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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Construction Photography Avalon/Getty Images European leaders were close to a consensus on a gas-pricing system that should lead to price caps, Spain’s Energy Minister said. Consensus may be reached around an alternative benchmark price to the Dutch Title Transfer Facility. EU leaders may reach some agreement by the time they meet later in October. European…
Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale is coming next week and we’ve already started to see a number of preview deals pop up. Devices like the Echo Show 5, Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Kindle Paperwhite have been discounted ahead of the event, and we expect to see more deals on Amazon gadgets during the…
Months after reaching a deal, the White House has taken official steps to protect data transfers between the US and European Union. President Biden has signed an executive order directing the government’s efforts to implement the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The approach mainly requires that intelligence agencies “take into consideration” privacy and civil liberties before…
Google’s latest streaming dongle is so similar to the previous one that when I first opened it up, I experienced a little deja vu. The new Chromecast with Google TV still has a puckish oval design, it comes packaged with an identical remote and even the OS powering everything is (largely) unchanged. The only major…
Like Instagram, Facebook and so many others, Signal is hopping aboard the Stories bandwagon. The privacy-focused messaging app started beta testing an ephemeral Stories feature this week. Users can share videos, images and text-based messages with their friends. Stories will vanish after 24 hours. As with the rest of the platform, Signal’s Stories have end-to-end…
Fitbit has been around for years, sitting at the top of its activity tracking class, smugly watching as its competitors hope to raise the same sort of brand awareness. For many, a fitness band is simply called “a Fitbit” – such has been the impact of this company – and it’s now been bought by Google,…
The rumoured foldable Google Pixel phone could arrive in the first three months of 2023, according to a tweet by analyst Ross Young. Young was tweeting in response to a question by industry watcher Roland Quand, who asked where the Pixel foldable had gotten to. His response was simply, “Q1”. Expectatitions of an imminent release…
No Man’s Sky’s big new 4.0 update – now officially titled Waypoint – is finally out in the wild. But while developer Hello Games broke from tradition for this latest releases, revealing some of its additions ahead of launch, the studio has now shared some extremely lengthy patch notes, discussing its contents in considerably more…
Specifically designed mechanical boards for Macs have long been neglected, apart from little-known Matias keyboards or Apple’s own Mac keyboards in the 80s. Enter Das Keyboard to redress the balance with the amusingly named MacTigr. This keyboard offers a full Mac layout, mechanical switches, a volume knob and plenty of creature comforts – but is…