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What exactly is the Cuzor 12V UPS? Let’s put it this way. It’s essentially a power bank for your DC-powered devices like routers, security cameras, and others. It connects like a bridge between the device and its DC adaptor, so it’s always on. This helps with seamless switching between DC power and battery power with absolutely no lag/delay. The use cases are plenty. You could use it with your set-top-box, DVD player, modem, Wi-Fi router, security cameras, basically anything with DC input....

But now it seems that a new alternative is on the works, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has stepped in the game, as well. The agency is said to work on a “radically” new technology that will offer real-time position tracking and will work despite blind spots or jamming efforts. As you’d expect, DARPA is looking to come up with this new tech which would be of great use to the US Military....

Dr.Web Antivirus detects and disinfects Mass-mailing worms * E-mail viruses * Peer-to-peer viruses * Internet worms * File viruses * Trojans * Stealth viruses * Polymorphic viruses * Bodiless viruses * Macro viruses * MS Office viruses * Script viruses * Spyware * Spybots * Password stealers * Paid Dialers * Adware * Riskware * Hacktools * Backdoors * Keyloggers * Joke programs * Malicious scripts * Other malware As I mentioned earlier, Dr....

If you remember, couple of weeks back, we had reported that Opera Mini for iPhones will be coming soon, but now Opera has rolled out the beta release of Mini browser for Android phones. This comes within an year of releasing Opera Mini 4 for Android. The main change in this latest version of Opera mini is the introduction of “tabbed browsing” which has become a must-have feature for all smartphone browsers these days....

Back in November 2010, some blogs had falsely reported the arrival of Facebook Places in India, but this time, it looks for real. It seems to be getting rolled out in a phased manner. If you are an iPhone user in India, open your Facebook for iPhone app or visit touch.facebook.com from your mobile browser to access Facebook Places. I am not sure if it works on Android as well, but it should....

And it looks pretty awesome too. The Lenovo spokesperson doing the presentation said that the team had initially opposed the idea of device with a 6.0-inch display as being too big, but had been surprised by the designers. And well, that is pretty much the case, because, for a six-inch device, the Vibe Z2 Pro is surprisingly compact. At 7.7 mm, it is almost as thin as the 7.1 mm thin iPhone 6 Plus (with 5....

A hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network....

The Gionee M6S comes equipped with a 6-inch FHD Oncell AMOLED display and is powered by Snapdragon 653 clocked at 1.95GHz and paired with 6GB of RAM. The fingerprint sensor is blended into the home screen and the phone is pretty bulky at 215 gms. On the imaging front, the Gionee M6S Plus comes equipped with a 12-Megapixel primary sensor with LED flash and the secondary is made up of an 8-Megapixel sensor....

The presence of the Personal tab was first reported by a Twitter user two days back. This feature shows up only when you are logged into your Google account while searching the web from your browser. That aside, the tab is currently hidden for most users inside the ‘More’ option in the search results. So basically, you need to click on the ‘More’ tab and then select Personal to view this feature....

According to a new report from ProPublica, Google seems to have to finally buckle under and has quietly updated its terms and conditions which now states that the browsing habits extracted from DoubleClick’s massive database “may be” combined with what the company learns from the use Gmail and other tools. The alteration completely contradicts with what Sergey Brin told back in 2007 when Google acquired DoubleClick. He said that the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products....

As part of an exclusive interview with The Verge, Google says that the Chat will be based on Universal Profile for Rich Communication Services. The company has already been working on bringing the RCS support by partnering with OEMs and offering Jibe RCS Cloud Platform. The Chat shows how serious Google is when it comes to pushing its own messaging service. RCS or Rich Communication Services is an enhancement layer based on SMS or MMS....

Taking a look at the other side of the spectrum, which includes different operating systems for both computers and smartphones — primarily Windows and Android — while there have been several applications and utilities over time that promise a similar experience and functionality as AirDrop, sadly, there has been no competent equivalent for AirDrop till date. Until a few days back, when Google finally unveiled a true native built-in file sharing utility for Android, called Nearby Share....

The Android ecosystem is getting stronger by the day and Google thinks that by integrating Android market with Google Music and Google eBookstore, the ecosystem will get even stronger. “Google Play will become a single experience for users,” Jamie Rosenberg, director of digital content for Google said. “This creates a more powerful experience around Android and also increases opportunities for content partners” to interact with more of Google’s offerings....

The Play Store in China has not been banned per se but Google doesn’t allow users to buy paid or premium apps. This has lead the developers to ignore the Chinese market and on the other hand even if the phone was preinstalled with Google Play Store the users in China would only be able to download free apps. That being said, Google is yet to back up the confirmation and even Xudong preferred not to go in details about the same....

Google’s Pixel 2 XL still is a competent option in the price segment especially considering the company has promised three years of software and maintenance updates. Although the phone does suffer from a handful of critical shortcomings such as performance slowdowns and poor display quality. However, since the Android Pie update, we’ve seen a couple of users (including some people at TechPP) reporting major improvements for the former. As for the specifications, the Google Pixel 2 XL comes with a 6-inch Quad HD OLED screen, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 64/128GB internal storage which is not expandable, Adreno 540 GPU, and a sufficient 3520 mAh non-removable battery....

Nokia is working on bringing the entire Zeiss module onboard the new smartphones and this will also include the sensor software algorithm. That being said, despite being at the top of imaging capabilities during its heyday, Nokia needs to invest efforts in bringing up the camera game a few notches up. “Collaborating with ZEISS is an important part of our commitment to always deliver the very best experience for our customers....

Every time I compose a mail, I have to change the font type and font size. I personally prefer black colored fonts without bolding or italicizing the text. But many would surely like the text color to be different. Unfortunately, there is no straight forward way to set the default font and color in Google Mail as we have in Microsoft Outlook. How to Change Default Font and Color in GMail?...

Icon Pack Studio is one of the best apps to create custom icon packs for Android. Creating icon packs through this app is pretty straightforward: you install the app and follow a series of personalization steps for specifying your choice of colors, gradients, background, and whatnot. Once that is complete, you can simply export the icon pack and apply it to any launcher you’d like. In this guide, we will guide you through the steps involved in using Icon Pack Studio to create a custom icon pack for Android....

The web utility we will be employing throughout this process is intuitively called “PhonicMind”. It takes an audio file as the input, segregates the vocals with the help of a series of Machine Learning algorithms and yields two outputs — the verbal sections it extracted and the music-only file which you’re looking for. Create Karaoke Version of Your Favorite Song with PhonicMind To get started, head over to the PhonicMind website....

I often find myself in situations where certain apps won’t work on Linux as well as they do on Windows or the other way around. Sometimes they do, but they simply don’t work that well. This is why I decided to install both of them and simply choose which one is best for the tasks I have to do at that given time. You can do the same with your Mac just by using the instructions below....