YouTube Kids is on the horizon, brings kid friendly content to the right audience Feb 23rd
We live in a very connected world and that connected world isn’t restricted to adults. Children, more so now then ever before, have access to phones, tablets, laptops and computers on a daily basis. This access is good in many ways, but can be bad in others. A few weeks ago Vine stumbled upon an […]
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New RTS RPG, Hero Sky: Epic Guild Wars, headed to iOS and Android in March
A new real-time strategy role-playing game is on its way to iOS and Android next month. The title comes from indie developer Innospark. The indie team was part of the crew that brought South Korea Rule the Sky, which is apparently a hugely successful title. The team has been hard at work to carve out […]
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Microsoft OneDrive Beta gets Material Design face lift in first release [APK Download]
Another app is picking up a revamped Material Design makeover this week. Microsoft is jumping on board with the guidelines and making it known with the first ever beta release of Microsoft OneDrive. The beta release doesn’t appear to offer anything in the way of feature changes, but it does bring along a snazzy new […]
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BlackBerry update opens up Amazon App Store access for Android apps on all BlackBerry 10 devices
BlackBerry has revealed a pretty major software update for all of its BlackBerry 10 running devices. The build number carries version number 10.3.1 and brings in the BlackBerry Assistant, think Siri and Google Now. It also adds in a new feature called Blend that allows users to communicate via email, text, and other services while also […]
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Inbox by Gmail finally expands to tablets and other browsers
Back in October of 2014 Google launched its alternate take on Email with Inbox by Gmail. At the time you needed to register for an invite to gain access. Those that got accepted could then invite others with personal invites. The service is certainly cool and different. Those same factors gave it a hit and […]
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JXE Streams: Exploring the murderous beauty of ‘Apotheon’
This afternoon — as we do every Tuesday and Thursday — Joystiq X Engadget Streams is taking a trip back through Greek mythology with Alien Trap Games’ Apotheon on PS4. Already available on PC, it’s one of the free games this month for PlayStation Plus subscribers and brings 2D action that’s more than a little similar to the old Metroid and Castlevania games. For a fresh twist, it’s got this pottery-art graphic style and a unique combat system. Your hosts today are Edgar Alvarez and Richard Lawler, so tune into Twitch.tv/joystiq between 3PM and 5PM ET as we give it a try.
[We’re playing a digital copy of Apotheon on Playstation 4, streamed on an Elgato Game Capture HD with Open Broadcaster Software at 720p. The game itself is much, much prettier.]
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Lenovo will stop preloading Superfish adware on PCs
Lenovo found itself in a bit of hot water when some customers started noticing weird sponsored links in the search results on their brand new PCs. The culprit it turns out was a little piece of adware called Superfish the company was shipping on laptops. The company listened to customer complaints and turned off the server-side portion of the app in January. It also stopped pre-installing Superfish on new machines around the same time. While Lenovo said originally that it had “temporarily removed” the software from new machines while its developers worked on an update to address concerns, it now says that it will not preload the software ever again.
This is a problem. #superfish pic.twitter.com/jKDfSo99ZR
– Kenn White (@kennwhite) February 19, 2015
The add-on analyzes images and offers up ads for the same or similar products at a lower price. This, in and of itself, is slightly troublesome. But what really set off alarms was when users discovered how it worked; It installs a “man-in-the-middle” certificate that would allow Superfish and other parties to look at data from secure sites. Pop up ads are annoying, but leaving your bank info vulnerable to prying eyes is downright dangerous.
Lenovo says that has not found “any evidence to substantiate security concerns.” Though, the tweet above which seems to show a certificate to bankofamerica.com issued by Superfish seems like plenty of cause for concern. Even if the software is safe and secure, Lenovo doesn’t seem interested in pissing off its customers. So Superfish won’t be making a comeback.
The manufacturer did want to make one thing abundantly clear in a statement given to Engadget:
“Superfish technology is purely based on contextual/image and not behavioral. It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is. Users are not tracked nor re-targeted. Every session is independent.”
Make of that what you will. But installing any sort of adware on a machine before it even leaves the factory seems like an obviously bad idea, regardless of whether or not it violates a user’s privacy.
Kingston updates MobileLite app with a new Material Design UI change and more
Not that long ago I reviewed the Kingston MobileLite Wireless drive for you guys. The drive is more so an access point for you to connect a variety of storage solutions too, like external hard drives, thumb drives, SD cards and such. It works quite well. Most of my gripes came from the app. While […]
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T-Mobile starts pushing out Android 5.0 Lollipop to Galaxy S5
The long wait is over, for the most part, for Samsung Galaxy S5 users on T-Mobile. The Uncarrier is in the process of pushing out a OTA update to devices that carries with it Android 5.0 Lollipop. The update isn’t small by any means and weighs in at 939.59MB’s. You read that correctly, nearly 1GB. […]
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Score Snapchat videos with songs from your phone
Have the perfect song in mind for a Snapchat video? Well, now you can play music from your phone while filming it. Thanks to an update, the ephemeral sharing app no longer pauses whatever track is playing while it captures a few seconds of video footage. Of course, the music is recorded with your handset’s built-in mic, so don’t expect high-quality audio. However, you can play tunes stored on the device or streamed from services like. The update is available now for iOS devices, and we expect it’ll arrive for Android soon enough.
Via: TechCrunch
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