Google Play Protect helps us do exactly that, scanning up to 50 billion apps every day, not only on the Play Store, but also on your Android devices. It also allows us to scan on demand and to check app updates before they are installed.
As you may have read in the news media, the extremely popular Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp was recently discovered to have a flaw in it which could have allowed hackers to install spyware through an infected WhatsApp phone call. This spyware is designed to crawl through your calls, text messages and other data, and even activate the camera and microphone to spy on you and your device without you knowing. Who is Affected? Potentially, this could have affected any of the 1.5 billion WhatsApp users, no matter if they are using Android, iPhone, Windows Phone or even Tizen devices. In...
A very important part of photography in general and landscape photography in particular is to ensure that your prime point of interest, your main elements are in sharp focus.
Routines are a set of actions that your Google Home can perform, activated by a single voice command. You can customise existing pre-set routines in the Google Home app, or you can create your own personalised routines from scratch, using a wide variety of available actions.
Setting up your Apple TV isn’t hard, but if you’re new to Apple’s palm-sized video streamer, you might want a little advice. Here’s a guide to getting started with Apple TV, straight out of the box and how to screencast to Apple TV from your iPhone.
It’s easy to think that programming a machine to automate a process or calculate a value is a modern concept that’s only really happened in the last fifty years or so. However, that assumption is quite wrong, coding has actually been around for quite some time.
You may not have realised it yet, but Gmail now has a Confidential mail mode. This allows you to send an email which cannot be forwarded, can’t be copied and pasted and will expire (or become unreadable) after a set time.
With over a billion users worldwide, accounts of terrorists using WhatsApp, along with hackers, scammers and all manner of nefarious individuals and groups are always in the popular media.
The second, third and fourth generation Apple Watches came with a really useful feature – they are all waterproof. Find out how to eject any water from the watch after being submersed.
Android 9.0 brings a lot of changes to the Pixel 3 and Pixel XL phones. Lets take a look at some of the main new features of Pie on the Pixel 3, and how to make the most of them in your day-to-day use.
Wireless Bluetooth headphones and earbuds have come a long way over the last few years, but can a wire-free audio experience truly satisfy? Let’s take a look…
There are many different programming languages available for the modern computer, and some still available for older 8 and 16-bit computers too. Some of these languages are designed for scientific work, others for mobile platforms and such. So why choose Python out of all the rest?
When Alan Sugar’s Amstrad bought out the Sinclair brand, the 8-bit world gave forth a bit of a shudder; after all, our precious Spectrum was now part of the company that made those strange, really long computers with the funny green screen.
Being the victim of a hack sounds scary to most people, but while you should take it seriously, there is often no need to panic. If you think you have been hacked, just follow the instructions here to get you online life back on track.
Another small computer from the world-leading MINIX, we hear you say? Don’t be fooled by its size, though, as this Windows 10 Pro powered, upgradable mini-PC packs a heck of a punch.