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Over the next couple of weeks, you will start seeing a “red” banner when you receive potential phishing and malware messages in Google Chat. The banner will only appear if the suspicious message is coming from users with personal Google Accounts. You will see it at the bottom of the screen with the title “This invite is suspicious”. The detailed description reads: This conversation contains links to known phishing sites that may try to steal your information....

Of course, there are some fine prints that you need to be wary of here. Firstly, this promotion is only available to new Google Fi customers. According to the company, a new customer is “someone who has never had Fi service or someone whose last day of Fi service took place more than 180 days before making a purchase with this promotion”. If you’re an existing Fi subscriber, adding a new line won’t make you eligible for the $100 bill credit....

Mobile gaming has grown significantly in the video game industry and now is set to overtake PC and console gaming in popularity and revenue. As mobile gaming becomes increasingly popular, it looks as though PC and console gaming will struggle to keep up and maintain market share. However, it is possible that these other segments of the gaming industry could innovate in order to make themselves more attractive to mobile gaming users....

Expectedly, Samsung’s announcement touted its offering as the first in the world. But MediaTek is going a step further by including support for the new memory standard with its new chipset. This also means that the first smartphones to support LPDDR5X memory could be running on a MediaTek chipset. LPDDR5X replaces the existing crop of LPDDR5 memory modules and brings up to 33% better data transfer speeds (peak speeds of 8....

The latest update for the Galaxy S20 series bumps the firmware version of the devices to G98xNKSU1EUI3. The new firmware version for the Galaxy Note 20 series devices is N98xNKSU1DUI2 (via). Both lineups are likely picking up some user-facing improvements or new features along with next month’s security maintenance release (SMR). However, we don’t have a changelog handy to confirm it. The new SMR should also contain fixes for several security issues found in Android OS as well as Samsung’s One UI....