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2020 saw a record App Store spend as coronavirus lockdowns saw people forced to seek more at-home entertainment, according to analytics data. With less time spent with family, and fewer entertainment options outside the home, more time has been spent using apps. The holidays alone have seen consumers so far spend an estimated $407M on iOS and Android apps, some 34% up on the same period in 2019 … Analytics firm Sensor Tower crunched the numbers....

LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and Relay Experts take advantage of LLMNR and NBT-NS protocols in an internal network to poison and relay authentication requests on the network and get the users’ hashes or simply a valid connection with a single machine within the context of the users’ session. A set of tools can be used to reproduce this technique, such as NBNSpoof, Metasploit and Responder. By using the Responder tool, we can get a valid hash for the user: Charlie\John as demonstrated below....

Photo Credit: Kitchen Dreams Developed by Travis Krumsick the freeware program KeyTweak provides a graphical user interface for remapping every key on most keyboards. Behind the scenes, all the program does is edit the Windows registry as we did in our Disabling the Caps Lock Key tutorial. What took us several steps and 5 minutes to accomplish, KeyTweak can do in only two mouse clicks. KeyTweak isn’t just for disabling keys though....

Apple is reportedly planning to launch Apple Pay in Canada, its first expansion of the payments service outside the U.S., this fall, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company is reportedly in talks with banks for a launch as soon as November: The company is in negotiations with Canada’s six biggest banks about a potential November launch of the service which would enable mobile payments for both credit and debit cards using iPhones and the forthcoming Apple Watch, those people said....

Mobile analytics firm Flurry published a new report today asserting iOS and Android handsets have experienced adoption at such a supersonic speed that their growth rate has now eclipsed all consumer technology in history. According to Flurry: Smartphones making headway as they spread worldwide is nothing new, but their history-making adoption rate is certainly notable. The report illustrated countries with the greatest number of device activations as well as the fasting growing markets....

The Real Housewives’ of Orange County’s Gretchen Rossi revealed that she had postpartum depression and didn’t connect with her daughter. The mother gave birth to her first daughter earlier this year and has opened up about her daily struggle. Rossi starred on The Real Housewives of Orange County from season 4 to season 8. When she made her debut on the show, she was going through the grieving process after learning her fiancé was dying from Leukemia....

From the Toys section: The Apple Store offers price drops on select factory-refurbished unibody MacBook Pro notebooks in its Special Deals section, with prices starting at $899. It’s among the best selections we’ve seen from Apple in several weeks, and combined with free shipping, most systems at lowest-we’ve-seen prices. Sales tax is added where applicable. All come with a 1-year Apple warranty, the same as new Macs. Items are removed from Apple’s site when they sell out....

Several reports have indicated that Apple is working on a pair of augmented reality glasses, potentially slated for a release sometime in the next two years. While little is known about the glasses, iDrop News today has published a set of renders that imagine what “Apple Glasses” could look like… The frame of these imaginary Apple Glasses is made out of a “high-quality metal,” while there’s a notch along the top that houses “cameras, sensors, and wireless antennas....

The US/Chinese trade war has sent ripples of concern throughout big corporations. Apple has relied almost exclusively on Chinese manufacturing and assembly for its product lines for many years, and has been particularly exposed to the recent rounds of tariffs on Chinese exports. Nikkei reports that Apple is talking with suppliers and is in early stages of a ‘fundamental restructuring’ of its supply chain. Apple has reportedly asked suppliers to price out the cost of moving 15-30% of production out of China....

According to a new report from the Financial Times, Spotify is in “advanced talks” to acquire SoundCloud, the popular user-focused streaming music service. Details of the acquisition talks are unclear at this point, the report comes the same day as Apple Music was ranked #1 for customer satisfaction by J.D. Power in its first streaming music study. Today’s report cites “people briefed on the discussions” and says that the two services are in “advanced talks....

We reported earlier this month on Apple’s TV plans, specifically relating to its alleged difficulty in getting cable companies to relinquish control of user interface and user experience, but now a new report quoted Time Warner Cable’s COO as willing to concede as long as it maintains the “customer relationship.” According to the Hollywood Reporter: Recent reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal often mention the possibility of an Apple-branded HDTV....

If you grew up in the late 80s or early 90s, odds are that you either owned a Sega Game Gear, or envied those that did. The intrepid little handheld device offered features that were largely unheard of at the time and introduced a generation to the possibility of brightly lit, full color games on the go. While the device did have its shortcomings, it is still remembered today as being a powerful handheld that still has a huge fan base....

If you’re using this handset and want to upgrade to the latest software version that you’ve missed earlier or didn’t get yet, then you’re in right place. Here we have provided the Realme Narzo 20A Software Update Tracker along with the firmware download links below. Sometimes, users didn’t receive any particular software OTA update due to some server or carrier-related issues mostly. That only happens due to the incremental roll-out process by the smartphone OEMs....

Following Facebook’s announcement earlier this morning, Reddit today unveiled its new live audio platform that will be integrated into the social network. Named “Reddit Talk,” the feature will work similarly to Clubhouse, enabling real-time conversations between users via audio. Reddit Talk essentially works like Clubhouse, but will be integrated into the social network’s subreddits. For those unfamiliar, subreddits are like individual forums on a specific subject found within Reddit. When entering a live room, users can ask to speak or remain there as a listener — not much different from what other platforms have been doing....

In this tutorial, we will help you to unlock the bootloader of your Redmi Note 11, 11S, and Note 11 Pro. If you are new to rooting, then you must understand that first, you need to unlock the bootloader of the device and then install a custom recovery like TWRP to root the device. So, that being said, let us get straight into the article itself: Also Read Download and Install AOSP Android 13 on Xiaomi Redmi Note 11...

We’re one week away from the unveiling of Apple’s streaming video service and details continue to unfold ahead of the March 25th event. Today, the Financial Times reports on a few details of Apple’s streaming service, including how its ambitions differ from Netflix. The report reiterates that one component of Apple’s expanded streaming initiatives will be an upgraded version of its TV app. Through the TV app, users would be able to subscribe to third-party services other than Apple’s....

According to a new report from Re/code, Apple is set to expand its Apple Pay mobile payments solution to the web before this coming holiday shopping season. According to the report, Apple has been telling potential partners that with this expansion, users will be able to use Apple Pay instead of entering their card information on the retailer websites. While specific details are vague, Apple is said to be planning to add this feature to iOS devices that have a Touch ID sensor, although it’s also considering bringing it to the Mac as well....

A Microsoft executive just revealed native iOS and Android versions of Office 2013 would launch next year. Microsoft Product Manager Peter Bobek spoke at a media event in the Czech Republic this morning and subsequently confirmed with local website IHNED that a consumer version of the native apps will release around March 2013. The Verge later read a press release from Microsoft’s Czech Republic office, although it did not provide a copy for publishing, and verified the news....

Jamf, makers of popular Apple device management software for businesses, today released its Annual Jamf Trends Survey measuring use of Apple products in the enterprise. The key takeaway: both iOS and Mac adoption grew among business users last year. The report also offers additional insight into growth for Apple among enterprise users in 2016, collecting data from 300 IT professionals, managers and executives from commercial organizations of 50 to 10,000+ employees from around the world....

Alright, I know how powerful is the new Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro as it can compete with many flagship rivals head-on. However, people have reported WiFi problems with Redmi K20 Pro that needs to be fixed. Why WiFi problems is a huge issue is because we as a people have become addicted to our smartphones and since we are glued to the phone connected either to the mobile data which is expensive or WiFi which is inexpensive and fast, problems that result is disruption in using the internet is a massive issue....