LastPass introduces new pricing model that offers free option on smartphones
Password management app LastPass is receiving an update to their subscription model which could result in users being able to use the service for free if they are willing to limit themselves to one type of device. If they decide they want to expand to include other devices, an upgrade option to premium is then available. LastPass says the move was prompted by a desire to make LastPass “accessible for all users, including mobile-only users who need help managing their passwords and apps.”
The new system works based on the device that you get started on. For example, if you set up a new account using your smartphone, then LastPass can sync across all smartphones that you may use. Similarly, users can get started with a tablet or from the desktop. Since most users probably only have a single smartphone, the ability to sync across similar devices may not be too helpful, but the new model does mean that a user could stay on the free tier if they limit their use to just their smartphone.
If a user decides they want the cross-device support that comes with Premium, they can either go and subscribe for $12 per year or activate a 14-day free trial.
If you want to give LastPass a try on your Android smartphone or tablet, use the Google Play Store link below.
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Huawei’s first curved-screen phone headed to IFA
IFA will be held in Berlin from September 4-9. Among many manufactures headed to IFA to show off their latest and greatest gadgets will be Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei. On August 11, an alleged photo from GizChina reveals what could be Huawei’s first ever smartphone with a curved display.
The mysterious Huawei device pictured in the leaks has codename “007.” The picture shows us a slightly curved body and a SIM tray alongside a headphone jack at the top of the device. The body features an all-metal design and a premium chassis made of metal and glass. Signs point to the device being a new Honor model. No specs have surfaced on the device.
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UK to trial under-road wireless charging for EVs this year
Plug-in charging infrastructure like Tesla’s Supercharger network are currently helping drive the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), but the UK government is already looking towards a future where charging is also possible on the move. Highways England today announced its plan to start off-road testing of wireless charging tech that could allow EVs and hybrids to travel much longer distances on the UK’s major roads without needing to refuel. Trials are expected to start before the end of the year, just as soon as the right vehicle and under-road tech “to replicate motorway conditions” has been sourced. These should run for around 18 months, after which the hope is to progress to testing the wireless charging infrastructure on real roads.
The UK government has committed £500 million (roughly $780 million) to the project over the next five years, and the off-road trials follow a substantial feasibility study conducted by Highways England. It looked into everything from how the infrastructure could be installed under the UK’s major roads, how existing EVs and hybrids could be retrofitted to take advantage of it, and what specific type of “dynamic wireless power transfer” could be used. Though the trials are said to be the first of their kind, in that the end goal is to install it along major roads, Highways England has a lot of prior art to take inspiration from. Qualcomm’s Halo wireless charging tech was once earmarked for Formula E racetracks, for example, and South Korea already has electric buses running on special wireless charging routes.
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Via:
Wired
Source:
Highways England
Tags: ElectricVehicle, electricvehicles, ev, evs, highwaysengland, hybrid, hybrids, transportation, uk-feature, wirelesscharging
Hackers control connected cars using text messages
It’s not only Chrysler drivers that have to worry about hackers taking control of their cars from afar. UC San Diego researchers have found that you can control features on cars of many makes by exploiting vulnerabilities in cellular-capable dongles that are sometimes plugged into the vehicles’ OBD-II ports, such as insurance trackers and driving efficiency tools. In the example you see above, the security team compromised a Corvette touting a Mobile Devices dongle (one of the most common varieties) through everyday text messages — they could turn on the wipers or even cut the brakes. That same device is also set to allow remote tunneling using a universal ‘private’ key, making it easy for an intruder to get complete control over the adapter and its unfortunate host car.
You’ll be glad to hear that Mobile Devices has already patched its hardware in response to the findings, and that the phone numbers for these dongles aren’t normally public. You’d have to use brute force guesses to find a viable target. However, the concern is that other brands’ dongles still have holes, and that many of these gadgets aren’t getting updates in a timely fashion. It’s feasible that an intruder could cause chaos by either forcing vulnerable cars off the road or making life miserable for their occupants.
