Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. The first wave of reviews for the iPhone XR show the phone in a positive light, praising the cheaper iPhone’s battery life and its wide-angle camera. Several reviewers found it hard to recommend Apple’s more expensive iPhone […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Twitter fired an employee in 2015 who was a suspected mole for a Saudi Arabian spying operation. The employee had reportedly been persuaded to spy on dissident accounts. Facebook reportedly wants to buy a cybersecurity company in […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Facebook opened up its election “war room” to the press ahead of the US mid-term elections in November. Facebook has built a physical “war room” in its California headquarters to try and avoid repeating the mistakes of […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. Facebook has “tentatively” concluded that spammers, not foreign agents, are to blame for the biggest hack in its history. Anonymous sources told the Wall Street Journal that the company does not believe a nation-state was involved. An […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. Google will charge phone makers money for its Android apps in Europe – an unprecedented change that it says is to comply with regulators. To comply with an antitrust decision by the European Union, Google no longer […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has died at 65 after a battle with cancer. A childhood friend of Bill Gates, it was actually Allen who came up with the name “Micro-Soft.” Jeff Bezos said that today’s internet is […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. SoftBank shares have fallen dramatically, slashing its value by $US20 billion. Bloomberg ascribes the dive to a rocky few weeks for tech companies and the outcry at Saudi Arabia – SoftBank’s biggest outside investor – following the […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics.Facebook removed 559 pages and 251 accounts for breaking its rules around spam and “inauthentic behaviour.” The departure of Square’s chief financial officer […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. Elon Musk denied a report that James Murdoch is the top choice to replace him as Tesla’s chairman.“This is incorrect,” the Tesla CEO tweeted in response to a Financial Times report that Murdoch was favoured for the […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. Google launched a slew of new hardware products on Tuesday, including its latest flagship smartphones, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. There was also a new tablet, the Pixel Slate, and a new Google Home speaker. […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Google is to shut down its failed social network, Google+, after The Wall Street Journal reported that the firm covered up a major security breach. Google discovered in March that it had exposed personal profile data of […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. There’s growing doubt about whether China successfully infiltrated American firms by placing tiny microchips into servers. US and UK government security agencies both said there’s no reason to double Amazon and Apple’s denials that their supply chains […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Amazon and Apple were reportedly targeted by Chinese spies attempting to plant tiny microchips in their data centres. Chinese spies attempted to plant tiny microchips in the data centres of 30 major American companies, including Amazon and […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday. Business Insider has released its ranking of the 100 coolest people in UK tech. Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who revealed how Facebook data had been manipulated by Cambridge Analytica, has topped the list. Facebook is now making users […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. Amazon announced it is raising its minimum wage to $US15. The company will raise its minimum wage from November 1, with CEO Jeff Bezos saying the company had “listened to our critics.” Facebook is warning its first […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Google announced “Project Stream,” an experimental video game streaming service which will allow people to play games for free from the Google Chrome browser. The first game available will be the upcoming “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey,” but there […]
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Elon Musk must step down as chairman of Tesla and pay a $US20 million fine after reaching a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC had on Thursday charged Musk with “false and misleading […]
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