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Twitter’s direct-messaging is down, and if you haven’t noticed you’re apparently not alone. According to the site Down Detector, which reports on real-time outages, users began reporting issues on Wednesday about Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook not functioning properly. Twitter’s direct-messaging was widely affected, according to the complaints, prompting people to turn to traditional tweets to make […]

Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive announced Thursday that he will be stepping down as Apple’s chief design officer later this year to form an independent design company with designer Marc Newson. Ive has been an instrumental part of everything related to Apple, from the company’s “spaceship” Apple Park campus to the products we use in […]

Though the Galaxy Fold has yet to receive an official release date, Samsung has reportedly started working on its follow-up. According to Korean outlet ET News, the tech giant is preparing to release a more compact foldable device that is reminiscent of the old-school clamshell flip phone. The purportedly dubbed Galaxy Fold 2 will have a 6.7-inch screen just […]

Jeezy has announced a partnership with Freddie Figgers, the founder of Figgers Communication. The pair “aim to democratize and bring quality technology to market with wireless products that rival current competitor standards, but at a much more attainable price point,” a press release states. A cell phone, the F3, and earpods, the F-Buds, are the first products to be released under the […]

Turns out Snapchat‘s gender-swap filter is good for more than learning your homies are beautiful. A college student in San Francisco, for example, used the filter to take down a cop looking to meet up with underage girls.  The student, identified only by his first name, Ethan, created a fake Tinder profile using images altered to […]

YouTube, Discord and Gmail all experienced outages today, due to apparent problems with Google’s Cloud service. The disruption effected not only Google‘s own properties in the G Suite (Drive, Gmail, Hangouts and other applications) but also took down prominent websites that run on the Cloud service on the backend, like Snapchat and Vimeo. The Verge reports […]

The file organization system you’ve been finding ways to work around for over a decade is about to be no more. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple is hoping to phase out iTunes in the near future. Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to announce the decision to move away from iTunes as part […]

Apple is being sued by customers who claim that the company sold their iTunes data to third parties.  In a new class-action lawsuit filed on May 24, three iTunes customers claim that Apple violated several states’ privacy laws by selling information on iTunes purchases to other companies. The lawsuit uses the language of an Apple […]

Richard Lomotey, a Penn State professor who worked part-time as an Uber driver, has been accused of kidnapping three women in one night. Lomotey was arrested earlier this month on allegations of kidnapping two women on May 11, per an ABC News report, and has now been alleged to have done the same to a […]

While the PlayStation 5 is a ways off, Sony has already revealed quite a few details about what gamers can expect from the upcoming system. In a new presentation, Sony shared that the PS5 will be backwards compatible and 8K-ready. Engagdet reports that the move to make the system backwards compatible is a gambit meant to […]