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Guide: How to enable Windows 11-style menus in Google Chrome

Usama Jawad — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:16:01 +0000

If you're on Windows 10 or Windows 11, and want to utilize the latter's menu UI complete with rounded corners in Google Chrome, there is now a way to do so. Find out how to do this in our guide! Read more...

Google is developing a 'media history' feature for Chrome

Abhay V — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:14:01 +0000

Google is testing a feature that provides a history of users' media playback. An experimental 'media-history' flag can be enabled in Chrome Canary, but it is still in the early stages of development. Read more...

Microsoft Edge Canary adds a dedicated PiP button to the Global Media Controls

Abhay V — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:02:01 +0000

The latest Edge Canary version is bringing the ability to switch media playing in the browser to a picture-in-picture window from the global media controls. It is currently an experimental feature. Read more...

Google remotely turned on battery saver on many Android Pie devices by accident

Abhay V — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:42:01 +0000

In what may seem bizarre, Google remotely turned on the Battery Saver setting on phones running Android 9 Pie, accidentally. The firm apologized on Reddit and said that it was an internal experiment. Read more...

YouTube begins experimenting with new AV1 video format

Paul Hill — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:04:01 +0000

Google has begun transcoding videos to the AV1 format. Only a handful of videos have been transcoded into the format but it says that other creators will get it on their videos soon too. Read more...

ProtonVPN Beta Program now available to all users

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:24:02 +0000

Anyone is now able to join in with the ProtonVPN Beta Program on Windows, Mac, and Android. The Android Beta Program has been open since February but was only just made available on Windows and Mac. Read more...

LineageOS builds now available for Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Moto G4, and more

Usama Jawad — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:08:02 +0000

The latest builds for Lineage OS - based on CyanogenMod - are finally available. However, they only support a handful of devices right now, with more handsets to be added soon. Read more...

Mozilla launches three new features in Test Pilot for Firefox

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:28:01 +0000

Mozilla has introduced three new experimental features for its Test Pilot program, which you can test right now! Among other things you will be able to watch videos across other tabs. Read more...

Facebook for Android gets experimental Tor support

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:24:02 +0000

Facebook for Android will be gaining new functionality in the next few days which will allow users to connect to the social network using a Tor connection provided by the Tor Project's Orbot app. Read more...

Google aims to speed up the entire Internet with SPDY

Sam Symons — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:47:09 +0000

There are many aspects of technology that can be tweaked in order to speed a user's Internet experience up; web pages optimized, purchase a faster connection, or even just update software. Google has apparently bypassed... Read more...

Google: 3 New Experimental Views for Web Search

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:57:28 +0000

Back in May 2007, Google created an experimental search page to let its users try out some of the company's new ideas. "Alternate views", for example, allows the user to visualize their search results in... Read more...

VirtualDub 1.7.1 Experimental

Razvan Serea — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:48:48 +0000

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is... Read more...

Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:15:08 +0000

Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. At a presentation in Japan this week, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker plans to... Read more...