Apple has discontinued the iPod music player after more than 20 years on the market. The most recent version of the device – the iPod Touch – has not been updated since 2019 and many of its features are now incorporated into other Apple devices and services. Apple said it wouldContinue Reading
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Instagram will test a way for users to display non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on their profiles. A similar feature will also come to Facebook soon. In fact, NFTs could come to several Meta apps, from WhatsApp to Messenger. “We’re starting building for NFTs, not just in our metaverseContinue Reading
If you’re using someone else’s Netflix account, this news is for you: Netflix wants to monetize sharing, and it wants to do it soon. In a letter to shareholders as part of Q1 revenue results, Netflix for the first time put a figure on the total number of households usingContinue Reading
Despite its end-to-end encrypted messaging, WhatsApp has surprisingly strict rules that could get you banned if you don’t follow them – here’s what you need to avoid to stay active on the app As an encrypted messaging app, WhatsApp offers an impressive degree of privacy compared to some conventional messaging apps. However,Continue Reading
Under pressure from the EU and privacy advocates, Google has been spending a lot of time considering how the digital advertising landscape will look once third-party cookies are gone. The company initially created Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), before announcing Google Topics as a replacement, which broadly splits the web into different topics and dividesContinue Reading
Internet technology pioneer and GIF inventor, Stephen Wilhite passed away on March 14 from COVID-related complications. He was 74 and he leaves behind an incredible legacy, the GIF, a game-changer for the blossoming World Wide Web in the 1990s. Wilhite, who was interested in compression technology, created the GIF atContinue Reading
At the start of the pandemic in 2020, many countries and industries were forced to temporarily halt their operations in a bid to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. This ultimately led to the global chip shortage and an increase in the price of computers and phones that weContinue Reading
Instagram has quietly tweaked its Daily Limit feature, seemingly to ensure people spend more time on the social network. The Daily Limit feature allows people to control how much time they spend on Instagram — after a specified amount of time the app warns you that you’ve been scrolling for too long.Continue Reading
Chrome is changing its logo for the first time since 2014, and if you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see what’s different. Elvin Hu, a designer for Google Chrome, offers a first look at the logo’s redesign in a thread on Twitter, as well as someContinue Reading
Billions of passwords are sold on the dark web every day to the highest bidder – if you’ve used the same password on multiple websites you may have had your Gmail hacked without even knowing. Every day, lists containing thousands of passwords are sold on the dark web to criminals,Continue Reading