New research from ExpressVPN has revealed that while many Americans distrust contact tracing apps, they are still willing to use them for the greater good during the global pandemic.

The VPN provider surveyed 1,200 American adults to find that 75 percent of respondents believe that contact tracing apps violate a person's privacy and 77 percent think these apps put them are at risk of long term mass surveillance.

However, Americans do realize that these uncertain times require complex, out-of-the-box solutions. Despite the potential loss of privacy as a result of contact tracing apps, 59 percent of those surveyed did indicate a willingness to forgo some of their rights for the sake of public health.

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Vice president of ExpressVPN, Harold Li provided further insight on the survey's findings in a blog post, saying:

“It’s clear that most Americans are invested in the public-health benefits of using contact-tracing technology. However, privacy concerns continue to weigh heavily, and it’s clear that governments and tech companies need to place clear limits and safeguards on contact-tracing efforts,”

Contact tracing apps

Google and Apple have developed a contact tracing API which use Bluetooth and GPS data to provide a low-cost solution to find out who those infected with Covid-19 have come into contact with. Contact tracing is not a new idea and in the past, it has been done manually but this requires a lot more work as well as time.

Singapore, South Korea, Iceland and Israel are all currently using contact tracing apps to fight the spread of Covid-19 while Australia and the UK are in the process of creating localized versions of these apps for their residents.

However, states such as New York, California and Massachusetts have eschewed contact tracing apps and have instead decided to take an analog approach. These states have hired tens of thousands of people to act as manual contact tracers and doctors and public health officials across the US are urging the federal government to follow suit. They argue that manual contact tracing has been practiced for decades and the current situation is too dire to use an untested tech-based approach.

Over half (54%) of ExpressVPN survey respondents expressed willingness to voluntarily download a contact tracing app, though concerns about potential data misuse are still high. Of those surveyed, 84 percent believe the government could overstep its boundaries with the data and 79 percent believe that tech giants could as well.

Contact tracing will soon be coming to your iPhone or Android smartphone. In fact, Apple's latest iOS 13.5 update includes a new feature called Exposure Notifications that contains the API needed for contact tracing apps to function. The update also makes it easier to use Apple's Face ID when wearing a face mask so that users don't have to remove them to unlock their phones.

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It’s been a busy few months for WhatsApp. In February, the app’s long-awaited dark mode arrived, accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek video soundtracked by a rare recording of Paul Simon’s The Sound of Silence. It was no mean feat – creating a new look for an app used by 1.5 billion took months of work, and the fanfare was justified – but the developers soon had a far bigger challenge on their hands: the coronavirus crisis.

With physical contact banned throughout much of the world, developers had to move fast to keep up with the demands of millions of users depending on its services to keep in touch. Features like animated stickers were seemingly pushed to the back burner, and video calls came to the fore.

"Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen that the use of voice and video calls has increased substantially on WhatsApp,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told TechRadar.

“We expanded voice and video calling to eight participants in order to help bigger families and groups of friends stay connected at this difficult time, safe in the knowledge that their private calls are protected by end to end encryption."

Messenger Rooms

WhatsApp’s video chat service will get a further boost very soon with the integration of Facebook’s  newly released Messenger Rooms. As its name suggests, Rooms was first launched as part of Facebook Messenger, but the company is integrating it into other apps and products too, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Portal devices.

Rooms differs from WhatsApp’s video chats in a number of ways, allowing up to 50 people to pop in and out of a conversation in an ad-hoc way. Rather than scheduling a meeting at a specific time, as you would in Zoom or Google Meet, you can simply open a room and friends can drop in if they happen to be around – more like a lounge than a boardroom or a phone call.

Tiffany Dohzen, product manager for Messenger Rooms, told TechRadar about her experience making the new app, and what sets it apart from tools like Zoom, Skype and Google Meet. She explained that while Facebook had been exploring ways to expand further into video chat for some time, the coronavirus pandemic was what really kickstarted development.

“The idea of rooms as a product came around once we realised the accelerating needs for a product where you can spontaneously join and have hangouts really in the last few months,” she said.

“Some of the cool things, beyond just video calls, are a lot of safety controls. We put huge value on not just making sure Rooms was fun, but also really safe. The creator can lock the room, kick someone out if they are misbehaving, and if you’ve blocked someone on Facebook they can’t join the Room.

“We’ve also added lots of collaborative features, cool effects on the mobile apps, and new ones like lighting and backgrounds. The backgrounds are really cool. Some are animated, you can move them around.” 

