What’s new
Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising
Google said it updated its financial service-related ad policies recently and would no longer allow any crypto-related content to appear across any of its ad platforms. This update will go into effect in June 2018, according to a company post. The news came after a similar ban by Facebook earlier this year.
You can read more here.
A critical vulnerability was found in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol
Researchers from Preempt unveiled a remote code execution vulnerability, which affects all versions of Windows, and reported it to Microsoft in August of last year. The vulnerability in CredSSP can be exploited via a man-in-the-middle attack when a client machine and server authenticate to one another over the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Windows Remote Management (WinRM) connection protocol.
More info are available here.
New products
vivo V9
The phone will have a 6-inch display, Snapdragon 660 processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. It will come with a 3,250 mAh battery, a 24MP selfie camera and a dual camera on the back with 12 MP and 8 MP sensors.
More info here.
Oppo R15
Oppo R15 will have a 6.28-inch AMOLED display, Helio P60 processor, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. It will come with a 3,450 mAh battery and Android Oreo 8.1.
More info here.
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The new Raspberry Pi has 5 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2
The new board has a slightly faster 1.4 GHz quad-core Broadcom Arm Cortex A53-architecture processor, Bluetooth 4.2 (an upgrade from 4.1), and dual-band Wi-Fi.
You can read more here.
Google built a hardware interface for its AI music maker
Google revealed a synthesizer with touchscreen that uses artificial intelligence to make interesting sounds based on normal sounds from real life. NSynth interprets the sounds as numbers and mathematically generates a new series of ‘numbers’ that are then reconverted back into sound.
More info can be found here.
