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A screenshot of the test result, shown by a certain smartphone under the code name I8134, appeared on the Internet the other day. The device scored an incredible 395,000 points and many have suggested that this is an unannounced Sony Xperia XZ4.The result is 25,000 points greater than the amount received by the flagship Lenovo Z5 Pro, built on the new Snapdragon 855 chip and significantly higher than the results of smartphones using the Snapdragon 8150, Kirin 980 and Apple A12 Bionic chipsets.Despite the outstanding results, it is too early to rejoice. First, the result presented may well be fiction and photoshop, and secondly, the real speed of a mobile device is far from the results shown in the synthetic test.Most likely, the flagship smartphone will be shown at one of the events of the MWC 2019. Download
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Apparently, the case of the legendary lefty, who managed to shoe a flea, lives and thrives in our day. Recently it became known that one of the users of the GitHub web service built the smallest working laptop in the world. The diagonal of the device is 0.96 inches and has a resolution of 128×64 pixels.The laptop runs on an ATtiny1614 chip, and its maker Paul Klinger printed out the case on a 3D printer, placing a 300 mAh battery in it. Given these miniature sizes, it is not surprising that the keyboard of the device does not work, nevertheless, you can even play on a laptop Download
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To a rather unexpected result came a group of scientists from the University of Vanderbilt. According to the results of their work, the browser continues to store all the information even when using the “incognito” mode, if the private browsing page was not closed, and you began to view other pages in the usual mode. Simply put, all information, including addresses and search queries, will be removed from the computer only when using the “incognito” mode.”Private browsing information gets to Google with anonymous identifiers, but the company has the ability to match information with a user account,” the scientists note. Download
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WhatsApp messenger has long been one of the most popular in the world. Many parents use it to communicate with children, company employees to create group chats, friends to communicate with each other. The application allows not only to communicate, but also to share voice messages and documents, and its functionality is constantly expanding. So, the Indian version of the program learned to block fake news and send and receive money transfers directly in the form of a messenger.The other day, the official WhatsApp account boasted that its number of users exceeded 2 billion. Based on the fact that our planet is inhabited by approximately 8 billion people, we can conclude that the coverage of application users is a quarter of the total population of the Earth.However, along with compliments, WhatsApp developers occasionally have to deal with criticism. Among the most famous messenger antagonists are Ilon Mask and Pavel Durov. The first claimed that the application was a security risk, and the second spoke of low protection of user data. Download
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A vulnerability in the encryption of WPA2 was detected, tens of millions of routers were threatened. Breach allows attackers to intercept encrypted traffic, which is transmitted to all possible devices of users. According to the information provided, attackers can intercept the data stream and decrypt it, get partial control over the user’s device, namely, to acquire credit card numbers, get passwords and read personal information.In addition to all of the above, attackers can install malicious software that can transmit not only the data on the location of the owner of the infected device, but also all personal information. The first to eliminate the vulnerability of companies such as Aruba and Ubiquiti, as they provide wireless quick access to government organizations. However, the study showed that using a different security protocol is not worth it, since they are more vulnerable to attack. Download
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The other day, Samsung held a press conference at which she talked a lot about the upcoming updates to the Galaxy A6s and A9s. At the end of the event, the new Galaxy A8s gadget with innovations was announced in brief. After the demonstration of a series of teasers, it became clear what kind of innovation we are talking about Download
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Rising prices for goods are common and do not cause surprise. It concerns everything including the mobile devices market. However, recently the growth of prices for smartphones has considerably accelerated.When some years ago the price of the iPhone X has reached 1000 dollars, for many people it was a kind of psychological limit. Nowadays, no one can be surprised by the price of one thousand dollars per phone. The specialists of the analytical company Counterpoint decided to understand this topic in more detail and to find out how the prices of smartphones have changed.According to the report, the average price of the smartphone for the year rose by 10 percent, and if in Europe stores raised prices by only 1 percent, in the Celestial Empire the price went up by 13 percent. Besides, the experts found out that the highest average price for a mobile device is observed in North America and amounts to 470 dollars, while the lowest Download
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Samsung plans to demonstrate the novelty in just a month, and the network has already surfaced a video with her participation. Although the video is not of the highest quality, but you can see on it how the sensor is tested on a smartphone. But the main thing, of course, is not the test itself, but the appearance of the front side of the Galaxy S9, if it’s certainly this model and the movie is not fake.By the way, the phone presented on the video is very similar to the Galaxy S8, but information has already appeared that they will be almost like twin brothers. The main difference will be a narrower frame around the display in the 9th model.It is rumored that the S9 and S9 Plus displays will be slightly larger than the 8 Download
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