Links to Messenger Rooms have already been spotted in WhatsApp beta releases for iPhone and Android, and although we don’t yet know when it will be fully integrated, the teams are wasting no time.

As Dohzen explains, the Messenger Rooms team themselves are using the tool to keep in touch on a daily basis, which has resulted in faster development than might have been possible in ‘normal’ times.

“It’s early days,” she explained. “We want to adapt and respond to what people need. We’re really excited that in a time when people are working remotely we were able to launch a product remotely using the product itself.

“It’s really rare that you get to use a product like this [every day] because you need it. We ended up getting it to a place of polish much faster than if we hadn’t been using it remotely. Seeing it evolve into different use cases and feeling that we have that universal access – everyone can use it for free without worrying about time limits.”

Stickers, encrypted backups and more

So what else is on the way? The previously mentioned animated stickers haven’t been spotted since April, when they were found by the ever-vigilant writers at WABetaInfo, but they seem to be well into development might still appear later this year once things have settled down into a ‘new normal’.

New automatic download rules look like another very handy addition. If and when these are implemented, they would prevent frequently forwarded images, videos and documents from being downloaded automatically, saving your phone’s precious storage space.

Business users are likely to get some attention as well, as encrypted backups and QR codes have both appeared in a recent beta. Once implemented, this would allow iPhone users to choose whether their backups are encrypted on iCloud, and set a password that would be required for the backups to be recovered. Businesses would also be able to share their contact details with customers via a scanned code displayed on-screen.

However, with the continued demand for video conferencing and chat tools, it looks like Messenger Rooms shortcuts will be the next big feature to arrive in WhatsApp.

“Right now it’s rolled out worldwide through Messenger,” explained Dohzen, “Messenger on the desktop or apps. We’re working on launching it from WhatsApp and Instagram – those are already in testing. That’s the biggest. And it will be coming to portal – the ability to create a room from your Portal, [which has] a bigger screen – bur we don’t have a date specifically for it yet.”

We’ll keep you posted as soon as we do.

Spending your weekend scouring the web for the perfect broadband and TV deals to upgrade to? There is a lot of choice out there from the likes of Sky, BT and more but two offers especially stand out at the moment - and they both come from Virgin.

The cheaper of these two offers is Virgin's Big Bundle. It offers speeds averaging 108Mb, over 110 channels, inclusive weekend calls and the ability to pause live TV. All of that comes in at just £29.99 a month and, for this weekend only, you don't even need to pay any fees upfront.

That's great for those on a budget but for those who want something a bit more feature packed - that's where Virgin's Bigger Bundle steps in. This package is a...well, bigger version of the Big Bundle, offering a host of additional channels.

Your speeds are the same, the weekend calls are the same but when it comes to TV there is a major bump up. You're getting in excess of 220 channels including BT Sport in 4K Ultra HD and a number of top Sky channels in HD.

We've listed both of these offers below so you can choose the one that best fits your needs. It is worth nothing however that the upfront costs will go back up to £35 on Sunday at 11.59pm so you'll get an extra saving if you get there in time.

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Is Virgin fibre broadband available in my area?

Approximately 60% of UK households can get superfast Virgin broadband. It's quite simple to find out of you're part of this percentage - head over to our dedicated Virgin broadband deals page, enter your postcode where indicated (at the top of the page) and if deals show as available then you're good to go.

If no results are returned, then head to our best broadband deals page instead and do exactly the same thing to see whether you can get superfast fibre broadband with another provider, such as BT Fibre broadband.

Existing Virgin Media broadband customers

Sorry, the Virgin website states that these limited time offers are for new customers only. However, there's no harm in trying to get a slice of the pie, so if you're already a Virgin broadband customer we suggest you get in touch with customer services before trying to place an order.

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After The Good Place, it feels like we've seen a spike of 'big idea' comedies that look a lot more expensive than traditional sitcoms. In 2020 we've had HBO's space station-based Avenue 5, which kicked off with such a disappointing opening episode that I didn't continue with it, and Amazon Prime's Upload, set in a digital afterlife where niceties are bought with microtransactions. 

In Netflix's Space Force, which shares Upload's creator, Greg Daniels, General Mark Naird (Steve Carell) is put in charge of the titular new armed forces branch. Can America successfully conquer the stars?

Things aren't as straightforward at Space Force as Naird hoped. A science versus military tension exists at the heart of this branch, with Dr Adrian Mallory (John Malkovich) pushing back on the branch's more aggressive ambitions. The existence of Space Force itself and how much it costs is under scrutiny. And Naird himself is forced to move his family across the country for his new job, which creates tension with his daughter Erin (Diana Silvers). 

