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Apple to update modern MacBooks with Battery Health Management feature Apple is to introduce a new feature in macOS Catalina 10.15.5 called ‘Battery Health Management’ that is designed to monitor and optimise your battery charging habits. Spotted bySix Colors, the update is rolling out to MacBook users on the beta program but will be part of the official public release too. Battery Health Management will only be available to MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3 ports (2016 and later MacBook Pros and 2018 and later MacBook Airs) and is designed to slow the aging of the internal battery by looking at how you charge your device and acting accordingly....

Facebook cancels all events and business travel until June 2021 Facebook will not host any of its planned physical events scheduled up till June 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post. He also said that no Facebook employee would travel for business until this time. “We’re canceling any large physical events we had planned with 50 or more people through June 2021. Some of these we will hold as virtual events instead and we’ll share more details on that soon....

Facebook to combat Covid-19 misinformation with links on the News Feed Facebook is improving its response to the spread of coronavirus misinformation on its platform. The company has announced that it will begin displaying anti-misinformation messages in individuals’ News Feed if those people have liked, reacted or commented on content Facebook has since removed due to factual inaccuracies. Announced in ablog post, Guy Rosen, VP Integrity outlined how Facebook is combatting misinformation on Covid-19:...

Fast Charge ep. 11: OnePlus 8, Honor 30 & iPhone SE This week on Fast Charge,Dom Preston,Chris Martin, and Macworld editorDavid Pricetalk about the three massive phone launches that dominated this week’s tech news: the OnePlus 8, Honor 30, and iPhone SE. First up it’s theOnePlus 8 series, which Chris and Dom have been using for the past week or two. They chat all the new features, why OnePlus is moving to flagships, and whether the8 Pro is the best phone of the year so far....

Fitbit Charge 4 vs Versa 2 Despite being a fitness tracker in its own right, the Fitbit Charge 4 butts up against the company’s smartwatch lineup in a number of ways. Here we compare the Charge 4 with the Fitbit Versa 2 – one of the company’s most feature-packed wearables. Design & Build Both the Charge 4 and Versa 2 sport archetypal designs for their respective product categories. The Charge is thinner and lighter, with a portrait-oriented greyscale OLED touchscreen that falls within the boundaries of the strap, making the whole thing far less obtrusive....