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Dustin Kirkland, one of the highest people in charge of the Ubuntu project, recently published an open letter saying that in a recent global Ubuntu, users will be more than 1 billion. Shocked! Ubuntu Users Worldwide More Than 1 Billion Earlier, Phoronix pointed out that Ubuntu would be difficult to accomplish by the end of the 2015 target, reaching 200 million users. However, the data presented by Dustin itself shows that a large part of the world’s people uses Ubuntu, whether voluntary or involuntary....

In some cases, the reasons for elimination are unknown. This happened with the iPhone 13, which is missing something people found helpful in its predecessors. Tap or click here to find out what was dropped and why it may not return. Markup was introduced with iOS 10, giving iPhone users more incredible photo editing abilities. With Markup, you can edit screenshots and photos, add signatures to PDFs or other documents, add text and draw on images....

Mention SolarWinds and most would recall a colossal security breach that triggered when a malware-laced update for the vendor’s Orion network monitoring platform was sent to customers. Thousands of companies received the Orion update containing the malicious code Sunburst, including US government agencies, Microsoft, Malwarebytes, and FireEye, which first raised the alarm in December 2020. Acknowledging that 2021 was a tough year, SolarWinds’ president and CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna told ZDNet that the company spent the time and investment assessing what it needed to do to beef up its infrastructure and processes....

Nerding out is a must, and the latest Android version is giving us plenty to celebrate. If you’re an Android fanatic, you can download Android 13 now for a sneak peek at what Android’s finest have in store for us. The software update is still in beta, but the best of the best in the blogosphere have already seen it for all that it’s worth. Keep reading for our take on the best new Android 13 features....

The robot dogs are known as Vision 60 Q-UGVs, for quadruped unmanned ground vehicles. Bearing more than a passing similarity to Boston Dynamics’ YouTube sensation quadrupeds, they are designed as task agnostic roving sensor platforms capable of detecting a variety of threats. Ghost Robotics describes its Vision 60 model as a “mid-sized high-endurance, agile and durable all-weather ground drone for use in a broad range of unstructured urban and natural environments for defense, homeland and enterprise applications....

Samsung used Mobile World Congress to unveil its next flagship Android device, the Galaxy S5. As expected, the S5 shares the same styling as its predecessor with a faster processor and a few new bells and whistles like IP67 certification under the hood. How does the S5 fare in the early hands-on impressions? Read on to find out.Phil Nickinson of Android Central points out in his hands-on that Samsung is learning from past mistakes by improving the overall hardware quality in the Galaxy S5 and including features like a fingerprint sensor that are beneficial and not so gimmicky....

At the early part of December, 2014, Samsung officially began rolling out its Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Galaxy S5 in Poland. Now, over a month later, the rollout continues, with the update now officially landing on the Galaxy S5 in the United Kingdom. The update itself is Android 5.0, and not, say, Android 5.0.1 or Android 5.0.2, but does obviously bring with it the Material Design upgrade in some aspects, along with all of the new features that Google included with its latest variant of the Android platform....

If you are a regular YahooMail user, you might have observed the new interface. The trick involves making use of this new interface. There is no registration, you only need two things: a free Yahoo Mail account and mobile phone number where you want to send the free SMS. To get started, you need to switch from classic Yahoo Mail to new Yahoo Mail – here is the simple procedure:...

NSA Digital Arms Race The US government is among the actors that are increasingly investing in new technology to improve their cyber capabilities. The NSA is significantly improving its methods in response to the public revelations of the whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is continuing to reveal the techniques, tactics and procedures of US intelligence. The 2013 US secret intelligence budget for the improvement of cyber capabilities and to strengthen offensive operations required around $1 billion....

With many features, this upcoming controller is such a high-performance controller than others already available. Let’s discuss all details below. Sony’s DualSense Edge Wireless Controller: First Look & All Details This controller’s first feature allows you to customize controls according to your choice, which includes remapping or deactivating specific button inputs. And it also allows you to modify both stick sensitivity & their dead zones so that you can have selected dead zones for the sticks in every game....

