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Here's how you can become a certified cyber security hacker

If you've been following the news lately, you'll have seen hackers making the news more and more frequently. There's a cyberwar raging as anonymous groups of malicious hackers seek to steal sensitive information and compromise online. This means that now more than ever, there's a huge demand for ethical hackers with penetration testing skills for finding web security vulnerabilities. Learning these valuable skills could open up a whole new career path for yourself. The good news is that all the resources are available to learn right from your home, and that's where this Android Central Digital Offer comes in!

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How to mute Google Home's microphones (and why you need to)

OK Google, stop listening to me.

I love being able to yell across the room to tell my Google Home to fast forward a song or play the news. But whenever I try to use Google Assistant on my Pixel within earshot of the always-on speaker, the Home almost always intercepts, even if I need something only the Pixel can do, like search my contacts or set a reminder — which Google Home still can't do. Sometimes we need to stop Google Home from butting in, and thankfully, it's really easy to do.

Unfortunately, you do still have to get off the couch to do it.

On the back of your Google Home, there is a single button featuring a mic icon with a slash through it. This is the mute microphone button. Press it once and your Google Home will announce "Microphone off," muting its microphones and allowing you to use Assistant on your Pixel — or anything else you need without a ~~sentient being~~ harmless assistant listening.

If it starts telling you it's about to reset itself, release the button before it reaches the end of the glowing countdown.

While your mic is muted, you'll be able to easily Home isn't listening. Google lights up the four cardinal points of the Google Home's top-mounted display in a warm warning orange.

When you're ready to let Google hear you again, press the mute button once more. The orange lights will disappear, and your Google Home will cheerfully tell you "Microphone on."

We shouldn't have to do this…

That the mute button is so necessary is a travesty. Sure, the ability to turn the mic off when you don't want Google and goodness-knows-who listening is fine, but to have to mute the Google Home mic because you want to text a reply using your voice while Mountain View's air freshener is in the room is ridiculous. 'OK Google' is recognizable on six devices at different points in the room and can even distinguish which device hears you best, but even if you're talking directly into your phone ten feet from a Google Home, it'll try to respond instead. That's some great listening abilities, but it's not always useful.

We hope that this behavior changes, but right now, we can only hope. In the meantime, we'll be ready to mute our Homes so that we can get what we need to done without Google Home butting its nose in every time we Google a Chinese takeout place to call.

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Why the Google Pixel is the best Android phone

There's no shortage of great Android phones out there — here at Android Central we're often bouncing between different devices as we review new phone. But eventually you've got to pick one winner — the best Android phone overall. And right now, in early 2017, that's the Google Pixel, which shares the honor with its big brother the Pixel XL.

We've laid out all the reasons why the Pixel is the best of the best in our video feature. Check it out above, and be sure to hit our Pixel written review for all the details.

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Alleged Xiaomi Redmi Pro 2 leak reveals 6GB RAM, 4500mAh battery

First Redmi Pro 2 leak gives us a look at the alleged hardware.

Xiaomi rolled out the Redmi Pro last year in China, offering an OLED display and dual cameras at the back. It looks like a new model in the series is slated to make its debut, according to a leak originating out of China. The leak suggests that the Redmi Pro 2 will feature a 5.5-inch Full HD display, single camera at the back — albeit with a better Sony IMX362 sensor with 1.4µm pixel and Dual Pixel autofocus — and a 4500mAh battery.

The image also suggests that the Redmi Pro 2 will be offered in two variants: one with 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage that will allegedly retail for ¥1,799 ($260), and a version with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage for ¥1,599 ($230).

The first-gen Redmi Pro was powered by a MediaTek Helio X20, with a higher-end version featuring the Helio X25 SoC. This time around, it looks like Xiaomi will switch to a Snapdragon 66x series chipset. It'll be interesting to see what it offers, but considering Qualcomm hasn't detailed anything about a new SoC in the Snapdragon 600 series, it may be a while before we see the Redmi Pro 2.

Samsung sold fewer phones than Apple in Q4 2016; OPPO and Huawei see huge gains

The latest global smartphone shipment numbers highlight the increasing dominance of Chinese manufacturers.

