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Microsoft will be releasing its next big Windows Update tomorrow with Windows 10 Version 1803. Microsoft finally settled on calling it the April 2018 update, with the download via Media Creation Tool becoming available on the 30th...
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With the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft focused Edge on helping users doodle all over the web and create content, as Edge has matured and grown, Microsoft has made strides towards making Edge good at consuming content too, includ...
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Snap is finally expanding to the desktop web from mobile, kinda sorta. The first step towards that appears to be a web-app for viewing stories on Snap maps. Much like when one is using the actual app, it only shows stories that yo...
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A report surfaced this year that Apple was planning to slow-down update process for iOS 12 with a focus on performance over new features. Axios reported that “pushed into 2019 are a number of features including a refresh of ...
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Microsoft updated the Windows 10 Photos app for Windows Mobile, and if they were hoping to stop users from ever opening it again, I’m happy to say they delivered the right product. First, let’s start with the improveme...
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Google has been advocating towards a more secure internet with HTTPS encrypted sites, and will now transition towards warning users more strongly about insecure HTTP sites. “For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a...
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 is an operating system that powers devices ranging from phones to consoles to tablets to laptops. While it has been argued before that an operating system that tries to do too much will inevitably be medio...
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Instagram is now testing a new tool that lets users “Regram” posts to their stories. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Instagram never quite allowed users to reshare posts from others with their own accounts. This new regr...
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Snap has been struggling over the past year with Facebook cannibalizing its core product with the power and cumulative billion dollar strong userbases of Instagram and WhatsApp, but signs are emerging that the company’s for...
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Telegram will now let users sign in with their Telegram ID on supported websites. Consumers are used to signing in to websites with Google, Microsoft and Facebook, and now Telegram is getting in on the action. As part of the Teleg...
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Amazon’s Echo Look companion app –is getting updates from Amazon to improve voice support and more. With the Echo Look’s new update users can organise their clothing with the Collections tool. You can tag them ac...
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Mobile payments are one of the next frontiers in the messaging wars, and apps like Skype and iMessage already let users send money peer to peer using established payment systems like PayPal and Apple Pay. We earlier reported that ...
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Smartphone manufacturer Wilefox is now in administration (effectively, bankrupt). The firm has run out of money to operate and is now laying off staff while plans are being made on how to move forward. News of this originated on ...
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Facebook is testing a new story maps feature, akin to Snapchat’s own snap maps feature. For the uninformed, Snap maps showcase the locations of Snapchat users relative to their chosen friends on a map. It also allows users t...
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Grammarly earlier this weekend was found to suffer from a bug that exposed user data to any website it was used on. This was done by exposing its authorisation token to the sites, meaning any site which a Grammarly user used the e...
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Microsoft is finally bringing Progressive Web Apps to the Microsoft Store and Windows 10 with the next release of Windows 10. In a blog post today, the Edge team explained Microsoft’s short-term plans to integrate Progressiv...
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With Windows 10 Redstone 4, Microsoft has made it easier to review how much information it collects from you with a new data diagnostic viewer app. The importance of the diagnostic data viewer is related to the way conspiracy theo...
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A new report from Thurrott lays out the kind of hardware Microsoft will be expecting its OEMs to focus in 2018. Modern premium. – This will be premium hardware like the Surface Book 2 and Dell XPS 13 which compete with Appl...
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Microsoft’s plans for Windows 10 S has changed, and the firm will be killing it off as a separate product later this year. Thurrott’s Brad Sams reports that Microsoft will no longer be selling Windows 10 S as a separat...
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Skype is now available in the Linux snap app package format from today, as per an announcement by Canonical, the parent company behind Ubuntu. The move to snaps, a universal package on Linux, makes Skype accessible to more Linux d...
