From the archive

2020

OnePlus Spring Cleans Logo

OnePlus and its slogan Never Settle have been on the mobile scene since 2014, and it's become a well-known brand amongst aficionados. For sure, brand awareness isn't up there with Apple or Samsung - my mum would have no idea who OnePlus are - but the logo's recognisable from across the room. However, the OnePlus team have decided to give the VI

Facebook to Award $100 M in Cash Grants to Small Businesses

Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted on Facebook about the company's plans to help small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19. In the post, she stated that the economic disruption poses a severe risk to small businesses. Facebook will help by awarding $100 million in cash grants and ad credits to small businesses. ...We've listened to small businesses

Google Launches Google Translate for Android

Google announced that Google Translate will be rolling out in the next few days for any combination of the following eight languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. Sami Iqram, Product Manager, Google Translate, shared a story where he used Google Translate: Recently, I was at my friend's family gathering, where her grandmother told a story from

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Lock Down Tech News

Lock Down Tech News and Todd's soapbox time on the Chinese and what they are up to and the culpability they have in trying to hide the CoronaVirus. I dig in and we also have a little fun on this show with a lot of interaction of the live audience. I have some theories and we dig in. I appreciate

French Antitrust Authorities Fined Apple Largest Penalty Ever

France's L'Autorité de la concurrence, which is the country's competition agency, has fined Apple 1.1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) for anticompetitive behavior. The French authority said that this penalty was the largest ever handed down in one case. “Apple and its wholesalers agreed not to compete and prevent distributors from competing with each other, thereby sterilizing the wholesale marker for

Amazon is Out of Stock of Household Items Due to COVID-19

Are you finding it difficult to buy household items from Amazon? You aren't the only one! It turns out that Amazon itself is having trouble stocking products that became extremely popular after COVID-19 started spreading. Not even Amazon is immune to the problems that occur when people start hoarding toilet paper. Amazon posted an explanation about the situation it is

Verily Collaborates with California on COVID-19 Risk Screening Survey

Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet that is focused on life sciences and healthcare, is a sister company to Google. Verily is working in collaboration with the California Governor's office, federal, state, and local public health authorities to create an online COVID-19 screener survey. Californians will be able to take an online COVID-19 screener survey through Project Baseline beginning Monday, March