Scottish Tech Weekly News

• IOMart increases dividend as it reveals it’s ‘doing quite well, thank you’
• You can now check the price of the Toblerone in the mini-bar as Alexa becomes the virtual concierge for Village Hotels in Aberdeen
• Please welcome @BalmoralHUB, Aberdeen’s new business centre (opening August 2017)
• Sustainably, a new Edinburgh-based charity uses bank card purchases to round-up and donate
• There a new £200M growth fund available to Scottish companies
• We finally have a release date (and a cool trailer) for Crackdown 3 (from the same man who brought you Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto)

World Tech Weekly News

• Google Drive is about to start allowing HD backups – but it’ll cost ya
• Because air travel isn’t frustrating enough, one guy decided to prank travellers with fake power sockets. Yes, we hate him too
• Apple’s update to it’s Podcast app could effectively corner the whole industry
• Farewell Yahoo! Verizon completes purchase and creates edgy mashup of AOL & Yahoo called Oath
• Fidget spinners? Pffft. The cool kids have already moved on…
• We love Canada. All cellphones. Unlocked. And they have moose and maple syrup
• Happy 30th anniversary to the world’s most mispronounced Graphics format (hint: it’s not the JIF)
• E3 Games Expo Diversity Report 3.5/5 Could use improvement. See me
• The Uber board meeting to address sexism manages, hilariously, to include sexism