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How To Know If Someone Is Tracking Your Android Phone: 7 Signs To Look Out For Knowledge is power. That is more true today than ever before. With a little bit of information, anyone can learn almost anything about anyone. If a particularly malicious hacker obtains the right (or wrong) information, they can use it to steal your privacy, credit card number, or even identity. To make matters worse, obtaining this data is shockingly easy due to smartphones....

If You Use DeWalt Or Craftsman Tools, Be Prepared To Pay Even More Soon When building out an assortment of tools, the first thing folks tend to do is compare brands. Looking over the numerous labels currently on the market, a few names stand out as being some of the most well-known, reliable, and expansive in their catalogues. Among these names are DeWalt — thoughthere are some DeWalt products you should avoid— and Craftsman, who’ve proven themselves in the tool marketplace for decades....

QuickType, Apple’s new predictive keyboard featured onthe iPhone,iPod touchandiPaddevices runningiOS 8, is reportedly plagued with a potentially dangerous oversight where the software would suggest parts of your passwords that you previously used on websites, as first reported by French-language blogiGen.fr[Google Translate]. A new thread on Apple’s Support Communitieswebsite includes a note by one user who reported the keyboard offering “OrangeJuice” as a suggestion each time he would type in “AppleUser” because QuickType remembered the “OrangeJuice!...

Earlier this morning, we showed you new photos of ameticulously designed iPad Air 2 dummy unitwithTouch IDincorporated into its Home button. And now, a fresh batch of purportediPhone 6manufacturing mockups has surfaced, depicting what a Space Gray variant of Apple’s upcoming bigger and thinner iPhone model could look like. Credited to sources in Japan and Korea, the images show the purported mockup next to an iPhone 5s and HTC’s One smartphone…...

Is Mazda Really Bringing Back The Rotary Engine? Here’s What The Company Says The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 whenMazda discontinued pure rotary-powered cars with the RX-8. Designed by Felix Wankel, the engine was actually originally utilized in the NSU Spider before Mazda committed to iterating upon its design.Numerous other companies besides Mazda experimented with rotary power(some more successfully than others)....

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiatook a classic scene fromSeinfeldand expertly recreated it. Frank is George, Dee is Elaine, Mac and Dennis are both Jerry, and Charlie is Kramer in the awesome scene, which is from the episode entitled The Contest, from the fourth season ofSeinfeld. The episode is all about masturbation, but never ever mentions the word. Instead, the cast uses a number of euphemisms, which strangely enough, earned Larry David an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Comedy Series....

As you know, Apple’s limited the new MacBook Pro to a maximum of sixteen gigabytes of RAM. Truth be told, no Mac notebook thus far has permitted customers to double the system RAM to a whopping thirty-two gigabytes though many MacBook Pro fans seem to have expected just that as an option. As we told you, Apple on its partdid acknowledgethat it’d decided against giving the new Pro 32GB RAM because doing so would have decreased the notebook’s battery life....

Googleis strict about the security of itsPlay Store, and in 2024, it blocked moremalicious Android appsthan ever that violated its policies and posed security risks. In a recentsecurity blog post, Google detailed how its AI-powered threat detection tools helped prevent 2.36 million harmful apps from being published on the Play Store, an increase from 2023’s 2.28 million and 2022’s 1.5 million. Google also blocked 158,000 developers who attempted to publish harmful apps....

Elon Musk is expected to complete his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on 28 October, putting him in charge of one of the most popular social networks in the world. He has changed his Twitter bio to “Chief Twit” and is starting to officially take over the company - and has even carried a sink into the headquarters to let that “sink in” for all. According toThe Wall Street JournalandThe Washington Post, by taking the reins, he has fired CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, and other top executives such as the company’s policy official, Vijaya Gadde, and its general counsel, Sean Edgett....

Google’s nativeYouTubeapplication for the iPhone and iPad has just been updated with some much-needed enhancements to the commenting system and more. For starters, it is now finally possible to reply to other people’s comments and delete your own comments right within the app. Previously, you had to visit the YouTube interface on the web to remove unwanted comments so that’s a nice little time saver right there. This edition of YouTube includes a few other timely enhancements and useful interface refinements, all listed and illustrated right after the break....

Next month, Nintendo will celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of its finest games. Nintendo GameCube classicPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Dooris getting a Nintendo Switch rerelease that’s somewhere between a remaster and a remake (not unlike the company’s recentSuper Mario RPGrevisit). But a game as beloved as this presents a challenge for developers: How do you stay true to the original while still upgrading it enough to justify a full-priced double-dip rather than an HD port?...

Qualcomm powers a huge number of smartphones in the Android space and having Snapdragon power in a phone is one of the top things customers look for in some markets. Qualcomm is stepping up the game by launching its own phone. It’s a bit of fun, because Qualcomm recently created the Snapdragon Insiders community, with over a million fans signing up to be part of that team of Snapdragon fans....

When it comes down to where people end up choosing to shop, it’s often a matter of convenience and price. For instance, according to the UK Cards Association, in 2016 around £154 billion was spent on the internet, which is an increase by a quarterin two years. So, when you need to get a phone repair or buy a refurbished phone, phone case, or phone accessory, think twice about going to the high street....