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Android Security Bulletin: Everything you need to know!

Android Security Bulletin: Everything you need to know!

  Fixing the latest bugs and exploits in Android every month.

Google has detailed the latest Android Security Bulletin and released the fixes for Nexus and Pixel devices.

These are exploits and other security concerns that affect Android as a whole. Issues with the operating system, kernel patches, and driver updates may not affect any particular device, but these need to be fixed in the Android…

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How to get Android 8.1 Oreo on your Pixel or Nexus

How to get Android 8.1 Oreo on your Pixel or Nexus

  Get the latest version of Android on your phone on your own terms.

Update March 2018: We now have a whole new version of Android to try as the Android P Developer Preview has begun. All the steps and methods here still apply; the only difference is if you’re looking to sign up for the Android Beta Program, when it begins, you’ll get P and not O. And hey, if you’re looking to be a beta tester…

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Nokia 7 Plus initial impressions

Nokia 7 Plus initial impressions

The Nokia 7 Plus marries Nokia’s industrial design with the simplicity of Android One.

HMD Global revived the Nokia brand last year, initially focusing on the budget segment with the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, and the Nokia 6. While the manufacturer rolled out the Nokia 8 to cater to the premium category, it wasn’t quite as good as the OnePlus 5T or the Mi Mix 2.

For its 2018 portfolio, HMD is…

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Xiaomi's upcoming gaming-focused Black Shark phone

Xiaomi’s upcoming gaming-focused Black Shark phone

  Xiaomi could be going after the Razer Phone with its upcoming Black Shark device.

Xiaomi is getting ready to launch a gaming-oriented phone, similar to what we’ve seen with the Razer Phone. The phone is slated for an official unveil next Friday, April 13, and a new teaser out of Weibo (via Gear) gives us a glimpse at the design language. There isn’t much to see, but at least we can look…

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Teleconsole, share your terminal session instantly

Teleconsole, share your terminal session instantly

In the next article we are going to take a look at Teleconsole. This is a free service to share our terminal session with people we trust. Your contacts can join through the command line using SSH or through your web browser using HTTPS. This service is very interesting to ask for help. We will also be able to forward local TCP ports to your contacts. Use this feature to allow them to access web…

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The Ubuntu repositories already have the latest version of the Intel driver

The Ubuntu repositories already have the latest version of the Intel driver

The repositories of Ubuntu are being the center of the controversy of Ubuntu during the last months. After the serious error that appeared in the wake of the Ubuntu 17.10 kernel, appeared the error of Specter and Meltdown. An error that made Ubuntu have to remove the latest versions of Intel’s microcode in order to give stability and security to the distribution.

Over time, Intel has managed to…

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Zeal, a developer documentation browser

Zeal, a developer documentation browser

In the next article we are going to take a look at Zeal. This is a tool that will provide us with an offline documentation browser for software developers. Zeal is inspired by Dash, which is a commercial application developed especially for Mac OS.

Zeal provides documentation sets (docsets) for a large number of programming languages ​​and different software. You can read them all, online or by…

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Nitrux, a beautiful Linux distribution based on Ubuntu

Nitrux, a beautiful Linux distribution based on Ubuntu

In this article we will take a look at Nitrux, this distribution of Linux based on Ubuntu with an excellent design and I bet that more than one will give you the desire to try it. Nitrux comes with its Nomad desktop environment which is built on KDE Plasma 5 and QT, Nomad takes the best of this environment to present a visually appealing desktop, which personally reminds me a lot of Pantheon. The…

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“Familiar”, the new interface of Ubuntu MATE 18.04

“Familiar”, the new interface of Ubuntu MATE 18.04

Martin Wimpress, the leader of the Ubuntu MATE project, has presented the new interface of Ubuntu MATE. An interface that has been baptized as “Familiar” and that will be present in versions superior to Ubuntu MATE 18.04 and in versions that have MATE 1.20 or higher.

This new interface of MATE is minimalist, reducing the number of menus and retaking the quick menu that in other versions of Ubuntu…

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Qualcomm Announces Support for Next-Generation VR Experiences With New Snapdragon 845 Virtual Reality Development Kit

Qualcomm Announces Support for Next-Generation VR Experiences With New Snapdragon 845 Virtual Reality Development Kit

Development Hardware and Software that Unleashes Full Potential of Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR Platform to Help Mobile VR Application Developers Create Truly Immersive VR Experiences

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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), announced a new virtual reality development kit consisting of a…

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The registration of the III Edition of the Open Awards will end on April 11

The registration of the III Edition of the Open Awards will end on April 11

As is happening in recent years, the events surrounding the OpenExpo Europe for the month of June have already started. As usual for three years, during the month of March and April the Open Awards are held. Specifically, the III Edition of the Open Awards will take place.

A contest where the best products related to Free Software are awarded. Helping them for a year with various tools and…

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Twitter plans on breaking all third-party apps/clients this June

Twitter plans on breaking all third-party apps/clients this June

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Here’s why you might see #BreakingMyTwitter over the next couple months.

Updated 4:57 PM ET — Since this news broke, Twitter’s developer account took to the social network with the following message: “Last year we announced our plan to retire Site Streams & User Streams, and replace them with the Account Activity API (currently in beta). We are delaying the scheduled June 19th…

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Get these games free with your PlayStation Plus membership this April

Get these games free with your PlayStation Plus membership this April

  These are the free games you can get right now with your PlayStation Plus membership.

One of the biggest perks of having a PlayStation Plus membership is the free games you get every month. I’ve got a list of the games PlayStation is offering this month, and I’m very happy to see some Vita games on this list. Start downloading these games, and enjoy your free games for the month of April!

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Motorola releases a redesigned camera app ahead of G6 launch

Motorola releases a redesigned camera app ahead of G6 launch

  The new camera app is now divided into sections and older devices are likely to receive the updated app soon

The Moto G6 is about to launch, but the company is releasing a completely redesigned version of its camera app prior to the launch. Motorola has changed the app inside-out, starting with the app icon itself.

The new app icon is less aggressive and looks a bit flatter. The new icon is…

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Mozilla Thunderbird 60 will have a calendar

Mozilla Thunderbird 60 will have a calendar

Mozilla is preparing a new version of Mozilla Thunderbird. This new version will not be a version but a great version similar to Firefox Quantum in his older brother, Mozilla Firefox. This version is called Mozilla Thunderbird 60.

A version that does not have major changes in the engine or application core but that will have great news and changes compared to other versions. At least that is how…

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Installation guide for openSUSE novice Tumbleweed step by step

Installation guide for openSUSE novice Tumbleweed step by step

This time I will take advantage of you to share this openSUSE installation guide, to be specific to your Tumbleweed version. This version, in comparison to the others offered by openSUSE, is a Rolling Release version.

In this case I decided to install openSUSE Tumbleweed because it is boring and tiresome to have to update a system every time there is a new version, that’s why I like the systems…

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Step by step installation guide for CentOS 7

Step by step installation guide for CentOS 7

No doubt CentOS is the operating system that usually occupy most of the web servers, it is a very robust and highly configurable system. This has been proven by me since in almost all dedicated server providers I have found CentOS as the default system.

That is why I made the decision before purchasing a dedicated server, knowing a little more about the CentOS system as well as some tools and…

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