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Can’t use the touchscreen on your phone because you’ve smashed it? YouTuber reveals a clever hack to turn it into a mini-computer using a £1.50 cable

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An ingenuous hack that lets you save your precious photos and other data … The mouse from your desktop PC or Mac should work, provided it is connected via a cable, rather than Bluetooth. Some mice with older wireless USB adaptors may also work, such …
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Google smashed over 700,000 bad Android apps last year

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Google smashed over 700,000 bad Android apps last year

Google says that it is getting better than ever at protecting Android users against bad apps and malicious developers.

Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit (Jason Palmer/BBC)

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Jason Palmer / BBC:
Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit  —  The formula turns an infinite sum into a more manageable calculation of single terms  —  A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi – and a few digits either side of it.  —  Nicholas Sze, of technology firm Yahoo …

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