They offer convenience and service without the excessive mark-up. The only question: which texting app should you use? Here are some of the best apps for anybody hoping to save some cash. A word to the wise, though: all of these text and call and apps require a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection. Keep reading for details on the top options. 1. TextNow Unlimited, free nationwide calling and texting? Now you’re talking....

As an avid Slack user, you know how beneficial it can be for work. Slack coworkers a message and get an instantaneous answer. If you are looking for ways to optimize time, Slack has a new feature to do exactly that. Here’s how to save some time in your workday with this new Slack trick. The new clip feature Slack users often live thousands of miles away from teammates, meaning they’re in different time zones....

Apple has no plans to bring Siri to other platforms, but that’s not stopping some Android app developers from ripping off the product, right down to the icons sound effects. A new app called “Siri for Android” is nothing more than a home screen icon that opens up Android’s stard voice comm prompt. The developer’s name is “Official App,” which could obviously be misinterpreted as an Apple-sanctioned product. The app has already been installed more than 1,000 times, The Next b reports....

A feature which initially was exclusive to high-end earbuds, it is now slowly making its way to the budget and more affordable segment as well. And one of the latest brands to have taken the “truly wireless” plunge is Skullcandy, a brand that is known for its eye-catching design and slightly bass heavy sound, both of which it offers at relatively affordable prices. Skullcandy has recently launched its new truly wireless earphones, Push....

Global smartphone shipments are estimated to reach 1.5 billion units, nearly a 7 percent increase from 2015. Moreover, the entire mobile phone market is predicted to stand at 1.9 billion units. The major cause for the slowdown has been the fact that vendors have not been able to drive the prices low enough for a ‘good enough to use‘ smartphone below $50 making it difficult for consumers still operating on feature phones to upgrade....

Activate rules have only one required option field: activates. We can easily turn one of our rules into an activate rule. Let’s say we want to record the activities of an attacker who exploits the system with the Rejetto HFS exploit. On your Ubuntu Server VM, open a new terminal shell and open the local.rules file in a text editor as root. sudo gedit /etc/snort/rules/local.rules Find our “Rejetto HFS Exploit Attempt” rule (should be rule sid:1000014) and modify it as follows: activate tcp any any -> any any (msg:”Rejetto HFS Exploit Attempt”; content:”%TEMP%”; flowbits:set,payload; sid:1000014; rev:1; activates:1;) Note that we left the flowbits options unchanged: they will still work and won’t interfere with what we are trying to accomplish with our activate/dynamic rules....

In a webpage on their official website related to terms and conditions of usage of the platform, the list of countries where the terms are applicable includes India which indicates that the service is bound to launch in the country, and the effective date on which these terms would be applicable from is mentioned as January 31, 2019, onwards. This further confirms that the launch will take place by the end of this month officially in India....

Android user looking for the same info? Tap or click here to find out how to take screenshots on Android phones. Taking a screenshot on your iPhone is a way to save a moment for posterity or capture an image so you can share it with friends or family, whether through a message, an email, or on Facebook or Twitter. It’s a snapshot of whatever is happening on your iPhone display at the time....

We’ve rounded up the best fire pit options that are smokeless, have a tabletop, double as a grill, and more. The Hampton Bay Piedmont Fire Pit is the quintessential round steel fire pit, which is why it’s our best overall option. It’s compact enough at 22 lbs, 29.33 inches wide, and 19.21 inches tall to fit in any backyard and even comes with an adjustable cooking grate that allows you to cook burgers or veggies over the fire....

Wells Fargo offers several credit card options, but they differ significantly, making it confusing for some consumers to understand which one to choose. With things like APRs and rewards fluctuating from card to card, we break down the details of Wells Fargo’s best credit cards to help you find the right fit for your family or business. How did we choose these products? To help you choose a business credit card or a personal credit card, we consider several critical factors: After the introductory period, you receive unlimited 2% cash rewards on your purchases with no category or quarterly requirements....

Samsung has released a new advertisement for the Galaxy S6 where it touts about the fast and wireless charging capabilities of the handset. In the ad, Samsung talks about how the Galaxy S6 is “born” with fast charging that allows it to charge up to 50 percent from 0 in just over 30 minutes. The company then proceeds to highlight the built-in wireless charging capabilities of the handset and the Ultra Power Saving mode that allows the handset to last up to 24 hours with only 10 percent battery charge....

Earlier this year, Samsung finally announced its first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold. But the company isn’t done there. Bloomberg is reporting this week that Samsung is already working on a pair of new foldable devices. The first of the pair is a clamshell foldable design, which will have a separate display on the outside. The other design will be similar to what we saw in the Huawei Mate X, where the device folds outward....

Samsung has released five new videos on YouTube today to showcase what Bixby, its AI-powered digital assistant, is capable of doing. Bixby remains among the key new features of the Galaxy S8 despite the assistant being severely limited at launch. With the voice recognition functionality of the assistant going live in Korea earlier this week, Samsung has released new videos to showcase how powerful its new assistant is to its Korean users....

Cipriani: Happy Holidays, Perlow. Have you started shopping yet? Perlow: Shopping? Do you mean like going out in public and going to the mall? Heck no. I’m sitting on my rear end in my living room noshing on air-dried cheese snacks, chicharrones, and Chex Mix and binging on TV shows. Also See: Apple TV 4K Perlow: You have no idea how much I value the AirTags, and in addition to my daily carry bag I’ve even installed one in my wallet/credit card clip so that I can track it....

A report coming from the wall street journal says that the -mastermind criminals used Artificial intelligence-based voice-generating software to re-generate the fake voice of a German company, the name has not been revealed due to privacy concerns. The incident is not so recent as all of this happened in March this year, scammers tricked the CEO of a UK based energy firm saying that he is the CEO of the Parent company....

At the beginning of the year, some Ransomware cases made the news as well, where data hosted in publicly writable buckets was encrypted or copied and removed and where that data was then basically held for ransom. It turns out these publicly writable buckets are surprisingly common. Security researcher “Random Robbie,” wrote a script that scans accessible buckets and leaves a POC.txt file in the vulnerable folders. If you find one of these files amongst your data, you are advised to lock down access controls of the relevant services immediately....

The tech giant tracks your every move online and uses this knowledge to provide you with targeted ads. If you use Gmail, Google has even more of your personal data. Tap or click here to see the massive amount of data Gmail collects. You might think you’re not impacted, but have you ever searched for yourself on Google? The results can be fairly entertaining or frightening, depending on how you see things....

You might not have heard very much about these crashes, but there’s a good chance you will in the future. As the space economy takes off, our low-Earth orbit (LEO) highways are getting crowded. That raises the likelihood of collisions – and of crash landings on Earth. “Even though all of outer space might be infinite, where we put satellites are very specific regions,” astrodynamicist Moriba Jah tells ZDNET. “They’re becoming more congested....

ChatGPT is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. People have quickly discovered that, while it answers prompts in a “human-adjacent” way, there can be flaws in the answers it gives. Since launching, it’s been prompted in numerous ways, including to write new code and fix coding errors, while the chatbot can ask for more context when a human asks it to resolve coding problems, as OpenAI sets out in examples....

Why? Because part of Twitter’s log-in system is already broken. Twitter’s text two-factor authentication (2FA) started breaking on Monday, Nov. 14. This came after Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be “turning off the ‘microservices’ bloatware.” Musk may be great at launching rockets, but that may not translate to accuracy in identifying microservices bloatware. One or more of those services was essential to 2FA (two-factor authentication) using text messages....