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Eufy Security Video Doorbell review: A ‘Eu’-nique angle

Security for our homes is the primary reason we might buy a video doorbell. We use them to keep tabs on visitors, deliveries, and sometimes strangers lurking through the neighborhood late at night. But privacy is also part of the equation. We expect at least some degree of privacy with everything we do in the connected world. Some corporations are better at delivering on that promise than others. Ring, for example, got tripped up last year when ne’er-do-wells hijacked a little girl’s bedroom camera.

Eufy’s notion of privacy has to do with the ownership of video generated by the doorbell. Rather than upload and store everything in the cloud, Eufy’s video doorbell stores everything on a hard drive in your home. You quite literally maintain ownership of the video, as it never leaves your house. This may be appealing to those who would rather not send all that personal data to a random server where it might be analyzed.

Is that enough to sell a video doorbell? Here’s the scoop.

Trend Micro Internet Security 2023 Review

Our Verdict

With such a good performance and the lower asking price, Trend Internet Security 2023 represents very good value, even though it misses out on certain extras offered by some of its competition.

The 2023 version of Trend Micro Internet Security is 20 percent cheaper than its anti-virus software rivals and still affords very good protection. Read our Trend Micro Internet Security 2023 review. (See also: Best antivirus software in the UK.)

Trend Micro, founded in California 25 years ago, has significantly improved the status of its security offering in the last few years, earning better and better results with the AV testing labs. The latest version of its Internet Security product also manages to slide in nearly 20 percent cheaper than most of its rivals.

Trend Micro Internet Security 2023 review: Features

The core modules include AV, anti-spam, identity protection, parental control and tune up. Browser protection takes the form of a lookahead scan in searches, which highlights good and bad sites according to the reputation built from other Trend customers’ visits. It can also scan privacy settings in social media to help protect your reputation online.

Trend Micro claims a very fast turnaround for getting signatures for new viruses out to its customers and an independent report from NSS Labs claims an average of under 15 minutes from the company, which is impressive.

This is a PC-only suite, though the top-of-the range Maximum Security product caters for Android and Apple devices as well. Trend Internet Security also has no backup provision or password manager.

Trend Micro Internet Security 2023 review: Performance

There are lots of little, animated icons in the interface, with sliding panels and pop-ups adding to the fun. However, it suffers a bit in accuracy. For example, while running our file scan, the progress counter read five percent complete at 17,000 files, but finished within a further 30 seconds, at 17,343 files, rendering the estimate pretty useless. (See also: 2023’s best antivirus for PC and laptop UK.)

The scan speed is quite slow, measured at 12.4 files per second, but the load it puts on the system is also low, so scan speed is not that much of an issue. In fact, it took no longer to copy our 1GB test file with a scan running in the background than without, the first time we’ve seen this.

The software only dropped 0.5 of a point in AV-Test’s recent test, giving an excellent 17.5/18.0. When you look at the category results, this translates to a perfect result under Protection, with 100% accuracy on both widespread and zero-day threats.

Although any test uses only a sample of the possible malware a program will meet in the field and this figure shouldn’t be taken to mean the software will never miss a trick, this level of success is a good indicator of the program’s efficiency.

Under Usability, the program also scored a perfect 6.0/6.0, with just three false detections of legitimate software during scans, against the group average of nine. It didn’t produce any false warnings when visiting websites, nor when using valid applications.

In the final category, Performance, which measures the load of the application and any slowdown undertaking everyday tasks, the program showed a hit of just one second. This compares with an average of four seconds for the rest of the AV-Test group. (See also: 13 best backup software 2023 UK.)

Specs Trend Micro Internet Security 2023: Specs

Windows XP SP3/Vista SP2 32 bit, 7 SP1/8 32/64 bit, 1GHz CPU, 2GB memory (256MB XP), 1.5GB HD

Reolink Argus 2 Review: Affordable Security Camera

Our Verdict

The Argus 2 might not be that different to the original but Reolink has corrected the main issue by switching to a clip-in lithium battery. Get the solar panel and things are even better. Otherwise, this is still a great camera at an affordable price that you can use indoor or outdoor with decent 1080p quality and a range of other features including two-way audio, night mode and smart motion detection. You don’t even need to use cloud storage so the Argus 2 is an attractive option in the security camera world.

We found the Reolink Argus security camera a decent option and the firm is back with a new and improved second generation. Here’s our Reolink Argus 2 review.

The new version looks pretty similar and much of the spec and feature list stays the same. But the Argus 2 comes with upgrades that apply mainly to the battery tech including an optional solar charging.

Reolink Argus 2:

Price

We liked the original Argus largely because of its affordable price of £99. A new model in the tech world is often more expensive but the Argus 2 is £149/$129 despite not being hugely different.

That said, you can buy it from Amazon for £121 which means it’s still cheaper than many rivals such as the Hive View ( £189/ $199), Ring Stick Up Cam ( £249/ $254) and Nest Cam IQ ( £299/ $299).

For all the options, see our roundup of the best security cameras.

Reolink Argus 2:

Design and build

The Reolink Argus 2 uses a familiar tall egg-like design as we saw with the original. The camera sits on a ball-joint to give you simple and easy adjustment to get the right angle.

In the box are different mounting options, depending on where you want to place it. There’s even a strap that can be put round a tree branch or similar, although this isn’t as stable as a traditional bracket.

Once again the Argus 2 is weather-proof with an IP65 rating so it can survive outside, and there’s even a silicone case in the box with a cute little hood to protect it even more.

You can mount it where you like, it just needs to be in Wi-Fi range to work.

The main upgrade comes in the form of different battery tech. The original used four annoying CR 123A batteries but the Argus 2 has a rechargeable lithium battery that can easily be removed.

It charges via Micro-USB and you can even get an optional solar panel for £26.99 which means the camera battery will remain topped up so the whole thing is much less hassle. As long as you get a bit of sunlight, of course.

Reolink Argus 2: Specs and features

The above battery change is the biggest upgrade and it’s very welcome here.

Battery life won’t be an issue if you use the solar panel (probably worth the extra if you can afford it). Otherwise you’re looking at four to six months depending your usage.

Otherwise, the camera pretty much just works as it did before so you get a 1080p resolution with a wide 130-degree field of view as well as features like, motion detection and two-way audio.

The camera is decent quality and you can live stream to various devices using apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. The app is similar but has a fresh look so it’s more modern but still easy to use with quick access to all the main features.

It’s all pretty easy to setup using a clever system of QR codes. You’ll want to play with the settings, mainly PIR (passive infrared) so you don’t get too many notifications of motion. The app will handily make suggestions if it thinks the settings are wrong.

The main upgrade other than the battery is improved night vision. The new Starlight CMOS sensor still offers 33ft of range but the Argus 2 can provide night mode in colour.

As before, the Argus 2 has a microSD card slot (for up to 64GB of storage) which means you don’t have to rely on cloud storage like many rivals. This often costs quite a lot so the Reolink isn’t just cheaper in terms of the initial price.

Buying a memory card will be cheaper in the long run but should you want cloud storage, Reolink is working on adding this feature. You can check for updates here.

Related articles for further reading Specs Reolink Argus 2: Specs

Indoor/outdoor security camera

iOS, Android Computer: Windows, Mac compatible

2Mp, 1080p sensor

130° field of view

Night vision

PIR sensor (up to 9m)

Two-way audio

LED status light

Micro-USB

microSD card slot (up to 64GB)

11b/g/n Wi-Fi

119 x 65 x 59mm

350g

IP65

Huawei Mate 20 Pro Camera Review (Video!)

Our HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro review – the best phone for power users

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro long-term review: Still worth the money

HUAWEI has built quite a reputation in smartphone photography, so its latest and greatest entered the market with high expectations. Its triple-camera array, Leica lenses, high-resolution sensors, and wide feature set certainly put it out to be among the best, at least on paper. We are here to find out if the amazing spec sheet translates to equally stunning shots.

