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Signal introduces PINs to safely transfer your data between devices
Signal, one of the more secure messaging services around, has introduced a new feature called "Signal PINs" to safely move your data between devices. You can set the Signal PIN with more than four numbers or alphanumeric characters. When you switch devices, you can use the PIN ...
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Coronavirus: survey reveals what the public wants from a contact-tracing app
The UK government is currently trialling a contact tracing app among residents of the Isle of Wight ahead of a plan to roll it out across England. The app is designed to alert users if they have been in contact with someone who has reported COVID-19 symptoms and encourage them to ...
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Notion's note-taking and productivity app is now free for personal use
Notion is now offering its Personal plans, which include unlimited pages, for free. It's a huge boon to the work-from-homers ...
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TikTok now has a new CEO: Disney's Kevin Mayer
Kevin Mayer, the executive who spearheaded the Disney+ launch, has left Disney to join ByteDance as the CEO of TikTok. With ...
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Netflix bumps video streaming in Europe to pre-coronavirus quality (yay, 4K)
Nobody has an idea when the coronavirus pandemic will end, but one thing's for sure: Netflix is gradually upping its streaming ...
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Chrome will soon block ads that unnecessarily tax your CPU and battery
Google is making some changes so Chrome users won't have to endure annoying ads that tax their CPU and drain their battery ...
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Messenger Rooms, Facebook's 50-caller Zoom competitor, is now available
Messenger Rooms is now available and rolling out globally, supporting up to 50 video callers at once. Here's how to use Facebook's ...
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Google Chrome will let you group and label tabs starting next week
"There are two types of people in the world: tab minimalists who have just a few tabs open at a time and tab collectors who have...significantly more." So opens Google's blog post detailing its new tab grouping feature for Chrome. I'm definitely among the latter, so this feature ...
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This tool will tell you when a TV series starts to suck
Whenever someone mentions Game of Thrones at a party, the collective feeling in the room is of disappointment and how the ...
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Instagram now makes it easy to delete troll comments in bulk
Instagram today revealed a series of changes that makes it easier to moderate content on your account. Including, at long ...
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Instagram kills off its Lite app, new version is in the works
Instagram has shut down its Lite app meant for smartphones with moderate memory and regions with low data connectivity speeds. ...
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Twitch Roulette connects you with random streamers nobody wanted to watch
Twitch Roulette is a web-based app that connects you with random streamers with no viewers. And don't worry, you won't see ...
