Month: July 2023
The Morning After: Everything announced at Samsung’s Summer Unpacked 2023 event
Cruelly timed for just after The Morning After newsletter yesterday, Samsung’s latest Unpacked media event was a first for the company. It’s the first time the company has launched over five devices in a single day. Ah wait, no. Was it the first time K-Pop superstars BTS helped promote Samsung’s…
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Two of the most underrated Zelda games are now available on Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo has announced that two new retro Zelda games — The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons — are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on the standard $3.99-per-month package. I’ve been patiently waiting for this moment since Nintendo announced it…
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Desperate for dark mode with Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot? It’s now here
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and Bing search on desktop have just got dark mode, a feature that many folks have been keenly awaiting for some time. Jordi Ribas, Microsoft’s CVP, Head of Engineering and Product for Bing, made the announcement on Twitter. We are starting to roll out desktop dark mode…
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It’s not just you, Slack appears to be down
Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Reports began spiking on DownDetector at around 5AM ET and the service’s status dashboard acknowledged the issues with a post at 5:35AM ET. It notes that “Users may be experiencing trouble…
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Slack down? Users unable to send or receive messages
Top online collaboration platform Slack is seeing a widespread outage across the UK. Reports of issues with Slack began to surface around 10.00am BST, with thousands of users signalling problems on outage tracker site DownDetector. The company has now confirmed there are problems with messaging, meaning users are unable to send or…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to build a new agency to police Big Tech
There’s a new bipartisan bill to establish a new federal agency tasked with regulating online platforms. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), would create a new agency called the Digital Consumer Protection Commission that would be empowered to go after giant tech firms for…
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