The Teenager Today – August 2019

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Enlight Pixaloop lets you add
“breathe life into your photos”.
Any photo element — strands
of hair, waves or clothing — can
be animated to draw attention to
parts of the photo that you want to
come alive. Pixaloop tools give you
precise animation control. Choose
the speed of movement you want
to create moving masterpieces:
from the subtle flicker of a candle
flame to cascading waterfalls.
Replace bland skies with colourful
sunsets and animated clouds,
create architectural animations
of stairs and hallways with the
Geometrics tool, and mimic
cinematic effects like tilt and zoom

BoringPhone is a smartphone for those who
want to disconnect while still having access to the
basic functions of a smartphone. The phone has
a 5.5” display, 32GB storage, 3000mAH battery,
4GB RAM, Snapdragon 625 chipset, 12MP camera,
Bluetooth and a USB-C charger. Encouraging
people to “get out of your phone and into your
life”, BoringPhone lets you call, text, take photos,
use maps, podcasts, hot spot and listen to music/


podcasts, but say goodbye to mindlessly
scrolling through social media, playing
games, using email or browsers. The ability
to install new apps has been completely
removed, forcing you to look up from your
phone, enjoy life and transform your phone
“back to being a tool”.

The Persistence of Chaos is a 10.2” black Samsung laptop, loaded with six potent viruses
— I LOVE YOU (2000), Sobig (2003), MyDoom (2004), DarkTequila (2013), BlackEnergy
(2015), and WannaCry (2017). The six trojans, worms and malware loaded on it have
caused at least $95 billion in damage around the world, according to its creator,
internet artist Guo O Dong. The computer is turned on, but not connected to any
network or the internet. Its wireless and internet connections are physically and
electronically plugged.

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Zonel Sougaijam, a 22-year-old civil
engineer, was awarded US$5000 by
the social media giant and included in
the ‘Facebook Hall of Fame 2019’, for
detecting a WhatsApp bug. His name

is at the 16th position on a list of 94
people. “During a WhatsApp voice
call, the bug allowed the caller to
upgrade it to a video call without the
authorisation and knowledge of the
receiver. The caller was then able to
see what the other person was doing,
violating the privacy of the receiver,”
said Sougaijam, who reported it to the
Bug Bounty Program of Facebook.
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