The National Security Agency (NSA), US is reportedly trying to develop a quantum computer that can break any encryption almost any kind of encryption. According to a report on the Washington Post,…
Facebook faces class-action lawsuit over alleged private message snooping
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit initiated by two of its users, Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley, who claim that the social network’s ‘private’ message feature is actually not private. The duo…
Snapchat doesn’t apologize after hack, to release updated app
Creators of Snapchat have broken their silence and responded to the hack which exposed details of 4.6 million users including usernames, partially redacted phone numbers and location. Snapchat said that the hackers…
Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro 2 CPU quietly, but firmware update still MIA
Microsoft has upgraded the CPU of Surface Pro 2 quietly by replacing the existing Intel Core i5 4200U to Core i5 4300U. The upgrade happened on the sly and was noticed by…
Samsung exec reportedly confirms Galaxy S5 launch at MWC 2014
Executive Vice President and head of the design team at Samsung’s IT & Mobile Communications Division Mr. Dong-hoon Chang has reportedly confirmed the launch of Galaxy S5 smartphone at MWC 2014. According…
HTC M8 aka HTC One 2 to pack Snapdragon 800 SoC, 2GB RAM?
Rumours about HTC M8 have been floating around for some time now and latest specification leak indicate that the HTC One successor is powered by Snapdragon 800 SoC and 2GB RAM. Earlier…
GOG.com removes Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics
GOG.com has announced the removal of all three Fallout titles i.e. Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics from its store front. “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we needed to pull the…
Samsung announces Galaxy Camera 2 with 21x zoom, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Samsung has announced the successor of first iteration of its Android-powered camera – Galaxy Camera 2 – with a selfie mode, 21x optical zoom and Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Some of the…
Mozilla Firefox for Windows 8 delayed again
Mozilla has once again delayed its Firefox for Windows 8 with modern-UI interface and is now expected on March 18. The modern-UI compatible Firefox was first announced in February 2012 with the…
Techie bits: Details of 4.6 million Snapchat users leaked; SEA hits Skype; PS4 outsells Xbox One
Have you been keeping too busy to check on the news lately? Well here is a roundup of all the major events in the tech world since yesterday. Hackers managed to extract…
Samsung Galaxy S5 to sport metal body rumours surface again
We have been coming across rumours of a metal-body Samsung Galaxy S5 since about six months now and the latest report from ETNews is no different. The Korean publication is reporting that…
Nokia freezes Symbian and MeeGo app updates, new submissions
Nokia has officially suspended Symbian, MeeGo app updates and new submissions thereby shutting off the ability of developers to make changes to their existing apps or publish new ones on the Nokia…
Google to pull Bump and Flock file-sharing apps on January 31
Google has announced that it will pull Bump and Flock sharing apps on January 31 and both the apps will stop working starting that day. Google acquired Bump back in September and…
User manual leak confirms Windows 8.1 powered Asus VivoTab Note 8 tablet
A user manual of the upcoming VivoTab Note 8 was spotted on the web – all but confirming previous rumours about the existence and impending launch of the Windows 8 powered tablet….
Emacs needs to move to Git as bzr is dying says ESR
Eric S. Raymond, the co-founder of Open Source Initiative, has recommended that Emacs should move to another version control system like GitHub git as bzr is dying. In a mailer, Raymond highlighted…