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According to Engadget, HTC has just kicked off a $1 billion marketing campaign aimed at getting people to interpret the company’s three letter company in whatever way they want. The first video, clocked in at 16 seconds, stars Robert Downey Jr. renaming HTC to “Humongous Tinfoil Catamaran”. Will this actually work? Let’s start with the obvious: Companies have been using celebrities to promote products since advertising was invented. The new “Superman” movie has a Nokia Lumia 925....

A month after it was first released on the Google Play Store as a closed beta, HTC’s Sense Home Launcher is now in open beta i.e. it is available for download for all non-HTC devices running Android 4.4 or higher. The launcher features BlinkFeed that lets one go through their social media feeds and other important news quickly through the left-most home screen. It can even send recommendations for nearby restaurants, cafés, bars, and other interesting events that are happening around you....

Shriya and Adhya Beesam who are grade 11 students in Plano, Texas had won the competition for their project which is named “Linked Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System: A Novel Approach to Schizophrenia Diagnosis” Another participant, Vineet Edupuganti who is a senior at Oregon Episcopal School also took the individual grand prize with a biodegradable battery that could reconstruct the way doctors diagnose and observe health problems deep in the body. CEO of the Siemens Foundation, David Etzwiler said that Shriya and Adhya Beesam “are poised to transform the lives of millions around the globe by helping us advance medical knowledge and technologies designed to diagnose and treat various diseases” In total, three Indian origin teens took additional prizes in the individual category whereas two others shared the team prize....

Lately, This feature was only for Creators and Brands, but now Meta-owned Instagram is expanding it so that anyone can tag their favorite products in their feed posts. Instagram earlier tested features like affiliate shops and partnerships inbox to support creators making money from the platform, but currently this feature does not include referral earning. Instagram’s New Feature Allows Users to Tag Products Instagram product tagging feature will help small businesses to expand because users are now allowed to tag products of others which make it easier for people to discover new products and navigate them to the product owner....

Talking about iPhone 15, which is far away from its release, it might have an under-display face ID technology. According to The Elec, a South Korean brand, Apple will use this system provided by Samsung. The report says Samsung Display is teaming up with OTI Lumionics to develop a new UPC technology. Apple To Use New Under-Panel Camera Technology Before this technology comes to Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro, Samsung could make its debut on Galaxy X Fold 5....

BlackRa1n RC3 which is bundle with blackSn0w also enables official tethering. Blackra1n RC3 is by far the fastest and the most complete jailbreaking and unlocking tool for iPhone running on the latest iPhone 3.1.2 firmware. Blackra1n, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app. The latest RC3 version includes blacksn0w which can unlock iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS running 05....

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos’ fortune surpassed the $150 billion mark. Bill Gates, the co-founder of the tech giant Microsoft, is in second place with $95.3 billion. Soon after, we have the entrepreneur Warren Buffett and the social network giant Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. In January, Bezos ‘equity surpassed Bill Gates’ record high of $100 billion in 1999. However, this comparison fails to take account of one important detail: inflation over the past two decades....

There was a time, back when I was a teenager, when I kept a daily journal, noting the little things in my everyday life. That habit died abruptly but my love of writing never did. I sometimes reminisce about the good’ol days and wonder if I am happier for not remembering every detail or if I would be served better by recalling some things. I have one of the worst memories in the world — just ask the AndroidBeat team how often they have to remind me to do something!...

At CES, the company unveiled the IM5, a mid-range phone with “user-friendly” tweaks to Android geared toward faster picture-taking image editing. The smartphone has a five-inch 720p screen, octa-core 1.7 GHz processor (the exact model was not mentioned), 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage with a microSD slot for expansion. Of course Kodak wants you to pay attention to the camera – it features a 13 Mrear camera 5 Mon the front....

The Kyocera Hydro Vibe has some premium elements to it, like the fact that it’s waterproof shoots 1080p video, but it also falls short where phones in its class can’t afford to. That’s a shame, because the competition among mid-range phones is heating up. A little more of the same The Kyocera Hydro Vibe is a bit smaller than other phones in its class, about the size of the Moto X....

