Pegasus infection found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International

Pegasus infection found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International

Representational image only. The Pegasus spyware, which the Union government has not categorically denied buying or using, allows attackers to extract all the contents of smartphones by leveraging software weaknesses that are known to a select few hackers, and sold for millions of dollars.  The Wire news website’s editor Siddharth Varadarajan and another journalist in … Read more

ED raids two ex-Punjab ministers; seizes documents, mobile phones

ED raids two ex-Punjab ministers; seizes documents, mobile phones

Sadhu Singh Dharamsot. File photo: Twitter/@INCPunjab “Incriminating” documents, mobile phones, and other electronic devices were seized by the ED after raids against two former Punjab forest ministers and Congress leaders Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and Sangat Singh Giljian and others as part of an alleged forest scam-linked money laundering probe. The federal probe agency issued a … Read more

Bihar policemen directed not to use mobile phones, social media on field duty

Bihar policemen directed not to use mobile phones, social media on field duty

Police in Bihar have been directed again to not use mobile phones or social media while on field duty, failing which stern action will be taken against them. In June 2021 too, a similar direction was given by the State police headquarters to personnel on duty. Of late, said the order, it has been found … Read more

Andhra Pradesh: Eluru police hand over 105 stolen mobile phones to owners

Andhra Pradesh: Eluru police hand over 105 stolen mobile phones to owners

The Eluru district police on Friday handed over 105 stolen mobile phones, all worth ₹22 lakh, to the owners in the town. The Eluru police set up a special cell, headed by Deputy SP G. Pydeswara Rao, in August to receive complaints regarding theft of phones. By the first week of October, the police have … Read more

Google wants to know the impact of phones on your mental health – ET HealthWorld

Google wants to know the impact of phones on your mental health – ET HealthWorld

The use of smartphones all over the world has increased exponentially in the last few years. While there are numerous benefits of having almost everything at the tap of the screen, it does have its fair share of downsides as well. Google is conducting research to find out the deep impact of phones on mental … Read more

Apple Update Allows Mask Wearers to Unlock Phones with Face ID

Apple Update Allows Mask Wearers to Unlock Phones with Face ID

March 10, 2022 — Apple’s new iOS 15.4 update will allow people who are wearing face masks to unlock their iPhones with Face ID, starting sometime next week. The new operating system has been in beta testing since January, The Verge reported. According to screenshots from people who have tested it, users first navigate to … Read more

Eka Care launches heart rate monitoring feature on mobile phones – ET HealthWorld

eka care launches heart rate monitoring feature on mobile phones

Bengaluru: Eka Care has launched a scientific mobile-based feature on the app through which users can track their pulse rate, a basic, yet very important body vital. Tracking the vitality can assist users to understand when they need to seek medical advice. It can also help doctors to understand their patients better and offer better … Read more

Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic minnow defies a rising superpower

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VILNIUS, Lithuania — It was never a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cellphones. But it came as a shock to officials in Lithuania when they discovered that a popular Chinese-made handset sold in the Baltic nation had a hidden though dormant feature: a censorship registry of … Read more

How phones can alert you to Covid-19 exposure – ET HealthWorld

how phones can alert you to covid 19

More than 8.1 million people in the U.S. have turned their iPhones and Android devices into pandemic contact-tracing tools, but it hasn’t been of much use when their neighbors, classmates and coworkers aren’t on the same system. Apple and Google co-created “exposure notification” technology to alert phone users if they spent time near someone who … Read more

Startup develops fertility monitor that enables phones to perform tests at home – ET HealthWorld

startup develops fertility monitor that enables phones to perform tests at home

Bengaluru-based medical technology startup Inito on Monday announced that its Fertility Monitor has cleared the regulatory pathway of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This paves the way for the product’s launch in the US, and also allows access to countries that have signed the Mutual Recognition Agreement with the FDA, it said … Read more