Now it seems that Sony is also following the same path as Nintendo does. Sony seems to extend its PlayStation gaming division onto mobile gaming platforms and the devices that users already have, which could be a huge benefit for everyone. The new division will start operating very soon by this year (2016) and will take advantage of all the rights which it has on titles of PlayStation and characters in it so that the new games have exclusive content from Sony....

Sony is going to hold a press conference in Berlin on September 4th where it’s widely expected that they’ll announce a new flagship smartphone called the Xperia Z1. Said device will supposedly have a 5 inch 1080p screen, 20 megapixel camera, Snapdragon 800, 2 GB of RAM, and a massive 3,000 mAh battery. In order to build up the hype, Sony has done what every new company does and posted a teaser image....

The Xperia XZ comes equipped with a 5.2-inch FHD Triluminos display along with Gorilla Glass 4. Furthermore, the display technology also includes X-Reality engine and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement. The device is powered by Snapdragon 820 clocked at 2.15GHz and paired with 3GB of RAM. On the storage front, Xperia XZ offers 64GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot that can accommodate up to 256GB of additional storage. Design wise the Xperia XZ looks bold and is reminiscent of the earlier Xperia X lineup....

Question: Dear Kim, just curious. I took your advice a few years ago and signed up with Carbonite to back up all my files with no problems to speak of. Recently, you are advising users to use IDrive! My question is “why?” What’s the advantage since Carbonite I believe can back up all devices, not just a computer’s files? Answer: That’s a great question! As a regular listener of my national radio show, reader here at Komando....

Starlink has arrived, and Starlink RV has attracted the attention of the boating and adventure crowd. That’s because it solves a host of problems unique to folks who live or recreate on boats or other vehicles for long weekends or months on end. Also: Starlink US residential customers are getting a limit on their high-speed internet Marinas and campgrounds have notoriously shabby Wi-Fi, and cell coverage is often abysmal owing to a scarcity of towers and impeding multistory housing....

For gamers, there’s probably nothing that thrills you as much as hopping into a multiplayer lobby with your friends. Coming from behind, winning a friendly tournament, or just catching up while blasting away at bots can certainly take the edge off a stressful week. If you’re a Sony gamer, in particular, you’re probably already familiar with PlayStation Plus. This service allows you to access multiplayer in paid titles, making it absolutely necessary if you want to compete with the best, and it comes with valuable perks like streamable PS4 and PS5 titles....

But because there are risks and things you should note when attending a hacker conference as a con-goer, I wrote this article which will at least help you on how to survive a hacker conference or any information security gathering if ever you plan to attend one. Be partially paranoid Every conference is a new environment because there will always be new attendees, but there are obvious activities which may be good or bad in nature that will take place and are always inevitable....

At first glance, SwiftKey Flow doesn’t look or perform all that different from SwiftKey 3: The spacebar is nice big, you can still type out words like you would on the normal SwiftKey 3 keyboard. SwiftKey Flow, however, allows you to slide your finger over letters in leu of tapping. It works a lot likeSwype or SlideIT, users of those replacement keyboards will definitely find things to like about SwiftKey Flow....

T-Mobile today announced its new smartphone leasing program called “JUMP! On Demand.” Under the new program, the magenta carrier will allow customers to switch up to three smartphones every year for free. To enjoy this benefit though, T-Mobile customers will have to pay the carrier an additional amount every month over and above their monthly fee. Customers will be able to go to any T-Mobile store, trade in their existing smartphone, and walk out with a new one without paying a dime — not even sales tax....

Dell announced at CES 2015 that its Venue 8 7000 tablet is finally available for purchase in the United States. The “world’s thinnest tablet” has a waistline of only 6mm, which is a hair thinner than the 6.1mm thick iPad Air 2. Aside from its thinness, the Venue 8 7000 packs in other compelling features as well, including an 8.4-inch “infinity display” with extremely minimal side and top bezels. The display also boasts a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels....