Category: Technology

Google is telling workers they are allowed to discuss pay and working conditions as part of a settlement agreement with the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Bloomberg reports. The move settles a labor dispute brought by AWU in February. The initial complaint alleged that managers at Adecco, a Google subcontracting firm, banned workers from talking about […]

Apple will try to fix battery drain and reduced performance issues that have affected some iPhone 11 devices by recalibrating their batteries in an upcoming update (via MacRumors). According to an Apple support document, the process will happen when you update an iPhone 11, 11 Pro, or 11 Pro Max to the upcoming iOS 14.5. […]

Poland’s CD Projekt has released a patch for its Cyberpunk 2077 game, the video games maker said on Monday, potentially paving a way for the game to return to the PlayStation store after its removal last year. “Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 is now live on PC and consoles!” CD Projekt said on Twitter. The […]

Periscope, the app that popularized live streaming from smartphones, is shutting down today, just over six years after it launched. The service has already been removed from app stores, and most features will no longer be accessible after today. Live streaming will live on inside of Twitter, which has owned Periscope since March 2015, just […]

Qualcomm is not the number one smartphone chipsets supplier in the world, according to a recent Omdia report. The American chipmaker was overtaken by MediaTek as the number one smartphone chip supplier in 2020. This comes after the December 2020 report from Counterpoint Research indicated that MediaTek was the biggest chip supplier in Q3 2020. […]

Google plans to open its US offices in a limited capacity in April for employees who want to work in person, the company said. The announcement follows Microsoft, Facebook, and Uber’s plans to return to offices in the coming months. Offices will likely open in April, “based on specific criteria that include increases in vaccine […]

Robinhood is cutting out the confetti from its stock trading app, following accusations that the animation helped to “gamify” investing. Instead, the company is adding new animations that will celebrate trading milestones for users in a more somber manner. The celebratory digital confetti showers have been a controversial part of Robinhood’s app since 2016. In […]