Just so much better than everything else? × new-ipad-air-with-smart-keyboard-apple-pencil-03192019-big-jpg-large-2x.jpg Whenever a significant new gadget comes out, I like to see the reaction from the sales floor. The manufacturer gives you the hype, of course. Often, though, I find salespeople in tech stores are prepared to be remarkably honest about the new, new thing. Or even […]
Apple surprised us with three days in a row of new hardware releases the week before its services announcement. On MobileTechRoundup show #464 we talked about these new products and much more coming up this week. Image: ZDNet Running time: 84 minutes Listen here (MP3, 98MB) Subscribe to the show with this link (RSS) Latest […]
Many health problems are linked to pollution emitted by petrol and diesel carsAlfribeiro/Getty By Adam Vaughan Dirty air in urban areas may be having an impact on sperm. Tests on mice showed that those exposed to tiny pollution particles had worse sperm quality and smaller quantities than mice who were not. Many health problems are linked […]
Shopify has cut off Mailchimp from its app store in a battle over treatment of customer data and the two sides are blaming each other. Get used to it as the industry is likely to see more battles over data and application programming interfaces. The modern cloud infrastructure and services ecosystem is held together by […]
A team of security researchers has hacked a Tesla Model 3 car on the last day of the Pwn2Own 2019 hacking contest that was held this week in Vancouver, Canada. Team Fluoroacetate –made up of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu– hacked the Tesla car via its browser. They used a JIT bug in the browser […]
Firms that turn behaviour into saleable data are reshaping society – and us, says Shoshana Zuboff as she discusses her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Technology 20 March 2019 Can we create an unmonitored sanctuary where we can be free, asks Shoshana ZuboffVicente Méndez/Getty By Pat Kane SINCE the financial crash of 2008, and […]
The tropical cyclone rampaging south-eastern Africa has been described as one of the worst disasters ever to strike the southern hemisphere, with up to 2.6m people potentially affected in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The death toll may not be known for months, but it is already likely to have run to hundreds and possibly thousands […]
Security flaws have been found on the National Archives website and many other government sitesChris Dorney/Alamy Stock Photo By Chris Stokel-Walker Hundreds of UK government websites have serious security vulnerabilities, putting them at risk of being hijacked by hackers, according to an investigation by a team of security researchers. Of the 3220 domain names registered […]
The 27 members of the European Union have responded to Britain’s request to extend the Brexit process with two deadlines, having agreed that the original Brexit date of March 29 is no longer feasible. If the UK prime minister, Theresa May, can get British parliamentarians to approve her withdrawal agreement almost immediately, she can have […]
Coverage of high-profile deaths such as Love Island contestant Mike Thalassitis often falls short – we can and must do better, says psychologist Rory O’Connor Comment 22 March 2019 Media coverage of suicide often falls shortBrian Jackson/Alamy Stock Photo By Rory O’Connor The apparent suicide last week of Mike Thalassitis, a former contestant on the […]