We’ve heard plenty of rumours about what’s coming down the line with the iPhone 7 later this year, but there’s now speculation about the next phone after that – the September 2017 handset, which presumably will be called the iPhone 7S. AppleInsider reports on a note to investors from KGI ... Read More »
The app landscape continues to evolve, and in ways that are not always within our control. Recently, Facebook made the decision to discontinue support of their essential APIs for BlackBerry and WhatsApp announced they would end support for BlackBerry 10 and BBOS at the end of 2016. We are extremely ... Read More »
Tony Blair has called for more efforts to break down segregation in Northern Ireland and stressed the continued need to be “vigilant” about the threat from terrorism. The former prime minister, who brokered the Good Friday agreement in 1998, said there was no longer community support for terrorists in Northern ... Read More »
The Harry Potter author JK Rowling has shared some withering rebuffs publishers sent to her alter ego Robert Galbraith, in an effort to comfort aspiring authors. Rowling posted the rejection letters on Twitter after a request from a fan. They related to The Cuckoo’s Calling, her first novel as Galbraith. ... Read More »
Raye Johnson: ‘It’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever done.’ Photograph: Clayton Cotterell for the Guardian Raye Johnson Friday 25 March 2016 14.00 GMT Last modified on Friday 25 March 201615.30 GMT It was 3am. I went into my daughter’s room, woke her, told her I loved her and that she was going ... Read More »
It’s a shortage that could leave a bad taste in the mouth this summer, as food manufacturers grapple with rocketing vanilla prices that threaten to push up the cost of ice-cream. The price of Madagascan vanilla surged by nearly 150% last year after the island, the dominant producer, experienced a ... Read More »
A veteran Belgian Islamic State fighter and bomb-maker whose DNA was found on two of the explosive belts used in last November’s carnage in Paris has been confirmed as one of the suicide bombers in Tuesday’s Brussels attacks. Belgian prosecutors said that DNA evidence had confirmed that Najim Laachraoui, 24, ... Read More »
Turkish officials have accused European governments of attempting to export their Islamic extremist problem to Syria, saying the EU has failed to secure its own borders or abide by pledges to share intelligence and cooperate in fighting the jihadist threat. The failures were outlined by Turkish officials to the Guardian ... Read More »
Amazon has published a guide for how people can build and test their own device powered by its Alexa Voice Service, which allows hardware makers to build its virtual assistant into their devices. With this new guide, Amazon tells you how to get Alexa Voice Service up and running with ... Read More »
Microsoft has some big features coming to the Windows 10 Redstone development branch that will be announced at Build 2016, according to reports. Several leaks about upcoming Redstone features have surfaced, but no detailed plans for what Redstone has in store have been revealed. On Twitter, a couple of Microsoft’s program managers, ... Read More »
