Andrew Cunningham

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Andrew Cunningham

Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and now its journey is over. Today is the day: Microsoft has formally shuttered the Skype app and service after announcing in February that Skype was being axed in favor of Microsoft Teams, the company's Slack competitor. The Skype apps have all been advertising the end of the service and pointing users to Teams for weeks now. As of today, if you open the app or navigate to the Skype site, you'll be directed to use Teams instead.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Andrew Cunningham

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1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Andrew Cunningham

Op-ed: Slowed manufacturing advancements are upending the way tech progresses. For many, many years, I wouldn't get a new game console until a couple years after it launched. This was partly because I wanted any new console I bought to have a decent-sized library of things to play, and partly because it sometimes paid to sit back and see which console was going to "win" the generation in terms of first-party exclusives and third-party developer support.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Andrew Cunningham

3 hours agoYour iPhone can already take beautiful, dreamy long-exposure photos. Here's how to do it. If you've ever seen artistic photos of waterfalls or rivers where the water is blurred to look like flowing ribbons, then you already know the beautiful effect of a long exposure photo. By allowing moving …

1 week ago | whitchurchherald.co.uk | Andrew Cunningham

2 1/1 An extended Georgian property with original period features is available in Shrewsbury for a guide price of £650,000. According to the estate agent, Strutt & Parker, the property is a 'majestic' example of Georgian architecture that has been extended over time. The agent suggests that there is "exciting scope for a creative purchaser" to make further use of the property.