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• Gmail now lets you send emails within emails

  Yo dawg, we heard you like emails: Google has rolled out a new feature in Gmail that lets you send emails as attachments ...

  • Mix

• Edison Mail's new Mac email client is simple — and absolutely free

  Popular mail app Edison launched a free email client today with support for multiple providers including Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo! Mail. It's also got a nifty unsubscribe button. The app is currently accepting a limited number of users through invites. I've been using the test ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• There's a new streaming competitor on the block: The Pirate Bay

  Watch out Apple, Netflix, Disney, Amazon, and HBO. It looks like The Pirate Bay is now letting people stream content directly ...

  • Mix

• Uber’s safety report revealed over 3,000 sexual assault cases last year

  Yesterday, Uber finally released its full safety transparency report, including stats around sexual assault and harassment ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google's developing a feature to show brightly lit streets on Maps

  It appears Google is secretly working on a feature for Maps to steer you away from trouble by highlighting well-lit streets. ...

  • Mix

• iPhone 11 Pro collects location data even when it shouldn't, researcher says

  It appears that the iPhone 11 Pro occasionally leaks your location data, even when you've asked it not to, security researcher ...

  • Mix

• This new app is leveraging blockchain to help sexual assault survivors

  Smashboard, an alternative social media app challenges rape culture and create an all-inclusive, feminist online community ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google rolls out a chat feature in Google Photos — use it before it’s axed

  Google has a notorious habit of launching a new messaging app now and then. The lineup includes – both active and inactive – names such as Google Talk, Hangouts, All, Duo, SMS Messenger, and RCS-based Chat app. Now, it's launching a messaging function in one of the unlikeliest ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit's DataIsBeautiful is sick of bar chart races — so it's banning them

  The moderator team of Reddit's DataIsBeautiful community has been getting an avalanche of spammy race charts, so it's temporarily ...

  • Mix

• Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down — go back to work

  Yep, it's not just you: Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are all down right now — and nobody knows why. Find something ...

  • Mix

• How smartphones get African millennials addicted to sports betting

  When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms ...

  • The Conversation

• How Facebook crammed all its major features into a 2MB Lite app

  Over the past few years, several major mature tech companies including the likes of Google, Uber, Spotify, and Twitter have ...

  • Ivan Mehta