Following the official announcement of the “Tap to Pay” feature that turns the iPhone into a contactless payment terminal, Apple on Tuesday released iOS 15.4 beta 2 to developers. Unsurprisingly, the latest beta version of Apple’s mobile operating system adds new APIs that enable support for Tap to Pay on iPhone. The company has been working with other companies like Stripe and Shopify to let them use the iPhone’s NFC chip in their apps....

When it comes to keeping your computer secure, installing a modern Anti-Virus application is a basic first step to building any new PC. What people don’t realize however is Anti-Virus (AV) applications, if not configured properly can both degrade PC performance and and corrupt important systems files. Today I’ll show you the files and folders to exclude from AV software to protect and optimize Windows. Although the steps below are specific to Microsoft Security Essentials, if you’re running a different AV software package, you can still go into the app and fairly easily find the exclusion settings....

One of the first to catch fire belonged to Ola Electric, the EV division of homegrown rideshare Ola. In one instance, an entire truck filled with scooters belonging to Jitendra Electric Vehicles caught fire. In another, a 49-year-old man and his 13-year old daughter tragically died in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after their newly purchased scooter exploded and proceeded toasphyxiate the father and daughter. Then, a few days ago, an entire dealership of Okinawa scooters burned down, causing a recall of 3,200 scooters....

When most people use the internet, they type a domain name into the address bar of their browser window. These domain names have the advantages of being easy to remember and help to define the website that a user is actually trying to reach on a given web server (which may host multiple different domains). However, the computers that make up the internet work on IP addresses, not domain names....

There are few more hotly anticipated games on the horizon than Injustice 2. The fighting game, which pits some of the most popular heroes and villains (and the characters in-between) from the DC Comics Universe against one another, is the next installment in the franchise (after 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us). While we don’t have much longer to wait, we are at an interesting crossroads as far as information given goes....

Sin duda, el factor más importante del éxito de TikTok en los últimos tiempos fue la rapidez de su ascenso. En 2019 fue la cuarta aplicación gratuita de iPhone de más rápido crecimiento. Cuando también lo incluyes dentro de las apps de Android, TikTok termina siendo la segunda app más descargada en el mundo durante el año 2019. Actualmente cuenta con 800 millones de usuarios activos en todo el mundo....

Instagram is officially launching a new feature called Remix for its Reels page. This function had been in beta testing for a while, and now it’s available to all users. It’s the latest step in Instagram’s competition with TikTok. Remix is similar to what TikTok offers with its Duets function. Basically, you can react or interact with another person’s video while adding some creativity to it. Here’s how it works:...

A new report from TNW shares that Instagram is testing out a wide range of new features including a native Regram button, an archive Stories feature, a share to WhatsApp option, a beta version of its app, and more. Instagram has reportedly been testing out a host of new features with a small number of users. TNW notes that all of these features may not be rolled out to all users, but is confident that some of them will be available soon....

As 2018 comes to a close, year in review features across various social media platforms are becoming incredibly popular. We’ve already told you how to generate your Apple Music year in review, so read on for how to generate your Instagram top 9 year in review. If you’ve spent any time on Instagram over the last week, you’ve likely seen a ‘top 9’ post from the friends and celebrities you follow....

In the first part of this article, we covered an interview with the project leader Sebastian Poeplau. In this article we will be discussing how to install and use the honeypot on a windows machine to capture any data or binaries that the malware will install on your USB drive. Installing Ghost Honeypot Ghost USB honeypot currently runs only over Windows XP and Windows 7. A quick install guide for it could be found here....

Disk encryption The encryption process makes use of symmetric and asymmetric encryption for encryption and decryption of data. If the encryption process uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt the data, it’s called symmetric encryption and if the keys are different then it’s called asymmetric encryption. In disk encryption, the whole data is encrypted and decrypted using the same key, thus it makes use of symmetric encryption. In full-disk encryption, each and every file stored on the operating system is encrypted using the encryption key....

You could say I’m a big fan of digital photography. I’m also old enough to remember the analogue days, having witnessed firsthand the analogue vs. digital battle. Boy, was it an exciting time. Analogue die-hards and naysayers were spelling doom for a short-lived fad digital photography was supposed to be. Geeks and tech-savvy users flocked to the opposing camp, realizing the benefits of the new technology. But how did the digital camera come to be?...

This is a disappointing development: Group FaceTime for iPhone, iPad, and Mac appears to be delayed and won’t be ready in time for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave launch next month. Group FaceTime expands video calling from one-on-one calls to up to 32 participants, but customers will have to wait a little longer to use it this fall. Group FaceTime’s delay echoes AirPlay’s release with iOS 11 — originally announced as part of iOS 11, then released nearly a year later in iOS 11....

iOS 13 beta 4, released last week, brings 3D Touch back to supported iPhones closer to the way it used to be. Now you can perform proper peek and pop gestures, and continue your gesture motion to select menus similarly to how you could prior to iOS 13. To be clear, it’s still not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. There are quite a few additional noteworthy changes and features to be found in iOS 13 beta 4 as well....

Inspeckage a dynamic Android application analysis tool present under Xposed Framework which makes dynamic analysis very easy. Its various features make it very useful with its inbuilt web server providing simplistic GUI. We will be using Android 5.1 device on Genymotion in Linux to demonstrate Inspeckage. You can find tons of tutorials on how to setup Genymotion in Linux (here). Another prerequisite is to have Xposed Framework installed in your rooted device(emulator)....

An internal report describes a number of ways in which Instagram is harmful to as many as 20% of teenage girls using the app. It can increase anxieties about physical attractiveness, social image, and money, and even increase suicide risk, according to Facebook’s own research. However, the social network says that the leaked report has been misunderstood … The WSJ obtained access to an internal report based on some three years’ worth of research into the issue, and says that the findings are damning....

Instagram recently announced that moving forward they would be fighting misinformation on their app with the aid of third-party fact-checkers. This move places the Facebook subsidiary in line with its parent company. As such, Instagram will be adopting many of the same practices that Facebook announced for its website back in June of 2018. Following the announcement, Instagram’s fact-checkers have started to clean up the site. Essentially, Instagram will use be using the program they already had in place in collaboration with an external organization to effectively mark content as false or misleading....

Good News for all Samsung Exhilarate i577 (exhilarate) users. Now you can install Custom Recovery TWRP Recovery On Samsung Exhilarate i577. Today we will guide on How to Root and Install TWRP Recovery On Samsung Exhilarate i577. TWRP Recovery is a Custom Recovery which is also known as TeamWin Recovery built with a touchscreen-enabled interface which allows users to install third-party firmware and backup the current system, which are often unsupported by stock recovery images....

Samsung Galaxy A10 (codename: a10) was launched in the year February 2019. The phone came out of the box with Android 9.0 Pie. Recently this device has received the official TWRP recovery support. So, on this page, we will guide you to install the TWRP Recovery on Samsung Galaxy A10. This guide contains both the written instruction and video tutorial to help you install it quickly. Make sure to download the files required and then jump straight into instructions on how to install TWRP Recovery on Samsung Galaxy A10....

Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud (SEPC) SecurityIQ already provides a turnkey integration for Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud (SEPC) that runs on all modern Microsoft Windows environments. It’s built with PowerShell and open source. You can find out more about integrating SEPC with SecurityIQ here. Writing Your Own Integration If you are not currently using an endpoint-protection vendor that we have a built-in integration with, you can still use our REST API to accomplish the same functionality....