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How to grab beautiful free wallpapers for your iPhone or iPad with a quick shortcut

Jul05
by on July 5, 2019 at 7:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Shortcuts for iOS is a very useful — but often neglected — way to automate your iPhone or iPad. In this series, we’ve been looking at different workflows to make your Apple device a lot more powerful to accomplish specific tasks. Today’s automation is all about setting fresh new wallpaper for your device — and Unsplash is great source for cool images. Now, you do have the option of just manually downloading and setting a wallpaper you…

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Ossia is gearing up to charge gadgets without a wire in sight in 2020

Jul05
by on July 5, 2019 at 7:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


A number of companies have been working on over-the-air charging – the holy grail for electronic devices – for several years now. Just think about how cool it’d be to never again have to plug your gadgets into wall sockets, change the batteries in your smoke detector, or even put down your phone so it can juice up. There’s been some progress since these firms got started, but it looks like we’re almost at the finish line now, thanks to Ossia – which has just secured FCC approval for its wireless charging technology. The Bellevue, Washington-based company, which was founded…

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Monero security flaw could’ve seen XMR stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges

Jul04
by on July 4, 2019 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Privacy-focused altcoin Monero has suddenly disclosed nine security vulnerabilities — including one that could have allowed hackers to steal XMR from cryptocurrency exchanges. Until March, rogue Monero miners were hypothetically able to create “specifically-crafted” blocks to force Monero wallets into accepting fake deposits for an XMR amount chosen by the attacker. “It is our belief that this can be exploited to steal money from exchanges,” said security researchers in their initial HackerOne report. They were eventually rewarded with 45 XMR ($4,100) for their efforts. Three DoS attack vectors were also disclosed, with one labeled “critical” severity. Another related specifically to CryptoNote, an application layer used by Monero…

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