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What if you could take Google’s 3D photogrammetry and turn it into Minecraft blocks? Well, now you can! Not only is this amazing, but it’s a total bummer for those who spend years recreating ...

https://www.eteknix.com/researcher-and-minecraft-fan-finds-way-to-voxelize-the-world/

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already noticed how many of the internet’s most popular sites have just soiled themselves, the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and many other...

https://www.eteknix.com/many-websites-including-facebook-instagram-suffer-global-outage/

YouTube as most people are aware, is owned by Google who are behind Chrome. Naturally, as the owner of a website, you’d like your users to also be using your browser in this case Google would l...

https://www.eteknix.com/youtube-accused-of-slowing-video-loading-on-firefox/

If you’ve got a Google account that has sat unused for a while, it is probably a good idea to quickly log in and check on it as Google is planning on purging a whole load of inactive accounts. ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-to-deactivate-inactive-gmail-and-gdrive-accounts-from-december-1st/

YouTube has recently stirred up a storm in regards to its new methods of preventing ad-block which block users from watching videos with an ad blocker. Since this came into place many ad-block pr...

https://www.eteknix.com/windows-phone-returns-from-the-grave-to-fight-youtubes-anti-ad-block-practices/

Nintendo is no stranger to VR technology with their Virtual Boy in 1995, though it was a colossal flop. Today some information has come forward that suggests that Nintendo may be considering givi...

https://www.eteknix.com/nintendo-may-be-working-on-a-vr-headset/

34 malicious Chrome extensions have been found in the web store which in total could have around 75 million installs. Malicious Chrome Extensions As reported by BleepingComputer.com, a cybersecur...

https://www.eteknix.com/34-malicious-chrome-extensions-have-been-found-with-a-total-of-75-million-installs/

Google has been fined $32.5 million for infringing on one of Sonos‘ speaker patents. Google Fined For Sonos Patent Infringement As revealed by Techspot a San Francisco jury on Friday found Goog...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-fined-32-5-million-in-sonos-patent-infringement-claim/

Google has agreed to pay up millions over deceptive Pixel 4 advertising. Google Pays Millions Over Pixel 4 Advertising Announced on Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google has agreed ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-has-lost-a-million-dollar-lawsuit-over-deceptive-pixel-4-ads/

While Google was originally just a search engine, it has since evolved into more of an umbrella term expanding way beyond the limitations of merely being just another online organisational brand....

https://www.eteknix.com/google-we-need-to-have-a-talk-because-i-dont-think-i-love-you-anymore/

3 Weeks ago our eTeknix YouTube account was compromised by scammers and the account was replaced with Tesla, this was very irritating for us and we found many other’s who had fallen for the sam...

https://www.eteknix.com/linus-tech-tips-involved-in-teslalive-hack/

Amazon is a huge company and has ventured into many areas beyond its huge online marketplace including video and music streaming services, brick-and-mortar stores and many others though now it se...

https://www.eteknix.com/amazon-could-be-planning-a-web-browser/

ASUS today announced the newest additions to the ASUS Chromebook family—the 14-inch ASUS Chromebook CM14 and ASUS Chromebook CM14 Flip. With a fresh, stylish look and flexible designs, these dy...

https://www.eteknix.com/asus-announces-chromebook-cm14-series/

Play Store Privacy How private do you think your Android phone is? Well, Mozilla has probably just ruined or confirmed your perspective on your device’s privacy. Mozilla, who is behind the Fire...

https://www.eteknix.com/some-top-android-apps-arent-as-private-as-they-claim/

With official support now officially over from Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 it’s hardly any surprise that, sooner or later, third-party applications would also start to look to move away...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-ends-chrome-support-windows-7-and-8/

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been taking the internet by storm since its release back in November showing off its impressive AI conversations and even some controversies around it with issues with it b...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-reveals-bard-a-new-chatgpt-competitor/

Yesterday marked the official demise of Google Stadia. The servers are shut down, the games are gone, and it is now officially an ex-platform. – While we could look to lament over the mistakes ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-enable-controller-bluetooth-stadia-shutdown/

Following a somewhat not entirely unexpected announcement late last year, Google confirmed that its much-beleaguered game streaming platform, Stadia, would officially be shutting down this month....

https://www.eteknix.com/google-unlocking-bluetooth-stadia-controller/

As some of you may be aware, following an announcement shortly before Christmas the FTC in America confirmed that they would be investigating Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision to see,...

https://www.eteknix.com/nvidia-google-against-microsoft-activision/

In yesterday’s edition of Mike’s Rant Christmas Edition, I took a look at what I considered to be the 5 tech winners of 2022. Where there are winners, however, there have to be losers. Conten...

https://www.eteknix.com/mikes-rant-christmas-edition-5-tech-losers-2022/

Whether you’re a football fan or not, it’s hard to deny that the World Cup Final between Argentina and France was an amazing game between two well-balanced teams. With the pressures of such c...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-traffic-all-time-high-world-cup-final/

Google has certainly been making proactive steps over the last couple of years when it comes to toxic behaviour on its platforms. The internet, and social media in general, can, of course, be an ...

https://www.eteknix.com/youtube-new-update-target-toxic-comments/

I daresay that many of you wouldn’t be overly surprised to be told that the internet (as a whole) hosts an incredibly large amount of duplicated content. Think of a video that’s available on ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-confirms-only-around-40-internet-original/

So, with it being around a month now since Elon Musk became the new owner of Twitter, has his tenure so far proven to be a success? Truthfully, it’s hard to say. If nothing else though he’s c...

https://www.eteknix.com/elon-musk-apple-google-ban-twitter-make-smartphone/

With a general global recession and consumers showing more than a little apathy to making new purchases at the moment, it’s hardly surprising that many tech firms haven’t just confirmed relat...