Chinese company LeEco has been expanding rapidly in all directions. The company which originally started as a video streaming service in China has expanded to smartphones, TVs, and even autonomous driving vehicles in a span of just a couple of years. While the company used to first only sell its products in China, it has expanded to India and, more recently, to the United States. However, these aggressive expansion plans have left the company with very little cash as the co-founder of the company Jia Yueting has revealed in an internal letter....

LG has just announced a new variant of the G3 for its home market — the LG G3 A. While the handset sports the same design as its bigger sibling, it features the specs of its last year’s predecessor — the G2. The G3 A comes with a 5.2-inch Full HD (1080p) display and is powered by a Snapdragon 800 processor. Other specs include 2GB of RAM, LTE-A support, 32GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot and a 2610 mAh removable battery....

Recently, Apple has also confirmed that iPads will support Home Hub even after the update’s release, but it will not support the new architecture. Brazil Also Suggested iPhone Should Come with USB-C This all started when European Union ordered Apple to change their iPhone’s lightning connectors to USB-C in European countries. EU authorities gave a deadline of 2024 to make these changes. Now, This rule aims to make one universal port, USB-C, for all smartphones to reduce e-waste and make it easy for consumers....

A recent report confirms that OnePlus 7T is going to be the first most to come with Android 10 out of the box. According to the OnePlus Forum, both OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro will receive the OxygenOS 10.0 update which is based on Android 10. But since the OTA update has a staged rollout, it will take a few days or weeks to reach every user. How To Update OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro To Android 10 Well, there are three ways to install the new OxygenOS 10 update....

The update plans for many companies regarding Android 5.0 Lollipop were lofty to say the least, but unfortunately things happen. On November 14, HTC confirmed that the Android 5.0 Lollipop update would begin rolling out to Google Play edition devices “early next week,” which just so happens to be right around now. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. As confirmed by Mo Versi, HTC’s VP of Product Management, via Twitter, the update will now begin on Friday, November 21....

According to the data collected and estimated by analyst firm Canalys, Xiaomi is no longer the biggest smartphone OEM in China. Instead, it lost the title in Q3, 2015 to another Chinese OEM: Huawei. This is the first time that Huawei has managed to grab the number 1 position in the Chinese smartphone market. Co-incidentally, it comes at a time when the company has just released its first Nexus handset in collaboration with Google — the Nexus 6P — which will surely get the whole world to sit up and take notice of its devices....

At the end of October, Google officially introduced Inbox, a new email app that’s meant to revolutionize and streamline your email inbox. The invite system was quickly introduced, but popularity has certainly outpaced that system. For a short period of time, Google is helping those out who haven’t receive an invite yet. The invite system is not going anywhere, technically, but Google is opening up the floodgates for a (very) short period of time on Wednesday, November 5, beginning at 3:00pm PST/6:00pm EST and going until 4:00pm PST/7:00pm EST....

Most recently, Chris founded Bastille, the only company focused exclusively on providing intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment for the Internet of Things (IoT). With more than 50 billion connected devices expected by 2020, Bastille is pioneering security for enterprise IoT with a committed focus on detecting and mitigating airborne threats. In 2008, Chris founded Endgame, leader in cyber security and defense for the government sector. In just three years, he grew the company from his basement to more than $10 million in revenue and nearly 100 employees....

As a result, the IRS is reminding taxpayers to keep their wits about them. Scams are on the rise, and taxpayers, in particular, are top targets for financial crimes. Tap or click here to see some of the tricks these scammers are pulling. If you know what scams to watch out for, you’ll be much safer when filing your taxes and collecting your hard-earned refund. Here are the biggest scams to keep an eye out for, as well as what you can do to stay safe....

At the recent meeting held in Hanover, Germany, the US President Barack Obama discussed with other leaders about the cyber strategy to contrast the Islamic State online. In March, Senior Pentagon officials confirmed the US Army’s first use of information warfare operations against the Islamic State as part of the campaign conducted to take back the Iraqi city of Mosul. The US military is using cyber tools to contrast the ISIS troops in the area, interfering members’ operation and communication....