Microsoft’s Outlook email service hit by outage
Microsoft’s Outlook email platform has been hit by service issues, making it inaccessible to some users. The company has confirmed the problem and said it is working to fix it, with no other services currently appearing to be affected. According to Microsoft’s own service status website, some Outlook users “may be unable to access their […]
Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline
Hundreds of websites were knocked offline after an outage at web infrastructure service Cloudflare. Internet users and web monitoring service Down Detector reported that a number of sites, including messaging platform Discord, Shopify and others, were having issues on Tuesday morning. The National Rail Enquiries website also briefly went offline and may have been affected […]
Work on AI algorithm could help create safe spaces from online abuse
A new algorithm being developed in a bid to tackle gender online abuse could help “drive positive social and cultural change”. The Scottish and UK Governments have both welcomed work being done by researchers at the National Robotarium, which involves Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. Researchers there are working on advanced “machine learning” […]
Nintendo Switch fault should be investigated, consumer group says
Nintendo has been urged to commission an independent investigation into a known issue with the Joy-Con controllers on its Switch games console. Consumer group Which? has said the gaming giant should also make the findings and outcomes of any investigation publicly available. Since the Nintendo Switch was launched in 2017, there have been some reports […]
Rejoice! Hallelujah! Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 27 years
The day has finally come! And there was much rejoicing all across the lands! Microsoft has officially sent Internet Explorer into retirement. As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate – and a few still claim to adore. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry […]
Major League Soccer to be exclusively streamed globally on Apple TV in 10-year deal
Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-tier football division in the United States, is to stream every game from the league through Apple TV as part of a new 10-year deal with the tech giant. From 2023, all MLS games will be exclusively available on a new subscription-based MLS streaming service that will only be available […]
WhatsApp users can now transfer message data from Android to an iPhone
WhatsApp users who are switching to an iPhone from Android can now take their message history with them. Until now it has only been possible to transfer WhatsApp data when moving in the other direction – from an iPhone to Google’s Android platform – and was only introduced last year. Apple said its Move To […]
New data reveals stars experience ‘quakes’ like on Earth
Stars experience quakes like we have on Earth, scientists have discovered, after data revealed new information on nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. These “starquakes” – known as non-radial oscillations – are tsunami-like movements on stars’ crusts which cause the shape of the star to change with their force. This was an unexpected […]
European ‘star survey’ reveals celestial treasure trove
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a trove of data on almost two billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy. Astronomers hope to use the data to understand better how stars are born and die, and […]
Twitter ‘to provide Musk with raw daily tweet data’
Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s 44 billion dollars (£35 billion) acquisition of the social media platform, according to reports. Lawyers involved in the deal would not confirm the data sharing agreement. […]