In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Turn your Vines into GIFs with GIPHY’s loop conversion tool
Twitter might be turning its back on content creators, killing its short-loop video tool Vine, but other companies are seeing this death as an…
Apple’s new TV app is called ‘TV’ because some things never change
Apple’s October event wasn’t all MacBooks and iPhone updates. Today, Tim Cook and crew announced a few things for the Apple TV. Chief of…
Vine is the latest victim of Twitter’s crazy week
Twitter, after shedding 9% of its company staff this week, is also shedding Vine. In a blog post published on Medium, “Vine and Twitter”…
Drones can change lightbulbs now, making humans even less useful
Sven, the pilot of drones, had a dream, and that dream was to change a faulty lightbulb using nothing but a drone. Ambitious? You…
The art of Facebook: 30 of its biggest brands analysed
For personal use, Facebook is an excellent way to communicate with friends, keep up to date with event lists, and of course, sneak around…
Google purchases eyeball tracking firm Eyefluence
“Eyeball tracking” might sound like the stuff of science fiction horrors, but it’s an essential focus for those in the virtual and augmented reality…
Weekend News: Sundowns are champions, Cameroon mourns
News moves at the speed of social media in today’s world, and that’s especially the case on the weekend. Take a look at the…
Update: DDoS attack on Dyn DNS leaves internet crippled
Update #5, 22 October, 12.30am: Dyn has issued its lengthiest update yet, revealing a few more details about the DDoS attack on its DNS…
Microsoft Q1 2017: huge cloud growth, big Phone drop
Microsoft has seemingly hit the purplest of its purple patches this week, after the Redmond-based company announced its Q1 2017 earnings. Shares ballooned to…
Google Camera’s trigger button is now a voice command
Tapping a screen too energy sapping for you? Google Camera’s latest update adds the ability to snap pictures using a simple voice command. The…
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