Good news for you Hong Kong citizens - Octopus Transit Card will begin supporting Apple Pay later this year

According to the Tech blog Ata Distance, the leak that has later been officially confirmed by Octopus Cards Limited, iOS 13 will be released with built-in support for the Octopus contactless payment system. Snippet of the code has been spotted in Apple's online JSON-based Apple Pay pass identifie; it showed references to Octopus. iOS 13 will hit Apple ...

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Whoops, the communist regime did it again. This time China was caught forcing tourists to download a spyware app

Xinjiang, border crossing between China and Kyrgyzstan. There, chinese border agents have requisitioned some of the Muslim tourists crossing into China to hand over their smartphones, as well as share any passwords and unlock codes they deem neccessary. Border agents then analyze the tourist's smartphones via a spyware application, scanning it for one or more ...

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LG G7 ThinQ finally upgraded to Android 9 Pie

The device has been running 9 Pie in Korea ever since January, but the rest of the world had to wait for that upgrade. Thankfully, it is finally here. Users in the US, Borneo and some European countries report their smartphones downloading the new OS. The update brings with it a wagonload of new functions: adaptive battery, app actions and much more. ...

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Australians believe Samsung is not as waterproof as it advertises itself to be, takes it to the court

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, ACCC, believes that the advertisement that shows Samsung smartphones' waterproof capabilities are in fact misinforming the potential client. The issue, according to ACCC, is that the IP68 waterproof certificate ads only mention sweat water, as opposed to salty water that the whole continent is surrounded ...

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