Android usually gets more attention for mobile malware than iOS as Google’s platform supports third-party app stores. Apple’s walled garden approach is seen as a strength when it comes to security, but the latest iOS update has reportedly patched two serious vulnerabilities identified by Google researchers. Your iPhone is safe if it’s updated today, but Google says the exploits were active in the wild. Threats that are already active online prior to patches are called “zero-day” vulnerabilities. Tracking down these glitches is the mission of Google’s Project Zero team. The iOS platform is not open source, so Apple can fix many security holes internally without ever publicizing them.
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Since we last visited this topic a year ago, phone cameras have become even better, and more options have become available for shooting with them. We’ll take you through some of the biggest changes and give you tips on new ways to capture, process, and store your images and videos. Capture: Should You Rely on Your Phone’s Camera App? When we reviewed the top camera apps for Android phones in 2017, one reason was that vendor-supplied apps left a lot to be desired. Quite a bit has changed since then. For example, most native phone apps now support RAW captures and a “pro” mode that gives you more control over your settings — although Google is still dragging its feet about adding a manual or pro mode.
Cadillac has now completed its pullback from New York City: Cadillac House is closing, completely. Last fall General Motors announced it was returning its Cadillac corporate operations from Cadillac House in NYC’s hyper-hip SoHo section. Now Cadillac said it’s also closing the co-located showcase/experiential center. GM felt there were more synergies and efficiencies having its people all in the Michigan time zone. Plus, Cadillac plans a new vehicle every six months through 2021 and being together is important. Cadillac moved to New York City in 2014. The reason then was: Cadillac wanted to be an international auto company regarded as an equal to Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, not just to Lincoln.
Last week, Windows Update stopped working properly for many users. The global outage was an odd one, and user investigations soon discovered it appeared to be linked to DNS services. Changing one’s DNS settings to Google’s publicly provided DNS service often restored Windows Update’s functionality. US Comcast and UK BT customers seem to be most affected, though the problem may have hit other customers worldwide as well. Microsoft has now confirmed that the issue was caused by DNS problems with an external service the company contracts with. Microsoft : The Windows Update service was impacted by a data corruption issue in an external DNS service provider global outage on January 29, 2019.
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When AT&T announced that it would mislabel 4G LTE service and market it as 5G E (the “E” stands for dEceit) the initial announcement only mentioned Android devices. I had hoped that Apple wouldn’t allow this practice or that the company would at least issue a statement on the topic. Instead, it looks like Apple devices will also be updated to use this inaccurate branding. This is particularly egregious in the case of the iPhone, which does not support 5G service. Unlike at least some Android devices likely to come to market in 2019, the new iPhones this year probably won’t support 5G service, either.
According to the World Health Organization, over 400 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss. Many of the rest of us have at least limited hearing impairment. So it makes sense that with phones being at the center of our electronic life, phone makers would innovate in providing solutions to help. Today, Google released two applications it first teased at I/O last year to do just that. Sound Amplifier provides a customized hearing assist for phone users, while Live Transcribe can print out on your display a transcription of whatever it hears through your phone’s microphone. Google’s Sound Amplifier
3D printing technology has been around for years, but it hasn’t taken off as many industry-watchers expected. One of the major issues is that 3D printing even small objects take a long time, and the objects you get at the end still require some cleaning up. Researchers from the University of California Berkeley have developed a technique that can create objects in a single step using light. They call it “,” a reference to the essentially magical technology features throughout the Star Trek series and movies. The Berkeley team took inspiration from computed tomography (CT) scans. A CT scanner captures 2D X-ray images of the patient, and then a computer reassembles those slices into a 3D model to give doctors a look inside the body.