I took it out for a spin across continents, taking into account different settings, scenarios, lighting situations, moods, and environments. Here’s what I found.

Photos have been resized for quicker loading times, but that is the only editing these images have undergone. If you want to pixel peep and analyze the full resolution photos, we have put them in a Google Drive folder for you

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro camera specs

Main cameras

Wide angle: 40MP, f/1.8

Ultra wide angle: 20MP, f/2.2

Telephoto: 8MP, f/2.4

Autofocus: Laser focus, phase focus, contrast focus

Image stabilization: AIS (HUAWEI AI Image Stabilization)

Flash: Dual LED

Video: 4K at 30fps, FHD+ at 30fps, FHD at 60fps, 720p at 30fps

Front camera

24MP, f/2.0

Support 3D Depth Sensing Camera

Video: FHD+ at 30fps, FHD at 30fps, 720p at 30fps

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro camera app

The rest of the app is pretty straightforward, but it can get a bit crowded. A lot of features have been thrown into this phone and the UI takes a hit. The few onscreen options change in every mode, and the settings can get confusing, since they also adapt to your current mode. However, the learning curve isn’t as complex as with other smartphones.

Ease of use: 8/10

Intuitiveness: 7/10

Features: 10/10

Advanced Settings: 10/10

Score: 8.8

Daylight

Score: 9/10

Color

Score: 8.5/10

Detail

Score: 7/10

Score: 8.5/10

Portrait mode

The HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro can definitely take a nice shot in portrait mode, but it will get things wrong often. Gotta keep an eye on its mistakes!

Edgar Cervantes

The HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro portrait mode does a really good job when it gets things right, though. There are no significant mistakes in image one and four, and they look rather nice. The camera recognizes how far something is and blurs accordingly. In the image of me sitting in front of the ocean, you can see the beach is more blurred out than the boardwalk (which is closer to me).

In summary, the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro can definitely take a nice shot in portrait mode, but it will get things wrong often. Gotta keep an eye on its mistakes!

Score: 7.5/10

HDR

I was especially impressed by the second image, which, despite having direct sunlight in the frame, managed to show quite a bit of detail around the people’s clothing, furniture, beach, and other elements. Of course, it’s all relative. We can really see it all in the image, but we were surprised to see much more than a silhouette. Given the circumstances, the phone did extremely well.

Furthermore, the picture of the stone bus decoration really showed us how much the camera can really do when you force HDR on. That dark alley was pitch black to the naked eye. Sure, the camera had some issues figuring out the white balance, but we also pushed it to its farthest limits.

Score: 8.5/10

Low-light

Google Pixel 3 Night Sight vs HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro Night Mode

Features

The phone’s Night mode will take multiple shots at different exposures, then grab the best from all images and turn them into a single, improved low-light shot. It actually works wonders. Exposure itself will be similar, but in Night mode images lack motion blur, noise, and other elements often seen in low-light shots.

As you can see, outdoor low-light photos look crisp and well exposed, with plenty of detail in both the shadows and highlights. Go to extremely dark situations and you can still somewhat appreciate the subjects, like we see in image two. It’s not the best shot, by far, but it is really good considering the situation. What mostly affects it is white balance.

Score: 9/10

Macro

A super wide-angle lens is really cool, but I am more excited about its macro photography capabilities.

Edgar Cervantes

When you want to take a macro shot, just zoom out to 0.6x and close in on your subject. I could focus in on water droplets, a decaying lock, a tree, and a stuffed animal. The amount of detail you can get from such a close distance is stunning.

READ: 40MP shootout: HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro vs Nokia Lumia 1020

It sure is a fun feature to have! Detail is nice, but this gives you a level of functionality you won’t really find in other smartphone cameras. That is why it gets a perfect score.

