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Microsoft Teams to add a faster way to build automations using slash commands

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:40:01 +0000

Tired of digging through menus? Microsoft is making Teams workflows much easier to discover. Learn how the new slash command shortcut will boost your productivity this spring. Read more...

Microsoft completes global rollout of autonomous AI Workflows for Teams

Paul Hill — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:20:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now automate project summaries and data monitoring with new "scheduled prompts" in the Teams Workflows app. Read more...

Google Meet users on Google Workspace get extended emoji set, with some limitations

Paul Hill — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:16:01 +0000

Google Meet users on Google Workspace now have access to a greater range of emoji when reacting, however, there are some limitations to know about. Read more...

GNOME 49 is a big release with major app overhauls

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:58:01 +0000

GNOME 49 is here. This new release overhauls two core apps and brings major performance boosts. Read more...

How Google killed my excitement in operating system upgrades

Paul Hill — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:40:01 +0000

In this editorial, I explore how Google killed my excitement in operating system upgrades. Despite this, there is a bit of a twist to my opinion on the matter. Read more...

Apple Maps on the web now available in public beta

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:54:01 +0000

Apple has launched a public beta of Apple Maps on the web, making it accessible to anyone using a modern web browser. The web version offers features like driving and walking directions. Read more...

YouTube Music's new feature makes your sound search much easier

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:28:02 +0000

YouTube is rolling out a sound search feature for Android, and iOS platforms, making it easier to find your favorite song in a catalog of over 100 million songs, simply by singing or humming. Read more...

Study shows why Apple, Google, Microsoft got together for modern web performance is too slow

Sayan Sen — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:06:01 +0000

Recently, it was announced that Microsoft, Apple, Google, and more came together to design a new generation Speedometer browser benchmark. A study shows why such a thing was needed. Read more...

Opera will pay you $10,000 for a week of browsing the web on world's loneliest island

Martin Hodás — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:02:01 +0000

In a new promotion, the Opera browser is offering one of its users a bag of money for what is essentially a vacation for two on an Icelandic island. However, applicants have to get creative. Read more...

Any.do combines workspaces and WhatsApp as it integrates with WhatsApp for teams

Anushe Fawaz — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:00:01 +0000

Any.do has made an announcement that it is integrating with WhatsApp for teams, hence allowing people to carry out different work-related tasks like managing projects directly from WhatsApp. Read more...

How to opt for the nuclear option and delete your Twitter account

Paul Hill — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:32:01 +0000

Here's a simple guide on the Twitter account deletion process. With many people leaving the platform for Mastodon, you may want to know how to tidy up behind you and shut down your Twitter account. Read more...

Microsoft working on affordable Windows 11 PCs dominated by ads and subscriptions

Usama Jawad — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 01:58:01 +0000

Microsoft is seemingly working on a model that will allow the commercialization of low-cost Windows PCs that rely on subscriptions and advertisements to upsell Microsoft's cloud services. Read more...

Google's Matter support and Home update will let you quickly add smart devices

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:34:01 +0000

Google has developed a new Home app that's designed around the fact that people's smart home devices are increasing in number. It puts customizability at the heart for a tailored experience. Read more...

Meta wants to make Facebook-Instagram account switching a lot easier

Fiza Ali — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:54:01 +0000

Meta has announced new updates that will make it easier for people to manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts and profiles. This means account switching, among others, is getting easier. Read more...

HaDEA proposes DNS4EU, a secure DNS for EU member states

Dean Howell — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:24:01 +0000

According to their objective, they are seeking to deploy a “European DNS resolver service infrastructure” that serves “public, corporate and residential internet end-users in the EU”. Read more...

Apple is shutting down Dark Sky's iOS app and website in 2022

Fiza Ali — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:02:01 +0000

Following an acquisition in 2020, Apple has decided that it is going to shut down Dark Sky's app and website by the end of 2022. The API service will reach its end of life on the same date as well. Read more...

GitHub introduces video uploading across its platform

Paul Hill — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:34:01 +0000

GitHub has made it possible for users to upload videos across its platform. This offers several benefits such as making bugs easier to reproduce and giving a demo of features in development. Read more...

Proton Calendar beta now available for all ProtonMail users

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:02:02 +0000

Proton Calendar beta is available for users of ProtonMail on the web and Android. The firm will bring the beta to iOS in the near future. Proton Calendar uses E2E encryption for added security. Read more...

How to enable the dark theme on Facebook desktop

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:00:02 +0000

Facebook rolled out dark mode for its web application a while back. Since it first debuted, the feature has been tucked away. Today's guide will help you find and enable dark mode on desktops. Read more...

Google rolling out dark theme for Search on the desktop for some users

Abhay V — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:54:01 +0000

Google seems to be rolling out a dark theme for Search on the desktop for a select set of users, which is showing up when using Incognito mode. It also lets users set it to adhere to the OS theme. Read more...

