Twitter suspended people for tweeting 'the M-word' In a bizarre series of events, Twitter has started banning users who tweet the word Memphis. Now, we don't know what folks over tin the United States have been up to in the second-largest city in Tennessee, but Twitter's moderators aren't having any of it. Users on the
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Apple has discontinued the ultra-powerful iMac Pro In 2017 Apple revealed its most powerful (and most expensive) iMac yet. Designed with labs and heavy-duty designers, editors and animators in mind, the iMac Pro is (soon was) the most expensive product sold on the company's shelves. Now it looks like it'll soon retire, because who has
Check out this 3D-printed device that helps blind dogs get around Photo: Chad Lalande It's a Monday, so we thought we'd kick off this Light Start with a bit of feel-good news to help you through those blues. Chad Lalande, an amateur designer, has designed a remarkably simple apparatus that can be strapped to a
Signal went down for a day due to a surge in new users Given how everyone has been flocking away from WhatsApp after the less than fun update to its terms and conditions, it makes sense that competing apps may be put under strain. Signal has been flooded with new users desperately seeking refuge from
Sony shows off company's first 360-degree speakers When you're listening to... well, to anything it's really important that the sound be good. It should envelop you, wrap you up in its harmonies. That's the idea behind 360-degree audio and while other companies may have beaten Sony to the punch, that doesn't mean they aren't responding.
Samsung might be making a 600-megapixel sensor We know Samsung is fond of pushing the boundaries of camera technology if said camera is embedded in a phone but this just seems excessive. Rumour has it that Samsung is in the process of developing a whopping 600-megapixel sensor for an upcoming phone which is... gigantic, if
Twitter's Fleets are already broken. What a tragedy. You know Fleets? That new feature that Twitter rolled out last week? Yeah, apparently it's already bugged in the most inconvenient way possible. While they should function along the same lines as Instagram stories, staying visible for 24 hours before disappearing into the aether, it turns out
SpaceX launches first manned "operational" flight to the ISS Those crazy space cowboys over at SpaceX, working alongside the eggheads of NASA, have done it again. This weekend, SpaceX successfully launched its second ever crewed mission to the International Space Station. The six month journey to the ISS is being helmed by four astronauts, namely
Facebook may not want you to own more than one Oculus VR headset Imagine this: you were so impressed with the first-gen of the Oculus headset that you decided to buy three Oculus gen-2’s. Now, you don’t want the little ones to create Facebook accounts just for the headset, so you use your own for
Samsung’s gearing up for another phone launch Every time you feel that Samsung’s ‘just launched a phone’, it hits back with another phone. The retail lifecycle of Samsung devices seem to be speeding up, and it feels like we can’t keep track anymore. This year, we saw the company launch the S20-range, followed by the