Month: June 2023

Magnetic charging speaker dock makes this tablet useful when idle, while software and app improvements are paying off Google’s long-awaited Pixel Tablet has finally landed to try to tempt users away from Apple’s dominant iPad and make the large-screen devices useful in the home by becoming a smart display when not in active use – …

Pixel Tablet review: Google’s Android slate and smart display rolled into one Read More »

At the start of 2023, the UK postal service Royal Mail was hit with an ultimatum: pay $80m (£67m) or continue to have international shipments blocked. The demand came from Russian-linked hackers the LockBit group, who had infiltrated Royal Mail’s software. Royal Mail refused to pay and eventually reinstated its overseas deliveries, but the cyber-attack …

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Petting pups and cleaning up digital dog poo makes me happy. What does that say about my headspace right now? Not long ago, I was interviewing someone over the phone when I suddenly became transfixed by a soft bark that emitted from my iPad. The bark came with a tantalising notification: “Your new rustic lantern …

I’m transfixed by a menial iPad game – in an age of saturation, it’s an embarrassing comfort | Caitlin Cassidy Read More »

The suction-padded joystick was once the games controller sans pareil until it was usurped by the multi-button joypad – but with the return of retro gaming, it’s making a comeback For home computer gamers in the 1980s, your choice of joystick was a matter of intense importance and debate. Unlike buying a console, you didn’t …

Remember the Quickshot? Why it’s worth rediscovering the joy of joysticks Read More »

Campaigners say bill in ‘serious peril’ of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent Online safety experts will struggle to sound the alarm about harmful content if landmark legislation does not allow independent researchers to access data from social media platforms, campaigners have warned. The government is being urged to adopt amendments to the …

Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data Read More »

Cybersecurity firm says Anonymous Sudan is unlikely to be authentic hacktivist group, as initially believed The hackers believed to be behind a recent attack that took some of Microsoft’s services offline are likely to be a Russian-linked group rather than a grassroots pro-Islam collective operating out of Sudan, experts say. Anonymous Sudan, which surfaced in …

Hackers behind Microsoft outage most likely Russian-backed group aiming to ‘drive division’ in the west Read More »

Next-gen heart rate sensor, clearer screen, epic battery life and new metrics upgrade top multisport smartwatch Garmin has been on a roll recently, upgrading various versions of its most popular sports smartwatches. Now it is the turn of its top adventure watch to be enhanced with next-gen tech and new tools in the new Fenix …

Garmin Fenix 7 Pro review: top adventure watch puts a torch on your wrist Read More »

Ted Kaczynski’s ‘prescient’ views have been praised by Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson – and continue to draw misguided new followers The bomb was disguised as a tangle of wooden planks and protruding nails, and when he encountered it in the car park behind his computer-repair store, Gary Wright thought nothing of pushing it from …

‘His ideas resonate’: how the Unabomber’s dangerous anti-tech manifesto lives on Read More »

Keyhole surgery using robotic arms has transformed medicine. But the next generation of advanced robotics might be able to surpass the skills of surgeons Neil Thomas wished he could have been awake during the operation to remove a 6cm cancerous tumour from his colon. He was one of the first people to go under the …

Robot surgeons provide many benefits, but how autonomous should they be? Read More »

CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company Like Wikipedia, Reddit is one of the wonders of the online world. Its founders once described it as “the front page of the internet”, which is perhaps …

There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data | John Naughton Read More »