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G PS on Android is incredible for many reasons. You've got the obvious uses, such as recovering your device when lost or stolen or navigating your way through hiking trails, and it's especially nifty because GPS works even when the device isn't connected to the internet. When navigating, you just need to download maps ahead of time. But with GPS, an Android device could also be used for tracking. It may not be the most reliable method, and it does comes with some not-so-insignificant limitations, but it can get the job done. Here's how you can use your device to pinpoint a person's or object's location. Tracking with native features Most Android devices released in 2014 or later have a built-in feature called Android Device Manager. This service constantly pings your device's location back to Google's servers so that Google knows where your device is. You can then use Google's web interface to see where...

Samsung has begun Android Nougat update for the Galaxy Note 5 starting with users in Turkey. The firmware with build N920CXXU3CQC7 weighs in around 1.3GB. The update, which is available as over-the-air update, should hit other markets in the coming weeks. But if you cannot wait for the OTA and want to get the update as soon as possible, then you may try to install the update manually. There are a two ways to install the software update on the Note 5: one is directly from mobile and the other is using Smart Switch on the PC. Otherwise, you may consider using Odin tool to install the update on Note 5 manually. The guide below is the Odin method to install the new Nougat update on the Note 5. But before you go ahead, do not forget to create a backup of important data of your phone. Also, ensure that the battery of the phone is charged properly in order to avoid unusual shutdown during the installation process. Do not forget to enable the USB debugging mode . How to...

Android Versions Android is a mobile phone  Operating System  officially launched by  Google  and currently being developed by it. It is an open-source software based on the  Linux kernel , and its source code is released by Google as  open-source . It was released on September 23, 2008, and the first commercially released phone running Android was the  HTC Dream  aka T-Mobile G1 (see  Ubergizmo’s live blog during that event ). This page lists all the versions of Android and shows you the most important evolutions. Shortcuts: Android 7.0 Nougat Android 6.0 Marshmallow Android 5.x Lollipop Android 5.0 Android 5.1 Android 4.x Android 4.4 Kitkat Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Android 3.x Android 3.2 Honeycomb Android 3.1 Android 3.0 Android 2.3 Gingerbread Android 2.2 Froyo Android 2.0 Eclair Android 1.6 Donut Overview of Android Andr...

US authorities on Wednesday (15 March) brought forward charges against two Kremlin intelligence (FSB) officials and two criminal hackers for launching a massive cyberattack on Yahoo in 2014, which compromised around 500 million user accounts. The US government's indictments reveal how Russian spies allegedly recruited criminal hackers in a conspiracy to hack the tech giant. The FBI said that the two criminal hackers , Alexsey Belan, a Russian who is currently on the agency's most-wanted list and Karim Baratov, a Kazakh residing in Canada, who was arrested on Tuesday (14 March) were hired by two FSB agents Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and Igor Sushchin, 43 to carry out the cyberattack. How was Yahoo hacked? According to the FBI, Belan, who went by "Magg" had breached Yahoo's system by early 2014 and made his way to the firm's internal control center for email accounts, which allowed him to make administration level changes, including accessing and...

Flying drones are complicated business. Land-based drones will do for now. And pedestrians on America’s footpaths will have to contend with these self-driving, wheeled robots delivering hot pizza, groceries or mail very soon. Thanks to London-based Starship Technologies, these quiet delivery robots are moving out of lab tests and onto actual streets in three US states -- in District of Columbia, parts of California, and Virginia, according to an ArsTechnica   report. Other US states and countries around the world are currently finalizing rules and regulation to get more of these delivery robot fleets commercialized and available for businesses to deploy on footpaths. Starship Technologies' delivery robots aren’t meant for the road; they’re designed for 'walking' on the footpath at a normal pedestrian’s pace. These autonomous delivery robots have navigation assistance cameras and GPS-guided delivery routes to help them deliver items up t...

An IT worker from India found out a genius way to get free Uber rides for life. Anand Prakash, a product security engineer, detected a bug in the Uber app. He also runs a blog on web application security and said it was “easy” to exploit the bug to overwrite the app and get free Uber rides around the world.   “I was testing Uber application for security loopholes,” he explained. “This is how I was able to figure it out. It was easy to do." “Attackers could have misused this by taking unlimited free rides from their Uber account.” In order to check the bug, he alerted Uber and with their permission took several taxi rides to check if he was right. He was! He took numerous trips in India and US without paying a single penny. The loophole was related to the method of payment where he used an invalid method to get free Uber rides for himself. Bad news for those planning to exploit the bug though, Uber has already patched it. Prakash will be rewarde...

Meet the current apple of ProTruly’s eye, Darling . A smartphone so unlike anything you’ve seen, it combines a strip of real diamonds and a full-fledged 360-degree camera within its shell. Hailing from China, Darling may very well be the first smartphone in the world to have a built-in 360-degree camera, and that makes it quite unique.                 The Darling packs in two identical 13MP cameras on its front and back to allow users to take 360-degree photos and videos from the smartphone and share them through YouTube and Facebook -- sites that support 360-degree viewable media. The Darling Extreme comes in an ostentatious gold coloured shell, leather accents with a strip of four diamonds running across on the front. Yes, real diamonds!     The Darling Android smartphones sport a 5.5-inch 1080p Full HD display, runs on a MediaTek SoC (no Qualcomm?!), 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. It comes with 3,5...