YouTube is expanding its subscription-based music and video services to the UK and a further 11 countries. The “premium” facilities strip ads from the platform’s content and allow it to be downloaded rather than just streamed. The music service is priced at the same rate as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal’s basic service. However, the […]

Can an iPhone save your life or the life of a loved one in an emergency? Eight of ten 911 calls are made from mobile phones, but much of the public safety emergency infrastructure that’s in place dates back to the landline era of the 1960s. On Monday, Apple announced that coinciding with the arrival […]

Here are some things going on today in the world of tech: Another Surging Cloud IPO Tech has another in a long line of cloud initial public offerings this year, with shares of Avalara (AVLR) soaring 68% from their offer price of $24, to a recent $66.71. My colleague Jonathan Swartzhas more details on the deal. Trump Goes After China’s […]

A new report from Google has revealed that little has changed despite a commitment to increasing diversity among staff employed by the tech giant. Overall nearly 70% of Google staff were men, as has been the case since 2014. In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American. […]

The net neutrality rules are no longer the law of the land. The repeal of Obama-era net neutrality protections officially took effect on Monday, nearly six months after the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back the rules. In a press release Monday, the FCC said the repeal does away with “unnecessary, heavy-handed regulations” and replaces them with “common-sense regulations […]

The annual E3 video game conference takes place in Los Angeles tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, and already the announcements have been coming over the weekend from big participants such as Electronic Arts (EA) and Microsoft (MSFT), and keeping the Street busy. R.W. Baird’s Colin Sebastian this morning points out in a note to clients that “the global interactive entertainment industry will reach ~$145 billion in revenues […]

Was this the week that we woke up to our addiction to smartphones? That is just one of the topics we discuss in a special edition of Tech Tent live from the Cheltenham Science Festival. This week, Apple spent quite a lot of the opening keynote speech of its Worldwide Developers Conference talking about ways […]

Porsche’s first electric car, which has been known as the Mission E during its development, will be called the Taycan (pronounced tie-con), when it goes on sale late next year. The name, which translates as “lively young horse,” is a reference to the prancing steed at the center of Porsche’s shield-shaped logo. The four-door car […]

Sony Xperia XZ3 specifications have emerged online months after the debut of the Xperia XZ2 at MWC 2018. The new smartphone is expected to get an official appearance at IFA 2018 in Berlin, Germany, in September. But ahead of its formal launch, the unannounced Xperia model has surfaced with a top-notch Snapdragon 845 SoC. The smartphone is also found to have an […]

Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off Orkney to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The data centre, a white cylinder containing computers, could sit on the sea floor for up to five years. An undersea cable brings the data centre power and takes its data to the shore and the […]