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What’s that word? The one where you take joy in the suffering of others? Ahh, that’s right:schadenfreude.And followingyesterday’s Apple Watch Series 7announcement, I’m schadenfreudening all over the fucking shop. Basically, almost every single leaker claimed the new Apple Watch would echo the design ofthe iPhone 12(and now 13) range. In other words, it was going to have a squarer design and look something like this: Instead, Apple actually made the Apple Watchrounder....

If you’ve read the news in the past week, you would have seenat least one mentionof the Twitpic’s new terms of service, an amendment that now states that the company will hold the commercial rights to its user’s photos, selling them to third-party media establishments should they be of a celebrity or of a viral nature. When it comes to the major Twitter photo sharing services, most are dedicated portals created by businesses already successful in the photo sharing market; Plixi (formerly called TweetPhoto) is now owned by Lockerz – a company which already had 18 million members worldwide before it acquired the photo sharing service – hosting over 1 billion photo uploads a month, yFrog is an offshoot of Imageshack and Twitgoo is owned by Photobucket....

Technology has given the kiss of (new) life to the Fashion Week institution, with livestreaming from the hottest runway shows, real time shopping, bloggers gaining their seats among fashion editors and celebrities and of course tweets from the first row giving to us all a virtual seat. This February, for the first time, a premiere fashion tradeshow for designers and brands,WWDMAGICin Las Vegas, is opening up to consumers through technology. The heart of WWDMAGIC will be beating at the Blogger Lounge hosted byTeen Vogue, having as guestsup to 30 fashion bloggers....

Broadcasting live video streams from mobile phones is something that has been possible for several years, and despite the fact it’s never quite gone mainstream, it can still be a useful tool for sharing a memorable event as it unfolds. Indeed, it has beena useful toolthis year during the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings this year. Now the organisers ofStockholm’s Pride festivalare looking to make their mark in the history of the medium by achieving the largest number of mobile live video streams in one day when the event takes place this Saturday....

The red giant star Betelgeuse is closer than we thought — will its explosion affect earth? Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betel… don’t say it! At the end of 2019,Betelgeuse appeared to dimsignificantly as seen from Earth. Researchers eventually determined the dimming was the result of material being ejected from Betelgeuse, which cooled, absorbing light from much of the star. A similar dimming was seen again this year, but the cause of this recent event may not be the same as last time....