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Reaching for the stars

The Space Force concept is so big that it sometimes feels like it gets in the way of the show being what it really is: a workplace sitcom. A few of the episode plots feel like they could be from earlier seasons of The Office, if you remove the space context. Take the fifth episode, which is themed around war games, with Space Force competing against the air force in a series of team-building exercises for bragging rights. This plot is in most '90s sitcoms in some form, except here the budget is a lot higher and you've got John Malkovich in the cast.

As a parody of the American military, Space Force isn't as rich for jokes or satire as I hoped, probably because its real life counterpart seems just as outlandish. Even when the main Space Force idea drives the story, like in episode two where Naird and his team of scientists try to instruct a chimpanzee to repair a satellite, it's just hard work to watch. Jokes about space chimps just seem very out-of-date, even with Space Force's expensive-looking CG simian. 

It just doesn't find enough to do with its main idea, and laughs are fairly thin on the ground. 

That said, Space Force is breezy enough viewing, and my investment in the characters slowly increased over the course of the episodes. It's just not as funny as I hoped it would be given the caliber of the show's talent. And maybe after a couple of months in lockdown where streaming is one of a limited selection of hobbies, my expectations might've been slightly too high.

Maybe I'm just being grumpy, but the reason Daniels' past creations (Parks and Rec, The Office, King of the Hill) resonated is that they brought humor out of the mundane. Maybe Space Force can be a good vehicle for jokes, but here there just aren't enough good ones. The episode length, which frequently exceeds 30 minutes, makes the show feel languid, too. I wonder if the same episodes forced into a traditional 20 minutes might improve the pace of the show, and result in a higher rate of jokes per minute. 

Space Force's ensemble is the best thing about it. Carell, also a co-creator, is a major get for Netflix, and alongside him and Malkovich you have Friends' Lisa Kudrow and Parks and Rec's Ben Schwartz. You'll see many more familiar US sitcom regulars, too. The series also features the final TV performance by actor Fred Willard, and he is a treat to watch here.

Netflix US will lose The Office at the end of 2020 and gain Seinfeld in 2021. Old comedy is still important to the world's most popular streaming service, and Space Force is a valiant attempt to give subscribers a newer offering to get excited about. It's just not as funny as it should be. 

Like The Office, maybe Space Force will take a second season to really hit its stride. 

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We had been looking forward to hearing a lot more about Android 11 this coming Wednesday, June 3 – and maybe trying it out – but Google has now decided to push back the launch of the public beta.

That's according to a tweet from the official Android Developers account, which says: "We are excited to tell you more about Android 11, but now is not the time to celebrate."

It's not explicitly stated, but it would appear the ongoing unrest and protests in the US, sparked by the death of George Floyd, are the reason behind the move. Google will apparently be "back with more on Android 11, soon".

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That leaves us with no official launch date for the Android 11 public beta, though a developer preview has been available since February. It remains to be seen whether the full release of Android 11 will still launch as planned in the third quarter of 2020.

The Android 11 schedule

Google traditionally uses its IO developer conference in May to tell us all about the latest version of Android. Given the global pandemic that we're all living through, the 2020 edition got moved online and then canceled completely.

Nevertheless, we were expecting the roll out of Android 11 to happen more or less on the same schedule as previous editions of the mobile OS (in fact, the developer preview launched earlier than normal).

The developer preview is usually followed by a public beta that anyone can test – which was due to appear on June 3 – and then Google tends to push out the finished version of the software a few months later, before the annual launch of its Pixel phones.

World events have put that schedule in doubt, so we're still waiting for a proper unveiling of Android 11 (though we do know a little bit about what's coming). As soon as Google announces a new date for the Android 11 public beta, we'll let you know.

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With everyone spending more time at home, fibre broadband deals have become even more of an essential service. It gives you the speeds to stream in HD, game, download songs and films, and fight off buffering in a large household.

But if you're looking to upgrade, which plan should you go for? Right now, TalkTalk is looking like the best value option of all the broadband deals out there. Go with its cheaper fibre plan and you'll get speeds averaging 38Mb and only have to pay £23.50 a month, there aren't even any upfront costs to pay at the start.

Then the cherry on top of this broadband shaped cake - an £80 voucher to use at Amazon, M&S, Tesco or as a Mastercard. That's going to be one of the cheapest options out there, rivalling the usual cheap internet winner - Plusnet.

You can see this promotion below but keep in mind that it will be coming to an end on June 3 so you don't have a huge amount of time to grab it.

