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 […]
Archive | June, 2022
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. […]
TikTok adds new screen time management tools to boost ‘digital wellbeing’
TikTok has announced new digital wellbeing tools for users that will prompt them to take a screen break from the app after extended single sittings online and help them take control of the overall amount of time they spend on the social media platform. The video-sharing platform is hugely popular among teenagers. The company said […]
Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his 44 billion dollar (£35bn) bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts. Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated Monday. That letter was included in a filing […]
EU agrees to make it mandatory for phones to have USB-C charge port
The European Union has agreed new rules which mean all smartphones sold in the bloc will be required to have a USB-C port for charging. The rules are set to come into effect by autumn 2024 and will have a substantial impact on Apple’s iPhone, which is the only major smartphone not to already use […]
Apple to allow users to edit and unsend messages in latest software overhaul
Apple users will be able to edit and even recall recently sent messages when the next version of its iPhone software is released later this year, the company has announced. The update to the Messages app was one of dozens confirmed by the company at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in California. The […]