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The Essential Phone, brought to us by the person who created Android, is finally ready for the spotlight. It’s an incredibly audacious and ambitious project, with an outlandish screen and the beginnings of a modular ecosystem. First, the Android phone basics: the Essential Phone costs $699 with top-of-the-line specs and features. As you can see above, it prominently features an edge-to-edge display that one-ups even the Samsung Galaxy S8 by bringing it all the way to the the top of the phone, wrapping around the front-facing selfie camera. It’s a unique take on a big screen that makes the phone stand out — and it’s smart, too. Often, the status bar at the top of an Android phone doesn’t fill that middle space with icons, so it’s efficient. The screen does leave some bezel at the bottom of the phone, but nevertheless it’s as close to the whole front of a phone being display as I’ve seen. Photo: Essential Essential is launching the phone in the US to start, and it’s filled t

World's most powerful processor is here. i9 features base clock speeds of 3.3GHz, reaching up to 4.3GHz dual-core speeds with Turbo Boost 2.0 and 4.5GHz with Turbo Boost 3.0. Last year at Computex, Intel unveiled its  first 10-core consumer CPU , the company's move into the world of a "megatasking." It was a pricey chip, launching at around $1,700, but it satisfied users who needed to juggle several intensive tasks at once. Now, Intel is upping the ante with a new family of processors for enthusiasts, the Core X-series, and it's anchored by the company's first 18-core CPU, the i9-7980XE. Priced at $1,999, the 7980XE is clearly not a chip you'll see in an average desktop. Instead, it's more of a statement from Intel. It beats out   AMD's 16-core Threadripper CPU , which was slated to be that company's most powerful consumer processor for 2017. And it gives Intel yet another way to satisfy the demands of power-hungry users who might want to

A new malware called "Judy" has made its way to the Google Play Store and has infected between 8.5-36.5 million users, says research firm Checkpoint. Checkpoint upon discovery alerted Google, which has started to remove the apps that have been infected. According to reports, these infected apps were present in the Google Play Store for more than a year. Here's all about it. How: How did "Judy" work? The infected apps were present in the Play Store under the garb of casual cooking and fashion games under the "Judy" brand and its malicious activities didn't come under the radar as the malicious code was downloaded from a non-Google server after the games were installed in the phone. The infected phone would incessantly click on Google Ads, generating revenue for its attacker. Measures: Stringent measures should be taken The fact that a malware like "Judy" went undetected of the Google Play raises serious ques

Cat That File As demonstrated in an earlier tutorial,  cat  is probably the most basic text display command. Let's cat the Snort config file found in  /etc/snort . cat /etc/snort/snort.conf As you can see, the snort.conf is displayed on our screen until it comes to the end of the file. Not the most convenient way to work with this file. Step 2 Take the Head If we just want to view the beginning of a file, we can use the  head  command. This command displays the first 10 lines of a file, by default. head /etc/snort/snort.conf If we want to see more or less than the default 10 lines, we can tell head how many lines we want to see by putting the number of lines we want to see (with the  - switch) between the command and the file name. head -30 /etc/snort/snort.conf Here we can see that only the first 30 lines of snort.conf are displayed. Step 3 Grab That Tail Similar to the head command, we view the last lines of a file by using the  tail command