Apple shipped 78.3 million iPhones in Q4 2016, surpassing Samsung to take the crown as the world's number one smartphone vendor. According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung saw its shipments decline from 81.3 million in Q4 2015 to 77.5 million last quarter, largely due to the termination of the Galaxy Note 7. That said, the South Korean manufacturer shipped 309.4 million smartphones over the course of 2016, outmatching Apple's 215.4 million shipments.

The overall market grew 3% from 1.44 billion in 2015 to 1.49 billion last year. Samsung accounted for 20.8% of the market in 2016, a minor decrease from the 22.2% in 2015. Apple came in second with a market share of 14.5%, with the company's shipments falling by 16.1 million units. Chinese manufacturers once again had a fruitful year, with OPPO more than doubling its shipments. Huawei came in at third place overall with shipments of 138.8 million for the year, up from 107.1 million in 2015, and the brand now has a market share of 9.3%

The Chinese contingent of Huawei, OPPO, and Vivo had a stellar 2016.

OPPO shipped 84.6 million phones last year, up from 39.7 million in 2015, and is now fourth with a 5.7% market share. The company's offline-first distribution model has paid off in China and India, where it has made inroads into tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Vivo has similarly seen its shipments hit 71.9 million from 39 million, with the Chinese vendor rounding out the top five.

The erstwhile stalwarts of the smartphone segment — HTC, LG, and Sony — have been relegated to the "others" category, with all three vendors seeing a downturn in their fortunes in 2016. Although the HTC 10 turned out to be a great device, it couldn't match up to the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. Meanwhile, LG's efforts to build a modular phone in the LG G5 have backfired, with the phone seeing lukewarm adoption. Then there's the Sony Xperia XZ, which was introduced too late to the market and had an exorbitant price tag.

For 2017, it looks like the segment will be relatively unchanged. Samsung is pulling out all the stops for its Galaxy S8, which is rumored with a bezel-less display, AI assistant, a desktop dock, and much more. The LG G6 is also turning out to be an interesting device, even though it won't have Qualcomm's latest processor.

Control privacy settings for any web page with this easy Chrome shortcut

This powerful and simple tool lets you control exactly what happens when you visit a web page.

The web is rich with all sorts of content that often needs access to personal information, and Chrome is built so that you can take advantage of almost all of it. Whether that means enabling a microphone to have a chit-chat or letting Home Depot see your location so they can show you what's on sale, deciding what type of information you share and what happens when you load a web page should be under your control.

The developers of Chrome agree, and they've made it easy to see what can and can't happen when you visit a website. There is a simple tool to access all of these toggles in one place.

Everything you need to know about what a page is doing or trying to do when you visit is one click away. In the Omnibar — Chrome's multipurpose URL address bar and search box — you'll see an icon to the left of any website address.

Those icons are also a clickable "button" of sorts both on your Chromebook and in the Chrome browser for desktops. Here's is everything you need to know about those icons.

When you click on the icon, you'll see the dialog window below it. It's there for every page and will show the individual settings you have in place for that particular one if you've altered any defaults.

Most everything listed there is pretty self-explanatory. We all know what images are and if there are any pages on the internet that we don't want to load them automatically. The same can be said for Flash and pop-ups. The defaults are set by Chrome and designed to offer a rich web experience while keeping the things that are most often associated with security risks in check.

Pop-ups will be blocked, Javascript and background page syncing will be allowed, and everything else will be set to ask for explicit permission before it happens. A web page can never get your location or turn on your camera without asking you unless you've changed the default settings, which you can find in Chrome's Settings .. > Advanced settings .. > Content settings.

This is a great way to keep you abreast of what's going on for every website you visit.

You can change anything you see here on the fly. Click the combo box to make a new choice and when you're done all you need to do is reload the page you're viewing. None of the changes you make here affect any other sites, and you can't permanently break anything by messing with them.

Having a per-page settings menu like this is a pretty powerful privacy tool, and we suggest everyone using Chrome take a look at what's happening on websites they visit. Any changes you make will persist until you change them back, and the worst thing that can happen is a page doesn't load correctly — which can be fixed by changing things back the way they were.

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Grab Samsung's Micro-USB cable for just $7.87 today!

Keeping your phone charged up is important to everyone, and having Micro-USB cables around is an important part of that. Samsung’s Micro-USB cable is a great cable to have around to ensure that your phone is powered up and easily synced to your computer from anywhere. Right now you can pick one up for just $7.87.

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