https://www.eteknix.com/amazon-google-both-cut-jobs-tech-crunch-bites/

Despite the fact that it has been nearly two years since Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7, it still remains a fairly popular choice for many consumers. In fact, the last market fi...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-confirms-chrome-support-windows-7-end-2023/

Google confirmed last week that in January 2023 (in other words, just circa 3 months away) they would officially be discontinuing their Stadia service. As we said at the time though, while modera...

https://www.eteknix.com/stadia-ask-google-unlock-controller-bluetooth/

Earlier this week, Google announced the (mostly unsurprising) news that they were officially shutting down their Stadia game streaming service this January. – Now, at the time, I didn’t hones...

https://www.eteknix.com/rdr2-gamer-begs-rockstar-transfer-stadia-version/

Released back in November 2019, the Google Stadia was one of the first and biggest attempts to secure and establish the world of stream-based gaming. – Now, admittedly, Nvidia had successfully ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-confirms-killing-stadia/

It’s not exactly a secret that for every great (or even good) app on the Google Play Store, there are about three or four others which are absolutely terrible. – The problem the storefront ha...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-play-store-implement-fake-review-buffer/

Belkin has announced the launch of two new multiport solutions, adding to its impressive connectivity category. The CONNECT USB-C 5-in-1 adapter and CONNECT 6-in-1 hub make it easy to share conte...

https://www.eteknix.com/belkin-unveil-5-in-1-6-in-1-usb-c-multiport-hubs/

I occasionally have to remind myself that Google Stadia actually still exists. Although released back in 2019, I think it’s fair to say that the console/streaming platform has so far proven to ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-confirms-stadia-service-not-being-shut-down/

There are many compelling theories about what will eventually kill off the human race. Disease is a possibility. Global warming is another. One of the more somewhat worrying theories as we contin...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-engineer-sacked-after-claiming-ai-sentient/

I think it would be fair to say that EA doesn’t have the best reputation within the gaming community. In fact, depending on what day of the week it is, they’re probably fighting it out as one...

https://www.eteknix.com/shocking-rumour-suggests-ea-games-up-for-sale/

Founded in 2008, while DuckDuckGo certainly has nowhere near the prominence or traffic of Google, in terms of search engines I think it would be fair to say that many today now choose to use this...

https://www.eteknix.com/duckduckgo-content-crackdown-piracy-sites/

It often surprises many people who know me well to learn that while I absolutely love technology (it would be a pretty stupid job for me here at eTeknix if I didn’t!), I absolutely loathe smart...

https://www.eteknix.com/dumbphone-sales-soar-people-tired-smartphones/

When it comes to clearing your browser history, there are many instances where users simply want to remove a certain portion of it rather than everything entirely. As such, when Google announced ...

https://www.eteknix.com/android-roll-out-chrome-delete-15-minutes-feature/

Has the Google Stadia potentially represented one of the biggest gaming ‘console’ failures since the Wii U? It’s a difficult question to answer as it presumes that the system had every chan...

https://www.eteknix.com/internal-source-claims-google-downgrade-stadia/

With CES 2022 set to officially kick-off, back as a physical event, on January 4th, it’s no exaggeration to say that with the rise of fresh COVID-19 concerns, there had been some doubt that it ...

https://www.eteknix.com/ces-2022-to-close-one-day-early-amid-covid-concern/

Despite some better efforts from Microsoft following the launch of their Chromium-based Edge back in early 2020, Google Chrome is still, very firmly, the most prominent and dominant web browser a...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-chrome-update-big-performance-boost-windows/

I do not play the guitar. Well, strictly speaking, I try, but rather than being played, it is more played upon. However, if you are interested in musical instruments, the chances are pretty good ...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-adds-guitar-tuner-search-engine/

Despite coming as effectively the default search engine for both Windows and the Edge internet browser, I don’t think it would be unfair to say that very few people actually use ‘Bing’. Wit...

https://www.eteknix.com/bings-1-search-engine-request-revealed-google/

It’s very easy to get angry at big-tech companies. Mostly because their total market dominance has largely wiped out much of their competition that once required them to at least be a little in...

https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-apple-google-worlds-most-hated-tech-firm/

While many beat-em-up titles have, in more recent years, erred more towards a realistic character design, Street Fighter has always retained something of a cartoon quality. What would their roste...

https://www.eteknix.com/ai-generated-realistic-street-fighter-faces-are-nightmare-fuel/

As you’re probably aware, Epic Games is currently in the middle of more than a few legal battles as it attempts to take on both Apple and Google and, specifically, the commission they charge fo...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-considered-buying-epic-games-stop-lawsuits/

I daresay that there are more than a few reading this who occasionally (or perhaps often) think it’s probably a good idea to give their browsing history a bit of a purge. This can, however, oft...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-adds-15-minute-history-delete-ios-browser/

It is not exactly a secret that when it comes to most forms of online review systems, there are definitely weaknesses that allow for a product, business, or service to have an inaccurate represen...

https://www.eteknix.com/amazon-google-questioned-fake-reviews/

It’s been over a year and a half now since the Google Stadia was released, and I think it would be fair to say that the system hasn’t done anywhere near as well as the tech giant might have h...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-wants-remind-us-stadia-alive-and-well/

I am personally of the opinion that you shouldn’t put yourself on public social media such as YouTube unless you are entirely willing to take the good with the bad. And let’s face it, among s...

https://www.eteknix.com/youtube-tests-removing-dislike-option/

If you use Google Chrome (and we’re pretty sure most of you reading this do) then you’ll undoubtedly be familiar with the ‘Incognito’ mode function. In a nutshell, it’s a feature within...

https://www.eteknix.com/google-face-lawsuit-over-incognito-mode/