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LanguageTool is a popular AI-based grammar checker. It is available as a free — limited — version and a premium version that offers more features for a price. Free LanguageTool users were limited in several ways since the introduction of the service. It lacked the advanced spell, style and grammar checking capabilities of the premium…
AI content is on the rise. When you search for something on most search engines, you get AI overviews at the very top of the results. The AI takes that content from other sites and processes it for its responses. While Google is vehemently rejecting the idea of sites getting less visitors from search engines,…
Up until very recently, setting up a Gmail account meant that you’d be stuck with the selected email address. Google did not offer any option to change the address. In fact, the only option available was to create an entirely new account to pick a new email address. This meant that you would lose access…
If you have been to Ghacks lately you may have noticed that something is amiss. In short: Ashwin and I are no longer authors at the site. The longer picture: Softonic decided to sell Ghacks to another company. We, the authors, have not been approached by the new owner and do not really know who…
Customers all over the world are used to frequent price increases of subscriptions by now. Many online services that require a subscription increase prices regularly, often once per year or every second year. That is bad enough, especially if the service does not get any better because of it. While services argue that inflation and…
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps out there. One reason why more and more businesses try to establish channels on WhatsApp. Most to reach customers and sell them something. Amazon is no exception to that. Maybe you have noticed already that you are getting ads from Amazon in WhatsApp. Even if not,…
If your favorite website is not responding right now, it might be because of a major Cloudflare outage. Plenty of sites use Cloudflare, for instance as a CDN or a security layer to prevent attacks or fake traffic. As it stands right now, Cloudflare states on its Status website that it continues to work on…
Reportedly, someone managed to get a tiny web server running on one of those disposable vapes, electronic cigarettes that you see more and more people consuming, at least where I live. Unlike regular cigarettes, which consist of non-electronic components, a filter, some paper and tobacco for the most part, vapes contain electronic components. Our ingenious…
Google released Chrome 142 to the stable channel recently with just a few changes that it revealed publicly. Noteworthy is a new permission that regulates access to local resources. Basically, users will see a prompt going forward, if a website or application attempts to access a resource on the local network. It turns out that…
Most web browsers display warning messages when you attempt to load a website that does not use HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol, or when a site has misconfigured HTTPS. Starting in October 2026, Chrome will make HTTPS the default for all connections in the browser. Means, whenever you visit a site that…