Critical Bug in Maxthon Browser Grants Admin Rights to Hackers A new report from cyber-security firm, SafeBreach, claims to have found a critical vulnerability in Maxthon, a popular web-browser based on the WebKit and Trident browser engines. According to the report, the Windows version of Maxthon 5 has a vulnerability (CVE-2019-16647) that could potentially allow hackers to take admin control and surreptitiously install malware on the system. In ablog poston Wednesday, the researchers said they reported the vulnerability to Maxthon developers on September 3rd, following which, the company confirmed the findings and shared a timeline for a new version deployment....

Google Adds Duo Support to Messages for the Web Remember Messages for Web? Google’s messaging client was made available to the public last year, and brought texting capabilities to users’ web browsers. The company later followed up with a web-client for its video calling service Duo as well. Now, the company is bringing the two web-clients closer together with a tighter Duo integration inside Messages for Web. Users logging in to the web client for Messages are now reportedly seeing a banner informing them that Duo video calls are now supported....

Google Launches 5 New Experimental Digital Wellbeing Apps Google introduced Digital Wellbeing tools last year with Android 9 Pie, with new features and optimizations seen in the recently launched Android 10 update. However, it appears like Google is focused on further improving Digital Wellbeing and help more users curb smartphone addiction. The company has beenexperimentingwith a ton of ideas as part of the ongoing Digital Wellbeing mission and well, we have today been introduced to 5 new Android apps that should help minimize distractions and keep you away from your phone....

Google Wants You to Replace Your Actual Phone with a Paper Phone Just days after the launch of its flagship Pixel 4 lineup, whichsadly isn’t coming to India, Google has acquainted us with a special experiment that would help you break free from the digital world for some time. Dubbed thePaper Phone, it’s exactly what it sounds like and will see you printing out a phone booklet to carry around with you instead of actual smartphones....

Here’s When Your Xiaomi Phone Will Receive MIUI 11 Update in India MIUI 11 was first introduced in China earlier last month with a new minimalist UI, dark mode, and other nifty work-life related features. Xiaomi hastoday revealedthe MIUI 11 update roadmap for India, which includes a total of 28 devices in its expansive portfolio. Xiaomi is updating everything from the newly launched Redmi Note 8 series, the oh-so-popularPoco F1, Redmi K20 Pro flagship to the budget smartphones launched over the previous two years....

How to Customize Share Sheet in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Aside fromoverhauling the Cameraand theReminders appsfor a more intuitive experience, Apple has also redesigned the “Share Sheet” that hadn’t got a facelift for several years. And from what I can tell, it looks a touch better. While keeping the originality intact, the tech giant has slightly extended the functionality of the share sheet. Despite the redesigned look, it continues to have a familiar interface – in the typical Apple fashion....

ISRO Releases Images of Moon’s Impact Craters Snapped by Chandrayaan-2 Indian space agency has released fresh set of pictures of impact craters on moon surface taken by its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday, while releasing a picture on its Twitter handle, said the images were taken by the Dual Frequency-Synthetic Aperture Radar (DF-SAR) on its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter. According to ISRO, the Moon has been continuously bombarded by meteorites, asteroids and comets since its formation....