Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I’ve owned iPhone after iPhone. Ever since my first iPhone 5c, I’ve never backed it up to iCloud — and for no good reason, really. It was just something I […]
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The Apple Watch Series 5 starts at £399 (Apple) The Apple Watch is now on its fifth iteration and over the course of the last half-decade has become the de facto smartwatch in the minds of most people. If you’re a heavy Apple user and count an iPhone and a Macbook or iPad among your
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But can they put it back together? (via iFixit) Apple loves to boast about how safe and secure their pricey, premium, proprietary platforms are. And they back that up. Whether or not you think it’s worth it, Apple’s tight walled garden control of its tech means their products are less susceptible to hacks and viruses.
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Social media platforms off late have come under criticism for poisoning public discourse, even to the extent of getting labeled as “toxic swamps full of trolls, liars and bots.” But as Facebook and Twitter become a conduit for bad actors to manipulate news, set agendas, and propagate toxic viewpoints, they’ve moved far from being just a
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Nasa’s most recent illustration of a black hole surrounded by an ‘accretion disc’ of gas, dust and other material (Image: Nasa) A Nasa satellite has detected a black hole feasting on an unfortunate star. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched as the monster ate its victim after ‘ripping it to shreds’. This monstrous mukbang
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If you talk about Facebook, its latest mindset is all about user privacy, fighting fake news and hate speech on its platform. But at the same time, the company can’t stop earning money from the so-called groups that want to promote hate speech via the internet. According to a new report by Sludge, the social
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Samuel L. Jackson’s iconic voice will be available on Amazon Alexa devices later this year. (Photo Credit: CHRIS DELMAS / AFP / Getty Images) Samuel L. Jackson will be running your smart home setup soon: Amazon recently announced that the movie star is lending his memorable voice to Alexa devices. The e-commerce giant announced the
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There’s no need to keep your eyes on the road whilst a robot’s at the wheel – but you might want to keep a seatbelt on BMW has released an advert which strongly hints at the possibility of having sex in a driverless car. Last year, the car firm shot an erotically-charged video to promote
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Apple is tenacious about apps you install on your iPhone and iPad. Users can only install apps using the App Store as installing an app from a third-party app store is not supported unless you jailbreak your iPhone. Now, a developer named Riley Testut has developed an iOS App Store alternative AltStore that allows users
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Dave Limp, senior vice president for Amazon devices & services, holds a new Echo Flex device as he speaks today (Picture: AP) If you love chatting to Alexa, you’ll soon be able to do it on a variety of new devices. You can even change its voice to sound like Samuel L. Jackson, for those
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