Month: February 2020
Nokia 10 launch uncertain after HMD Global drops out of MWC 2020
Annual smartphone conference MWC 2020 has been shedding companies for the last few days, with the likes of Sony, LG, Vivo and Royole all pulling out due to coronavirus fears. It seems the latest company is HMD Global, which owns the Nokia brand, so we might have to wait to…
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Estée Lauder suffers massive breach, 400m records exposed
An unprotected database containing 440 million records owned by US cosmetics giant Estée Lauder has been exposed online. The company has now blocked access to the database, which contained plain text email addresses belonging to users of a company-owned education platform. The discovery was made by researchers at Security Discovery,…
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UK names its pick for social media ‘harms’ watchdog
The UK government has taken the next step in its grand policymaking challenge to tame the worst excesses of social media by regulating a broad range of online harms — naming the existing communications watchdog, Ofcom, as its preferred pick for enforcing rules around ‘harmful speech’ on platforms such as…
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Microsoft has changed its mind, and won’t force Chrome users to switch to Bing
Microsoft has backtracked on plans to forcibly change the default search engine of companies using Office 365, following backlash from IT departments worldwide. Microsoft had initially intended to ship the Microsoft Search in Bing extension for Chrome with a forthcoming update for Microsoft Office 356 ProPlus (a version of the…
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The Galaxy Z Flip is neat, but the Galaxy S20 is important
Well! Yesterday was a day. I live-blogged the Samsung Unpacked keynote, where the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra were announced alongside the Galaxy Z Flip folding phone. If there’s one big takeaway from Samsung’s presentation, it’s that DJ Koh has very much handed the reins of the mobile…
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Activision Blizzard pulls all games from Nvidia GeForce Now, so wave goodbye to Call of Duty
Activision Blizzard has just pulled its games from GeForce Now, in a move that has upset many folks who have just signed up for Nvidia’s freshly launched game streaming service. An announcement from an Nvidia staff member on the GeForce Now forum informs users that: “Per their request, please be…
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