Up to 210 Android apps were infected with adware, researchers find

From CNET: Hundreds of apps were packed with adware that could compromise your phones, researchers found.

Security researchers from Check Point found malicious code in 210 Android apps on the Google Play store, that had been downloaded nearly 150 million times. The malware was hidden inside a...

ASUS ZenBook 14 (UX431) Now Available

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced ZenBook 14 (UX431). It balances value and performance to deliver a sleek, sophisticated ultraportable that doesn’t compromise on power. This premium laptop is packed full of the latest technology that includes 8th Generation Intel Core processors, NVIDIA...

Mozilla’s self-destructing file-sharing service exits beta

From The Verge: Firefox Send, the encrypted file-sharing service from Mozilla, has exited beta and is no longer an experiment. The service allows you to send download links that are set to automatically expire after a certain period of time, or after a set number of people have downloaded them. An...

Vizio Is Pushing for Household Targeted Ads on Smart TVs

From PC Mag: Tracking people on the internet is easy using cookies, but on televisions there's no such equivalent. However, TV manufacturer Vizio is aiming to change that by introducing a new standard that allows for targeted advertising per household.

As Reuters reports, Vizio wants to offer per...

CorelDraw 2019 comes back to the Mac and onto the web

From CNET: Corel surrendered to the inevitable and dropped its Mac version of the CorelDraw products in 2001. 18 years on, the company is bringing it back simultaneously with the release of its latest Windows update, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2019, and its debut into the web app world. The difference...

Fire TV Setup No Longer Requires Typing in a Wi-Fi Password

From PC Mag: One of the most tedious parts of setting up a new media streaming device is the requirement to enter your Wi-Fi password. The stronger your password is, the more tedious this process becomes. For Amazon Fire TV devices, the password entry step is no longer required thanks to a software...

Tesla hits brakes on retail store closures, will raise prices instead

From CNET: Tesla on Sunday pulled a U-turn on its plan to close all its retail stores.

Around half of the stores Tesla planned to close will remain open, and the carmaker will increase prices on its higher-end Model 3, Model S and Model X "by about 3 percent on average worldwide," it said in a...

SteelSeries Rival 650 Wireless Review (Page 1 of 4)

After living in Canada for most of my life, my definition of "cold" seems to differ from the rest of the world. I would not call anything cold until it hits below -20 degrees Celsius, and we consider -10 degrees Celsius and above to be warm during winter. I was in in Hong Kong in December a few years ago when an extreme cold weather warning was issued for a freezing nighttime low of 11 degrees Celsius. 11 degrees Celsius! Although I fully...

SilverStone LSB02 and LS03 Review

It is really interesting to trace the development of something. I love seeing how a story develops over time, especially large fantasy novels where the world grows as the story progresses. One such book series is The Dwarves by Markus Heitz. I loved the first few books and really liked how the world the author created continued to grow and expand as we discover more. Some authors are excellent at growing the world as the story continues and the...

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