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Security researcher Salvador Mendoza recently discovered a security flaw in Samsung Pay and discussed it during his Black Hat talk in Las Vegas. Basically Samsung Pay generates tokens each time a transaction is made. The idea is that this will mask the credit card information so that in the event it is intercepted, the details […]

Facebook is known as a software company, and rightfully so: It makes a ton of money building software to power mobile apps that sell mobile ads it then shows to billions of people around the world. But Facebook is also a hardware company, and it now has the workshop to prove it. Complete article: Inside Area 404 […]

Apple launched the new Apple TV Remote app to iOS users on Monday. The app is actually a separate app from the remote app users might have previously used to control their Apple TV, so it’ll require a new download instead of just an update. Complete article: The new Apple TV Remote app

On Apple devices the app stores a “forensic trace” of all chats, be them “deleted, cleared, or archived”, Jonathan Zdziarski found. This means that instead of disappearing from the device as you’d expect, a trace of the chat remains in the phone. And that trace could be reconstructed into its “original form” by someone with access to the […]

Samsung Electronics Co. reported its most profitable quarter in two years on Thursday as strong sales of its flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone helped offset a drop in profit on sales of semiconductors and display panels. Second-quarter net profit rose 1.7% from a year earlier to 5.85 trillion Korean won ($5.2 billion), while operating profit rose 18% […]

Version 52 of Google Chrome is now rolling out to all users via Google’s stable channel with the usual bug fixes and security patches. For Mac, the update notably adds Material Design to the browser’s top bar and other UI elements. Other changes include removing the ability to use the backspace key as a return […]

Tomorrow morning, Verizon will announce its plan to buy Yahoo’s core assets for a pitiful $4.8 billion according to “two people with direct knowledge of the situation,” Bloomberg reports. Considering that at the peak of its success, Yahoo was valued at $125 billion, this is yet another benchmark moment in the company’s fall from grace. […]

Apple Inc stands to rake in $3 billion in revenue from the Pokemon Go craze in the next one to two years as gamers buy “PokeCoins” from its app store, brokerage Needham & Co said. A pack of 100 PokeCoins costs 99 cents in Apple’s app store, but the price can go up as much as […]

More than 1 billion people now use Facebook Messenger every month, the company announced today. Facebook now has two messaging services with 1 billion users, as WhatsApp hit the milestone in February. The bot platform Facebook introduced for Messenger at F8 has grown to include over 18,000 bots — up from 11,000 just 20 days ago.   […]

Covering over 1,000 museums across 70 countries, Google has launched a new website and app called Google Arts & Culture. Introduced by the Google Cultural Institute, the platform offers an exploration of art across time, allowing users to search for specific things such as statues from 100 AD, or the color blue in movements such as […]

WhatsApp is looking to add a new font to its iOS and Android app, and the feature has been spotted in Android beta build (version 2.16.179). The new WhatsApp version is available via Google Play’s beta program, and the feature has also been spotted by iOS beta users. Complete article: WhatsApp – new font

A new Skype for Linux client is now available as an alpha. The Skype client for Linux had been long abandoned—it’s stuck on version 4.3, compared to version 7 on Windows—but Microsoft has now belatedly recognized that Skype is at its most desirable when it’s available on every platform. Complete article: New Skype for Linux client released