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Transportation
Via:
Wired
Source:
Mrlanrat (YouTube)
Tags: car, chevrolet, chevy, corvette, metromile, mobiledevices, obd-II, obd2, security, sms, transportation, ucsandiego, video
Feds charge nine hackers for $30M insider trading scheme
The Wall Street Journal reports that federal prosecutors are set to unseal charges Tuesday against nine hackers and stock traders involved in an insider trading operation that netted more than $30 million on illicit deals. The group to be charged allegedly had been conducting sophisticated cyber-attacks against newswire services in order to steal upcoming merger and acquisition information that had been uploaded to the newswire’s servers — but not yet published — and position their investments accordingly. The group was discovered after a multi-agency investigation involving the DHS, FBI, SEC and the Secret Service.
Authorities believe it to be the largest scheme of its kind discovered to date and part of a growing trend. Last winter, internet security firm, FireEye, warned the FBI about the activities of FIN4, a separate group of hackers that appear to only target specific pieces of information that could be used to gain various market advantages. “FIN4 is the first time we are seeing a group of very sophisticated attackers actually systematically acquire information that only has true value to a criminal when used in relation to the stock market,” Dan McWhorter, FireEye’s vice president of threat intelligence, told the FBI.
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Internet
Via:
The Hill
Source:
Wall Street Journal
Tags: crime, crimeandpunishment, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, FBI, FIN4, hacking, insider trading, InsiderTrading, newswire, SEC, SecretService
Galaxy S6 Edge+ to have enhanced Edge functionality
We are but only two days away from Samsung’s Unpacked event, where we’ll finally officially see the Note 5 and S6 Edge+. Leaks have given us tons of spoilers, but there are still questions. One of these is if Samsung has taken the time after debuting the S6 Edge to concoct more features and make those curved edges more worthwhile.
Being an S6 Edge owner myself, I’ve begun to question if I would buy another Edge device. While the edges are neat, they seem a bit superfluous. Fortunately, it seems like Samsung has recognized that and will bring more Edge exclusive features.
According to a report via Phone Probe, the “People edge” feature in the S6 Edge+ will be enhanced. Previously, all you could do was store five favorite contacts, with the options to call, text, or e-mail them. Now, the feature will have a second page, which can store five favorite application shortcuts.
Samsung has also added functions to your contacts. When you select a contact, you’ll open up “OnCircle” and have six shortcuts now: call, video chat, message, e-mail, send a picture, and even send an emoticon.
This is all we have for now, so stay tuned to hear more about the S6 Edge+ from Samsung’s Unpacked event on Thursday!
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Leaked documents reveal the Galaxy S7 might use the Snapdragon 820
A few days ago we revealed leaked specs for the Snapdragon 820. And if you may remember, Samsung ditched Qualcomm and used their homebrewn Exynos 7420 chipsets in the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge flagships. We can’t really blame them with that wise choice. However, if these leaked documents are anything to come by, we may see Sammy using Snapdragon again in the Galaxy S7 series. S7 Series? Yes, manufacturers plan their devices years before release, and this one is no different.
We apologize for the poor quality, but hey, even those UFO videos don’t offer the best quality. You can see the ‘MSM8996′ codename, which we reported a short time ago was the codename for the Snapdragon 820. We can also see it is running Android M.
We might actually see Samsung having 2 variants of the S7, an Exynos version and a Snapdragon version. They’ve done this before, and as leaks reveal the 820 might score less than the Exynos 7420 in benchmarks, it quite frankly won’t surprise us.
What do you think? Is Samsung doing the right thing?
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Get your news with Veooz (app review)
Veooz is a Flipboard-esque app that want to be your new news reader. It brings a few unique features to the table. Will it be enough to stand out among the hundreds of other news apps that are on the market already? Read on.
Veooz overview
If you’re familiar with Android’s design language in KitKat, then Veooz’s interface will be pretty easy to use. It doesn’t incorporate Lollipop’s material design, but I don’t feel that it’s needed with this app.
It’s pretty easy to get started. When you first open the app it will walk you through a tutorial and will give you the option to select from topics that interest you. Unfortunately, you can only select from the topics that they suggest, but they do have most topics that you could think of…
The app feels very similar to Flipboard. You flip up through the articles like Flipboard, but without the flipping animation.
Veooz has a unique feature called “360” that will pull up related articles that can potentially offer alternative viewpoints. I found this to be handy especially in regards to political articles where opposing viewpoints are important. It was also handy in pulling up other articles that could offer more information not covered by the original.
Once you’ve clicked the 360 icon, you can also select buzz from the menu at the top. That will allow you to read trending tweets that relate to the article.
