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Amazon Stealing Customers’ Wi-Fi

Nathan Jolly June 11, 2021 No Comments

On Tuesday morning, America Echo users were waking up to discover that Amazon was now distributing their bandwidth to their neighbours. How altruistic of them! The program, called Amazon Sidewalk,…

Amazon Under Antitrust Probe For Favouring Certain Sellers

Nathan Jolly June 11, 2021 No Comments

Amazon is under scrutiny by the UK-based Competition and Markets Authority for the way in which it uses data from smaller sellers. According to the Financial Times, who cite three…

Apple Taps BMW Exec For Car Project

Nathan Jolly June 11, 2021 No Comments

Apple appears to be refocusing on its car project, hiring Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW, to work on the project. Kranz spent thirty years at BMW, where…

Amazon Wants Workers Back In Offices From September

Nathan Jolly June 11, 2021 No Comments

Amazon has sent an email to its employees saying it expects office workers in the US, UK, and several other territories to return to the office for at least three…

Facebook Launches New Second-Screen ‘Movie Mate’ Feature For Film Buffs

Nathan Jolly June 10, 2021 No Comments

Facebook are launching a new ‘second-screen experience’ called Movie Mate that will give a live stream of information about the film you are watching, through Facebook Messenger. They are premiering…

Ten-Year Failure: Mattel’s Fisher-Price Slammed Over Baby Deaths

Jake Nelson June 10, 2021 No Comments

A scathing US Congressional report has torn strips off Mattel-owned Fisher-Price for a recalled baby sleeper that killed more than fifty infants over 10 years. The Rock ‘n Play Sleeper,…

Future E3 Shows “Will Probably Be A Mix Of Physical And Digital”

Nathan Jolly June 10, 2021 No Comments

This year’s E3 will be entirely digital for obvious reasons, but rather than being merely a workaround, ESA are treating E3 2021 as a way to learn how to incorporate…

Apple Takes On VPNs And Facebook With Even More Privacy Features

Nathan Jolly June 10, 2021 No Comments

Apple’s war against Facebook in the name of user privacy has been advanced even further, with a raft of new privacy features that see them take on the VPN market…

Biden Revokes Ban On TikTok and WeChat

Nathan Jolly June 10, 2021 No Comments

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to revoke the bans on TikTok and WeChat put in place by the Trump administration. Instead, he has instructed the Commerce Security…

US PC Sales Soar 73 Percent

Computer Daily News June 10, 2021 No Comments

US PC sales were up 73 percent in Q1, compared to the same period last year, according to technology research outfit Canalys, due mainly to the pandemic. Around 34 million…