Planner on the web now lets users add image backgrounds to each plan

Abhay V — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:10:01 +0000

Microsoft today announced that it is rolling out the ability for Planner users on the web to add backgrounds to individual plans from a selection of backgrounds suggested based on the plan name. Read more...

Microsoft is also offering refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox, but won't delist it

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:06:01 +0000

Following a disastrous launch on consoles, Microsoft has decided to offer full refunds to anyone who purchased digital copies of Cyberpunk 2077 for the Xbox. However, it will not delist the title. Read more...

Google launches XS-Leaks Wiki to secure the web against cross-site leaks

Usama Jawad — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 11:12:01 +0000

Cross-site leaks allow unrelated web applications to share information between each other. Google has now launched a repository to collaborate with researchers and developers to tackle this problem. Read more...

Facebook publicly testing dark mode support for its Android app

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:14:01 +0000

Facebook has started testing dark mode for its Android app publicly, with a public rollout coming soon. The company has already rolled out dark mode for Facebook on the web and for its iOS app. Read more...

YouTube Music's Explore tab now lets users see top charts from around the world

Usman Khan Lodhi — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:40:01 +0000

YouTube Music has expanded the Explore tab, which was released in April, to include its global YouTube Charts, letting users view the most popular music from 57 countries around the world. Read more...

Microsoft Edge DevTools support for Surface Duo emulation now rolling out

Abhay V — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 23:50:02 +0000

Microsoft is rolling out support for Surface Duo emulation for stable Edge's developer tools. The feature was committed to Chromium last month and is available on other branches in Chrome and Edge. Read more...

ProtonMail apps are now open source and independently audited

Paul Hill — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:02:01 +0000

All of the ProtonMail apps are now open source and have passed independent security audits. The announcement comes after Proton open sourced the Android application earlier on today. Read more...

New Stadia update brings 5.1 surround sound to web gameplay

Paul Hill — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:38:01 +0000

Google has pushed a new update out for its Stadia gaming platform. With this update, Stadia Pro users on Chrome will be able to enable 5.1 surround sound and use an on-screen keyboard with a gamepad. Read more...

Mozilla launches Firefox Better Web with Scroll in beta

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:32:23 +0000

Mozilla has launched Firefox Better Web with Scroll as a Test Pilot. It will allow those in the U.S. to pay to remove ads from partner publishers' websites. Non-publishers can still display their ads. Read more...

Let's Encrypt has issued its billionth certificate

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:30:01 +0000

Let's Encrypt has announced that it has issued its billionth certificate. The service first left beta in April 2016 and quickly issued 10 million and 100 million certificates to help secure the web. Read more...

Google provides a timeline for phasing out Chrome Apps

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 08:24:01 +0000

Google has provided a timeline on how it plans to phase out Chrome Apps across all platforms over the next couple of years. The initial announcement of phasing out Chrome Apps was made in 2016. Read more...

BBC launches digital wellbeing keyboard aimed at children

Paul Hill — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:58:01 +0000

The BBC has launched its new Own It app which features a keyboard that helps children send more thoughtful messages. The keyboard will alert the child if they're about to send a negative message. Read more...

UK: New survey finds a fifth of Brits do not use the internet

Paul Hill — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:00:01 +0000

A new survey published by Oxford Internet Institute has revealed that the elderly, the poor, and those with fewer academic qualifications are the least likely to be connected to the internet. Read more...

Plex begins rolling out the new UNO UI for Web, coming to TV this week

Paul Hill — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:34:02 +0000

Plex has released its new UNO interface on its Web app and is rolling it out to TVs this week. The Plex iOS app will get the UI really soon and then an update for Android is planned after that. Read more...

Google begins rolling out dynamic email to Gmail web users

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:12:01 +0000

Google has finally launched dynamic email after over a year of testing. Several firms have been working on dynamic emails and their users should begin receiving dynamic emails in the near future. Read more...

Firefox 66 arrives with features to cut down on web annoyances

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:38:01 +0000

Mozilla has just released Firefox 66. In this update, users should be considerably less irritated browsing the web thanks to a few tweaks Mozilla has made to its browser including scroll anchoring. Read more...

Twitter to redesign web interface into two-column layout along with other improvements

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:16:01 +0000

Twitter's web interface is getting a new design that replaces the three-column layout with two columns. Other updates are also coming, though these are available only to a small set of users for now. Read more...

You can now resume your previous searches with Google's new activity cards

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:14:01 +0000

Google has started rolling out today the new activity cards for its Search service. It allows you to resume your previous searches and continue your exploration based on certain topics. Read more...

Google Translate's web version receives Material Design theme and more

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:34:01 +0000

Google Translate for the web now looks consistent with other Google products as it has just received the company's Material Theme design. The service has also received a bunch of new updates. Read more...

Google Lens goes live for image search on mobile web in the U.S.

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:30:01 +0000

Starting today, you will be able to learn more about an object within a photo in Google Images with Lens. The feature is available for everyone doing an image search on the mobile web in the U.S. Read more...