Google, the World’s Biggest Advertising Company, Will Block Ads Soon. Is That Good?It’s finally happening: on February 15, 2017, Google’s Chrome browser will block some ads out-of-the-box, regardless of whether you have a separate ad blocker installed. …
Xiaomi Mi Home No. 1 Mi Fan Sale from Dec 23 to Jan 1: Discounts on smartphones and accessoriesAfter its No. 1 Mi Fan Sale online, Xiaomi has announced sale at their Mi Home stores. This lets customers get the smartphones and accessories at a discounted rates at Mi Home Stores across 15 Mi Home…
Xiaomi Mi Band HRX Edition ReviewA year after launching the Mi Band 2 in the country, Xiaomi launched the Mi Band HRX Edition in India in partnership with HRX by Hrithik Roshan back in September. This has the same OLED display and a…
Satori IoT Botnet Exploits Zero-Day to Zombify Huawei RoutersAlthough the original creators of the infamous IoT malware Mirai have already been arrested and sent to jail, the variants of the notorious botnet are still in the game due to the availability of its …
How to Disable the Camera on the Echo SpotThe Echo Spot makes for a great bedside alarm clock with Alexa built in, but if you’re a little wary of a camera pointing directly at your bed, here’s how to disable it completely. …
Geek Trivia: The Country With The Most Diverse Variety Of Breads Is?Think you know the answer? Click through to see if you're right! …
How to Use a Time Machine Drive for Both File Storage and BackupsWhen you set up Time Machine, your Mac wants to use an entire external drive exclusively for backups. Here’s how you can get around that and use a Time Machine drive both for backups and file storage.…
WinX DVD Ripper Xmas Giveaway and Amazon eGift Card Contest [Sponsored]Christmas is right around the corner and online stores are buzzing with festive promotion activity. …
Chinese Man Gets 5-Year Prison for Running 'Unauthorized' VPN ServiceWhile continuing its crackdown on services that help Chinese citizens to bypass Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service wi…
Great Last Minute Gifts You Can Send By Email, You Lazy JerkAnother holiday deadline looms near and you forgot to do your gift shopping in advance. We get it. Click Here to Continue Reading …
How to Make Your Steam Profile PrivateYesterday, fellow How-To Geek writer Eric Ravenscraft recommended a Steam game in our office chat room. It’s all about writing…and also it’s about anime-style schoolgirls and the wooing thereof. …
Reliance Jio Happy New Year 2018 plans launched starting at Rs. 199Reliance Jio today launched Happy New Year 2018 plans, just in time for the new year. The Rs. 199 and Rs. 299 monthly plans offer better data benefits for monthly users, compared to the existing Rs. …
Snowden-backed Haven app uses your smartphone’s sensors for monitoringFreedom of the Press Foundation where Edward Snowden is one of the directors and Guardian Project have jointly developed an open-source app called Haven for Android that uses a sensors on the phone to…
Qualcomm rejects Broadcomm’s board of director nomineesEarlier this month, after being rejected for a proposal to acquire Qualcomm, Broadcom nominated a slate of 11 members for the director’s role at Qualcomm’s 2018 Annual Meeting to replace the Qualcomm’…
How to Blur Faces and Text in PhotoshopThere are plenty of reasons you might want to blur some part of a photo in Photoshop. Maybe you’re sharing a photo and you want to anonymize some people, or perhaps you want to show off how bad your p…
OPPO A85 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, 4GB RAM gets certifiedAfter OPPO A83 that got certified by TENAA in China recently, OPPO A85 has been certified by the TENAA now. This reveals similar specifications including a 5.7-inch HD+ 18:9 full-screen display 2.5GHz…
The NVIDIA SHIELD Is the Most Powerful Set Top Box You Can BuyThere are a lot of streaming set-top boxes out there: The Apple TV, the Roku, the Amazon Fire TV…and sure, they each have their advantages. But if you want the set top box that does the absolute most,…
Airtel launches Celkon Star 4G+ smartphone at an effective price of Rs. 1249Airtel has once again partnered with Celkon to launch Celkon Star 4G+, a VoLTE phone at an effective price of Rs. 1249, after launching the Celkon Smart 4G back in October. It is part of Airtel’s Mera…
Gionee S10 Lite with 4GB RAM, 16MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 15999Gionee today launched S10 Lite, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘S Series’ in India. It was introduced in China back in May this year as S10C and packs a 5.2-inch display, is powered by Snapdra…