Windows 11: The Ars Technica review
Microsoft Microsoft wanted everyone to use Windows 10. Faced with slow adoption of Windows 8 and the stubborn popularity of Windows 7, Microsoft made Windows 10 a free upgrade for...
Kao Data secures up to £130m in funding to finance colocation datacentre expansions
Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data has secured up to £130m in additional funding as it sets it sights on expanding its operations after securing a sizeable financial services client....
Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million
Getty Images In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from...
Facebook unplugged for six hours due to configuration error
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and any services using Facebook services were unavailable for six hours yesterday (4 October 2021), due to a configuration change that disconnected Facebook from the internet....
Virgin’s fibre broadband starts at just £24/pm and comes with a £75 voucher
If you're on the hunt for a new internet plan packed with high-end speeds, Virgin's new sale will be the perfect option, offering fast speeds, low costs and a big...
How will the plan affect businesses?
In September 2021, the data protection authorities of each G7 nation met virtually to discuss a technological or innovation issue that they believed required closer cooperation to address properly....
Netflix extends ‘Play Something’ feature to Android mobile devices
Netflix rolled out its randomized shuffle feature 'Play Something' to TV versions back in April. Now it is extending the same to Android mobile devices too. Netflix will start testing Play...
India at the cusp of the digital revolution, says COAI’s Dr. S.P. Kochhar
5G in India has been the most talked-about topic in the recent past. While we’ve had 5G capable devices like smartphones selling in the country since as early as last...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know
Enlarge / Today's global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. Facebook—and apparently all the...
Internet Archive: Forget the Wayback Machine, there’s now a Wayforward Machine too
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Internet Archive digital library has upped the stakes by launching a new Wayforward Machine.Unlike its Wayback Machine, which is able to teleport users back...