John Routledge

Founder and owner of Technoshia.com - I'm an avid tech junkie, a lover of new gadgets and home automation. You will often find me reading, writing, and learning about new technologies. I've been featured in many leading technology magazines where I've written about my favorite topics.
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Fossil is done making smartwatches but will keep releasing updates for a few years
27 Jan

Fossil is done making smartwatches but will keep releasing updates for a few years

John RoutledgeLatest News
Fossil is officially getting out of the smartwatch business. Following months of speculation about the future of its Wear OS smartwatch lineup, which hasn’t seen a new model since 2021’s Gen 6, the company confirmed to The Verge on Friday that it’s abandoning the category altogether. There won’t be a successor to the Gen 6, but existing Fossil smartwatches will…
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Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage
27 Jan

Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage

John RoutledgeLatest News
In October 2023, 23andMe admitted that it suffered a data breach that compromised its users' information. The company has been hit with several lawsuits since then, and according to The New York Times, one of them is accusing 23andMe of failing to notify customers that they were specifically targeted for having Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. They also weren't told…
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Instagram is testing ‘flipside,’ a finsta feature that already kind of exists
26 Jan

Instagram is testing ‘flipside,’ a finsta feature that already kind of exists

John RoutledgeLatest News
Instagram is testing yet another feature meant to give users an alternative to finstas. It’s called “flipside” and it allows people to create a secondary photo grid that only designated friends can see.If that sounds somewhat familiar it’s probably because Instagram already makes it pretty easy for users to create posts intended for a more limited audience. The app added…
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The Final Fantasy 14 live-action TV show is dead
26 Jan

The Final Fantasy 14 live-action TV show is dead

John RoutledgeLatest News
A live-action TV series based on Final Fantasy 14 is no longer happening. The project is now dead, according to Dinesh Shamdasani, the co-founder of Hivemind, one of the production companies involved."We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton along with a multi-season plan they built with our show runners but got rejected across the…
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