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TalkTalk's great value cheap broadband deal:

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What other broadband deals are there?

There are two fibre broadband deals that best compete with this offer right now - Vodafone and Plusnet. Go with Vodafone and you're getting speeds averaging 63Mb at a price of £22.95.

That means you're getting roughly double the speeds that TalkTalk has above but you're tied into a 24 month contract and you don't get the voucher that TalkTalk is giving out.

Plusnet on the other hand is offering similar speeds and pricing with 36Mb averages at a cost of £22.99. Like TalkTalk there is a reward card (a Mastercard in this case) with a value of £75.

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Hisense 4K TV deals are seeing new price lows at Argos this weekend, with the exclusive Roku-based display on offer for as little as £299 right now. That means you can secure a cheap 4K TV for even less right now, and pick up a size above what we usually see at this price. 

These sales begin at 50-inches right now, so you're getting far more screen real estate for your cash on top of a cheaper price point. For just a little change more, you can, however, upgrade to the 55-inch model at a reduced price of just £329. Once you move past 55-inches, prices start to climb, but you can still grab yourself a massive 65-inch 4K TV for under £450 this weekend. 

Hisense are well known for producing cheap 4K TVs with some fantastic display properties hidden in that low price tag. You're picking up all the usual features of a 4K TV in 2020 - Ultra-HD resolution with HDR and a powerful sound system, just at a much more budget-friendly price point. If these models aren't shaping up right now, however, you can always take a look at the latest cheap TV deals from around the web. 

Not in the UK? We're rounding up all the latest 4K TV deals in the US and Australia further down the page. 

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After weeks of pleading, Infinity Ward has finally added duos mode to Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale—and it’s available to play now on all platforms. 

The news was announced in a tweet from the official Infinity Ward account, which confirmed that, thanks to the new playlist update, Warzone now has solos, duos, trios, quads and plunder quads all at once. That still leaves plenty of choice for those who can't settle on just one battlefield buddy. 

In a blog post that gives a little more detail, Activision explained that the new duos mode will see players drop into the Battle Royale’s Verdansk map paired up with either a friend or with another random player. Overall, the mode plays in much the same manner as Warzone’s trios and quads, but naturally a smaller team increases the pressure because everyone has to pull their weight if they want to survive and win:

It takes two

“Duos is quite possibly the ultimate test of friendship and teamwork; with only one other teammate to rely on, you’ll have to coordinate your strategies, make good callouts, and most importantly, hit your shots if your fellow Operator’s life is at stake.”

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The other good news is that it looks like the mode could be sticking around for a while as Infinity Ward hasn’t given an indication of when, or if, it’ll be disappearing. 

Players tired of fighting in a trio with a stranger or in an incomplete trio have been requesting a duos mode since Warzone Battle Royale’s launch. Although Infinity Ward had previously promised it was coming and even briefly added duos to Plunder mode, the developer also said (via VGC) it had to iron out some bugs and find “the right time” to launch. 

The right time has come shortly before the launch of Modern Warfare and Warzone’s Season 4 on June 3. Although we’re not entirely sure what changes the new season will bring just yet, a recent trailer has hinted Captain Price could be stepping into the Warzone as a new operator.

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Three doesn't often do 'flash sales'. But when it does, it really makes them count. And the network's current blink-and-you-miss-it SIM only deal is no exception.

As long as you grab it by June 1, Three is offering a SIM only tariff that will give you 12GB of data a month with unlimited calls and texts for a mere £8 per month!

- Click here to sign up to this SIMO deal on the Three website

That is genuinely outstanding value. 12GB each month is enough for hours of Spotify streaming, the odd Netflix or YouTube video and downloading plenty of podcasts, all without having to hold back on the usual social media scrolling and Google Map exploring.

Frankly. Three SIM only deals have the market cornered at the moment, and if you still think that 12GB won't quite be enough for your streaming and downloading habits then there may be an even better option for you. Three is currently also offering its unlimited data SIM plan for an unheard of £16 per month - a traiff exclusive to TechRadar readers only!

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Why go with a Three SIM only deal?

If you haven't already been won over by this amazing offer from Three then you'll be excited to hear that the network doesn't shy away from offering up some extra incentives as well.

Whether that be free exclusive prizes or extra roaming. Here are some of the main benefits currently on offer by going with a Three mobile deal:

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- Go Roam: Roaming abilities in 71 worldwide countries at no extra cost

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- Data flexibility: Add extra data to your tariff at anytime, even halfway through a month

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Samsung has announced a maxed out 8GB variant of the Galaxy M31 in India. The smartphone that launched a few months back comes with a maximum of 6GB of RAM. The new variant of the device is listed at Rs.19,999 and is expected to go on sale soon.

