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Digitizing paper documents has a lot of benefits for individuals and businesses alike, clearing up huge swathes of space where filing cabinets once stood, and meaning documents are protected against theft, fire and flood.

For this paperless process to make sense though, you really need to add OCR (Optical Character Recognition) into the mix. OCR

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iPhone XI Plus leak

We think we know that Apple is revealing three new iPhones next month, with one of them tipped to be a 6.5-inch iPhone XI Plus model (name to be confirmed). Thanks to some developer digging in the iOS 12 beta code, we might now have some idea what it's going to look like too.

The icon discovered by developer and 9to5Mac contributor Guilherme Rambo

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Fortnite for Android is going to bypass the Google Play StoreFortnite for Android is going to bypass the Google Play Store

There’s no Fortnite for Android release date yet but when it does launch , you won’t find it among the game apps in the Google Play Store, Epic Games officially today. 

Instead you’ll have to download Fortnite for Android from the company website and sideload the game onto your Google-powered mobile devices. 

This is an unprecedented move for a game

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Apple AirPods on sale for first time everApple AirPods on sale for first time ever

In conjunction with the elimination of the headphone jack on iPhones, Apple released its wireless earphones, the AirPods, at the end of 2016. In that time, they've become immensely popular despite the fact that they are rarely available for less than their original list price of $159. Well, that's changed. Today, Amazon has put them on sale for

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Hajj Hackathon winners announced

The Hajj Hackathon came to an end after three days with winners announced for the top three spots. Judges for the event included Steve Wozniak and Mike Butcher from TechCrunch who is a regular at such Middle East events.

Winner of Hajj Hackathon

The team that won the Hajj Hackathon was a Saudi based all women team called Turjuman. Their idea was a

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Apple's next iPhone might not come with a headphone dongleApple's next iPhone might not come with a headphone dongle

If you enjoy plugging headphones into your iPhone, cover your ears: the supplier of Apple’s headphone dongle says that the next three iPhones won’t have the stalwart converter in the box.

The supplier is called Cirrus Logic and, according to a Barclays research note, they’ve confirmed that Apple will no longer include that $9 (about £6, AU$12) Li

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