So there it is finally right from Konami directly – PES 2016 is not 1080p on Xbox One – a hope that spawned excitement among gamers across the world. The rumours of…
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uTorrent team mulls new revenue model
uTorrent, the most used BitTorrent client in the world with an estimated user base of 150 million, is not happy with its revenue model and its makers are looking to generate money…
Thousands flock to Robotronica to get a glimpse of robotic future
Robotronica, organised at Brisbane’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has been a day of discovery, fun and learning for many as thousands flocked to the public event to get a glimpse of…
Mozilla wants Chrome, Opera extension to run on Firefox with minimal changes
Mozilla is bringing about a change in the way developers create add-ons or extensions for Firefox and to cut out the work of developers who maintain the same extension for Chrome, Safari,…
Ashley Madison: Hackers becoming sexual morality vigilantes
The hackers who hacked into AshleyMadison.com are seemingly the ‘righteous’ who intend to punish the site’s owners and its users for their moral wrongdoings. A group of hackers, which calls itself the…
iOS 8.4.1 jailbreak teased by Pangu team at HackPwn 2015
Chinese jailbreak developer team Pangu has teased an iOS 8.4.1 jailbreak at the HackPwn 2015 suggesting that they have managed to successfully jailbreak the recently released iOS version. The tease is evident…
As we await new emojis, Unicode publishes core specification for Version 8.0
Unicode Consortium has been in the news lately because of the candidate emoji characters that are being considered for Unicode 9.0 and as we await confirmation of these characters, the Consortium has…
Spotify CEO tries to clear up privacy policy confusion
In a post on Spotify’s site, CEO Daniel Ek has offered his apologies for the recent confusion caused by privacy policy updates and has tried to address concerns of the service’s users…
Microsoft shutters Nokia plant in Salo, Finland; axes 2,300 jobs
Microsoft has decided to shutter Nokia’s plant in Salo, Finland and has also revealed that it will be axing 2,300 jobs from the country. Decisions, which Microsoft claims are part of a…
Apple Store clean up: iPods to be shelved in Accessories section
Apple is eyeing a clean up of its retail stores with the iPods going to the Accessories section, according to new reports. According to a report on 9to5mac, Apple will get getting…
Yahoo Weather app now warns you 15 minutes before rain or snow
Yahoo is ensuring that you don’t get wet or stranded in heavy snow with an update to its Weather app wherein it will alert you 15 minutes before rain or snow. “Yahoo…
‘Nauseated face’, ‘selfie’, ‘pregnant women’ and 35 other emojis being considered
The Unicode Consortium has announced the acceptance of 38 emoji characters including ‘Nauseated face’, ‘selfie’, and ‘pregnant women’ as candidates for the upcoming Unicode 9.0 which is scheduled for release in mid-2016….
Spotify wants your contacts, photos, location information, sensor data, and more
Spotify has changed its privacy policy and in what many have dubbed as rather ‘eerie’ changes, the music streaming company is seemingly going overboard with the amount of information it wants to…
Microsoft pushes out IE patch to address critical flaw; Windows 10 affected as well
Microsoft has released an “out-of-band” patch to address a critical vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer on all flavours of currently supported Windows operating systems. According to Microsoft, the patch fixes…
Nuance Dragon Anywhere launching on iOS, Android soon
Nuance Dragon Anywhere is launching on iOS and Android in autumn this year and will be offered as a subscription based service. The app will be a cloud-based mobile application that will…