Month: February 2020
Defining decades – how the Razr is the most iconic phone of two decades
When Motorola debuted the Razr v3 in 2004, it quickly rose in popularity amongst users. Here was a clamshell phone that not only sported a super thin profile for mobile phones at the time, but oozed a style and sophistication that made everyone lining up to grab their very own.…
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India’s Vedantu scores $24M more for its online tutoring service
Vedantu, a Bangalore-based startup that operates a learning app aimed at students aged between 12 to 18, has secured an additional $24 million as part of its Series C financing round as it looks to serve more students and make its brand a household name. The additional fund to Series…
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Microsoft is killing off Windows 10 1809 in May 2020 – here’s what you should do
Microsoft has now officially announced that it is ending support for Windows 10 1809, also known as the October 2018 Update, on May 12, 2020. Windows 10 1809 was a bit of a notorious update, as even though it went by the name October 2018 Update, it ended up being…
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The future of payments in the cloud
Almost without us being aware of it, the way we pay for day-to-day products and services has changed completely and it has become easy to go through life rarely needing to make a non-digital payment. A typical city dweller might now travel to work in an Uber, buy a coffee…
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Pokémon Sword and Shield games are crashing – but why?
Surprise! Has your Pokémon Sword and Shield game crashed unexpectedly while you’re trying to access online features like Y-Com or Surprise Trade? If this has happened to you, it may be that you’ve been the victim of hacked Pokémon entering the Poké-ecosystem for the latest mainline games. How did this…
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A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency
Europe’s data protection laws are some of the strictest in the world, and have long been a thorn in the side of the data-guzzling Silicon Valley tech giants since they colonized vast swathes of the internet. Two decades later, one Democratic senator wants to bring many of those concepts to…
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