Tech
Bad North – defend your Islands : A Review
By its sheer simplicity, Bad North offers players a unique take on real-time strategy games. The game’s difficulty builds up slowly as you play along. At first, you may find building your set of islands comfortable, but later missions can soon quickly result in chaos at any given time. That is what makes the game an essential one for both newcomers and veterans in real-time strategy games.
Bad North – What is it?
The core concept of Bad North is you travel across islands, defending homes from invaders. Combat mainly revolves having the right units fighting your opponents. Limited use items, as well as commander skills, would certainly add richer dimensions as you play.
Players can order their units to regenerate their health, seize enemy boats, among others. That can be considered the greatest strength of the game. It simply has no dead weight or baggage; Bad North mainly gives players a simple concept, allowing for mastery as they play along.
Upgrading your units as you play along will give you archers, infantry, and pikemen, offering special skills when they are used in specific combat.
Defeating invaders from taking over homes will give players gold, along with possible commanders or new items. Islands that have bigger homes offer larger gold outputs. Smaller outposts can give you a commander or unknown items that may prove useful in your gameplay.
Complications develop as you explore more islands, enabling you to face various enemy types that require different units or skills to counter. But do not fret. Bad North allows you to see your mistakes as you go along. This gives players a quicker learning curve or even possible confusion in cases of defeat or failures.
A Drawback
Bad North players feel that some few islands in the game feel slow once you have started playing. One option to address this potential problem is to hit the fast forward button, allowing you to increase the pace as you prepare the invaders for their attack.
A Must-Play Game
Despite a drawback or two, you can certainly enjoy Bad North as you place your units, use an item or ability, and watch the chaos unfold.
Endearingly minimalistic, the game is simple enough but not at the sake of compromising its potential depth. The gameplay is well suited not only in small bursts of play but also extended campaign sessions, especially once you have mastered the early stages of the game.
Overall, players can enjoy their time with Bad North, raising expectations for its designs developer, Plausible Concept, can create next.
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on several new features to enhance the user experience on the chatting platform. The feature, which the company presently working on includes — locked chats on linked devices, status updates of up to 1 minute, explore new channels, autoplay animated images, and hidden community group chats, according to WABetaInfo. Currently available to some beta testers, the “locked chats on linked devices” feature will let users protect their conversations from their linked devices. However, users will be required to create a secret code to open the locked chats folder from their linked devices. Another feature — “status updates of up to 1 minute” will allow users to share videos of up to 1 minute in length via status updates. Earlier, the limit to share videos on status updates was 30 seconds. The feature is presently available to some beta testers and will roll out to more people over the coming weeks, the report said. Further, WhatsApp introduced a new shortcut to “explore new channels”, with an aim to make it promptly visible and accessible. According to the report, making the ability to explore channels more visible offers the advantage of improving user engagement with content discovery. The explore new channels feature is available to some beta testers. In addition, the messaging platform is working on a feature to manage the “autoplay of animated images” right within the app settings. Specifically, this feature will disable all animations for emojis, stickers, and avatars, providing them with enhanced control over their chat experience. Presently, this feature is under development and it will be available in a future update of the app, the report mentioned. Lastly, WhatsApp is developing a feature that will allow users to mark “community group chats as hidden”. This feature will be available in the future update of the app.
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Identity Theft – 10 easy and simple ways to Prevent it
There is documented proof that even big companies have experienced major cybersecurity breaches. If large organizations are not immune to being hacked, what will stop a hacker to target individuals like you?
Preventing identity theft is possible with these practical and simple things that you can do
1.Prior to making a financial transaction, ensure that a website is safe. Check if these two things are present:
- The letter “S” in HTTPS
HTTPS is found at the beginning or a URL or web address. “S” stands for “Secure.”
Note: The “S” may not appear until you move to the “order” page on the website.
- A closed yellow padlock icon
This is found either at the bottom of your browser’s window or right next to the URL box.
2. As much as possible use credit cards and not debit cards for online transactions.
Use credit cards and not debit cards for online transactions.
Credit cards offer better fraud protection compared to debit cards. Credit cards are also not directly linked to your bank account. If you’d rather use debit cards, just make sure that they are being used as such. Whether you use a debit or credit card, make certain that you frequently review your statements and check for unauthorized purchases.
3. Avoid clicking the “unsubscribe” link on spam e-mails.
Clicking the unsubscribe link lets spammers know that you have an active email address, which gives them a signal to send you more. If you have more spam mail, you may face more potential security issues.
4. Do not store your credit card information with a retailer.
It is not safe to leave your credit card information with your favorite retailer for future purchases. Although it may be convenient if retailers have your financial information saved online, the more vulnerable you are.
5. Keep your passwords hack-proof.
To ensure that your passwords are hack-proof, use full sentences, which includes spaces and punctuation, whenever possible. Also, it is best not to use the same passwords more than once. The best things to do is to get a password management program that automatically creates and manages very strong passwords for all your accounts.
6. Fortify the answers to security questions.
It is a good idea to strengthen the answers to security questions. For instance, instead of giving them your mother’s maiden name, you can choose a nonsensical answer.
7. Make sure that your computer software is updated.
This is especially crucial for anti-virus programs and your web browser of choice (Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox). Most of cybersecurity attacks take advantage of security vulnerabilities in your software that was never fixed or updated. All legitimate updates should be applied immediately. In fact, it is recommended that you switch on your device’s automatic updates.
8. Be wary of email links and attachments.
“Phishing” – Be wary of email links and attachments
There are fake emails that are specially created to trick you into opening links and attachments. This is called phishing. Opening these links and attachments will allow cyberthieves to steal your personal information. Watch out for clues such as poor syntax and spelling, account closure threats, suspicious representation of well-known companies, and false receipts and shipping confirmations.
9. Do not neglect your snail mail.
It is possible for identity theft to still begin on paper, and in fact, it is still one of the top favorites of identity thieves. The best thing to do to avoid it is to collect your mail as soon as possible after delivery and to send anything with sensitive information from a post office or mailbox.
10. Take immediate action if you fall victim to identity theft.
The sooner that you take action by immediately calling the local authorities, the less damage you’ll need to fix.
If you follow these easy steps, you can deter cyberthieves and keep your personal information intact.
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