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What is This Latest Act of Privacy Invasion by Facebook All About? According to Bloomberg, which first came up with this news, Facebook has been paying various outside contractors and outsourcing firms to transcribe audio clips of users. What it means that whenever you send any audio clips to any of your friends, Facebook would send these audios to these contractors. These firms would then listen to these clips and then transcribe them as prescribed by the social media giant....

So here’s what happening- Let’s Encrypt is a certification authority that is used to provide certificates for Transport Layer Security encryption, free of cost. Since it is free to use, there are many organizations and companies that use its certifications. But one of its root certificates- the IdentTrust DST Root CA X3- has expired on September 30. So once this expiry date came, all the computers, devices, and web clients including browsers will no longer be trusting certificates from this authority as it might possess a major security risk....

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be free from its fair share of issues either. As of now, there has been a slew of complaints lined up across various forums that whenever a user is trying to change reticles, they are being kicked out of the game and to the lobby. Be it the Kar98, AX50, SPR, or the PKM, each of these weapons is facing the same issue. Users across PC as well as on the PlayStation consoles are both bugged with this issue....

The fact that it is supported across various devices only multiplies its userbase. However, in spite of all these goodies, it isn’t free from its fair share of issues. As of now, there has been a rather strange issue going on with this service. Many users have complained that the screen tends t0 go black when a Netflix episode reaches its end. It’s only the audio that you could hear in the background, on the front side, it’s all black....

Right from flashing a custom ROM to installing a custom recovery like TWRP, there’s a lot to try out. Likewise, you could also gain access to the system partition by rooting the device via Magisk. Once you do so, you could then welcome a plentitude of mods such as Xposed Framework, Substratum Themes, Magisk Modules. But how could this unlocking process be carried out? While other OEMs usually require just a single line of Fastboot Command, with Reame things are a little bit different....

When it comes to flashing firmware, then Odin is the preferred choice for tech enthusiasts [although we don’t have much choice in this either but even if we had, this tool would still occupy the top-most position in the priority queue]. With that said, a few users have voiced their concern that whenever they flash firmware via Odin on their Samsung, they are greeted with the “FAIL! SHA256 is invalid” error....

As of now, few users have voiced their concern that their Windows 11 PC screen tends to flicker when they use the Chrome browser. They then switched to other apps and the display didn’t emulate the same behavior. So all this points to the browser being the culprit, rather than something being wrong with the display. With that said, there does exist a few nifty workarounds that shall help you rectify this issue....

Right since its inception, it was bugged with quite a few issues, with the December update being the icing on the cake. While most of these bugs were ironed out sooner than later, there is one underlying issue that still seems to be left unaddressed. Many users have frequently voiced their concern that their Pixel 6/Pro faces overheating issues even on carrying out minimal tasks that aren’t resource-intensive in nature....

While the publisher could manually add this description, but more often than not, Google pickles up the best suitable portion from the entire coennt and displays it as the meta. However, as of now, it isn’t working along the expected lines. Numerous users have voiced their concern that whenever they perform a Google search for any query, then all the search results contain ‘These search terms appear in the result’ in their meta description....

The app’s data, settings, and other related features would be in complete isolation from one another. Whatever changes you make to one app wouldn’t be reflected in the other one. So you could create two instances of WhatsApp, and log in to each of them via different phone numbers. Well, I don’t need to document the benefits that you could accrue from it. So with such a plethora of perks attached, many OEMs have baked their feature onto their OS....

In this regard, Windows does a decent job of efficiently allocating resources to the apps running on your PC. But sometimes, it might not be in sync with your requirement as you may want to append some additional CPU prowess to an app. And in the process take away the extra processing power from the other app that might no longer require it. Fortunately, that could easily be done by changing the priority of an app in Windows 11....

So rather than the back action being performed, it tends to invoke the men from the sidebar. Due to these reasons, the conventional navigation style still has a few takers. In this regard, near about every OEM still comes with both these navigation styles and you could easily switch to the desired one from the Settings menu. However, there is no uniformity when it comes to the positioning of these buttons....

How to Fix Netflix Error Code F7121-3078 on Firefox Firefox uses the Widevine plugin in order to stream the DRM-protected contents. And the browser usually updates this plugin on its own at regular intervals. However, it seems that has happened for a considerable time period. Therefore, you should consider manually updating the DRM certificate plugin, using any of the two methods listed below. FIX 1: Manually Update Widevine DRM FIX 2: Disable and Re-Enable DRM So with this, we round off the guide on how you could fix the Netflix Error F7121-3078 on Firefox....

As is evident from its name, this feature allows you to take long screenshots, sometimes spanning the entire page or an entire chat screen. In this regard, most OEMs have already included this feature in their own customized OS. These include the likes of Xiaomi’s MIUI, Samsung’s OneUI, and OnePlus OxygenOS. However, there were still a few noticeable absentees from this list, with Google being the most popular one. But with the latest Android 12, this feature has finally been added, so Pixel users would soon be welcoming this feature onto their devices....

If you have a higher refresh after display [say 144Hz], then whenever you connect this monitor to your Mac, you will have to change the refresh rate from the System Preferences > Display menu and set it to be in sync with that monitor’s refresh rate. If you don’t do so, then your screen might flicker due to the variable refresh rate setting. However, the issue with this is the fact that you will have to carry out these steps of changing the refresh rate whenever you connect the second monitor....

However, up until this point, there wasn’t any native method to hide photos or videos in this app. At the very most, you could archive those media files, but that wasn’t a feasible approach. Fortunately, the search engine giants have finally addressed this concern, with the introduction of the new Lock Folder. And in this guide, we will show you the steps to hide images and videos in Google Photos using this Lock Folder feature....

What the culprit is Samsung’s game optimisation service. Which throttles the Exynos CPU early. If we disable the game optimisation service by following the below method we can simply achieve snapdragon 865 level of performance on Exynos variant as well. Do note in return the phone will tend to get a bit warmer and battery consumption will also be increased. But will give you a better gaming experience as well....

In this regard, while you could still boot your device to this mode without the use of a PC, but every other task from then onwards would require a computer. However, if your PC doesn’t have the required drivers installed, then it wouldn’t be able to identify the connected Fastboot device in the first place. And installing the Android SDK Platform Tools wouldn’t do any good either. The Platform Tool will only help you in interacting with the ADB environment....

These include the likes of flashing custom ROMs, installing a custom recovery, or gaining administrative rights over your device by rooting it via Magisk. Out of all these three, it’s the ability to install a customized firmware that has always been at the top of the priority queue for many users. If you are also among them, then there’s some good news in store. You could now install the latest LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 onto your Pixel 4/4A/4XL devices right away....

While it’s based on TWRP itself, but this is where its similarity ends. It has incorporated way more features than the former and has added a plethora of customizations and tweaks. These are apart from its usual functionalities of flashing custom ROMs, wiping device partitions, installing ZIP and IMG files, among others. Likewise, there are a plethora of add-ons as well. These include directly installing Magisk ZIP, dealing with Substratum Themes, enable init....