Score: 10/10

Selfie

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The best

With enough light you get nice results, like in image one and three. My skin is detailed, you can see much of my beard’s hair strands, and colors are nice.

Things stop looking so nice once the sun goes down, though. Just look at the last photo. There is no detail in the hair and the shot is very softened. The second shot even shows signs of motion blur.

Selfies will come out alright if you put enough effort into them, but we expected more from what HUAWEI claims to be the best camera smartphone in the industry.

Score: 7.5/10

Video

Score: 8.5/10

Review: Upstaa’s Instant Standing Desk Is A Neat Affordable Option For Macbook Users

Early standing desks didn’t really get much traction. Few people wanted to be standing all day, so it was only when adjustable sit-stand desks came along that they increased in popularity.

Apple is so committed to them that it is ensuring that every employee at its new Apple Park campus has one, a discreet button moving them between sitting and standing positions.

We’ve reviewed a couple of sit-stand desks, but nice ones aren’t cheap – a problem Dutch company Upstaa set out to solve …

If you’re trying to do a sit-stand desk on a budget, there are a couple of different options open to you. The first is to buy a complete desk, with prices starting from below $200. That sounds great, but you do tend to get what you pay for. Most of us spend a long time sat at our desks, and we want something that looks and feels good.

The second option is a conversion system of some kind. But decent ones still cost a few hundred dollars – such as the one we reviewed back in 2013 – while cheap ones look cheap. Even the Amazon Basics one, which costs $179, isn’t exactly stylish.

What Upstaa provides is a simple-to-assemble stand that converts any conventional desk into a standing desk within a minute or so, looks good and costs a relatively affordable $175.

The bad news

Let’s start with the bad news: if you use an iMac or an external monitor, Upstaa isn’t for you. It’s designed purely for use with a laptop.

Look & feel

Upstaa is made from wood – birch – and comes in four pieces. When assembled, you have a kind of triangular-shaped ladder, a foot coming out from behind it, and two shelves. The top shelf is for your MacBook, the bottom one for your keyboard and trackpad or mouse.

The shelf positions are adjustable, and the idea is that you position your kit so that it’s comfortable to use from a standing position.

It’s available in either natural birch wood, or a choice of five colors: white, black, blue, red and yellow. I tried the black version, which looks really smart. The edges and interior of the slots are unpainted, and I really like the contrast between the black finish and natural wood.

Set up

Once you’ve done it once, set up takes literally less than a minute. It takes longer the first time as you figure out how it works and experiment with different heights.

Collapsing it is even quicker, and everything stores flat, so doesn’t take up much room beside a desk or in a cupboard.

In use

The stand sits at a fixed angle, but you can choose the height for both laptop and keyboard, and you can also slide the stand forward or back on the desk. This gives a decent amount of adjustability.

For me, using it with a 15-inch MacBook Pro, I found the perfect position was the stand 2-3 inches back from the edge of the desk, keyboard on the third slot up, MacBook on the 9th slot up. If you’re around 5’9″, you may find that a good starting point.

In use, I found it comfortable. My normal desk setup uses a 27-inch monitor, so it wouldn’t work for me as a permanent setup, but as a test on the dining-room table, it worked well.

Pricing and conclusions

At $175, Upstaa isn’t cheap if you view it as a few pieces of wood. But compared to the competing solutions I mentioned earlier, it’s a decent value.

My biggest question mark is the practicality of using this type of setup unless you have enough desk space to simply set it aside when not using it. Although you can assemble and disassemble it in less than a minute, that’s still a bit of a barrier to switching back-and-forth between sitting and standing positions several times a day.

As a monitor user, it’s no use to me. I’m currently investigating the feasibility of a sit/stand conversion of my bespoke desk, made more complicated by the rear undershelf which holds all my power bricks, external drives and so on. But for those who just use a laptop on its own, and have room to set it to one side when sitting, it’s a simple, attractive and relatively affordable option.

Upstaa is available from the company’s own website for $175, plus shipping. Standard and XL versions, and all colors, cost the same.

