The PinME attack explained A team of researchers at Princeton university recently discovered a way to track cellphone users even when they’ve disabled their GPS and denied installed apps GPS permissions. They’ve called their discovery PinMe. The research team reported this in an article published in an IEEE journal in Read more…
The “Gradle sync failed” error Coding apps in Android can be a lot of fun. But it can also be immensely frustrating. I recently updated my JDK, after Android Studio gave me a warning about using an outdated JDK. Then I got an error “Gradle sync failed: Please use JDK Read more…
As Intel execs continue to play down the effects of their patches for Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has shared some tentative statistics about the effects the patches will have. The Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, Terry Myerson, said that the data published so far didn’t include Read more…
Meltdown and Spectre madness TV networks have had headlines about two new bugs, Meltdown and Spectre on Intel platforms. As of today(5th January 2018), Apple has announced that all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips. We’ll give you a quick breakdown of Read more…
Nowadays, everyone seems to be talking about cryptocurrencies. A trend that recently came to out attention is Cryptokitties. What are they and what good are they? Cryptokitties is a decentralized application that was released on November 28th 2017. It’s built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Just in case you’ve Read more…