Meta announced that it will close the News tab for Facebook in the US and Australia in early April 2024, after previously closing down the tab in a number of European countries in 2023.
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Artifact, the news aggregator app launched by Instagram co-founders, is shutting down. The app will offer core news reading capability for some time but remove the ability to create new posts.
Microsoft is being charged with allegations by The Guardian for sharing an offensive AI-generated poll beside a news article on Microsoft Start by The Guardian. Microsoft has yet to reply.
YouTube has started the rollout of a new watch page that displays news stories related to specific topics. The feature will be available in over 40 countries across the globe over time.
A new progressive web app (PWA) for Pixel Buds is now available on Google Play Store. As of now, the Pixel Buds PWA, that lets users manage various features, only works on Google's Chromebooks.
Microsoft is partnering with PWABuilder to allow some developers with progressive web apps to post them on the Microsoft Store for free. This limited-time offer will end on September 15.
Meta has announced that it will cut access to news for the Canadian users as the company refused to go along with the government's plan to have social media companies pay publishers for news articles.
Microsoft has announced three significant changes for those wanting to publish apps in the Microsoft Store: new features for PWAs, faster Win32 certification, and Android app submission open to all.
Samsung News has begun rolling out to users in the United States. It aims to give users a more balanced view of the news by bringing in articles from a range of diverse sources, on the left and right.
Meta is threatening to stop news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada if the proposed Online News Act passes in its current form. Canadian news outlets, however, support the bill.
Hot off the press, Gigabyte has launched its AORUS Gen5 10000 model of SSD aimed at the enthusiast. But be warned, the price is eye watering, and the gaming benefits? Still somewhat up in the air!
The German Samsung community forum admins reports a new firmware that addresses the rapid health degrade on 990 Pro SSDs. Sadly, it comes with some pros and cons that are important to note.
Intel just cut pay for corporate employees by five percent or more in surprise internal communication that has left employees of the firm shellshocked in the wake of a weak, inflationary economy.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Teams Progressive Web App (PWA) on Linux. This variant offers the latest features at a faster pace, along with desktop capabilities.
Elon Musk recently announced that Twitter will soon do away with 280 character limit and allow users to add long-form text. It will completely end the absurdity of attaching notepad screenshots.
Microsoft has enabled a new API called Window Controls Overlay by default in Edge. It allows Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to feel more native through UX adjustments instead of focusing on performance.
Younger internet users are getting their news primarily through social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, according to a survey done by the UK's communications regulator, Ofcom.
Chrome 102 packs a bunch of enhancements for PWAs including the ability for them to act as a file handler and also take advantage of more real estate with custom window controls overlay.
Microsoft Edge 101 has hit the Stable Channel. This release contains a dedicated toolbar button for a PWA hub, improvements to default profiles, and the ability to resurface the certificate picker.
Google News has been given a refreshed look. Gone are the top five stories on the For you page, instead replaced with a few top stories, larger titles, and a larger weather widget.
Microsoft Edge Canary has a new feature to make it easier for the users to install web apps on all their devices. It is currently in the testing phase and is rolling out in a phased manner.
Microsoft says that web apps will now be capable of using protocol handlers. This feature comes with support for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and is available in other Chromium-based browsers as well.
Chrome 96 is rolling out today with some performance improvements in page navigation and retention of PNG metadata in clipboard. It also faces some pushback from the Safari WebKit team.
As part of its monthly update, Twitter is bringing the ability to soft-block a user on its Progressive Web App. This allows users to remove an account from following them, without blocking them.
Microsoft Start is a unified brand for Microsoft's news service and a rebrand for MSN News and Microsoft News. The new name applies to all platforms, including the News apps on mobile.
Google Chat is introducing dark theme to its desktop web and Progressive Web App (PWA) versions more than a year after rolling out the same experience to its Android and iOS versions.
Chrome 92 will be rolling out later today. It contains a bunch of exciting features including enhancements to PWAs, Bluetooth device filtering, and deprecation of a problematic payment handler config.
Google has been fined a whopping €500 million ($592 million) in France for failing to reach an agreement with news agencies about how they will be compensated for their content being displayed.
Mircosoft's Edge Insider channel roadmap has been updated today which now contains all the upcoming features the browser will receive. There is a slew of new changes and improvements coming.
Google has announced the launch of News Showcase in India. By partnering with over 30 Indian publishers, the company hopes to increase audience reach with adequate financial compensation.
Microsoft is working on a new feature that will allow developers to customize the title bar on progressive web apps, making them look more like native apps on each operating system.
Google Chrome 89 is now live, and the company has started warning developers to offer offline experiences for installable PWAs. This will become mandatory with Chrome 93 later this year.
Twitter has updated its progressive web app (PWA) with support for the new Birdwatch feature, DM request improvements, and more. The retweet button experience has also changed to its default.
Facebook News will launch in the U.K. in January 2021. The aim of the program is allow publishers to reach a wider audience coupled with a wide variety of advertisement and subscription offers.
Microsoft has added a hidden flag to the Canary version of the Edge browser, which allows web apps to open as tabbed windows, thus keeping links for the same website in the same window.
Twitter has once again rounded up the latest changes made to its progressive web app over the past few weeks. These updates include a new retweet experience that promotes quote tweets.
The Mountain View firm has added a dedicated carousel for Web Stories to its Discover app on both Android and iOS. The feature is presently available in the U.S., Brazil, and India.
Google has unveiled new features meant to make it easier to explore local news through Assistant and listen to a mix of personalized news articles based on the users' interests via a Nest speaker.
Facebook is testing allowing users who have subscribed to its partner publishers to link their accounts to their subscriptions with those organizations, making it quicker to access paywalled content.
In an open letter, Google has slammed Australia for its proposed News Media Bargaining Code, claiming that it hurts free services and that it also places the search data of users at risk.