Chris and Ian discuss Google IO, Twitter and Apple
Shownotes
- Millions offered half price broadband from BT
- Private equity firm Apollo to buy Verizon Media assets for $5B, will rename business ‘Yahoo’
- Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more
- Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets
- Twitter Tip Jar lets you pay people for good tweeting
- Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules
- Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
- Apple puts more adverts in App Store after ad-tracking ban
- Apple Watch gets a motion-controlled cursor with ‘Assistive Touch’
- Apple to add lossless audio to Apple Music at no additional cost
- Amazon makes its lossless music streaming service a free upgrade
- Cyber attack ‘most significant on Irish state’
- Irish cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free
- New emergency text alerts to be trialled
- Google I/O
- Sony invests in Discord, to integrate it with PlayStation in 2022
- Xbox’s Quick Resume feature gets new group option in May update
- HTC unveils new Vive Pro 2 with 5K resolution display and 120Hz refresh rate
