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• Happy 20th birthday to my beloved VLC — the finest software known to mankind

  VLC (AKA the greatest software in the world) has turned 20. Join me for a moment to celebrate the incredible work VideoLAN ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google Search's new feature makes it easier to weed out unreliable results

  Google Search is adding a feature to help you verify your search results are showing reliable information. Search will now show a menu icon "next to most results on Google" that you can tap on to access more information about a particular site without having to actually click through. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 5 apps every electric vehicle owner needs to know about

  Switching to an electric vehicle might mean that you find yourself relying on your smartphone a bit more than usual in order to find places to fuel up. No longer can you go to the petrol station around the corner or just off your exit on the highway. At first, you’ll have to be ...

  • Rebecca Bellan

• Adobe Flash is going away for real this month

  There have been plans to kill off Adobe Flash for several years, but the end is now truly nigh. The software is going away ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This handy site tells you if specific apps work on Apple Silicon yet

  Are you interested in getting a new M1-powered Mac? Well, make sure you check this site that tells you if your favorite appes ...

  • Callum Booth

• SoundCloud will bless popular artists with blue checkmarks to weed out copycats

  From Twitter and Instagram to Tinder and Bumble, blue checkmarks have become a staple of social platforms. Not on SoundCloud, ...

  • Mix

• YouTube wants to steal Spotify's lunch with new audio ads

  It seems YouTube wants a slice of Spotify's metaphorical pie: the company has announced it's introducing audio-only ads on ...

  • Mix

• One for the haters: Twitter considers adding a dislike button

  There have been two major missing components everyone on Twitter: the edit button and the dislike button. Well, we might ...

  • Mix

• Chrome's latest update adds tab throttling for a major performance boost

  A few months ago, we wrote about an update to Google Chrome's beta channel that added tab throttling in order to minimize ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Zoom's new security features tackle trolls and pesky zoombombers

  Video conferencing software maker Zoom is introducing new features to stop trolls and "zoombombers" from disrupting meetings. ...

  • Mix

• Spotify’s song booster service offers better exposure for slashed royalties

  Spotify is an influential service for artists to make their songs reach more people. If a large set of people stream their ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why open ecosystems are the future of app development

  We can’t get enough of our mobile apps. There were 204 billion apps downloads last year, and that number is rising in 2020.  When app stores entered the mainstream tech culture, they exposed developers to an audience of millions who were keen to adopt the innovative capabilities ...

  • Saidat Giwa-Osagie