Year: 2024

The iPhone 16 and its siblings are sure to boast numerous upgrades over the iPhone 15, but according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – a journalist and Apple leaker with a strong track record – these phones might not be a massive improvement on their predecessors overall. To illustrate this prediction, Gurman has highlighted what he considers to be the six main upgrades that are apparently coming to the iPhone 16 line. You’ll find all six rumored upgrades below, along with our thoughts (and Gurman’s) on whether they’re significant or not.…

Many of the recent changes to Windows 11’s Start menu that we’ve seen tested by Microsoft have been getting hot and cold reactions, but this hasn’t deterred the software giant from continuing to experiment with the menu, and it’s currently trialing a new ‘Category’ layout that we learned about last month.  This layout is an alternative to the standard presentation of the ‘All apps’ section of the Start menu, alongside a new grid-based layout that Microsoft has also been testing. We’ve already seen a hint of this new Category view,…

The president of CrowdStrike has accepted the award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ at the 2024 ‘Pwnie Awards’, hosted at this year’s DefCon hacking conference. Per TechCrunch, CrowdStrike was already in attendance at the cybersecurity gathering, manning one of the largest booths at the event, and dispatching free t-shirts and action figures to attendees/ Fans have already been leaping to the defence of the company that put millions of Windows machines out of action pending a fix to be manually applied in safe mode, calling them a “class act” after CrowdStrike…

Ads are a major problem on the internet today. Many websites have focused too much on ads above content, inadvertently ruining the user experience. For example, you can find websites with half ads and half content, making them annoying to scroll through. You might also encounter a website with poorly placed ads covering valuable content. Fortunately, there’s a solution to this pressing issue: ad blockers. These tools disable ads from their roots and let you surf the web without encountering obnoxious ads. Wipr is one of the best ad-blocking solutions…

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new malicious campaign that hijacks web browsers to steal sensitive data. A report from ReasonLabs outlined how the campaign has so far hit around 300,000 Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users by creating websites offering fake software for free, including the likes of Roblox FPS Unlocker, YouTube, VLC media player, Steam, or KeePass.  Victims who navigate to these websites and download the fake software instead get a trojan malware that’s been around since 2021. The malware installs add-ons and extensions that hijack search engines, and…

Back in November 2022, the UK joined the Net Zero Government Initiative as a partner and signatory, pledging to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Since then, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has expressed concerns about the UK’s ability to fulfil its promise, while the current Labour government scaled back its £28 billion green investment plan earlier this year while still in opposition. As a result, it’s been rightly called into question whether achieving the net zero objective is a genuine possibility within the designated timeframe. In order to ensure…

When will we find out the Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date? (Image credit: Electronic Arts) According to BioWare, the Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date will be announced at some point in August (this month!). This was revealed in a blog post, posted after the SDCC panel that took place on July 31, 2024. We don’t know exactly when the news will drop, so keep this page bookmarked to check for updates over the next couple of weeks. Dragon Age: The Veilguard, previously known as Dreadwolf, and casually as…

From Robert Downey Jr. returning as Iron Man (no, he won’t be wearing this Iron Man-style exoskeleton) for a thrilling attraction to a coaster themed after the flying doors in Monsters Inc., Disney Parks worldwide are getting a bunch of new rides and even lands.  Now, rather than just teasing the future, much of the focus on Disney’s Experience showcase at D23 2024 (outside of the unveiling of one of the best Star Wars rides as a high-tech toy) was on active or soon-to-be projects with development underway and, for…