Following Yahoo’s September announcement of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would allow users to automatically redirect incoming emails sent …
Read More »Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut
Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now — a move that indicated Yahoo’s plans to bring its desktop QA site to the App Store. However, at the time, the app still required …
Read More »Apple also doubles storage on old iPads and makes high-end iPad Pro models cheaper
Apple hasn’t mentioned the iPad during its press conference, but it doesn’t mean that the company has no news for the device. The iPhone 7 finally starts with 32GB of storage, and the iPad is also receiving a storage bump. The 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros already start at 32GB, …
Read More »Google updates its search app, makes your personalized feed the main screen
Google’s flagship mobile application is getting a big makeover today, with a focus on making it easier to separate the things you need to know about – like upcoming appointments or flights -from the things you’re interested in, like news, sports, and entertainment. The app still maintains its previous card-style design, but …
Read More »This new development kit makes it easier to get started with Alexa hardware design
Building hardware with Alexa included is likely a smart way to go, given interest in Amazon’s voice assistant, but it’s also hard to do well. Consumer electronics industry supplier Conexant is looking to make the early stages of the process easier with a new development kit designed to provide accurate …
Read More »Vodafone makes it right – free data all weekend
While we didn’t report on it yesterday, Vodafone also faced major network issues. Firstly starting in Western Australia, customers were unable to access data services via 3G and 4G. Customers took to social media like Twitter and Facebook to express their frustration at loosing data service – some quoting that …
Read More »Arduino Powered Sandwich-O-Matic Machine Makes Light Work Of Your Lunch (video)
Arduino enthusiasts searching for a new project to keep them busy over the holiday season, may be interested in a new sandwich making machine called the Sandwich-o-Matic, which has been created by a small team of developers and makers during a thirty-six hour hackathon. The team consisting of Clive Chan, …
Read More »Virgin Galactic VSS Unity Makes Its First Glide Slight
Virgin Galactic has announced that is new spaceship, the VSS Unity has made its first successful free flight and you can see it in action in the video below. The VSS Unity achieved a spped of Mach 0.6 whilst in flight and it glided home from a height of 50,000 …
Read More »Who makes the most reliable hard drives?
For the last few years, Backblaze has released quarterly reports on its hard drive reliability and replacement rates. Backblaze is a provider of cloud backup services and uses its own custom storage solutions (dubbed Drive Pods) to hold hundreds of gigabytes of data in each pod. This month, the company …
Read More »Over-The-Air HDTV Makes Xbox One A Near-Perfect Cord-Cutting Console
Microsoft announced support for over-the-air TV broadcasts, including HD content, early in April. I’ve been using the setup since, after enrolling in the Xbox One Preview program and receiving a Mohu Leaf indoor HDTV antenna and a Hauppauge 955Q USB TV tuner to take it for a test ride. The …
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