In a blog post early Tuesday morning, Dropbox revealed a vulnerability with its shared links. The popular cloud storage company said that shared links to some documents could be unintentionally revealed to “unintended recipients.” Thankfully, Dropbox says it doesn’t think the vulnerability has been exploited, and it has already been addressed.
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DuckDuckGo, the Internet search-engine that still values your privacy, has just gotten even better, as the company announced a major update covering new features as well as a revamped design.
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We have covered Moves a few times here on BGR. The sleek and smart iPhone app counts your steps each day using the iPhone 5s’s in-built M7 motion co-processor, and it collects and presents that data in a great-looking minimalistic interface. Not long ago, the company behind Moves was acquired by Facebook. On the plus side, Facebook instantly made the app free following the acquisition. But as many had feared, the company also changed the app’s privacy policy.
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The race to the bottom isn’t always a bad thing, especially when it saves consumers hundreds of dollars. Covering ARM’s Tech Day, AnandTech has shared some interesting data which posits that the first $20 smartphone could be available to purchase within the next few months. A $25 Firefox OS smartphone has already been shown off, and ARM believes that a $20 1x Cortex-A5 2.5G Android smartphone is soon to follow.
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Is parody even possible when it comes to the tech world? It’s a question that needs to be asked in the wake of a speech given this week by Justin Rosenstein, a former Google and Facebook engineer who cofounded Asana in 2008. Speaking at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference on Monday, Rosenstein delivered a keynote that oozed with every single ridiculous Silicon Valley trope we’ve ever heard and was so hilariously self-important that we can’t even imagine Mike Judge signing off on it in his hit HBO satire Silicon Valley.
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Life is filled with little mysteries, one of which is why we’re more likely to yawn when others around us . However, new research from the University of Vienna suggests that group yawning is actually a survival mechanism that has the side effect of cooling off our brains, which in turn makes us more alert and less likely to doze off.
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E3 preparation is officially in full swing as Microsoft has begun sending out invites for its E3 2014 Media Briefing. “Xbox: Game On,” as the briefing has been dubbed, will take place inside the Galen Center on USC’s campus, the same location that has held the press conference in past years. The briefing will be held on Monday, June 9th at 9:30 a.m. PDT, and BGR will be on hand covering the event live.
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In addition to a high-resolution 2K display, the LG G3 may have other interesting features including a metal back cover as well as a removable battery. Well known leaker @evleaks posted two new G3 images on his website, one showing the supposed metal back cover of the handset, and one revealing the removable battery in the device. However, it’s still not clear whether the phone will have microSD support.
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Samsung has published an article on its blog to explain its design choices for the Galaxy S5’s user interface and the continued use of plastic for the back cover. The company also managed to troll itself in the processes, indirectly criticizing its choices for previous flagship smartphones.
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Last year’s flagship HTC One smartphone was later joined by a supersized HTC One max phablet, but the gigantic handset didn’t seem to gain much traction in a market dominated by the Galaxy Note 3 and other massive Samsung phones. The struggling smartphone maker is finally seeing some momentum thanks to its new HTC One (M8) flagship phone though, and it will apparently soon look to build on that momentum with a phablet currently being referred to as the “HTC One (M8) Prime.”
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