However to get to your money, they need to conduct social engineering to get information about you, and so they target your social media and email accounts, which are also on your smart phone. Today people have internet-connected “smarthomes” where light bulbs, refrigerators, cookers, and garage doors are controlled from a smart phone. Although this makes life more comfortable, the Apps that control these appliances are not usually secure and are easy to hack....

For those unaware, the God Of War video game franchise follows Kratos. A Spartan warrior turned god of war. Throughout most of the series (all of the Greek mythology entries), the games revolve around Kratos and Kratos alone. Until the most recent entry which takes things in the direction of Norse mythology and introduces Kratos’s son Atreus. It’s unclear which parts of the game’s story the show will be based on or if there will be anything tying the show to the game canonically....

That’s okay, we can’t have a huge update to Android every single year. And something I’ve noticed in recent years is that when Android has a big update, iOS has a small one. And when iOS has a big update, Android has a small update. For example, in 2020, iOS 14 was a pretty big update, but Android 11 was not. Then in 2021, Android 12 was a big update, but iOS 15 was mostly tweaks to the big update from the year before....

To elaborate, when you enter the multitasking screen, in order for your phone to display that app’s most recent state, it essentially takes a screenshot. However, there are apps that don’t allow screenshots like certain video streaming apps and financial apps. As a side effect of disabling screenshots, the multitasking view can’t display the app preview. However, Android 13 will let devs only disable the app preview However, Android 13 will let devs only disable the app preview...

Due to the nature of my work, I tend to switch phones often. There is always that one phone that I come back to between reviews, my daily driver, if you will. For quite some time now, that has been the Google Pixel 4a. That may sound quite weird, as I have a lot more powerful, and newer phones at my disposal. Well, with the industry’s trend of making huge phones, I find it hard to find one that would fit my needs....