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Check out the ID Buzz, Volkswagen's electric minibus If you're anything like us, then you've no doubt been tempted to pack your life into a Volkswagen minibus, ditch modern society and live on the road. Soon you'll be able to do all that and feel even greener thanks to the VW's new ID Buzz, a

YouTube will soon detect products so it can "recommend" them to you Anyone else noticed recently that YouTube ads are becomingly particularly egregious? They've always been annoying but it feels like YouTube is doing its best to push people to subscribe to Premium and this latest update is no exception. YouTube is reportedly testing a

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

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