Month: August 2022
Instagram will soon test ultra-tall photos to match its full-screen reels
Instagram might have halted its controversial redesign, but that doesn’t mean the company plans to stop focusing on full-screen content. During his weekly Ask Me Anything today, CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed that Instagram will begin testing ultra-tall 9:16 photos “in a week or two.” “You can have tall videos, but…
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Google just made it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for
Audio player loading… Google is tweaking the way quoted searches work on its search engine and improving Touch to Search on the mobile Chrome app. Quoted search refers to when you place quotation marks around a search term and Google shows you results that have those exact words. The problem…
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The Samsung Galaxy S23 could be the most powerful phone ever
Audio player loading… The Samsung Galaxy S23 could be the most powerful phone you can buy when it hits the market early next year. This comes from a leak on 91mobiles.com (opens in new tab) that suggests Samsung’s next mainstream flagship (read: flat phone) will use the as-yet-unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon…
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ChromeOS 104 is rolling out with a new dark theme, and automatic transitions
Google’s newest update for ChromeOS is rolling out to users this week, and one of its new features is support for switching to a dark theme, as 9to5Google reported. Previously hidden behind developer flags while in testing, it finally made an official debut on ChromeOS 104, following dark mode settings…
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Watch out, Coinbase users: A nasty new wallet-draining scam is doing the rounds
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity experts have warned of an elaborate scam targeting customers of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Researchers from security firm PIXM recently discovered an email campaign whereby attackers masquerade as Coinbase to trick people into handing over their account credentials. In the email, the user is warned that their…
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New Microsoft Edge feature will squeeze out even more performance on Windows 11
Audio player loading… The latest edition of Microsoft Edge is set to pack a new disk caching feature that the company says will provide a big performance upgrade whilst minimizing its storage footprint. A disk cache is used by browsers to store resources fetched from the web so that they…
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