Author: Becca Caddy

Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.

Health and HealthKit: Apple unveils its fitness tracking, mobile health app

At the WWDC 2014 developer conference on Monday, Apple's senior vice president Craig Federighi unveiled the tech giant's highly-anticipated mobile health offerings: the Health app and the HealthKit toolkit. Federighi explained that Apple doesn't want to reinvent the wheel - it knows there are some awesome health and fitness tracking apps and devices out there…

Apple will let you use your Mac to accept iPhone calls

At Apple's WWDC 2014 developers' conference on Monday, the team unveiled a whole host of new features for OS X Yosemite, its new operating system for your MacBook. But what's the feature we're most excited about? Continuity. Continuity will allow your iPhone, iPad and your Mac to work together and talk to each other seamlessly,…

Apple OS X Yosemite will drastically change the look of your MacBook

On Monday at Apple's WWDC developers conference, Craig Federighi showed off OS X Yosemite, its new operating system with a flat, clean design for your MacBook. Here are some of the top features of Yosemite that'll drastically change the look of your MacBook, as well as the way you use it: 1. Translucent windows, so…

Apple WWDC 2014: What to expect – Healthbook, iWatch, iOS 8, connected home

Apple's annual developers' conference (or WWDC if you're in the business) kicks off this evening (Monday the 2nd of June), and it's a week long event notorious for revealing exciting, unexpected and, let's face it, sometimes pretty lacklustre details about the tech giant's plans for the next 12 months. If Apple's recent statements to the…

Has China blocked Google ahead of Tiananmen anniversary?

Google's services are currently being blocked in China ahead of Wednesday's 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, according to a censorship watchdog called GreatFire.org. Reuters reports that many in China have noticed the government has been disrupting Google's main search engine, Gmail and other services linked to the tech giant since last week.…

It's not just humans, demand for animal wearables set to soar too

There's more wearable technology news every day, from gaming headsets to health trackers to (fingers crossed) the iWatch. But you might not have realised how huge the animal wearables market is. As it turns out, it's worth $0.91 billion worldwide, and a new report by IDTechEx, Wearable Technology for Animals 2015-2025, predicts that it will…

Gangnam Style is the first YouTube video to pass 2 billion views

Chances are infectious K-pop single Gangnam Style will be etched onto all of our eardrums for the rest of eternity (we're still including it for you above anyway), but that doesn't mean it isn't still clocking up its YouTube views at a phenomenal rate. Today the tune by South Korean entertainer Psy became the first…

@HiddenCash: Twitter scavenger hunt comes to the UK

Earlier in the week the @HiddenCash Twitter account made headlines for starting a feel-good social experiment in San Francisco that saw an anonymous tweeter hide money around the city and leave clues for strangers to find the hidden treasure. Well fear not UK readers, because it looks like the trend has spread across the pond…