With over a billion devices running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor right now, the scale of a newly discovered vulnerability is staggering. Called Quadrooter, it can essentially take over the data on your smartphone.

Walking around in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment is a fun thing to do. Which is why more companies are creating VR products to tap into this budding market. Xiaomi is one of the companies who are doing just that, and we have a first look on how their implementation should look like

Xiaomi has fired their shot to the Apple MacBook Air sights with the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air – Lenovo has also fired their volley into the same space. The Lenovo Air 13 Pro is a thin notebook designed as a competitor to the thin & light notebook – and it is packed with computing goodness.

Xiaomi's MIUI 8 testing has been going very well lately, as you may be aware the Global Beta ROM was already rollout just a week ago, the company has now announced the Stable ROM version will be released soon next month on 16 August. If everything goes according to plan, then the future Xiaomi smartphones are very likely to get the new OS preinstalled in them.

So in relation to Xiaomi meeting up with Samsung in South Korea, we just got some interesting bits of Xiaomi's upcoming phone and it seems to be a powerful one. This is got the media talking that it could be the very expensive high-end smartphone that Xiaomi mentioned, plus there's also a list of insane tech-specs rumour going around.

The Xiaomi group from China, while known for selling good quality devices in an affordable manner, they are also known for not having a physical store and relies on online sales especially their annual flash sales every year. It is not known if because of that, that's why Xiaomi is no longer in the top 5 spot for manufacturing phones last quarter, as OPPO and Vivo made their way into the ranks in China.

With the Xiaomi Mi Max, Redmi 3S and the Mi 5 – Xiaomi is on a roll in launching new models for the mass market. However we may see more models coming soon from them, if this leak from Geekbench is correct.

As MIUI 8 open beta is already out in China for testing, you can expect the final version to be packing up soon and released to the public in the next few weeks. During the period, here's what users have found a lot of neat stuff in the beta. Here are some of the upgrades and features found on the ROM.

Having dual-camera modules seems to be the thing to have with manufacturers today. The Honor 6 Plus, HTC One M8 and the current crop of Huawei P9 and LG G5 are some of the smartphones that are now sporting dual-camera sensors. We will definitely see more in the near future, as Samsung is listed as one of the major suppliers of dual-camera modules to Chinese OEMs.

There are very few water-resistant smartphones in the market and it's for a good reason, when asked why Xiaomi, one of the popular smartphone manufacturers in China has no plans to adopt the feature, this is what the founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun has to say.