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UPDATE: Visa outage, everything is working again now

Around 5pm today, Visa had a major outage occur which seemed to affect most of Europe today. Visa did provide an update at around 10pm this evening to say everything should be back up and running again, the outage was due to a hardware failure. 5pm Update from Visa on Twitter at 4:56pm today: We are currently experiencing a service disruption which is preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from […]

Microsoft is pulling its Groove Music apps on iOS and Android

It’s nearly the end of the road for Microsoft Groove users, the company announced at the end of last year that Groove Music would end up being retired in favour for a partnership with music streaming conglomerate, Spotify. Today however, Microsoft is moving a little closer to fully shutting down Groove Music altogether, while Windows 10 users were promised the app would stay around this can’t be said for the […]

Apple is launching HomePod in Canada, France and Germany on June 18th

Since the delayed launch earleir this year, which was pushed back from the end of last year – the HomePod has suffered from a limited lauch base, with it only being availe in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia from day one. Now however, Apple is planning on expanding the sales reach of its smart speaker to Canada, France and Germany, starting from June 18th. To go alongside this […]

iTunes 12.7.5 released for macOS and Windows

Yesterday, Apple released a minor update to iTunes which brings some very small improvements to the apps performance. The jukebox app has long been available on both Windows and macOS and the latest update, iTunes 12.7.5 is out for both platforms. To update on a Mac, simply go to the Mac App Store, click the Updates tab and check for any updates avaible. On Windows, you can use the Apple […]

PayPal announces it is acquiring iZettle for $2.2 billion

Last week, PayPal announced that it has just acquired iZettle for $2.2 billion. Just like Square or Stripe in the US, iZettle sells mobile card readers designed for use on the road by tradesman or in smaller retail stores where the hassle of getting a phone line or dedicated internet line installed just isn’t convenient. This deal could be indicating that PayPal want to muscle in now on the retail […]

Twitter is ending support for its apps on Roku, Android TV and Xbox

Twitter seems to be struggling to keep apps alive lately. In the past couple of months, the macOS app for Twitter was pulled and now today the company is ending support for the clients which run on Xbox, Android TV and Roku. Going forward the company is suggesting to use the main website, twitter.com to get the best experience of Twitter. However, unlike the macOS version of Twitter which just […]

Monzo, now (finally) supports Apple Pay for its debit card

Today, Monzo have finally added support for Apple Pay, so you can now add your card onto your iPhone, Apple Watch or iPad to pay for items in stores or online. For Monzo, the decision to support Apple’s payment system can’t come at a better time as the tech support team have been inundated with the requests, as apparently they been asked about such feature around 13,000 times already. Also, […]

Amazon Go stores are soon coming to Chicago and San Francisco

For those who didn’t know, Amazon has been running a small local supermarket for the best part of 6 months, back in January the online retail company opened its first ‘Amazon Go’ store in Seattle near its HQ, but the main appeal was that the store has now cashiers and no tills. Instead you scan your phone on the way in, put your phone away and then proceed to pick up […]

Tesla has now started delivering the Model 3 outside of the US

The Tesla Model 3 was announced over two years ago now, back in March 2016 and as we write this, the company is still facing some production issues with the latest model. But in the past couple of months, Elon Musk has made a big difference with attempting to get the production back on track, and it is showing. This week, Tesla has finally delivered the first Model 3 outside […]

HPs new all-in-one PCs have Alexa built in

This week, HP have announced a new Envy all-in-one PC which includes Amazon’s AI assistant, Alexa built right in. The new PC has a curved 34-inch display and this is actually the very first all-in-one machine with Alex built in. What does this PC come with? By the sounds of it, this new PC will actually have two virtual assistants built in, Alexa of course and then Cortana too which […]