There are countless invasive apps collecting sensitive information from you via your phone. If you’re sick of that, there are more privacy-friendly alternatives. Just bear in mind that I can’t guarantee the following apps are private, I am simply using my best judgement to pick the least invasive apps. I always recommend checking the permissions…
It is now a well-established fact that your location is being tracked by tech companies. However, location tracking is not quite as simple as getting your coordinates from your GPS chip. It can be, but tech companies can do much more than that by tying together many bits and pieces of data that they gather…
Android phones have privileges and permissions that control which areas of your phone a given app can access. There are permissions that you — the user can turn off, and there are also mandatory permissions that you are not allowed to disable (this is a failure to respect users’ preferences, but that’s a topic for…
A password is something that you don’t want to lose. You also don’t want hackers to get access to it. How do you prevent a hacker from stealing your password? The answer is complicated, because there are multiple ways that a thief can steal your passwords, card numbers, keys, among other sensitive information. The clipboard…
Running out of space is still a common issue for Android phones, especially models that have little storage capacity. To add insult to injury, your ability to move apps or app data to your SD card is severely limited and an upgrade to a higher-end phone is costly. What can you do if your 16GB…
How cryptocurrency staking works, how it can generate an income, and the benefits of cryptocurrency staking vs mining.
The Session messenger has taken privacy beyond Signal’s level by providing anonymity and using a decentralized network of service nodes.
Over the past few years, the Raspberry Pi single board computers have climbed from a mere 1GB of RAM to 8 GB. Just last year, people were shocked by the introduction of Raspberry Pi models equipped with 2GB and 4GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi foundation also cut the price of the 2GB RPi 4…
The South Korean electronics giant Samsung Display has announced that it will cease the production of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in South Korea and China at the end of 2020, Reuters reported. LCD displays are widely used in TVs, cellular phones, digital cameras, computer monitors, and other devices with embedded screens. However, OLED displays have…
When you’re running a business, cybersecurity needs to be one of your priorities. If a data breach occurs, then your response needs to be rapid, and the highly stressful environment means that protocols can often be overlooked. A cyberattack means that your response has to be clear-headed and practical while following the law, and ensuring…
Apps, in the almost twelve years they have been around, have lent themselves to thousands of uses. Apps have simplified life in so many ways for both individuals and businesses. For businesses, this has meant that time and money can be saved by streamlining processes by using apps. These applications keep them ahead of the…
In January, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy A20s smartphone as an upgrade from my previous phone. My primary reason was a lack of internal storage — I ran out of that despite already removing many of the apps I really wanted to keep. I must say that I wish (whichever company is responsible for this)…