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A Location Sharing App Exposed 1.7 Million Passwords And Some Users' Nude Photos

Mobile apps on your smartphone can range from most useful and secure to social media and games that help you pass your time. There are also quite a few apps that are plain redundant on the Play Store or App Store . Though, regardless of the type, smartphone apps are the backbone of our smartphone existence. Apps act as the gateway for the data that we consume as well as feed the system, and most users trust what the apps ask them to do. Considering smartphone apps are critical for the complete smartphone experience, one would believe that the developers making these apps would be careful in making these apps. Even though most developers put in efforts to ensure that their apps are secure, and act responsibly by protecting user data while handling them. There are some exceptions where developers try to push malicious apps that want to mine user data, steal user data or even mine bitcoin in the recent past. But, there is a third type of developers who accidentally or out of sh

Spotify announces new partnership with Samsung - Finally Spotify will pose like Apple Music

Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek There's a new collaboration in the works. Early Friday morning, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek (pictured) revealed through an online Q&A session that the music streaming service is partnering with smart-phone makers Samsung to "create a seamless music listening experience together for the user that would be hard for either of us to build alone". The streaming service will now be integrated into future Samsung phones, and will be the brand's main music player app. Another feature that will be available will be the synchronizing of Spotify accounts across multiple Samsung devices, from phones to TVs, tablets, speakers and watches. Ek commented on the feature, saying, "As you move from room to room, your devices will be aware of your location and prompt you to effortlessly transition your listening between them". Ek further went on to comment on Spotify's integration with Samsung, revealing that the partn

7 Signs that Mercury Retrograde has been messing with you - Facts

7 Signs that Mercury Retrograde has been messing with you (BabyMac) Mercury Retrograde is a three-week astrological cycle in which the energies associated with Mercury, communication and the mind, tend to create an atmosphere that can feel rather slow, heavy and mostly negative. Here's 7 Signs that Mercury Retrograde has been messing with you. Life may seem to flow slowly and be more inexplicably confusing. It may also seem as if everything seems like more effort than usual. During this Retrograde time, you might assume that your heightened feelings are originating from you however, though your emotions and thoughts are your own, please understand that the planets energies may be affecting and amplifying certain hidden patterns within you. If the last few weeks have felt 'somehow', here are 7 possible ways that Mercury Retrograde has been messing with you. 1. You have found yourself in a deep dark funk that you simply cannot shift. You're questioning everything

Safe spaces for youth

International Youth Day is commemorated each year on 12 August in order to highlight the vital role of youth in socio-economic development of society. Youth are also encouraged around the world to organize various programs to raise awareness about the situation of youth in their respective countries. The theme for International Youth Day 2018 is safe spaces for youth. Youth need safe spaces where they can come together, engage in activities related to their diverse necessities and interests, participate in decision making processes and freely express themselves. While there are many types of spaces, safe spaces ensure the dignity and safety of youth. Safe spaces such as civic spaces enable youth to engage in governance and electoral process; public spaces afford youth the opportunity to participate in sports, other leisure activities in the community and extra-curricular activities at the educational institutions; digital spaces help youth interact virtually across borders with ever

Why Are You So Tired? 5 Most Common Sleep Mistakes

More than a third of Americans wake up every day feeling tired. What can they do about it? Digital Vision/Getty Images A mother of a 2-year-old son and 2-month-old baby daughter, owns a hoodie with the words "I'm Tired" printed in big block letters. That hoodie speaks the truth. Even if we don't have small children waking us up at all hours, too many American adults are sleep-deprived. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 35 percent of U.S. adults aren't getting the recommended seven hours or more of sleep per night. And a Sleep Foundation survey found that even those who average more than seven hours each night still wake up bone tired. For 35 percent of Americans, the quantity of sleep is there, but the quality is not, and is rated as "poor" or "only fair." Even worse, 20 percent of those surveyed reported not waking up refreshed for the past seven days straight. We reached out to clinical psychologist

This Is Why Humans Don't Have a Mating Season

Some mammals have specific times of year when they mate and reproduce. That's not the case for us primates, though. Wundervisuals/Getty Images Most animals have a mating season, and it's usually a time when food, sunlight and fertility are plentiful. But what about humans? We don't hibernate — Netflix and chill doesn't count — and those with access to modern economies don't have to wait for seasonal resources to put food on the table. "Humans don't have a true 'mating season' simply because sex is had throughout the year, rather than saving it for a specific time," says author and professional matchmaker Dominique Clark. "People want to be together and desire connection most. So they seek relationship, but not because doing so during this season will produce offspring that can survive the harshest winter, but simply because the desire for intimacy and sex have increased." We're part of a biologically classified group known

How Close Can We Get to the Sun?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and help us forecast major space-weather events that impact Earth. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Four million miles (or if you prefer, 6.44 million kilometers) is quite a distance. It's the equivalent of driving around Earth's widest point, the equator, 160 times in a row. Well that's about as close to the sun as NASA is willing to take its new Parker Solar Probe (PSP). Scheduled to launch out of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station later this month, the vessel will gather data on our sun and hopefully answer some basic questions we still have about it. The PSP is about to make history as well. Eventually, its orbital path will take it just 3.83 million miles (6.16 million kilometers) away from the big yellow star. Such proximity is completely unprecedented. NASA's Helios 2 probe came within 27 million miles (43.45 million kilometers) of the surface of the sun in 1976. That's clos

This Smithsonian scientist’s death was a mystery; 150 years later, his skeleton helped solve it

The last anyone heard of Robert Kennicott was his cheerful hum as he strolled into the Alaskan wilderness early on the morning of May 13, 1866. It was good to hear the scientist sing. It had been a long and punishing winter at Fort Nulato, where Kennicott's expedition to map the Yukon had spent the last five months, and he bore the setbacks badly. The frigid cold and endless dark left no time for exploration or research, a fact that rendered Kennicott "entirely broken down," a friend wrote. This was not a young man used to failure. By age 30, Kennicott had become an accomplished explorer and celebrated naturalist for the Smithsonian Institution. He was bold, brilliant and fearless; someone who handled venomous snakes with his bare hands. When Kennicott didn't return, his men began to worry. The expedition's engineer brought up a note their leader left for him that morning, which included instructions "in case of any accident happening to me." A search p

Astronomers discover bizarre rogue planet glowing with auroras

When astronomers are searching the depths of space for new objects it’s typically easier to find undiscovered planets if they’re orbiting a star. That’s because spotting the dips in the star’s brightness as the planet passes in front of it gives away its presence. Finding a solitary planet — called a “rogue” planet — is more difficult, but researchers just managed to spot one using a radio telescope, and it’s a real weirdo. The planet is known as… *inhales* …SIMP J01365663+0933473. It’s an absolutely massive alien world that is nearly big enough to be classified as a brown dwarf. Brown dwarf planets are sometimes called “failed stars” because they’re nearly large enough for fusion to begin taking place in their core, but that’s not even the most unique thing about this particular planet. What’s really special about that planet with the big long name is that it has a magnetic field 200 times stronger than even the mighty Jupiter. That’s an incredible finding, and it suggests that the