Author: Max Milella

According to The Verge, Apple’s safe-search web content filter has been obstructing any searches using the word “Asian” for nearly a year now, if the “Limit Adult Websites” restriction setting is enabled on a device. The internet caught wind of it just over a month ago, and the error has been used as a springboard into important conversations concerning the fetishisation of people based on ethnicity since. Now, Mashable reports that the glitch is being patched out in the newest edition of iOS. The beta version of Apple’s iOS 14.5 released for developers last week, with a public release scheduled for…

Pardon our candor, but this is getting a tad ridiculous. In the past two months it seems like nearly every big name in tech and social media is coming up with Clubhouse doppelgänger features. Twitter’s coming out with one, Instagram’s working on another, Discord is on board, and even Telegram is in on it. Now, professional social networking platform LinkedIn has confirmed that it’s the latest platform to jump on the social audio feature bandwagon. LinkedIn, too? A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that plans to launch an audio-centered feature came about because members were asking for more communication avenues on…

It’s been nearly 2 months since Cyberpunk 2077’s first big patch arrived, promising to pave the way for future updates. Last night the latest big fix, the 1.2 patch, went live. And it is big. The patch is a hefty 30GB, around thrice the size of the 1.1 patch, and there are a lot of changes. There are pages of quality-of-life changes, glitch and crash fixes, NPC behaviour adjustments, improvements to vehicles, console specific fixes, quest fixes, and tons more. The full list is here if you want to go through everything or find a fix for a glitch specific to your…

It’s no secret that getting your phone repaired, a far too frequent necessity for us clumsy types, can be a monumental pain. Apple products in particular require that you go to Apple sources explicitly (for specific parts and all that jazz), or to an expensive alternative. This is a major pain if neither option is near your area. Apple’s aiming to fix that problem for a fair few folk, announcing expansion plans for its Independent Repair Provider program globally. Apple’s all over the place As the name implies, the program kits out and supports independent repair sources, offering them direct…

Notorious leaker (ew) Evan Blass has made available via Voice new details on Samsung’s upcoming tablet, the Tab A7 Lite. The tablet is set to join Samsung’s line of affordable mid-range (but quality) products, being one step down from the standard Tab A7 and thus lighter on specs and your bank balance. Shining a “lite” on the A7s specs Blass reports that the A7 Lite, despite its name, will release with a display 8.4in diagonally, rather than 7. The tablet’s lite-ness comes with regards to its specs. With a MediaTek Helio P22T chip, a camera sans flash, only 3GB of…

In case you haven’t heard yet, the world is currently facing a shortage of semiconductors, ever essential to tech, and has been for a while. It’s resulted in major struggles for tech producers to steadily stock their products, affecting everything from laptops to vehicles. Now Apple is facing supply issues for several of its new iPhones, with SA customers now facing long wait times for two models in particular. iPhone? I wish. Apple’s latest phone line, the iPhone 12 and all of its subspecies, came out in December last year. But thanks to the ongoing semiconductor shortage Apple is battling…

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi is most known for its smartphones, but it has other rather cool tech projects under its umbrella too. It’s got neat air-charging tech, an awesome electric scooter, and now has plans to get in on the action that is electric vehicles. Xiaomi hits the streets According to Reuters, the company is talking with Great Wall Motor Ltd, China’s largest SUV and pick-up truck producer, about using one of its plants to make its own EVs. Reuters’s sources say Xiaomi intends to penetrate the mass market alongside its other electronic products. This is also in line with the…

If you’ve even taken a peek at the internet recently you’ll have noticed that these things called NFTs are all the rage at the moment. If you’re still confused as to what they are, here’s a handy article explaining it. Now it seems even robots are getting in on the craze, as Hanson Robotics’ famous Sophia co-created an NFT and sold it off in an auction in Hong Kong for nearly $700,00. The auction’s winner received, along with the NFT itself, a short video explaining the creation process behind the work, a well as a physical painting — a self-portrait…

Instagram’s Stories feature is incredibly popular. Possibly more so than the app’s core function for some people, and now it’s getting an update: Drafts. https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1374485382528606208 It does what it says on the tin. The new feature will let you use Instagram’s in-app camera to take a photo or video, litter it with effects and filters and so on, and then save it as a draft for you to come back to later. Currently, the only thing close to this is saving a story into your phone’s gallery, which automatically removes all the quirky effects you added in-app. This can be…

Have you ever thought that your vacuum cleaner needs a techie upgrade? Some kind of performance buff? An accuracy boost, perhaps? Well, if you haven’t, Dyson’s made a high tech hoover for you anyway. Laser-focused cleaning https://youtu.be/fN7KJ46DHjU The new flagship, called the V15 Detect is an addition to Dyson’s line of cordless cleaners. Aside from boasting a dependable 60 minute run time and a motor spinning at 125,000rpm generating “the most powerful suction of any other cordless vacuum”, the V15 Detect is kitted out with the vacuum cleaner equivalent to a laser sight. The vacuum’s head uses a broad, green…