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View From The Security Summit

SAN JOSE – Trust was the watchword in Bill Gates’ keynote speech, which opened the RSA Security Conference here yesterday. And he laid out a wide-reaching, four-pronged plan to improve trust and security in what he calls an ever-increasingly digitized world.

The security industry needs to help companies create trusted relationships with partners and customers, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect told a packed audience of security professionals. And companies need to be able to trust the security of the code they’re using.

And smart cards, which Gates has promoted for years, are part of his latest plan to help users tread the fine line between trusted authentication and privacy concerns.

Gates’ plans for the future of security was long on vision and short on details. He talked about four initiatives: creating a trusted ecosystem, building more secure code, striving for simplicity, and building ‘fundamentally secure’ platforms.

He also announced a few new features in the upcoming Windows Vista client operating system, which include smart card support, changes to Internet Explorer and a new identity technology that he called InfoCard.

”All together this will create a trusted ecosystem,” he said. ”Secure code, devices and users… It’s a big challenge to make sure security is not the thing that holds us back.”

The Ultimate Question About Identity

Gates wasn’t the only one championing trusted relationships — whether they be between users, partners or applications.

Art Coviello, chief executive officer and president of RSA Security Inc., and Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, followed Gates with their own morning keynotes at the security conference that is drawing in 14,000 attendees this year, according to an RSA spokesperson.

”Who are you?” asks Coviello. ”In the world of business, even the most basic transactions start with that question… We need to help people answer that question.”

And both Coviello and Gates say part of being able to do that will include the wide-spread — however long-awaited — adoption of smart cards.

”In terms of authentication, passwords are increasingly the weak link,” says Gates. ”We need to move to multi-factor authentication. A large part of that will be smart cards.”

Gates, however, is far from the first industry luminary to talk about the coming demise of the password and the rise of the smart card. So far, the death knell has not rung for the password, and the smart card, at least in the United States, has failed to catch fire.

Gates and Coviello both say that is about to change.

Smart cards won’t only be used for logon authentication. They’ll also be used to make online transactions easier and safer. Microsoft is banking on it. The upcoming InfoCard technology will be used, Gates notes, to authenticate users to various websites they do business with. The cards will offer up varying levels of information about the user, giving the least amount of information needed.

This is designed to aid companies and individuals walk the fine line between users’ privacy concerns and the need to authenticate their identities.

”I’m forsaking some elements of my privacy,” says Coviello said. ”There’s that friction between authentication and privacy… We are reaching the time when digital identification must decrease this friction.”

Coviello explained that every transaction does not call for the same level of authentication. A simple transaction might only call for a name and membership number, where as an online application for a bank loan or a money transfer would call for absolute identification.

”For too long organizations have blended into a one-size-fits-all identity scheme,” Coviello said, ”rather than find a well-fit approach to each transaction. We can take a layered risk-based approach.

”All the parties involved need to have confidence,” he adds. ”They’re choosing convenience over security [today]. How long do you think it can go on this way?”

Security Breeds Confidence

That confidence is hard to come by these days, said Sun’s McNealy, who showed the audience part of an email he received from a company stating that they had his name and Social Security number on a laptop that had been stolen. ”It’s a big issue and it’s a personal issue for every one of us,” he said.

McNealy also noted that several million people are being added to the Internet every week, and 390 gigs of content are being created every second. People are buying 200 million cell phones every quarter.

”Pretty soon, you’ll face your cell phone out and you’ll videotape your whole day,” he said. ”It’s going to get scarier if we don’t come up with technology and rules to secure that data.”

Part of the problem in securing that data, according to McNealy, is the “hodge-podge” of technologies linked together to build data centers that more resemble Frankenstein monsters than secure systems.

”You’ve got 87 suppliers, half of whom have been bought by Oracle recently, and you wonder why you have security problems,” he told the audience. ”I always argue that computer security is more screwed up than any other industry out there, except health care — and they kill everyone eventually. So the bar is pretty low.”

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