Video: Rio proves to be perfect proving ground for Microsoft's Lumia camera capabilities

National Geographic photographer and Lumia pitchman Stephen Alvarez went to Rio armed with a Lumia 1020 and the Lumia 1520 (not sold outside of the US) and managed to capture some breathtaking photos and video of this year's World Cup host city. Beautiful scenery, beautiful people and stunning vistas all around and they're all displayed in the video above.

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A new investigation conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that Android phones less than three years old could be broadcasting the Wi-Fi networks you’ve connected to. This is attributed to a feature called Preferred Network Offload introduced with Android’s Honeycomb operating system. The PNO sometimes blasts out the list of named networks your phone has connected to while searching for Wi-Fi connections and often during the time your phone is in sleep mode. What makes this particularly dangerous is it could show a person’s movement or activity based on the specificity of the Wi-Fi names.

The easy fix for the leak just requires you to head to the Advanced Wi-Fi settings and disabling the “Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep” option. This might also increase your battery power or data usage if you keep your data on.

Source: The Verge

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Will we see Canon lenses on future Lumia devices? That might be a possibility with the new deal inked by Canon and Microsoft that lets both companies have easy access to each other’s secrets. The patent licensing agreement might just be to cover any possible legal issues that may arise in the future but it might also bring in new tech for both companies. Let’s just see what happens.

Source: Engadget