1Weather is a comprehensive weather app with great visuals and powerful widgets

Android does not offer a built-in weather application, so users have to go to the Google Play store to get one. Luckily, there are plenty of good options out there, and today we present you one of them. 1Weather is a personal favorite of ours, a no-frills weather application that delivers relevant weather information in a clean and good looking interface. 1Weather is offered as a free application on the Play store, but if you want to remove the ads that appear on the bottom (not really that intrusive), you can choose to pay $1.99 for the ad-free version. 
The application offers you everything you'd expect from a weather app: you have the temperature, atmospheric pressure, chance of rain, and so on. Actually, there are six tabs that you can swipe between: one for the daily weather, another one for the forecast (you can pick between hourly, daily and extended one), a third showing you chance for rain, a fourth tab with precipitation data, a fifth with a full-on weather map showing you animations with the movements of the clouds, and finally a last one with the lunar cycles.
Along with that comprehensive package also come some excellent widgets, as well as a tool that shows you the weather in your notification dropdown, which is particularly neat.
If you are looking for a weather app, 1Weather is one of Android's finest, and we definitely recommend you to check it out. Given that it's free, it won't hurt, would it?
Developer: OneLouder AppsDownload: AndroidCategory: Weather appPrice: Free ($1.99 for ad-free version)

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Meetup’s Multi-Day Outage Was Due To A Newer, More Powerful Type Of DDoS Attack

A bit of follow-up on Meetup’s DDoS (denial of service) attack which saw the company’s website and accompanying mobile services down for several days: according to the company, this was an example of the increasingly common NTP-based DDoS attack. Explains CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince, who stepped in to help Meetup get back online, NTP-style attacks are a newer choice among criminals when it comes to producing the DDoS flood that can crash websites, and they’re far more powerful, too.

In a nutshell, DDoS attacks attempt to crash servers, usually web servers, by sending a barrage of traffic to overwhelm the receiving ports. The servers crash under the load, taking websites and services down with them. In the past, such as with the high-profile Spamhaus DDoS attacks last year, the previous favorite vector for criminals instigating these attacks was DNS – that is, they would amplify their attacks using the DNS infrastructure.

But now, attackers are beginning to exploit flaws in other, older Internet protocols that were not originally secured particularly well. In Meetup’s case, the attackers use the NTP – or Network Time Protocol – which is a protocol that’s use to sync time clocks between multiple servers.

“The size of the attack was large enough that just about any organization, short of Google or someone with a network like CloudFlare, would have struggled to stay online,” explains Prince. “

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Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet hands-on: A remarkably slim, light and powerful 10.1-inch Android slate

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If you’re in the market for a 10-inch Android tablet, your options are fairly limited. Samsung has a wealth of slates to choose from, but if you dislike TouchWiz and feel the Nexus 10 is starting to show its age, there’s one device that’s always been worth considering: Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z.

Tablets are still in high demand, so it’s no surprise that Sony came back to Mobile World Congress this year with a follow-up called the Xperia Z2 Tablet. It doesn’t look too different from its precursor, but the changes inside make this full-size Android slate an altogether different beast.

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