Android has supported app shortcuts since 2016, but some popular apps still haven’t implemented the feature yet. We found evidence that Instagram was about to change that in October 2019, though it took the company until now to finally roll out shortcuts widely.…
We aren’t at the point yet where every Android phone is able to transcribe voice calls in real time, but what Google is doing with its video chat service Duo is a good first step: the app is now enabling captions for…
It’s been requested for years and in the making for months, and now the day has finally come: The Nightly version of Firefox for Android supports pull-to-refresh. A gesture first popularized (and patented) by Twitter back in 2010, it’s quickly…
Google’s suite of office products are already pretty handy on their own, but with add-ons in the mix, things can get even better. Introduced for Gmail back in 2017, add-ons allow for integrations between popular third-party services and Google’s own apps.…
We’ve known for more than a year that Google Play Music’s days were numbered. Its death had even been officially announced, but it’s now really real. Google has just sunset the GPM app on Android and web, providing the knock-out blow to…
Samsung Pay is a big perk of ownership for Samsung’s phones. The MST-based system on most of the company’s phones works with plenty of card readers that don’t actually support contactless payments, and that’s especially handy these days. There’s not…
Chrome OS might not be the best operating system for hardcore gamers, but most Chromebooks are powerful enough to play some popular games — especially when you add cloud game streaming like GeForce NOW to the mix. Nvidia launched the service…
One more noteworthy feature snuck its way into Chrome 86. It’s a small change, but it should help make a further dent in the growing problem of notification abuse. In this latest release, sites known for abusive notification content (things like…
The unthinkable happened: you just deleted the wrong file by accident, and it happened to be a school essay that you spent days working on. If you didn’t save a backup of the document on your Chromebook, unfortunately, there is…
OnePlus is known for its tick-tock release cycle, pushing out new versions of each phone roughly every six months. Like it or hate it (personally, I love it), the company is reportedly bringing that schedule forward by nearly a month…
