SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 two-stage rocket to orbit on Tuesday, offering a free ride for the AMOS-17 communications satellite. It was the third flight for the Falcon 9 booster and to get the satellite to orbit SpaceX had to do away with the booster — so we don’t get to see SpaceX pull off […]
Twitter came clean about a data mishap. According to the company, it may have shared data it didn’t have permission to with advertisers. The microblogging network said in a company blog post Tuesday that it may’ve shared certain data even though you didn’t give it permission to do so. We recently discovered and fixed issues […]
Apple Watch remains the best-selling smartwatch worldwide, according to the latest report from Strategy Analytics. The smartwatch is doing well as a whole, shipping 12 million units globally from April to June this year, up 44 percent from the same period in 2018. Steven Waltzer, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said smartwatch growth “continues to […]
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch date is today, August 7, and we’ll be reporting live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York to bring you all the news as it breaks. Rumors point towards at least two handset announcements today, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 tipped to arrive alongside the bigger Galaxy […]
Twitter is testing a “Snooze” button that allows you to pause push notifications from the mobile app for an allotted time. Jane Manchun Wong, a tech blogger from Hong Kong, has revealed that Twitter is testing a new ‘Snooze’ button that lets you pause notifications. Jane Manchun Wong tweeted Twitter is testing Snooze feature, allowing […]
Since just before 5PM ET, an Xbox outage has caused gamers error messages when trying to launch their digital titles. Whenever a player tried to open a game, it quickly close and flash a message to sit tight as outages happen “once in a while”. The Xbox Live status page still lists services as “limited,” […]
Apple plans to restrict how apps implement internet voice call functionality, which currently could allow mobile software to collect data while running in the background. An upcoming change in iOS 13 that limits data collection practices using VoIP APIs will impact apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, forcing them to be redesigned, reports The Information. […]
Disney will offer a bundle package of its three streaming services Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ for $12.99 a month starting on November 12th. Disney previously hinted at a bundle for all three services, but CEO Bob Iger made it official during the company’s investors call today. At $12.99, the bundle is cheaper than or on […]
The 20-second trailer shows a video game mockup being played on a smartphone that features a small video game controller icon and a camera, before a second screen folds out to show a map with a route to the company’s IFA press conference. Finally the device closes, revealing what appears to be a third, smaller […]
Samsung continues to stay ahead of the pack by beginning production of the industry’s first 100-layer V-NAND aimed at enterprise SSDs. Samsung has started mass production on solid state drives (SDDs) that feature the company’s sixth-generation 256GB three-bit vertical NAND memory. This means the drives come with an industry first 100 layers of NAND cells, […]
Amazon’s home security division Ring is reportedly coaching police on how to get people to hand over their surveillance footage without a warrant, according to Motherboard. Over the past month, multiple reports have emerged about the partnerships between police departments across the US and the Amazon security company, which produces a range of app-controlled home […]
8chan has gone dark after web services company Voxility banned the site and also banned 8chan’s new host Epik, which had been leasing web space from it. Epik began working with 8chan today after web services giant Cloudflare cut off service, following the latest of at least three mass shootings linked to 8chan. But Stanford […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Card would arrive in August on the company’s last earnings call, and here it is Apple’s new credit card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, will begin a “preview rollout” today, and then become broadly available to all iPhone owners in the US later this month. Sign-up invites […]
Comcast’s Xfinity internet service is suffering nationwide outages in regions across the US, according to Down Detector, tweets from multiple users. Service is either completely dead or only working partially in major parts of the northwest, California, New York state, Illinois, Michigan, Texas and Florida, according to Down Detector. The first outages were reported around […]
CafePress had 23 million user records swiped reportedly back in February and this morning triggered a mass password reset, calling it a change in internal policy. Details of the security breach emerged when infosec researcher Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned service which lists websites known to have been hacked, allowing people to check if […]