Another feature that is nice is the local news option. All you have to do is select the local option in the left menu and select your city. If your city does not show up, you may need to try another larger city in the vicinity. Smaller cities didn’t show up the feed. The developer may want to consider adding a feature where the closest local feed would show up instead of nothing.
Other features that I liked were the ability to open images and videos within the app independently of the article and the option to read the text of the article only without ads taking up precious screen real estate.
The one complaint that I have about Veooz is that you are unable to add your own sources. Some sort of pseudo-RSS support would be a great feature to add and would take care of my complaint.
Veooz setup
There isn’t much to setup other than installing it from Google Play and selecting your topics and local news feed.
Who will enjoy Veooz
If you enjoy reading the news, then this app will work good for you. There are some great features that make reading and discovering the news an easy proposition. However, if you want to read news from specific sites, then you’ll want to look at a dedicated RSS reader.
What we liked:
- 360 feature
- Text only option
- Local news
What could be better:
- RSS support
- Better local news search
Veooz summary
Overall this is a nice app. I think that if I hadn’t already discovered the wonderful world of RSS feeds, then I would use this app much more. I think this app works better as a news discovery option, but for others who have certain sites that they prefer, then they may want to stick with a dedicated RSS reader and use Veooz as way of finding new sites that you might want to follow.
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Lenovo-backed ZUK Z1 is an affordable device with USB-C and USB 3.1
2015 is the year of affordability it seems. Not only have we seen some killer budget devices like the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 and the Asus ZenFone 2, we’ve also been greeted with several flagship-level devices that still manage to undercut the likes of LG and Samsung, such as the OnePlus 2, ZTE Axon, and the Motorola Moto X Pure (aka Style). And now the Lenovo-owned ‘startup’ ZUK has arrived to give users yet another affordable option with the ZUK Z1, which will be priced at just 1,799 yuan (roughly $280).
At first glance, the Z1 looks like a rather generic smartphone that takes inspiration from Samsung devices like the older Note 2, but there are a few features under the hood that make it stand out on its own. First and foremost, the Z1 has a Type-C USB port. While we’ve already seen this with the OP2, the big difference here is that the Z1 is actually a USB 3.1 port, meaning ultra-fast speeds in addition to the new cord standard. The phone also offers a rather massive 4,100 mAh battery, which should hopefully provide fairly solid battery life.
ZUK Z1’s competition
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In many ways, the Z1 is a near-flagship device, but one curious difference can be found in the processing package. Instead of giving us a Snapdragon 810 or 808, we see a much more modest Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor. The reason, according to ZUK, is that the chip provides much more constant reliability and stability over newer-gen Snapdragons. Given all the drama that Qualcomm has seen this year, that’s not entirely untrue either.
As for the rest of the specs, we’re looking at a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS display, 3GB RAM, 64GB storage, a 13MP main cam, 8MP front cam, dual nano-SIM slots, a fingerprint scanner, and a 4100 mAh battery. On the software front, you’ll find a customized ZUI ROM based on Android Lollipop.
Overall, the phone doesn’t look half bad. At the moment it is unclear if the phone will ever make its way outside of China (and perhaps its neighboring Asian countries), but if it did — would you be at all interested in considering one?
LastPass is now free to use on mobile devices, cross-platform syncing still requires subscription fee
LastPass is one of the most popular password managers available today, but to take advantage of all of its premium features, you’ll need to pay for a premium subscription. With that said, starting today users will begin to have a little more freedom with the service without having to pay an extra cost. LastPass is now free to use on mobile devices, including both smartphones and tablets, and passwords can now be synced across any one platform for free.
In the past, users would be able to take advantage of LastPass for free on the computer, but would still need to pay a premium for mobile syncing. Not that’s changed, allowing users to sign up for and use LastPass on mobile without having to access a computer. After all, there are many folks who use LastPass solely on mobile devices, so this move makes sense.
Related: LastPass urges users to update their master passwords following recent security breach
This new “freemium” model also allows first-time LastPass users to sync passwords across any one platform at no extra charge. So, if you were to sign up for LastPass on your Android smartphone, you’d also be able to access your passwords on your Android tablet without needing to upgrade to LastPass Premium. This new model works the same way for computers, as well. If you’d like to sync cross-platform, though, you’ll need to bite the bullet and pay the $12/year LastPass Premium fee.
If you’d like some more details on LastPass’ new freemium model, head to the source link below.
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