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Lenovo Flex 5G 2-in-1 Launched With 24-Hour Battery

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Lenovo Flex 5G 2-in-1 Launched With 24-Hour Battery Lenovo has launched its first 5G-capable laptop dubbed Lenovo Flex 5G announced at the CES 2020 under the name Yoga 5G. Where the laptop is one of its kind due to its 5G compatibility, it comes with a steep price tag and ordinary specifications that might be a turn off for many. Design and Display The Lenovo Flex 5G has a typical Lenovo laptop aesthetic with a 360-degree rotating display. It is built around a 14-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS display with 400 nits of maximum brightness and support for 10 points multi-touch. Internals and Storage The laptop is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx processor launched way back in 2018. The processor is topped with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is not exactly mind-blowing. The fact that memory chips are soldered on is a huge bummer as you won’t be able to upgrade it down the line. It’s almost like the company is forcing customers to look for other promising alternatives. Other specification...
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CIA’s Biggest Data Breach in History Occurred Due to Hopelessly Weak Security: Report

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CIA’s Biggest Data Breach in History Occurred Due to Hopelessly Weak Security: Report Vault 7, the largest data leak in the CIA’s history occurred because of weak security, a new internal report said on Tuesday. The specialized unit was so focused on building cyber weapons that the attacker, a CIA employee, took advantage of the “woefully lax” security and leaked top-secret hacking tools. The breach that occurred in 2016 only came to light a year later when Wikileaks began publishing details of the leaked top-secret hacking tools. Researchers confirmed that it was part of confidential documents stolen from one of the agency’s isolated, top security networks. The leak included 34 terabytes of information and represented the biggest data theft in the CIA’s history. The Wikileaks Task Force was then assigned to investigate the breach that led to massive data loss. 7 months later they issued a report that assessed the extent of the damage. They discovered that the department that was compr...
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WhatsApp Launches Digital Payments, Starting from Brazil

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WhatsApp Launches Digital Payments, Starting from Brazil Facebook-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a major new feature for its users in Brazil. People in the region are now able to send and receive money from friends and family securely through WhatsApp. The feature is powered by Facebook Pay and people can receive and send money to each other through WhatsApp business accounts. This should prove to be convenient for both domestic users and small businesses. WhatsApp says that payments through the app are secure and require a 6-digit PIN or fingerprint confirmation to complete the transaction. The payments don’t attract a charge and users simply have to pay a processing fee to receive payments from customers. At the moment, these payments are supported by Visa and Mastercard debit and credit cards. However, WhatsApp says that they are working with Cielo, Brazil’s leading payments processor to make an open platform that should make it easier for more partners to join. maison container ma...
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