Last week, Xiaomi’s Mi4i was the center of concerns after a user reported his handset exploding horribly. In a terrifying CCTV footage shared by Ajay Raj Negi on Xiaomi’s Mi Mobile Facebook page, one can see his smartphone under charge catching fire and exploding into pieces while he was comfortably using it in his office. https://youtu.be/DKqJ4cRh4kY According to Negi, he had kept his Xiaomi Mi4i under charging as he normally does every day....

For those unaware, POCO Launcher is the name of the launcher that comes pre-installed with Xiaomi’s sub-brand Pocophone’s flagship phone, the Poco F1. Although POCO Launcher was available for download from a third-party provider, it was not officially available on the Google Play Store. However, Xiaomi has now made the POCO Launcher available for other MIUI phones via an official APK file. The Play Store version of POCO Launcher is a tweaked version of MIUI and is basically different from the Xiaomi’s traditional MIUI launcher....

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg himself welcomed Barra to Facebook fold with an FB post. “Hugo shares my belief that virtual and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform. They’ll enable us to experience completely new things and be more creative than ever before,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Hugo is going to help build that future, and I’m looking forward to having him on our team,” he added. Barra rollercoaster ride which started with Google seems to have found a permanent station at Facebook’s VR division....

But Dutch developer jvanakker has some other ideas. He has unofficially built his own tvOS web browser. The new browser will bring the web to screen through Apple TV. Although there have been many cases of different hardware to browse the web, but for Apple it is the first time. jvanakker has hacked the new Apple TV to run a native tvOS web browser using a private API based on Apple’s UIWebView class....

The usual suspects Most key features of your smartphone require your permission to use them: camera, microphone, video camera, location, and so on. Apps have to ask for this permission, and we all give it without hesitation – we want to use the app, after all. In most cases, apps don’t do anything sinister with this data, but they might sell it to outside advertisers. Location. For instance, the data about stores where you shop and cafes where you take your latte can be used to create personalized ads that target your interests....

An advertising model being tested by the leading online social network is part of a “Suggested Videos” feature designed to recommend clips for people based on snippets they tune into in News Feed at Facebook. Robert Kyncl, head of content and business operations at YouTube, told the Financial Times the online video market was expanding so fast that “it will be a decade before we bump into each other”. The arrival into the market of Facebook, disappearing-messages app Snapchat and Twitter’s video app Vine is a sign that online video is “becoming mainstream”, but none of them would derail the YouTube juggernaut, he said....

For those unaware, Reliance Jio had launched its own video calling app, JioMeet last week to take on competitors like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Skype and more. However, ever since its launch, people who downloaded JioMeet have noticed an uncanny resemblance to the Zoom app in terms of icons, features, user interface (UI), and app design. Sameer Raje, India Head Zoom Communications, said that he was “shocked” at the striking similarity between the two apps, a report by Economic Times was quoted as saying....

For those unaware, Zoom recently has seen a sudden surge in popularity and usage, as people are forced to work from home amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, Motherboard found that the Zoom app for iOS was secretly sharing data with Facebook, even when the user did not have a Facebook account. Like other apps, Zoom uses Facebook’s SDK to implement features quickly. According to network traffic analysis carried out by Motherboard, Zoom’s iOS app connects to Facebook’s Graph API and thereafter lets the social media platform know when a user opens the app and provides information about the device, including the device name, time zone, network carrier, and a unique advertising ID that can be used to target adverts....

The features that make this a appealing smartphone and definitely catch the attention of budget-conscious consumers at this price is its huge 4,000mAh battery and LTE connectivity. The ZTE Q519T is a dual-SIM based device which features a 5-inch HD display with 720×1280 pixels resolution. The smartphone is powered by a 1GHz quad-core MediaTek (MT6735) processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and Mali T720MP1 GPU. The device comes with an inbuilt storage capacity of 8GB, which can be further expanded up to 32GB via microSD card....

