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TikTok has joined the Technology Coalition as part of its efforts to advance a safe experience of children on its platform. This builds upon its existing measures like the Family Pairing feature.

SpaceX has successfully completed a soft landing of its Starship rocket which will take astronauts back to the Moon later in the decade. This is a major leap forward for the company.

Facebook is testing a new section within its app meant to connect users in a neighborhood and show local updates in the news feed. It's called Neighborhoods, available in Canada from today.

After a few months in testing, Twitter is rolling out support for displaying taller images in tweets, avoiding awkwardly cropped images. Very tall images will automatically be cropped to the center.

Apple has awarded II-VI $410 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. The money will create 700 jobs in Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Illinois and builds on a previous award from Apple.

A new user-created concept depicting what Windows 10 could look like has shown up on Twitter, this time focusing on the Start Menu. It adds new shortcuts, rounded corners, and more.

Microsoft has announced initiatives that will assist India as it struggles with daily record numbers of new COVID-19 patients. These include oxygen, ventilators, financial and technological support.

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Microsoft today released a minor Edge Dev build, bumping up the version to 92.0.878.0. Considering that the update comes just a few days after the last one, there are no new features in store.

A Microsoft Defender bug is creating thousands of files and clogging the boot drive on Windows Server 2016 and 2019, according to user reports. It is now being fixed via an update to the service.

Google has announced that Android tablets are getting a new Entertainment Space designed to make it easier to find media and games. The feature will debut on Walmart's onn. tablets.

Koelnmesse and German Games Industry Association have revealed that the 2021 gamescom event will be a virtual one just like last year. Gamescom: Opening Night Live kicks off the show in August.

Mojang has announced that its dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons is getting support for cross-platform saves in the cloud. Progress needs to sync manually, though, and DLC purchases don't carry over.

Microsoft has released a patch for Flight Simulator that improves the accuracy of the live weather system and fixes certain stuttering issues. A major update is expected later this month.

In part of a sale that ran over Easter, NordVPN has extended the discount on its 24-month plan, which costs just $3.71 a month, letting you save 68% off the normal price. This deal ends next week.

Alleged slides containing the details related to the upcoming Tiger Lake-H lineup have leaked. The slides outline all that we can expect from the new family including the SKUs and specifications.

Facebook has announced that its Oversight Board has reviewed the suspension of former President Trump's accounts, and decided it was the right thing to do. However, it requested a review of the ban.

WhatsApp has relaunched its digital money transfers for Brazilian users, although it only works for peer-to-peer transactions for now. Merchant payments are expected to launch sometime this year.

Google has rolled out Android Studio 4.2 in the stable channel with a bunch of new features such as support for multiple device deployment and enhancements to Database Inspector, among other things.

Signal recently created multiple ads to highlight the amount of data collected by Facebook. However, Facebook disabled the company's ad account before these ads could reach their target audiences.

Facebook announced today that its enterprise communication platform, Workplace, saw a 40% increase in subscribers from a year ago. The service has reached 7 million paid subscribers.

The analyst firm Canalys has revealed Chromebooks have been one of the main drivers of PC sales after reporting a 275% growth in 1Q21. It also said that the tablet market has been performing well.

Microsoft announced that it is bringing support for Power BI connected PivotTables to Excel on the web. The feature on the desktop will also receive new features and performance improvements.

YouTube has introduced a new ad format called brand extensions that will let you get more information about an ad you see on a smart TV and interact with it from your mobile device.

Reddit seems to be facing a massive outage with reports pouring in from across the globe on Downdetector and Twitter. The firm has acknowledged the issues and is now investigating.

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The new version of DeskScapes focuses on the user friendliness of the app above all, with popular Dream authors easily searchable from within the main menu, and you can try it out right now.

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Day, Microsoft has highlighted a few more education-focused features coming to its apps - including OneNote, and Edge - in time for back to school.

As part of the education-focused features being added to Microsoft's offerings, the firm announced new Whiteboard features such as support for rich content, better Teams integration, and more.

An Oxford Internet Institute study has found no clear relation between mental health issues and technology use. It warned that more detailed data is needed to come to any definite conclusion.

Amazon today announced that it is rolling out Show Mode for select Lenovo PCs that came with the Alexa app in-built. The feature aims to turn an idle PC into an Echo Show-like voice-activated device.

Microsoft's Edge browser is now available in the Beta channel for Linux users, as the company makes progress towards general availability. The Dev channel debuted on Linux back in October.

Microsoft is set to fully remove the Flash component from Windows 10 with a cumulative update coming in July. A manual update is already available to remove it, and it's no longer supported.

This week, popular games like Borderlands 3 and Control are going for substantially less. Ubisoft is also holding a massive Publisher Sale so you can get Assassin's Creed and others for less.

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Twitter has announced that it's acquiring news subscription service Scroll, which offers readers a way to support news websites while removing ads. It will create a new subscription service for it.

Microsoft has announced a new education feature for Microsoft Teams called Reading Progress. The goal is to help children with their learning process by recording and grading their assignments.

Samsung has removed the Galaxy S8 and S8+ from its list of phones that are receiving security updates four years after their launch. The Galaxy S8 Active and S8 Lite are still on the list, though.

Microsoft has updated its roadmap for Microsoft 365, adding support for live transcription in unscheduled Teams meetings in July. It's also bringing Together Mode to VDI users in May.

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