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Sonos scrapping Recycle Mode that once bricked older devices

Sonos has quietly scrapped its Recycle Mode, a controversial process that used to permanently brick traded in or ‘traded up’ devices so that they...

Philips Hue ends support for the original Hue Bridge hub

The first version of the Philips Hue bridge, the hub that acts as the centre of the company’s smart lighting solution, will lose support...

Mark Cuban backs ChatableApps, developer of a hearing assist app that removes background noise

ChatableApps, a U.K. startup commercialising the work of auditory neural signal processing researcher Dr Andy Simpson, has quietly picked up seed backing from Mark...

Pex buys Dubset to build YouTube ContentID for TikTok & more

Social networks are in for a rude copyright awakening. A new European Union law called Article 17 essentially eradicates safe harbor and requires that...

Mobile banking app Empower Finance just closed a $20 million Series A round

Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance, a San Francisco-based company that’s headed up by...

How to use a VPN & why you'd want to

A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. Think of it as a spy-proof connection between you and the internet that stops anyone from seeing...