Month: July 2022
Amazon’s Echo drops to $60, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
We saw a number of gadgets go on sale this week as July comes to a close. Both Amazon’s Echo smart speaker and the Echo Show 5 have been discounted, with the Echo now down to the same price as it was on Prime Day earlier this month. The Apple…
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Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023
Bad news for the (presumably few) people out there who have relied on Amazon Drive for storing their important files in the cloud: Amazon is shutting down the service. On the plus side, you’ve got well over a year to figure out an alternative and get everything moved over. The…
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Gmail will make sure you’re almost certainly emailing the right person
Audio player loading… Google has announced it will begin using its “new machine learning models” to get better search suggestions in Gmail. The tech giant says searching for a conversation, file, or contact information in the Gmail Search Box will now bring up more contextual results with intent matching for…
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Intel is shutting down its Optane memory business
Audio player loading… Intel is set to shut down its Optane memory business, suffering a $559 million inventory write-off in the process. Optane is a type of memory system designed to boost the performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) and slower SATA SSDs by bridging storage and RAM. Intel chief…
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Kylie Jenner can’t save Instagram forever
In early May, the Meta executive in charge of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, shared some news: the social media app’s main feed would start looking dramatically different to some users. For those in a small test group, the feed they’d been using for a decade would be replaced with an “immersive…
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Analogue Pocket’s first major update should finally unlock its potential
It’s been a longer wait than we’d hoped, but the first major software update for the Analogue Pocket is finally here. It’s still a beta version so not everything is fully fleshed out, but you’ll at least be able to get a taste of the company’s vision for its fledgling…
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