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• Google Chrome gets a new icon in Big Sur — and it wants your help choosing the next

  Google Chrome has a new icon in Big Sur! Along with an update that supports M1 chips, the search giant has also changed up ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google Pay gets a complete makeover to try to handle all your finances

  Google Pay is getting its biggest update ever today. The company today announced it is completely revamping the app for its wireless payment system, maintaining the same abilities as before to send and receive payments, but also turning it into an all-in-one money management app. In ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Strava finally reinstates support for Bluetooth heart rate monitors — after dropping it last year

  After a little over a year, Strava has finally reinstated support for Bluetooth heart rate monitors. It will come as good ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• SoundCloud will bless popular artists with blue checkmarks to weed out copycats

  From Twitter and Instagram to Tinder and Bumble, blue checkmarks have become a staple of social platforms. Not on SoundCloud, ...

  • Mix

• YouTube wants to steal Spotify's lunch with new audio ads

  It seems YouTube wants a slice of Spotify's metaphorical pie: the company has announced it's introducing audio-only ads on ...

  • Mix

• One for the haters: Twitter considers adding a dislike button

  There have been two major missing components everyone on Twitter: the edit button and the dislike button. Well, we might ...

  • Mix

• Chrome's latest update adds tab throttling for a major performance boost

  A few months ago, we wrote about an update to Google Chrome's beta channel that added tab throttling in order to minimize the performance impact from dormant tabs. That feature is now rolling out widely, and it could be one of the biggest performance improvements to Chrome in a long ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Zoom's new security features tackle trolls and pesky zoombombers

  Video conferencing software maker Zoom is introducing new features to stop trolls and "zoombombers" from disrupting meetings. ...

  • Mix

• Messenger and Instagram's 'Vanish Mode' makes chats self-destruct with a swipe

  It was just last week that Facebook introduced ephemeral messages in WhatsApp that disappear in seven days. Now the company is going a step further by introducing "Vanish Mode" for Messenger and Instagram, which will automatically delete text messages and media as soon as they are ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Netflix is testing a TV-like channel so you don't have to choose what to watch

  I haven't used regular old cable TV in years, and I'm pretty happy with that choice. But if there's one thing I sometimes ...

  • Napier Lopez

• What3words is about to make millions of car satnavs more accurate and easier to use

  What3words is integrating with HERE Technologies, a company that provides the mapping and navigation tech for most new cars, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• WhatsApp just made it easier to clear up space on your phone

  If you spend a lot of time chatting on your phone, chances are that a good chunk of its storage is taken up by images and ...

  • Napier Lopez