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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by Linda calm go to lynda.com forward slash Android to learn more welcome back to Android weekly my name is Jason in this past week we saw a boost in power with two new snapdragons for all those of you who are still hungry for some but we also had some bad news about the heartbleed vulnerability we're gonna talk about what it means for you and how to protect yourself from it but there is little that can get me down this weekend because on friday i got a new girlfriend she came in a package and i haven't been able to keep my hands off her all weekend and why I call her name she listens ok Google I love you I never get sick of that that's right puppy's neck sir sighs I'm so happy I'm in love with Android again Andrew it actually works that's great I must say this is a amazeballs phone I in love with it I'm going to talk about my experience with it in detail at the next Android QA but I'm happy let's get to the knees alrighty then so Qualcomm just lifted the veil on two new systems on a chip that will power the new flagship phones for 2015 and they are the Snapdragon 808 and the Snapdragon 810 now the Snapdragon 810 is the higher end of the pair and its main features include for cortex a57 cores and for cortex a53 cores now these octo cores provide a twenty-five to fifty five percent performance boost over the cortex a15 along with a twenty percent increase in the power draw now before you battery bugs get too concerned you should know that both the 808 and the 810 are built on a 20 nanometer process instead of a 28 nanometer process which means that that smaller die should offset the increased power consumption for those of you concerned with graphics the adrenal 418 GPU on the Snapdragon 808 should provide a 20-percent performance boost over the audrina 330 that's currently in the galaxy s5 and the HTC One m8 the Audrina 430 GPU on the 810 is even faster with an estimated eighty percent increase over the Snapdragon 801 oh it's alright you still have a fine Snapdragon 800 you've been on to confirmation about the beast of a phone called the oneplus one recent news regarding the oneplus one confirms three important things one it has the fastest system-on-a-chip currently on the market to the GPU on the 801 is faster because it's clocked at 578 megahertz the Snapdragon 801 features the newer emmc five-point oh stand ered this means that copying and moving data to internal storage could be significantly faster so for those of you who may have been living in our rock dust past week I need to tell you about something called heartbleed heartbleed is not a virus contrary to what some people are reporting it is simply a vulnerability in the open SSL encryption library in translated geek speek that means that cyber criminals or even government agencies can eavesdrop on your traffic or otherwise private data that should have been going through a supposedly so obscure connection not so secure though so there's three things that you need to do about that soon as soon as possible one when and only when a service like bitcasa for example I'm subscriber to picasa because they emailed me and said okay we're aware of this vulnerability we patched it on our end and we've logged you out of the service so you can log back in and change your password if you do it before that service has patched it on their end and you log in with your password and change it you're just leaving yourself to further vulnerabilities so make sure that service has patched it on their end google has done all this already so that's not a concern the second thing you need to do is use a service called LastPass LastPass allows you to create one strong password and then generates other passwords on its own for all your other social profiles you only have to remember one password that's a great thing number three please pass this on to your non geek friends and show them what to do because we all need to protect our personal privacy hey Linda yeah Jace here listen you know how people are busting blood vessels over this heartbleed bug yeah it's the openssl vulnerability that has people going yeah well do you have tutorials that teach people how to properly secure a server because that would help a lot and boy does she ever lynda.com has tutorials on best practices for physical instance network and file system security you can learn all bat for free trial indicom for seven days by visiting Linda calm /and droid moving on the news that's going to make many of you happy about project ara so for those of you who don't know what project ara is it is an initiative by Google that allows you to upgrade individual components of your phone so for example if I have a phone and I've had it for you know 18 months and the system other chips getting a little slow I could then go to a marketplace and buy a new system on a chip and install that on the phone as a module instead of buying a whole new phone fantastic very exciting now as we reported in the past project ara employees and endoskeleton of sorts that allows you to plug in these various modules but what is new is that now we know project ara will support three different form factors a mini and medium and a large that's pretty cool and if you'd like to read the article on android authority com you'll see that they go into detail explaining how the project re intends to go far beyond just customizing the typical ram cpu and storage looking forward to it you