Further, in short term, our hearing memory is weaker than our visual memory. That’s why you find it difficult to recall the name of a person but can recognize his face easily. This puts you into embarrassing moments many a time. I have a friend who once while introducing his new classmate to his fiance struggled to recall his name. His classmate still teases him for that incident. My friend got lucky as it was a casual setup....

APT1—People’s Liberation Army of China Unit 61398 The notion of APT has been introduced for a decade. Yet, it only came to public and media attention when a U.S. cybersecurity firm published an investigative report revealing the Chinese army’s cyber-espionage division, Unit 61398, in early 2013. The investigation unveiled a continuous worldwide data extraction and spying scheme initiated by the Chinese government between 2006 and 2013. This military division was named APT1 in the investigation report, implying the idea of the first identified APT group with clear national objectives throughout its missions....

As we add new files and store useless data, our phones and other gadgets can become slow as molasses. It makes it frustrating every time we use them. If your Android phone is running slower than you’d like, a handy app can solve the problem. Here are the details on how to use it to speed up your Android and use it as if it was brand new out of the package....

In Summary How does the new Snapdragon 720G compare with old warhorses like the Snapdragon 730G and Helio G90T? Benchmarks can surprise you. With the mid-range smartphone segment being competitive as ever, brands are fighting to provide the best possible chipsets for the price and the Snapdragon 730G was a favorite in this segment. The Snapdragon 730G is relatively old now and the 720G also has a slightly faster CPU which gives us this surprising result....

Sony has just published its financial results for the first financial quarter of 2014 and things are not particularly looking rosy for the company’s mobile division. While the Japanese company managed to make a profit overall, its mobile division performed below expectations. In fact, the company has even lowered its full-year sales forecast from 50 million to 43 million — a drop of 14 percent. The company managed to ship 9....

Sony today unveiled its new X-series of smartphones that consists of the Xperia X, XA and X Performance. Despite a new branding, the Xperia X-series of handsets look quite similar to their Z-series predecessors, though Sony says it has made a few design tweaks here and there to make the handsets more ergonomic. To avoid the glass back from cracking, Sony has also switched to plastic panels at the rear of the phone....

Snapchat is an ephemeral messaging service that’s found plenty of attention since its launch, and now a new feature may add a bit more attention. On Monday, November 17, Snapchat officially announced a new partnership with Square, the name that’s built a reputation within the mobile payments industry. With the new deal between companies, Snapchat has unveiled Snapcash, the first product from Snapchat that was also built in partnership with another company: The result of that admiration is Snapcash, the ability to send money within the Snapchat app....

Whether you plan on mounting this Sony TV on the wall, putting it on a TV stand, or raising it above a sound bar, the stand made for this TV is perfect for you. But if you don’t want to use a sound bar; don’t worry. Sony features a screen that doubles as a speaker so that the sounds you hear are perfectly aligned with the objects you see on the screen....

If you expect to play Uncharted 4 or The Last Guardian on your smartphone, go forgetting it. Sony is passed to the mobile does not mean you let consoles in the background. However, PC-grade gaming on mobile devices may also not be too far away, with Qualcomm officially announcing support for desktop-grade Windows OS on its future Snapdragon-based mobile devices. The PlayStation games for mobile iOS and Android that has already revealed belong to franchise catalog even years we do not see in traditional consoles....

Sony today silently updated the Xperia SP software support page to mention that it will not be updating the device to Android 4.4 KitKat. The company had initially promised to roll out the latest version of Android to its mid-range handset, but has changed its mind for some unknown reasons. Sony had launched the Xperia SP back in May 2013 and had updated its support page towards the end of 2014 to reflect that it would be getting the Android 4....

Just over a month after it initially rolled out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Xperia Z2 and Xperia Z3 lineup of devices, Sony has started rolling out a new firmware for these devices containing a plethora of bug fixes and improvements. Sony has also taken into account the feedback given by the Xperia community for the first firmware and included some of their requested features to their latest firmware....

Well, you think you do. You believe that there won’t be another (big) COVID surge. Even if there is, you’re going to finally believe in what used to be called a normal summer, one that involves trips, family, love, sun, and even, perhaps, fun. I don’t want to dampen your dreams and desires. I would, though, like to caution you about a little something that Southwest Airlines just revealed. On its last earnings call, new CEO Bob Jordan offered a slightly different perspective from the one you might expect....

Spin the Bottle Video Dating App Launches on iOS Spin the Bottle is just like the classic party game, only this time it’s with real people from your area who are looking to meet. The premise is simple: Players will give the bottle their best spin, and when it stops, they’ll enter into a 30 second video date where they can chat up their potential match. If they’re feeling the love, they can give their date a kiss and see if they return the affection....

Last month, the company revealed it had 173,600 in Ethereum (ETH) and 25.5 million USD coins drained from its Ronin network, something Sky Mavis created to get around Ethereum network congestion. At the time, the crypto assets were valued at over $600 million. For the attack to occur, the attacker gained control of the four validators operated by Sky Mavis, and one operated by Axie DAO. “The attacker found a backdoor through our gas-free RPC node, which they abused to get the signature for the Axie DAO validator,” the Ronin Network explained last month....

Some Pixel 7 and 6 series users are facing bugs that don’t let the screen auto-rotate from portrait to landscape. Many are discussing it on Reddit, and it seems this frequently happens while watching YouTube videos. Instead of rotating into landscape automatically, users have to manually do it by tapping the tiny landscape button on the lower right of the display. A Reddit user, BennyBoy218, says: “Seems to be when I’m using YouTube mostly, but auto rotate doesn’t kick in....

Unfortunately, that’s not the case. has updated the Check & update your Android version page of the Nexus support section to include the xel xel X the obsolete dates are the same as the Nexus devices that came before. For version updates, says, “xel phones get Android version updates for at least 2 years from when the device first became available on the Store. After 2 years, we can’t guarantee additional updates....

According to the Korean publication The Bell, Pantech is about to get acquired. The deal will be announced in as little as seven days, and right now both Samsung and LG are fighting for them, along with local operator SK Telecom and the local car maker Hyundai of all companies. Now is this a good thing or a bad thing? Korea is a country of just 50 million people, so to expect that three healthy handset makers could exist in such a small market is a bit naïve....

But while things haven’t exactly fallen into place for 2020 thanks to the pandemic, we will be closing the year off with a spectacular space show in which everything lines up just right. Later this month, two planets in our solar system will align, creating a double planet for the first time in 800 years. Perhaps planets aligning is a good omen for 2021? Either way, it’s a rare event and you need to make plans to watch....

With AI technology and smart devices, many of us voluntarily allow ourselves to be tracked day by day, minute by minute, just for the added convenience of devices like Alexa. But what if your Alexa could physically tell when you entered a room and left it? Would this be cool or creepy? Well, some Echo devices now have that capability. Keep reading to find out how it works and disable the feature if you find it too creepy....

Just a week after Google released Android 4.4 KitKat, Sony has announced its plan on updating its fleet of Xperia devices to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and Android 4.4 KitKat. The company will first start updating a bunch of Xperia devices – the Xperia Z, ZL, ZR, Tablet Z, Xperia SP, Z Ultra and Z1 – to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean from next month. Keep in mind that this ETA is only for the unlocked variant of the devices....