I spent a morning with Meta VR Glasses and wish I never had to take them off
Experience counts for something, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Meta VR Glasses I finally wore this morning. These lightweight, intuitive, and engrossing VR glasses shed the weight and overdesigned fussiness of previous VR and mixed reality…
Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers
The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their…
Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it has shut down a massive botnet called x.cpe. At its height, x.cpe ran on more than 1.3 million Android TV devices, and unusually, these were Google-certified boxes. Google says its screening process missed…
Three years after the Online Safety Act, could the under-16 social media ban put VPNs back in the firing line?
Last week marked three years since the UK Government enacted the Online Safety Act (OSA). Now, the impending UK under-16s social media ban and questions over the effectiveness of current measures threaten to push VPNs back into the spotlight. Speaking to…
I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful – and a little unsettling
Apple’s AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there’s still room for improvement.Go to story
Microsoft boasts Windows 11 is now up to 40% faster for multi-tasking
Windows 11 got a major performance boost with its latest update, including 40% faster multi-tasking on an 8GB PC based on Microsoft’s testing That update is still a preview, mind, but the full release is coming next week, with other performance…
Currys expands its Black Friday sale with dozens of new offers – I’ve picked the 21 best deals from Ninja, Samsung, Shark, Acer, Dyson, Sony, and more
A week after Currys officially kicked off its Black Friday sale, the retailer has just expanded it with dozens of new offers, so I’ve taken another look and picked out more of the tech deals that I’d recommend buying. I’ve bumped my…
Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth
Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its ‘hardest year’ yet.Go to story
What we know about the alert app hack in Ukraine and Russia
Both Ukraine and Russia say their air raid alert apps were cyber-attacked – Joe Tidy explains what we know so far.Go to story