The device, called an IP Box, can be easily purchased online and from a British retailer called Fone Fun Shop in Sheffield. This code breaker managed to crack the passcode on an iPhone 5c running iOS 7 in just a few hours by bypassing the device’s auto-locking system after five failed passcode attempts and then brute-forced the protection system by trying all possible passcode combinations. It turns out that the so-called IP Box is indeed effective, as it worked its way through thousands of combinations before correctly settling upon the four-digit 3298 code, out of a possible 10,000 combinations....

Ion space drive: The new space drive designed by an Australian student works on the principle of Ion propulsion technology. Ion space drive: Working of the Ion space drive: Under normal conditions, a spacecraft is propelled by using standard chemicals as fuel; however in this technology the gas is ionized or charged electrically to propel the spacecraft. Currently NASA’s record holder for fuel efficiency is its High Power Electric Propulsion or HiPEP system and it allows 9,600 (+/- 200) seconds of specific impulse....

If you are using macOS. You might have difficulties finding a working BitTorrent client for your MAC PC to download torrent files from a torrent site. Since the release of macOS Monterey, several torrent software stopped working. Luckily, there are many feature-rich torrent downloader for Mac that still works, and hopefully, by the end of this article, you will be able to choose the best BitTorrent client for your Mac that provides high-speed download and support magnet link download....

Luckily, with the help of today’s technology, company management can be easier or at least help us in some minor and small tasks. For example, with the use of mobile applications such as Advance Systems Inc, employee management, and project supervision can be easily monitored with just a few clicks on your mobile phone. With the use of a simple mobile application, company managers can easily monitor their employees’ attendance, performance, and absences....

The ability to be productive from anywhere in the world is due to the growth in technology and internet capabilities. No longer do you have to go to the office to be effective as you can work from anywhere as long as you have the internet. The internet allows for people to communicate all over the world and in various formats. Whether you are hosting a conference call, sending a letter via email, or sending something through internet fax, the internet makes doing business and being productive easier than ever before....

1. Building Business Networks Most people use social media to connect with friends and family. However, the same platforms have enabled entrepreneurs to connect with other successful entrepreneurs. Consultants can connect with potential clients and other consultants on social media. Social media offers new consultants an opportunity to learn from others. Through LinkedIn, a consultant can identify potential clients that may require his or her services. LinkedIn is the best social platform for professionals in the same field to connect....

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Adobe kills Flash by renaming it to Adobe Animate CCAdobe renames Flash Professional to Animate, pivots to HTML5 Buckling under the constant public gaze, Adobe tried to make Flash a better, secure and stable prject but to no avail. A recently discovered vulnerability in Flash was so bad that the only way to fix it was to completely uninstall Flash Player. So finally, Adobe has had enough of Flash and decided to kill it....

Oscar fever: All Oscar-nominated films are available on The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent, RARBG, Demonoid, LimeTorrents and KickassTorrentsOscar movies torrents in 2017 Most of the films are screener versions which guarantee top quality save a few which are DVD rips. Only one film, George Lucas ‘Star Wars: The Rogue One’ is still not available in hi-res version. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, ‘Star Wars: The Rogue One’ was released on 10th December 2016 and yet the torrents available for this film are just cam rips....

In comparison, Spotify, the world’s dominant and largest streaming service with 100-million paid subscribers, is growing at a slower rate of around 25 percent a year. “We’re not battling for the same customers as everyone else,” Boom confirmed. “For the industry to reach its full potential, we can’t just look at 15- to 22-year-olds.”

Just a day after the release, AMD’s new Ryzen 7 1800X has broken the world record for performance in CPU benchmarking suite Cinebench R15. The multi-threaded run of Cinebench R15 was completed at 5.2GHz on a Ryzen 7 1800X on all 8 cores with LN2 (liquid nitrogen) cooling that ensured the chip remained operational at -200°C. This model works with a base clock of 3.6 GHz and boost clocks of 4....