Acer Announces New Predator Helios 700 and Nitro 7 Gaming Laptops At its Next@Acer Global Press Conference being held in New York, the company has not only updated its existing gaming laptops – the Predator Helios 300 and Acer Nitro 5, but also added two new laptops in each of the lineups, i.e. the Predator Helios 700 and Acer Nitro 7 respectively. Predator Helios 700 Starting off with Predator Helios 700, Acer is looking to extend the best-in-class gaming performance with theaddition of anew slidable Hyperdrift keyboard design....

Galaxy S10 Repair Prices Put the iPhone to Shame Samsung has finally announced the repair pricing for its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S10, S10+, and S10e, and they put the iPhone repair prices to shame. The South Korean giant announced the repair prices for the phones, for both screen repairs, and back glass panel repairs. If you need to get the screen on your Samsung S10-series smartphone replaced, the company will charge you$199 for replacing the screen on the Galaxy S10e, $249 for the Galaxy S10, and $269 for the Galaxy S10+....

How to Use an Android device as 2FA Physical Security Key A couple of years ago, two-factor authentication was an unheard thing for general consumers. However, in the last few years, Google has pushed 2FA a lot. Google likes to call it 2SV (Two-step Verification), and promotes it as an essential measure to further secure Google account. While Google has not made it mandatory to turn on 2FA it has encouraged its users to have an extra layer of security....

Instagram Stories of Some Users Exposed to Strangers Adding to the breach scandals surrounding Facebook and its family of apps, this time a bug on photo-messaging app Instagram exposed Stories from certain users to complete strangers. Out of Instagram’s total global one billion followers, over 500 million users actively use the Stories feature and this incident, once again, raised major safety and privacy concerns among users. On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that it “first received word of the problem from a user InternetRyan via Twitter, who was confused about seeing strangers in his Instagram Stories tray....

Samsung Users Moving to Pixel, OnePlus: Counterpoint Google Pixel and OnePlus smartphones are catching up and giving stiff competition to Samsung in the US as over one-third of users who bought thePixel 3and theOnePlus 6Tduring the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018 previously owned Samsung, said a new report by Counterpoint Research. According to Counterpoint’s “US Smartphone Churn Tracker”, less than one in five people who bought either device was a previous Apple user....

TikTok Added 9 Crore Indian Users in the Last 3 Months Despite facing flak for sleazy content on its platform, Chinese video sharing app TikTok is continuing its dramatic rise in India,adding 8.86 crore users in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report. This was 8.2 times more new installs than TikTok saw in the country in Q1 of last year, according to the analysis by mobile app intelligence firm Sensor Tower....

80% Youngsters Want TikTok Banned in India: Survey 8 out of 10 millennials living in India want the controversial Chinese video app TikTok to be banned, reveals a survey by popular news app Inshorts. This comes after the Madras High Courtlast week advisedthe Central government to ban the app claiming it was encouraging pornography among youngsters. They further added that it was harming the foundation of the nation, its cultures and values....