Author: Max Milella

Like everyone else, the folks over at Google have been doing a lot more work remotely. Now, drawing on its own experiences, Google has announced that it’s adding a few new updates to Google Workspace specifically geared towards increasing productivity, and making the way you work from home more convenient, and these additions are part of what they’re calling “collaboration equity”. Effectively, this means these features are meant to close, or at least minimise the gap between those working online, and those working in the office (you know, if your organisation has started bringing people back to the office in…

Pokémon: Diamond and Pokémon: Pearl (and their younger but significantly edgier brother, Pokémon: Platinum) released on the Nintendo DS back in 2006. They were the first games in the series on the Nintendo DS and were many people’s first starry-eyed glances into the wonderful world of Pokémon. Finally, after 15 years of waiting, it appears that we’ll soon be able to return to the Sinnoh region in not just one but two upcoming games/sets of games: Pokémon Legends: Arceus and the Diamond and Pearl remakes, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (we’re counting them as one game since they’re basically the same, give or take a few…

In an official blog post, YouTube has announced that it’s rolling out a host of new parental controls for guardians of young viewers. The video-sharing giant explained that, over the last year, it had been working with guardians and experts in fields such as child development and digital literacy, to develop their parental controls in a way that protects children from coming into contact with harmful content whilst still satiating the curiosity of children who find they’ve exhausted the library of content on YouTube Kids. YouTube’s for everyone YouTube will begin offering three new content settings for guardians to choose…

Twitter is reportedly working on a new feature that will automatically detect abusive content and users block them from users’ accounts. According to Endgadget, the social media Goliath showed off the feature in a pair of screenshots in its  2021 Analyst Day presentation. The feature will go as far as to, “…mute accounts that might be using insults, name-calling, strong language, or hateful remarks.” reports Endgadget. The feature will restrict an offending user’s ability to tweet at you for a week and also curb your exposure to their replies on other tweets. Neither a date of implementation nor much else was revealed.…

Love it or hate it, TikTok is massive, with an estimated 1.1 billion+ active monthly users, and has been downloaded over 2.6 billion times. But with great power comes consequences if you’re caught out using that power for something less than savory. It appears TikTok has been accused of just that, and has recently faced a lawsuit over alleged privacy violations.  TikTok coughs it up The Verge reports that TikTok has chosen to pay $92 million to settle the lawsuit, which combined 21 proposed lawsuits regarding an alleged variety of privacy violations, chief of which being that the app took…

Halo, understandably, has a massive fanbase. A committed following filled with hope and high expectations for every new release, expectations that (for the most part) the series has been able to meet. Which is why when we got their first look at Halo Infinite last July, as cool as the gameplay looked, we were a little disappointed with the quality of the visuals. Halo is often touted as the factor that draws people in to buying an Xbox console. The two brands are inextricably linked, and Infinite will be the Xbox Series X’s first title in the series. With all the power packed into…

Well, pour one out for the future of Anthem because BioWare and EA have given up on developing the overhauled version of the game. The news comes by way of a post on the BioWare blog by executive producer Christian Dailey. “In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem (aka Anthem NEXT).” he said. Anthem Next, forever just a dream This update comes over two weeks after EA sat down to discuss the game’s future. To briefly sum it up, Anthem launched to a resounding…

This is an explanation for anyone who missed all the warning notifications and woke up this morning to find that all their data in Google Play Music was gone. Yesterday, Google deleted all Play Music users’ data, marking the true end to the platform. Google Play Music’s done for good Google Play Music, originally release in 2011 as Google Music, and launched in SA in 2015. Ten years is a decent lifetime for a digital service, and is significantly longer than Google’s game studio’s was. One of the big draws to the platform, what kept it unique compared to its…

As if we needed any more incentive not to leave our couches, Sony is bringing back its “Play At Home” campaign this March to keep you on your butt and entertained, and it’s kicking the event off by offering 2016’s reboot of the beloved action-platformer, Ratchet & Clank for free. Thanks, Sony. Sony says: Stay home and play games! From 1 March to 31 March, you will be able to download the game from the PlayStation Store, and keep it forever. No need to burn your way through it before the offer ends. This is a repeat move from last year,…

Smartphone innovation is at an all-time high, with brands racing to go where no phone has gone before. We’ve seen tons of weird and wonderful things, like phones that flip or swivel, and crazy auxiliary displays. One place where competition in innovation is on the rise is wireless charging, and Oppo has just stepped into the arena. Oppo’s in the air https://youtu.be/DrQd2gCRe1M A quick clip on Weibo, titled “30 seconds to tell you what the future of charging looks like”, shows off the new wireless charging system working with the Oppo X 2021 rollable phone. This form of air-charging appears…