Month: February 2020
How to Enable Dark Mode on All Your Apps and Devices
Give yourself to the dark side. Or at least, your phones. Source
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Instagram is testing an option to show the latest posts first
Instagram hasn’t been quite the same since it switched from a chronological feed to an algorithm-driven one back in 2016 – but a new feature spotted in the app’s code suggests users might soon get a new way to see the most recent posts first. Serial tipster Jane Manchun Wong…
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Digital transformation drives public cloud spend in Middle East and North Africa
The move by large organisations and small- and mid-sized enterprises to transform their businesses digitally is driving public cloud spend in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena). Sid Nag, research vice-president at Gartner, said that government initiatives such as Smart Dubai, Smart Abu Dhabi, Bahrain’s Cloud First Policy of…
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This fake Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ almost looks like the real one
With the arrival of the S20 Ultra, the Galaxy Note 10+ is no longer Samsung’s flagship smartphone. However, the older model has a feature that makes it particularly useful for businesses: a smart pen or stylus. The success of the Note 10+ among businesses has inspired an imitator – the…
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Can we debate free will versus destiny in four pages?
The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let’s see if we can catch up here shortly!) is now venturing into the very, very short story What’s Expected of Us, the third piece in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. If…
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This Week in Apps: YouTube TV cancels Apple’s rev share, more bad news for mobile voting, WhatsApp hits 2B users
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending…
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