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• Polish electric vehicle advocate lobbies for EV emoji, because why not?

  The Polish Alternative Fuel Association is lobbying for the introduction of a universally recognized emoji for electric vehicles ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google is shutting down its Neighbourly app

  Google is killing another one of its experimental apps -- Neighbourly. The company said it's shutting down the app on May ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube 'Shorts' is Google's answer to TikTok, says report

  Since TikTok exploded in popularity over the last year or two, some YouTubers have made a transition over to the platform. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Grammarly now works with Microsoft Word for Mac and Word Online

  Just a short while after Microsoft announced a Grammarly competitor called Editor, Grammarly announced its writing tool ...

  • Napier Lopez

• New coronavirus contact-tracing app coming to UK 'within weeks'

  The British government plans to launch a new contact-tracing app that alerts people when they're close to someone with the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This handy tool lets you record GIFs straight from your browser

  Are you tired of installing software to capture GIFs? Then GIFcap might just be the thing for you. All you need is Chrome ...

  • Mix

• Daily Distraction: The origin of Facebook's 'pandemic'

  For the last couple of weeks, we've been seeing and hearing the word pandemic a lot. The word means that a disease has spread to multiple countries and continents, affecting a large percentage of the population. Do you know what else is a pandemic? Facebook ads. And I'm not saying ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Houseparty offers $1M bounty for proof of hacking ‘smear campaign’

  In the past couple of weeks, video calling apps such as Zoom and Houseparty have gained tremendous popularity thanks to worldwide ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Microsoft takes on Grammarly with new Editor extension for Chrome and Edge

  Today, Microsoft announced it was rebranding Office 365 as Microsoft 365 as it sought to expand its feature set beyond work life. Among the most interesting of those new features is Microsoft Editor, the company's challenger to Grammarly. While Microsoft has had spelling and grammar ...

  • Napier Lopez

• HQ Trivia is making a comeback, thanks to an unnamed investor

  HQ Trivia, the once-popular live quiz app, is making an unexpected comeback. This announcement comes just after a month of the company announcing that it's shutting down the app. Earlier today, Rus Yusupov, co-founder of the company tweeted that there will be a new show at 9 PM ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• What designers can learn from Candy Crush's brilliant UX

  One of the best ways to improve as a designer is to study the greats. There’s no doubt that Candy Crush is one of the best selling mobile games of all time, but how does its UX hold up? Consistency Consistency is one of the best ways to get your users comfortable ...

  • Andrey Spencer

• Slack wants to let you call Microsoft Teams users (yes, you read that right)

  According to a report by CNBC, Slack is working on a method of letting you call people using Microsoft Teams. You know, its biggest competitor. "We're working on Teams integrations for calling features," said Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield during a call with RBC analyst Alex Zurkin ...

  • Napier Lopez