePlus accounted the most for Amazon’s smartphone shipments. Notably,nine out of ten smartphone models on Amazon were from Xiaomi and Samsung....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 315 words · Amber Perez

Chrome for Windows Now Lets You Create an ‘Incognito Mode’ Desktop Shortcut

Chrome for Windows Now Lets You Create an ‘Incognito Mode’ Desktop Shortcut Google is looking to make it easier for users to access the Incognito Mode, right from their desktop on Windows PCs. This feature was first spotted earlier this week in the form of a Chrome flag. But, it wasn’t functional back then. Today, however, you can create a desktop shortcut for opening an Incognito window with a click....

August 14, 2020 · 3 min · 437 words · Valerie Bryan

Epic Games is Suing Apple and Google for Removing Fortnite

Epic Games is Suing Apple and Google for Removing Fortnite Epic Games announced up to 20 percent permanent discount on Fortnite’s in-game currency V-Bucks as part of ‘Fornite Mega Drop’. Alongside this, thecompany announced a direct payment system as a workaround to escape 30 percent feelevied by Apple and Google. This move violates Apple and Google’s app store policies and as a result, both of the companiesremoved Fortnite from their stores....

August 14, 2020 · 2 min · 414 words · Jared Wood
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