Google, GM, Facebook, Walmart, Disney, and more than 300 other companies have launched the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), an organization that aims at making renewable energy purchases easier for large-scale buyers.
Popular game studio, Bethesda, announced its new Elder Scrolls title for iOS and Android last year at E3 and also demoed the game at Apple’s 2018 iPhone event. After some delays, the game is now available as an early access program.
Facebook has announced that it is banning white nationalism from its platform following consultation with academics and others, concluding that it is no longer possible to distinguish it from white supremacy …
Two new Telegram privacy features are likely to prove controversial. The first removes the previous 48-hour time limit for ‘unsending’ anything you wrote from the devices of both participants using the secure messaging app …
US Instagram users can now buy products from more than 20 major brands from inside the app. The feature is known as Instagram Checkout.
Today, we’re introducing Checkout on Instagram. When you find a product you love, you can now buy it without leaving the app …
Facebook first started trialling a system to combat revenge porn late last year, but it had one rather scary aspect: you had to upload your own nudes so the platform knew which images it should block. The social network has today announced a new AI-based detection system …
It’s long been rumored that Snap was working on a gaming platform, and a report today says that the company will announce third-party Snapchat games next month.
Games are expected to run inside the Snapchat app, and the company will reportedly show off examples from several developers …
The BBC suggests that yesterday’s Facebook outage – which also impacted Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram – was the most severe one ever experienced by the company.
Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the world. The company’s main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected […]
The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users – compared with around 2.3bn monthly users today.
There have been conflicting reports on the reason for the failure …
A major update to the Twitter app, rolling out from today, puts far greater emphasis on photos and video – both in terms of your feed, and your own ability to share.
Initially rumored to be a separate app, Twitter has instead boosted the role of imagery in the main app …
The future of live music concerts could be each audience member enjoying their own personalized sound mix, all controlled by an app on their smartphone, says UK startup Peex.
Peex is currently trialling its tech at a number of concerts on Elton John’s farewell tour …
Last week we heard that Slack was testing a long-awaited dark mode for its iOS app with beta testers. Now the platform has released an update for both iOS and Android to offer the popular feature to all users.
Today I got my hands on Samsung’s Galaxy S10+ for the first time. It being a direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone XS Max, I wanted to see how the two devices compared. In this initial hands-on video, I talk about my initial impressions about the Galaxy S10 from an iPhone user’s perspective. Read More
You’re likely to see a greater number of personalized shopping recommendations in the Pinterest app as the company boosts its ecommerce efforts …
Lyft has today officially filed its IPO with the SEC (via CNN) as it looks to raise as much as $100M under the ticker LYFT on the Nasdaq. The move comes as Lyft’s main competitor Uber is also expected to make its initial public offering soon.
With just three months before both national and European Parliament elections, three large tech companies are falling further behind in their promises to tackle the threat posed by fake news …
WhatsApp turned ten years old yesterday, and the company is marking the occasion by highlighting some key milestones along the way …
A judge has ruled that the public cannot know the details of a battle between the US government and Facebook on whether or not the social network could be forced to decrypt Facebook Messenger calls …
WhatsApp bans about two million accounts per month from its messaging platform, says the company. Three-quarters of problematic accounts are identified without user report or human intervention, 20% of them at the time of registration.
The company has shared some of the tools it uses to detect sketchy accounts …
Digital 2019, a new report from Hootsuite and We Are Social, shows that the average person spends more than a quarter of their lives online …
Last week, Twitter updated TweetDeck with support for macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode. Now it looks like the company is working on updating its dark mode for the web and iOS and Android apps.
Some 773M email addresses have been exposed by hackers in what is the largest ever breach. Alongside the email addresses are 21M passwords …
VLC, the popular open source video and audio client, may be surpassing 3 billion downloads soon. VLC also looks to be supporting AirPlay on Android in a future update. Read More
HQ Trivia, first launched on the iPhone and iPad, and later rolled out to Apple TV, has seen its popularity wane since its launch in the summer of 2017. Intermedia Labs is now hoping that its latest offering, HQ Words, will restore growth …
Instagram is out today with several updates to its iOS and Android apps. A new “Questions in Live” feature allows users to interact in the moment on Instagram Live, while a new way to respond to questions with music in Stories and a countdown sticker are now rolling out.
