amazon, bbc

BBC’s Alexa Flash Briefing Slated with 1* Reviews

If there’s one thing that you’d expect the BBC to get right, it would be the news.  Ask people in the street about BBC news and you’d expect words like authoritative, impartial, insightful, confident and trustworthy to litter the responses.…

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google, Photography

Google Stops Syncing Between Photos and Drive

How stupid is this? Google has announced that from July, photographs will no longer sync between Google Drive and Google Photos citing “the connection between these services is confusing”. What? Sorry, but how is this confusing? Images are synchronised between Google…

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Information

5G Comes to UK on EE

5G launched today in six UK cities on the EE mobile network, offering “gigabit” speed levels for mobile device users. The lucky six cities are London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester, with further rollouts to Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Hull,…

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Android, smartphone

OnePlus 7 Landing in UK Next Week

While both the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro were announced earlier in the month, the 7’s availability was only listed as “June”. Today, OnePlus confirmed that the 7 would be available to buy in the UK from next week –…

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travel accessories

Don’t be lost for (foreign) words with Pocketalk

Us Brits aren’t known for our linguistic abilities shamefully relying on our continental cousins to speak English rather than learning the local lingo. Fortunately, we can now cover our embarrassment by using the Pocketalk Voice Translator, a two-way voice translator…

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