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Tesla's Cybertruck hit with further production delay

14 January 2022

Tesla delays Cybertruck production until 2023

Production on Tesla's Cybertruck has reportedly been pushed back until early 2023. Elon Musk's firm's much-hyped electric pickup is reportedly set to undergo some changes to "features and functions", to stand ...

13 January 2022

Google to change Wear OS smartwatch for left-handed people

Google is set to make their Wear OS smartwatches more accessible for left-handed people. Google’s Issue Tracker website received feedback from one wearer of the android device, who wished to wear ...

13 January 2022

Nigeria lifts Twitter ban after seven months

Nigeria has lifted its ban on Twitter. The social media app was once again made accessible in the West African country on Thursday (13.01.22), seven months after the capital Abuja ordered ...

Bill Gates: Social media needs to do bettter

13 January 2022

Bill Gates: Social media needs to do more to deal with misinformation

Bill Gates says "social media got behind" with dealing with misinformation after he was caught up in a COVID-19 conspiracy theory. The Microsoft founder was falsely accused of wanting to plant ...

Bill Gates

12 January 2022

Tumblr adds a 'sensitive content' toggle to iOS app

Tumblr has added a "sensitive content" toggle to their iOS app. The microblogging and social networking - which was founded in 2007 and allows users to post multimedia and other content ...

Work-in-progress production image captured during the making of The Green Planet AR Experience, powered by EE 5G.

12 January 2022

Sir David Attenborough features in The Green Planet Rainforest Experience event

Sir David Attenborough is to feature in an augmented reality rainforest experience based on his hit show. The 95-year-old naturalist - who has regularly appeared on British television screens since the ...

Sir David Attenborough

Spotify shuts studio and has made works redundant

12 January 2022

Spotify lays off staff and shuts down podcast studio

Spotify has laid off members of staff and shut down its podcast studio. The music-streaming giant - which is based in Sweden and had a podcast studio known as Studio 4 ...

12 January 2022

Two police officers fired for playing Pokemon Go

Two police officers in Los Angeles were fired for chasing Pokemon instead of fleeing burglars. Court documents have revealed that the pair were parked nearby when a radio call came ...

12 January 2022

Signal chief Moxie Marlinspike to step down

Moxie Marlinspike, the encryption pioneer who co-authored the security protocol used by WhatsApp, is stepping down as the chief executive of the private messaging service Signal. The service is regarded as ...

12 January 2022

Meta employees require booster jab to return to office

Meta employees will require a booster shot against COVID-19 before they can return to the office. Workers at Facebook's parent company are expected to return to the California office on March ...

Mark Zuckerberg

11 January 2022

E-scooter collisions rise significantly in London during 2021

The number of e-scooter collisions jumped significantly in London during 2021. 258 collisions were recorded in the UK's capital in the first six months of the year, compared with 266 throughout ...

11 January 2022

App Store developers earned $60 billion in 2021

App Store developers have earned around $60 billion in 2021, Apple has said. The tech giant confirmed that developers have made approximately $260 billion in total since the service was launched ...

11 January 2022

Tesla's automated driver assist introduces assertive mode

Tesla's automated driver assist feature has introduced an assertive driving mode. The setting will enable the electric vehicle to follow other cars more closely, change lanes on a more frequent basis ...

10 January 2022

Google and Facebook fined by French regulators

Google and Facebook have both been fined by French regulators over their use of cookies. The US tech giants have been hit with fines totalling 210 million euros ($125 million), after ...

10 January 2022

Amazon changes isolation period for US workers

Amazon is reducing the COVID-19 isolation period for its US-based workers. The online retail giant has been disrupted by workplace absences amid the pandemic - but in a memo sent to ...

10 January 2022

Tesla boss reveals price rise plan

Tesla is planning to raise the price of its full self driving software. Elon Musk - the CEO of Tesla Motors - has taken to Twitter to announce plans to increase ...

PurrSong launches weight-tracker for cats at CES 2022

9 January 2022

PurrSong launches weight-tracking litter box for cats

PurrSong have launched an weight-tracking litter tray for cats. The healthcare company which designs products for felines announced their new creation at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2022), which will ...

9 January 2022

YouTube and Google Home strike a deal with Volvo cars

YouTube and Google Home have integrated with Volvo. The video sharing platform and the smart speaker device have paired up with the car manufacturing giant so that users can not only ...

8 January 2022

Mozilla pauses crypto donations amid backlash

Mozilla Firefox has paused their ability to accept cryptocurrency payments amid backlash. The web browser developer - who began accepting the digital currency back in 2019 - said that it that ...

8 January 2022

Samsung expects its profits to jump by 52% amid global chip shortage

Samsung is expecting its profits to surge by up to 52% amid the global chip shortage. The tech giant - which manufactures an array of televisions, phones and home appliances ...

8 January 2022

Vodafone and EE both delay return of EU roaming charges

Vodafone and EE have delayed the return of their EU roaming charges. The two phone networks had initially planned to bring back roaming fees for UK residents using their phones in ...

8 January 2022

Instagram plans the return of chronological feeds

Instagram is planning to bring back chronological feeds. The photo sharing app previously took away the ability to view posts in chronological order in favour of a new method which showed ...

NFT company OpenSea now worth over $13bn

7 January 2022

NFT marketplace OpenSea is worth over $13bn

NFT marketplace OpenSea has been vallued at more than $13bn. The online marketplace - which makes which operates almost as a one-of-a-kind trading card and at their highest level are part ...

7 January 2022

New Samsung remote charges itself with wi-fi signals

A new TV remote developed via Samsung charges itself using wi-fi signals. The latest version of the tech giant's Eco Remote will also harvest energy from solar power as the company ...