Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is calling on Congress to pass new legislation to rein in tech companies after Twitter boss Elon Musk ignored an information request. “Elon Musk could respond to my tweets but failed to respond to my letter by yesterday’s deadline and answer basic questions about Twitter verification,” Markey tweeted on Saturday….
Monthly Archives: November 2022
For the past couple of years, Cyber Monday has been almost an extension of Black Friday. In the tech deals space, lots of the discounts and sales we saw at the end of last week are still available now as Cyber Monday deals. There are some new ones, though, which means that even if you…
WhatsApp has introduced a new feature that lets you send messages to yourself like reminders and shopping lists, parent Meta has confirmed with TechCrunch. Called “Message Yourself,” the feature was first spotted by WaBetaInfo several weeks ago as part of a beta test, but is now being rolled out globally to iOS and Android users…
Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk claims that signups for the social network are at an all-time high despite ongoing concern over its future. Musk’s first act as owner of Twitter was to fire around half of the company’s staff. That move has now left Twitter trying to hire, and it’s that fact that kicks…
Samsung’s powerful and intelligent robot vacuum cleaner system is currently discounted for Cyber Monday with $400 knocked off the usual price. The Jet Bot+ is a self-emptying robot vacuum cleaner that comes with its own charging station and automatic emptying system. It’s designed to work on hard floors and carpets and will help take the…
Do you miss your Palm Pilot or, even worse, are too young to have used one? Panic not, because the Internet Archive just emulated it in your browser. The Palm Pilot was arguably the precursor to smartphones and was a small touchscreen device that you could do all kinds of things with. You could write…
Now that we’re coming up to the end of the year, it might be time to start thinking of that new year’s resolution for next. And, what better commitment than to get yourself fitter in 2023? Peloton’s fitness gear could help – whether you treat yourself to a new connected exercise bike, indoor cycling shoes…
Fran Lebowitz once said, “You’re only as good as your last haircut,” and perhaps she has a point. After all, Joel Miller from Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us series is easily recognisable, with his full head of hair and slightly scruffy facial furniture. However, it turns out that if you remove all of his…
Fans of Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology are unhappy at the long wait for what they see as crucial fixes to earlier games in the series. The horror franchise’s first two titles – Man of Medan and Little Hope – were updated on 28th September with a spruce-up designed to introduce difficulty settings, QTE warnings…
Cyber Monday marks the height of the holiday shopping season. Deals are often better today than on Black Friday, and you can score them while sitting in front of your computer, listening to Christmas music. But in the swarm of discounts, finding good ones takes time. And that’s where we can help. Today, we’re highlighting…