Epic giffage on is now possible on Twitter. The microblogging platform has quietly increased the maximum size for gifs from 5MB to 15MB. There has been no official announcement, but the updated Twitter help page now reads, “Photos can be up to 5MB; animated GIFs can be up to 5MB on mobile, and up to …

Tumblr has now officially entered the live video streaming space, alongside fellow social networks Facebook and Twitter, which have Live and Periscope respectively. The launch comes the same day Twitter announced it was expanding its video length from 30 seconds to 140 seconds. Unlike Twitter and Facebook which use their own video platforms, Tumblr is partnering with third-party providers to …

Zane Alchin, 25, has pleaded guilty to using a carriage service (in this case, the internet) to menace, harass or cause offence, a crime detailed under section 474.17 of the Criminal Code. After a friend of Alchin’s had posted a screenshot of a woman’s Tinder profile on Facebook in August last year, Alchin had written a number of abusive posts …

A bill passed by the New York Senate last week could see short-term Airbnb stays brought to an end, at least for whole apartments. If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the bill, Airbnb rentals for less than 30 days that lease entire homes in class A multiple-dwelling buildings without the owner present for the stay will be prohibited under …

Another round of apps and games has been honoured at WWDC with the annual Design Awards, scooping up trophies for the best design and ingenuity present in Apple’s app store. It’s the 19th year the awards have been up for grabs, and the light-up cube trophy has gone to some quiet achievers. Medical education app Complete Anatomy was awarded for …

The poor old Nintendo Power Glove may not have been particularly good at its intended purpose as a controller for the NES, but computer engineering graduate Nolan Moore has been able to make it great. As he said on his Hackaday project page, “The ultimate goal of the Power Glove UHID project is to revamp the 1989 Nintendo Power Glove …

Apple, Caltech alleges, has been using Wi-Fi technology it oughtn’t. In a suit filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California, the university claims that Apple has infringed four of its patents for improved data transmission rates and performance over Wi-Fi. These patents were awarded between 2006 and 2012, and cover technology implemented in the most …

If you want to get in on the Bitcoin action (and have the bank to back you up), now’s a good opportunity. The Australian police will be auctioning 24,518 bitcoins seized as the proceeds of a crime. The exchange rate at the time of writing sees one bitcoin equal $534.18 — so that’s over $13 million worth of the digital …

An Android Police teardown of the Android application package (APK) for Google Photos’ next update looks like there are some new tweaks and features coming to the backup and storage service, including a pot sweetener for Nexus users. A line in the code reads “Unlimited free storage for original quality photos — videos uploaded from your Nexus device.” Currently, Google …

Microsoft’s Windows Phone may not be long for this world. Although the first quarter of 2016 saw a 3.9 percent increase in global smartphone sales year-on-year, Windows Phone saw a nearly 2 percent drop in sales. According to the latest Gartner report, Windows Phone sales went from 2.5 percent and 8.27 million units in Q1 2015 to 0.7 percent and …