The listing on Samsung’s official website shows the 8GB RAM, 128GB storage variant of the device at a price tag of Rs.19,999. The model, like the previous ones, has two color options -Blue and Black. It is listed under Notify Me section indicating the device is not available for sale yet.

However, this could mean the device might be available across all offline and e-commerce sites in the coming days. If we recall, the device launched in India back in February. It came with a 6GB RAM and a price tag of Rs.16,999 for the 64GB model and Rs.17,999 for the 128GB storage option. 

The Galaxy M31 has a very good selling point of a 64MP Samsung GW1 sensor equipped quad camera setup on the back. Talking about other specs, it has a 6.4-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with a U-shaped notch. Powering the device is Exynos 9611 SoC.

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Apart from the highlighted 64MP sensor, the rear setup has an 8MP ultra-wide, a 5MP macro lens and a 5MP depth sensor in a rectangular housing along with LED flashlight. On the front, there's a 32MP selfie snapper.

The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack, USB-C port for charging up to 18W. There is a huge 6,000mAh battery to back up the device. The device runs Samsung’s OneUI 2.0 based on Android 10. Other features include a 4G LTE, WiFi ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS for connectivity. 

The device’s 6GB variant is already available on e-commerce sites like Amazon, Samsung’s online store and all offline retail stores in the country. However, the successor of M31, the Galaxy M31s and a new Galaxy M51 is just around the corner and it will be interesting to see how sales of the new 8GB variant will take effect going forward.

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Researchers have uncovered two severe vulnerabilities in the PageLayer WordPress plugin that could allow hackers to hijack websites that employ its design features.

The affected plugin is used to build custom web pages via a simple drag-and-drop mechanism - a boon for users without programming expertise - and is deployed across more than 200,000 websites.

Identified by security firm Wordfence, the two bugs could also be manipulated by cybercriminals to inject rigged code, meddle with existing website content, and even perform a total content erasure.

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WordPress plugin bugs

According to the researchers responsible for the discovery, the pair of vulnerabilities stem from unprotected AJAX actions, nonce disclosure, and a lack of measures to safeguard against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).

Hackers could reportedly exploit these oversights to perform all manner of malicious activities, including creating admin accounts, funnelling visitors to dangerous domains and invading a user’s computer via the web browser. 

“One flaw allowed any authenticated user with subscriber-level and above permissions the ability to update and modify posts with malicious content, amongst many other things,” explained Wordfence.

“A second flaw allowed attackers to forge a request on behalf of a site’s administrator to modify the settings of the plugin which could allow for malicious Javascript injection.”

The security firm disclosed the flaws on April 30 and PageLayer subsequently issued a patch on May 6, with version 1.1.2. However, despite three weeks having passed since the patch was issued, only roughly 85,000 users have updated to the latest version, leaving circa 120,000 still at risk.

To safeguard against site takeover, PageLayer users are advised to update the plugin to the latest version immediately.

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Redmi India has hiked the prices of its budget phones yet again. The latest hike of Rs.500 will be reflecting on its official website and all offline retail stores starting today. Previously, the company had hiked the prices of its phones twice for various reasons including a GST hike by the government.

The smartphones affected by the latest hike are the Redmi Note 8, Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A dual. This price hike of Rs.500 has increased the price of the Redmi Note 8 to nearly Rs.2,000 from the launch price. The third price hike, however, as spotted by 91Mobiles is for an unknown reason. The same handsets have now had a price hike twice in a span of two months.

Redmi launched the Redmi Note 8 in October last year at a price tag of Rs.9,999. The budget models like the Redmi 8 and the Redmi 8A came prior to the Note 8. You can find the details of the new price hike below:

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The first hike of these handsets came in early April when the company was forced to increase the prices of its devices following a GST revision by the Indian
government as it increased the tax percentage of smartphones from 12% to 18%. This was followed by an explained hike of about Rs.500 a few days back on these same handsets. Realme followed suit soon after with hikes on the Realme C3 and Realme C2. 

Following the GST hike, the outbreak of Coronavirus has stressed things even further as factories remained shut for the majority of March and April. However, things have been resuming in phases following government’s guidelines despite the outbreak still to abate.

The latest price hike by Redmi means that Realme could also do the same in the coming days as it did last time for a number of budget devices in its line up. However, it will be interesting to see how this price hike will reflect in the sales in the coming days.

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