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How to Mute Chrome Notifications When Sharing Your Screen

Just like video chatting, screen sharing is now a required tool for anyone working or socializing from home. Unfortunately, sharing your device’s screen can be a privacy risk—or just embarrassing—if you don’t take precautions against accidental oversharing. To help mitigate that risk, Google is testing a new feature that mutes Chrome notifications while you’re sharing a Chrome window so that your browser can’t air your dirty laundry without warning. While Google Meet already auto-mutes […]

todayJanuary 29, 2021

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Apple hit with another European class action over throttled iPhones

A third class action lawsuit has been filed in Europe against Apple seeking compensation — for what Italy’s Altroconsumo consumer protection agency dubs “planned obsolescence” of a number of iPhone 6 models. The action relates to performance throttling Apple applied several years ago to affected iPhones when the health of the device’s battery had deteriorated — doing so without clearly informing users. It later apologized. The class action suit in […]

todayJanuary 25, 2021

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Google’s new Chrome 88 update improves dark mode, removes FTP and Adobe Flash

Google is releasing a new version of Chrome this week that will improve its dark mode support, alongside removing FTP and Adobe Flash support. The dark mode improvements can be found on both Windows and Chrome OS. There are refinements to both the light and dark modes in Chrome OS, with the themes updated for the app launcher, quick settings, and shelf parts of Chrome OS. How To Geek also reports that […]

todayJanuary 20, 2021

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Samsung wins the wireless earbuds war with retro clamshell cellphone charging cases

It turns out the big news from last week wasn’t that Samsung finally ditched the bizarre bean design for its wireless earbuds, it’s that the company plans to dominate the ‘kids of the late ‘90s’ demographic with a charging case cover that camouflages the Galaxy Buds Pro as a retro clamshell cellphone. Days after a new product category is announced accessories for said products start trickling out, and if you’ve been using a set of […]

todayJanuary 19, 2021

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WhatsApp clarifies privacy changes and Facebook data sharing

WhatsApp is attempting to clarify changes to its privacy policy after immense backlash. The Facebook-owned messaging service has published a new FAQ page to its website, saying that the changes going into effect on February 8 only affect businesses who use WhatsApp, not individual users. Last week, a report suggested that WhatsApp would share user data with Facebook, without giving users a choice. In 2016, WhatsApp began sharing data with Facebook by default, but […]

todayJanuary 14, 2021 2

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Apple Glasses could automatically unlock all your Apple devices

An Apple patent granted today shows how Apple Glasses could automatically unlock all your Apple devices, in much the same way that you can use an Apple Watch to unlock your Mac. The patent acknowledges that having to unlock each of your devices individually can be slightly annoying when you are using several of them … Many electronic devices restrict access to various features based on authentication of the identity of the […]

todayJanuary 12, 2021

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Apple Wins a Patent for Reconfigurable Mac Keyboards

On the last granted patent day of 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent for a reconfigurable keyboard. This has been an ongoing patent theme of Apple's and in late November we covered one titled "Apple Wins Patent for an Adaptive Input Surface that could represent a Virtual Keyboard, Game or Music Controller & more." In today's granted patent, Apple states in their background, that in […]

todayJanuary 11, 2021

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Netflix won’t work on Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS after June 30th

Netflix will stop streaming to Nintendo 3DS and Wii U devices later this year. In a support document spotted by Eurogamer, Nintendo says the company will discontinue support for the two consoles on June 30th, 2021 (coincidently, that’s the same day Minecraft Earth is set to shutdown). Netflix has already removed its app from the eShop, making it impossible to download unless it’s already associated with your account. If you have the software installed on your console, you can […]

todayJanuary 6, 2021

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Apple Car speculation is back. Here’s what we know so far

Longstanding speculation that Apple will release its own electric, self-driving car was reignited last week when Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle by 2024. Talk of the iPhone maker's ambitions to break into the auto industry has been swirling for about five years. Expectations for the effort, named Project Titan, range from the company developing its own Apple-branded car to providing operating system […]

todayJanuary 5, 2021

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