That’s the takeaway from a recent survey of 693 UX professionals published by UserZoom. The problem with UX is that the user is getting left out of product and UX decisions. That’s quite an oversight. The survey finds close to half of companies are failing to properly integrate user research practices into the full product development lifecycle. Here are the survey’s findings: The user is getting left out of product and user experience decisions....

This is a far cry from Q1 2017 exactly a year ago, where Samsung had been the leader with 25.9 percent of the market and Xiaomi had 13.1 percent. Of course, it also shows how dramatically Xiaomi has grown – Samsung has actually managed to increase its market share (26.2 percent from 25.9 percent in Q1 2017), but still finds itself in second place, as Xiaomi has more than doubled its share, going from 13....

Use the Puffin Browser to Play Flash Games on Android Without Wasting Data The method is quite simple and easy and you just need to give a try to an Android app that will let you play cool flash games and that too without using your internet data. So follow the below steps to proceed. Steps To Use the Puffin Browser to Play Flash Games on Android Without Wasting Data: #1 First of installing the Puffin browser on your Android device....

Well, first things first: Make sure you didn’t forget anything else. Tap or click here for 5 essential Coronavirus work-from-home tips to make sure you’re set up the right way. Now, if you want to take video calls with your coworkers or clients, it’s time to either face the crowds at the store (if you can find one open) or wait for a webcam to ship. Or you can use your Android smartphone to take part in all those video conferences, instead....

Google’s search engine is amazing, but it’s definitely starting to show its age. Ever since the company decided to favor linking to its own properties versus linking to competing services, it’s slowly been going downhill. You’ve probably resorted to simply asking your friends rudimentary questions and hoping that they’ll point you towards a right answer. That process of asking your friends a question and then waiting for a reply is exactly what Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is using with his new search engine, Jelly....

The United States government is unlikely to extend the temporary waiver to Huawei which would prohibit US companies to indulge in trade with it. The U.S. government had banned Huawei by putting it in an Entity list earlier this year. A few days after that though, it gave the company a 90-day reprieve which it again extended by another 90 days. It was expected that the U.S. government would again give Huawei a 90-day reprieve but as per Rob Strayer, the US State Department deputy assistant secretary for cyber policy, that’s unlikely to happen....

The LOOP SDK from Microsoft claims to get location pings from the users all the while being frugal on the battery life. What Trip Tracker does is that it assimilates the data from the LOOP SDK and puts it forth in such a way that one would make sense out of it. The app is capable of recognizing the start and end time of each trip along with the path taken and duration as well....

The company released Trips for Android iOS on Monday. The app takes details from your Gmail puts them into an easy-to-view package so you can easily find your itinerary, hotel reservation, get recommendations about what to do. has dabbled in this space before, offering trip summaries in Now organizing such details in the Inbox mail app. This is a more direct approach that puts these features more front center with a dedicated app on both platforms....

If you enjoy staring at the night sky, you may be disappointed in your view, depending on where you live. Cities and a rising world population have given birth to light pollution, making the night sky incredibly difficult to see, especially if you want to locate a particular planet or star. Well, a new website is hoping to help you find the perfect stargazing spot so you can see the Milky Way or Big Dipper free of light pollution....

Students looking for free online college courses may be surprised to discover options from Ivy League institutions. More and more universities are offering free college courses online, often in the form of massive open online courses (MOOCs). These classes cover a wide array of subjects in the arts, social sciences, STEM, and other fields. While they typically don’t count towards a degree, MOOCs can provide learners with valuable, career-relevant knowledge....

Also Read: Top 10 Best Android Apps For College Students The ISIS is an organization that in interest to carrying out terrorist attacks throughout the world has been committed to developing their message of hate within social networking sites. Unfortunately, some young people have accepted their message and are replicating the content on platforms such as Twitter or Facebook. Also Read: How To See Someone’s Hidden Friends On Facebook...

The latter is the case in this latest massive data leak that has exposed millions of medical images such as X-rays and MRIs for anyone to see. No hacker skills are needed to access this sensitive data. The medical images come from patients around the world, including the U.S. We’ll tell you how this leak happened and what specific information has been exposed, as well as what kinds of scams can be used with the data....

The concept of crowdsourcing was coined by Jeff Howe in 2006. Crowdsourcing is an act of outsourcing a job, previously done by workers, to a large group of people in the form of an open call. Nowadays, crowdsourcing is used by commercial, nonprofit, and public organizations. A widely known example of a nonprofit organization using crowdsourcing is Wikipedia Foundation Inc. Wikipedia Foundation Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization maintaining an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia....

Earlier this month, some Pixel 3 owners discovered that turning off Digital Wellbeing on their phone helped improve its performance dramatically. Due to the barrage of positive reports, Google conducted its own research and says that it has not found any performance issues with Digital Wellbeing. On the plus side though, the company did discover some other areas for improving the performance of its Pixel 3 devices. The company is working on rolling out these improvements to its Pixel devices....

While battery range is going up and charging times are going down, the infrastructure is not there yet. You can install a charger at home so your EV can get you to work the next day, but what if you want to drive beyond its range? Tap or click here to hear Kim’s take. When it comes to the advantage of owning an EV, one of the most popular notions is that it’s cheaper to charge one than it is to fill an ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle with gas....

But everything doesn’t always go according to plan, as many laptop users recently discovered. It seems many people who upgraded their operating system to Windows 11 are encountering a driver problem that eats away at the available system memory. Read for details on what is happening and what you can do about it. Here’s the backstory There appears to be a glitch with a driver found in Windows 11 on some HP laptops....

The handset has become available on online retailer Gearbest for a price of $300, which is allegedly 50% off its regular price. Most likely this is a temporary offer, so if you have been keeping your eye on this device, maybe now is the time to snag it. Here are the specs and features that it comes with at this price: 5-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) Quad HD IPS CGS display with a pixel density of 538 ppi 2....

The State Department’s press release about the milestone called the new office a “key piece of [US Secretary of State] Blinken’s modernization agenda.” The CDP bureau will be tasked with addressing national security issues relating to cyberspace, as well as exploring economic opportunities, and evaluating “implications for U.S. values associated with cyberspace, digital technologies, and digital policy.” Internally, the CDP will consist of three “policy units” handling its three tentpole areas of interest....

NFTs have made blockchain technology hotter than ever before. And you can start from the ground up to train for one of the most in-demand roles in the tech industry today with “NFT Blockchain Decentralized App Development with Solidity & JavaScript 2022.” Former students have been very satisfied with the skills they learned, rating the class 4.6 stars out of 5. Instructor John Bura owns Mammoth Interactive, which has produced commercial games for XBOX 360, Android, iOS, and more, several of which have reached number 1 in Apple’s App Store....

We had seen the proof-of-concept for a USB stick that would kill the port when plugged into any device but now the same has finally materialized and is up on sale. The USBKill stick turbocharges its capacitors from the USB power supply and discharges the same within seconds eventually disabling the hardware. This will not just disable the port but the surge in voltage will damage the entire machine. The takeaway here is that the exposed USB ports should be protected by a layer of hardware security else the same can be exploited by hackers and others....