WhatsApp users will be unable to read or send messages from the app soon after the 15 May deadline for its new changes in privacy expires, the company says in an FAQ.



The Apple TV app, including Apple TV+, is now finally available on Google's rather excellent ChromeCast with Google TV, with more Google TV devices to come, according to a new blog post by Jonathan Zepp, the Director of Media & Entertainment, Android and Google Play.

The four-button Lifx smart switch has been recalled due to the risk of fire and electric shock.

5G wireless is only just finally rolling out widely around the world, with networks nowhere near complete, but Apple is looking to the future, and wants engineers to work on developing 6G technology.

Promising to break through the limitations of traditional speakers, Soundbok offers "a new advanced amplifier system and the highest level of continuous performance with wireless connectivity and 40 hours of battery life."

A new player has arrived down under with a range of "high quality, cost effective range of microphones, web cameras, headphones and accessories into the A/NZ market", billed as perfect for the "music recording, broadcast, post product and streaming markets."

If the initial reaction to Facebook's sudden decision to cut Australians off from the site on Thursday was idiotic, it became even more ludicrous on Friday, with reactions from politicians and the media competing to be dubbed the silliest of the lot.

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