Sonos’s new smaller and cheaper Roam portable speaker is one that won’t end up relegated to a drawer collecting dust as it sounds great at home too. The £159 Roam joins the much bigger and heavier £399 Move as the second of firm’s battery-powered models and proves itself as one Continue Reading
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Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police | Technology
You may have a roommate you have never met. And even worse, they are nosy. They track what you watch on TV, they track when you leave the lights on in the living room, and they even track whenever you use a key fob to enter the house. This is Continue Reading
‘Digital home’ sells for $500,000 in latest NFT sale | Digital art
In what might be most easily understood as the most expensive game of the Sims to ever be played, a “digital home” set within a Mars-like landscape has sold for $500,000 (£360,000) or 288 Ether, a cryptocurrency, in the latest purchase on the non-fungible token market. The house, called “Mars Continue Reading
Spider-Man 3 movie title revealed to be No Way Home- Tempemail
Unveiled via star Tom Holland’s Instagram account, the title will be Spider-Man: No Way Home. It will be released only in theaters around Christmas 2021. Prior to the reveal, a few fake titles had been dropped by the film’s cast members across social media. In a video posted to Holland’s Continue Reading
No more fomo: top firms turn to VR to liven up meetings | Working from home
Staff at accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers have been holding meetings in odd places: the top of skyscrapers, inside swanky penthouse apartments and even luxury ski chalets. All without leaving the comfort of their own homes. That is the new normal for a growing number of workers at PwC, which is buying Continue Reading
‘Like penpals, but with snacks!’ Unable to travel, strangers mail each other tastes of home | Snacks- Tempemail
One of the best bits of travel was always the food. Or, more specifically, the junk food – the brightly coloured boxes of Pocky in a Japanese 7-Eleven, the rows of uncharted chip flavours in a foreign supermarket. It’s a delight Australians are unlikely to get to experience in 2021. Continue Reading
Safaricom to Throttle Home Fibre Plans – Tempemail
Image sourced from Techweez Safaricom’s home fibre plans are officially subject to a Fair Usage Policy; this could see users’ internet speeds slowed down. In a statement, the telco says, “Safaricom Home Fibre plans are subject to a Fair Usage Policy with usage limits and throttle speeds as indicated in Continue Reading
Warning Issued Over Hackable ADT’s LifeShield Home Security Cameras – Tempemail
Newly discovered security vulnerabilities in ADT’s Blue (formerly LifeShield) home security cameras could have been exploited to hijack both audio and video streams. The vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2020-8101) were identified in the video doorbell camera by Bitdefender researchers in February 2020 before they were eventually addressed on August 17, 2020. Continue Reading
Blast partly destroys building in Madrid; cause not clear Nursing Home School Building Building Madrid- Tempemail
A loud explosion partially destroyed a small building flanked by a school and a nursing home in the center of Spain s capital on Wednesday. It was not clear what caused the blast. Images and footage shared on social media showed a tower of smoke coming out from the six-story Continue Reading
San Francisco office market in collapse as tech workers stay home | San Francisco
The pandemic has brought the commercial real estate market in San Francisco to a new low, with work-from-home policies and office closures slowing Silicon Valley-driven business expansion to numbers not seen in at least three decades. New office-leasing activity in 2020 dropped a staggering 71% compared with the year before, Continue Reading