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  Happy 15th birthday, iPhone! Here’s a brief history of the device

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  It is 15 years since Apple released what’s arguably its flagship device: the iPhone. A decade and a half later, there are few products that have managed to reach a similar level of brand recognition. Announced to an eager audience in 2007, the iPhone has revolutionized how we communicate and even …

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  Instagram’s plan to make all its video Reels is a transparent TikTok ripoff

  TNW - Callum Booth

  It’s no secret that Instagram is losing the social media war to TikTok. If Meta’s app is ever going to reverse this trend, it needs to come up with new and interesting features. Or so you’d think. Instead it appears that Instagram is going to continue the Facebook tradition of ‘If You Can’t Beat It, …

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  Firefox continues its fight for privacy by automatically stripping URL trackers

  TNW - Ioanna Lykiardopoulou

  Mozilla has rolled out Firefox version 102, which takes an extra step in preventing websites from tracking your movements on the web. The new version automatically strips query parameters in a URL string. These are the series of letters, numbers, and symbols following the question mark at the second …

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  It’s 2022. Why do we still not have waterproof phones?

  TNW - The Conversation

  While manufacturers have successfully increased the water-repelling nature of smartphones, they are still far from “waterproof”. A water-resistant product can usually resist water penetration to some extent, but a waterproof product is (meant to be) totally impervious to water. Last week, Samsung …

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  Google kills Hangouts — but its dreams of Gmail dethroning Slack feel far away

  TNW - Ioanna Lykiardopoulou

  Google shut down Hangouts for Workspace in February, but that’s not enough for the search giant: it’s now killing the mobile Hangouts app as well. In a recent blogpost, the tech behemoth announced that it’ll bid farewell to the feature in November 2022. People still using Hangouts are urged to …

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  Goodbye, Internet Explorer. You won’t be missed

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  After 27 years, Microsoft has finally bid farewell to the web browser Internet Explorer, and will redirect Explorer users to the latest version of its Edge browser. As of June 15, Microsoft ended support for Explorer on several versions of Windows 10 – meaning no more productivity, reliability, or …