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Google Search is testing verified checkmarks for legitimate businesses
Google Search is testing a potential solution to fraudulent website: verified checkmarks that show a business is legitimate.
Steve Dent10.04.2024
Spotify can now automatically create a playlist for airplane mode
Spotify’s new Offline Backup takes the planning out of going offline. The feature automatically creates a playlist of your queued and recently played tracks, ready for when you go off the grid.
Will Shanklin10.03.2024
Epic will extend its free games program to its mobile store
A new free game program and up to 50 new games are headed to the Epic Game Store's mobile app.
Danny Gallagher10.02.2024
Google is making Gmail summaries more useful and adding a ‘Happening Soon’ tab
Google is expanding Gmail’s summary cards, the AI-driven contextual snippets extracted for things like incoming packages. They’ll soon include cards for purchases, events, bills and travel. In addition, a new Happening Soon section will recap time-sensitive cards.
Will Shanklin10.02.2024
Epic is suing Google and Samsung for making it too hard to download Fortnite
Epic Games is suing Google and Samsung over the latter's Auto Blocker feature making installing Epic Games Store difficult.
Jeremy Gan09.30.2024
Zillow is adding climate risk data to all US for-sale listings
Zillow has announced a new partnership to bring climate risk information to its for-sale listings in the US.
Anna Washenko09.26.2024
Strava makes it easier to keep your activity data private
Quick Edit also lets you customize activity titles and upload media.
Sarah Fielding09.25.2024
Pokémon Sleep now supports smartwatches for more accurate tracking
Pokémon Sleep now supports smartwatches and Spotify. The former could allow for more accurate tracking.
Lawrence Bonk09.24.2024
Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests
Telegram will now provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers if the company receives legal requests.
Jeremy Gan09.23.2024
Google passkeys can now sync across devices on multiple platforms
Chrome passkeys now sync securely across devices. Previously, users could only save passkeys to the Google Password Manager on Android.
Lawrence Bonk09.19.2024
Substack, a newsletter service, is now also a live video company
Substack is adding a live video component to its newsletter service. In its announcement post, the company positioned this feature as providing real-time audience engagement for creators.
Anna Washenko09.18.2024
Flappy Bird's creator wants you to know he's got nothing to do with the new version
The creator, Dong Nguyen, took the game offline in early 2014.
Sarah Fielding09.16.2024
Google Wallet is testing turning passports into digital IDs
Google Wallet's newest feature can make a digital ID out of your passport that can be used at some TSA checkpoints.
Danny Gallagher09.12.2024
Meta scraped every Australian user's account to train its AI
Meta scrapes all the photos and texts in all Facebook and Instagram posts in Australia since 2007, unless the user had set their posts to private, Meta's global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh admitted.
Mariella Moon09.11.2024
Meta shares how WhatsApp and Messenger will interact with other messaging apps in the EU
Meta is sharing how interoperability with third-party chat apps would work on WhatsApp and Messenger in Europe.
Mariella Moon09.07.2024
Telegram will allow users to report illegal content in private chats
Telegram has quietly edited its FAQs to remove language stating that it doesn't moderate private and group chats, as reported by CoinDesk.
Mariella Moon09.06.2024
The X TV app is out now and yes, it really sucks
The new X TV app available for some Android TVs is in beta and it's just a shell of its social media wasteland.
Danny Gallagher09.04.2024
Snap is testing a less confusing version of its app
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has revealed the existence of an experimental Snapchat app in a lengthy blog post.
Mariella Moon09.04.2024
Sonos made a public Trello board to track its broken app fixes
Sonos is documenting the app issues it has already fixed in a public Trello board that you can view and browse yourself.
Mariella Moon08.30.2024