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• Can you gamify love?

  We gamify our children's chores, learning a new language, and our workouts. Why not gamify our love-lives by levelling up ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to blur your background on Skype video calls

  Microsoft just added a 'Blur my background' feature to Skype's video calling functionality. Here's how to use it and avoid ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google’s new extension tells you if your passwords have been compromised

  Google's just launched a Chrome browser extension that's designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. Hopefully, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• How to unsend messages on Facebook Messenger

  Facebook messenger rolled out the functionality last night that allows users to delete their sent messages within 10 minutes ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This Netflix browser extension will auto-skip intros and recaps for bonus laziness

  When you're binging an engaging show on Netflix like Narcos, you might want to skip intro song or the recap after a few episodes. There's no easy way to do that on the web apart from skipping a few minutes on the scrubber. Thankfully, Netflix Extended extension for Google Chrome ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's upcoming Dark Mode for Chrome looks way too similar to Incognito Mode

  Google's Chrome browser will introduce a native dark mode soon. The preview is already up in its dev channel (canary). So ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why I hatefully love Apple Music’s Android app

  I've been using Apple Music since it launched nearly four years ago - even after I subsequently switched to Android devices. While I love its music library, and appreciate the curated dashboards, its Android app has frustrated me constantly. Apple boasts constantly about the quality ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook convinced teens to sell their privacy for $20

  Another day, another Facebook controversy

  • Matthew Hughes

• I can't wait for the Netflix of mobile games

  I'm chuffed about today's news from Cheddar's Alex Heath, who reports that Apple is building a game subscription service. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Use Apple Music in your browser with this pretty web interface

  I use Apple Music as my primary streaming service, but it bums me out that it doesn’t have a web interface. So I have to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Slack has a new logo, and, umm, you be the judge

  There comes a time in every company's journey when it needs to find a reason to change its logo. Today, that time has come ...

  • Napier Lopez

• YouTube is cracking down on dangerous pranks and stunts like the Bird Box challenge

  YouTube has published new policies for its platform that state it won't allow content depicting dangerous pranks and stunts ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal