'Achilles' flaw exposes a billion Android phones
One billion Android phones are at risk of attacks by hackers taking advantage of what a research firm says are 400 vulnerabilities detected on the smartphone's chips.
One billion Android phones are at risk of attacks by hackers taking advantage of what a research firm says are 400 vulnerabilities detected on the smartphone's chips.
Calls via the LTE mobile network, also known as 4G, are encrypted and should therefore be tap-proof. However, researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown that this ...
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Customer: "Hello." Barista: "Hello. What can I get you?" Customer: "I would like tea." For many, this is the most mundane, forgettable exchange between two humans. For those who know limitations confronting the deaf and hard ...
Many of us carry a mobile phone much of the time. The term is increasingly something of a misnomer. While these portable devices may well have their origins in allowing us to make phone calls wherever we happen to be, they ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Have you ever heard your own voice talk back to you on the phone? It's a nuisance, which is why people developed filters that adapt to the sound in a room and remove this echo (the technical term is echo cancellation).
Apr 7, 2021
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In January, Google announced a cool new feature that turns the Google Assistant into a two-way language interpreter, but it only worked visually on smart displays, which generally aren't used in the real world, when people ...
Dec 13, 2019
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Get caught using your smartphone while driving in the UK and you'll be in serious trouble. Authorities recently doubled the penalties for using a handset behind the wheel to six points on your licence and a £200 fine. Yet ...
Apr 4, 2017
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