bugs
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Watch Out For This Battery-Draining Android Bug
Google Assistant has been crowned the smartest digital phone assistant many times over. But it turns out there’s one thing it’s not particularly great at: switching itself off to prevent screen burn-in. Yikes. Here’s what causes the bug and how to fix it.
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How To Get People To Eat Bugs And Drink Sewage
In wealthy societies we’ve become increasingly picky about what we eat. The “wrong” fruits and vegetables, the “wrong” animal parts, and the “wrong” animals inspire varying degrees of “yuck”.
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MALWARE ALERT: WhatsApp Has Been Compromised By Spyware
A recently identified bug in WhatsApp allows a bad actor to install spyware on your phone simply by calling you over the popular messaging app. You don’t even need to answer the call, as long as your phone receives it.
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A Software Driven World Might Be Faster But Is It Better?
A couples of incidents this week have highlighted one of the problems with the agile, software-driven world we live in. While it’s great that new features are delivered to us quickly, it also means that problems are reaching users that we simply didn’t experience when software development cycles were less intense.