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Here's how you can see all quoted replies to a tweet
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Twitter launched its "Retweet with comment" feature in 2015. Since then, it's been hard to track down all people who quoted the tweet. Thankfully, ...
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How to opt out of Revolut's data sharing policies
Revolut, like a lot of tech companies, shares data about its users with third parties. But you can opt out of that if you ...
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How to enable dark mode on WhatsApp Web
If you put dark mode on everything, you'd be delighted to know you can now enable the feature on WhatsApp web — on both ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Misaligned objectives
Welcome to the first article in TNW's guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we'll examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts. You can't have a discussion about killer robots without invoking the Terminator movies. The franchise's ...
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Here's how to hide Apple Music in the new macOS Music app
Now iTunes is dead, we have to use the new macOS Music app instead. Unfortunately, that includes Apple Music. Here's how ...
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How to turn on incognito mode in Google Maps
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. By default, Google Maps stores your location history so you can keep track of places you've visited. This is helpful when you want to remember ...
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The Pixel 4's screen doesn't stick to 90Hz. Here's how to fix it
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. The Pixel 4's 90Hz display is supposed to be one of the best things about the phone. Once reserved to gaming phones and VR applications, high ...
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RIP: How to stop Google from stealing all your data after you die
Google lets you chose a truster person to handle your account and data once you die or you can automatically have your account ...
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This bot makes long Twitter threads easier to read
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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RIP: How to stop Facebook from stealing your data after you die
Facebook lets you select someone from your friends list to manage your account once you die or you can automatically have ...
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Instagram now supports dark mode on iOS 13 — here's how to enable it
Instagram has updated its app for iPhone with a dark mode that matches iOS 13's system-wide dark theme. Here's how to turn ...
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Here’s how to hide what you're listening to on Spotify
Spotify gives you some options to privatize your activity. The first is a private session. This can be easily done on desktop ...
