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WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is intended to improve the privacy of its users. The main idea adds two new features to the messaging service: Any WhatsApp user may contact any other user on the platform currently. All that is required for that is a phone number. While the contacted user has…
Android 15 could ship with a taskbar on smartphones. This taskbar works similarly to the one known from tablets or operating systems such as Windows. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman discovered the taskbar feature recently and has published information about its functionality and current state. Up until recently, taskbars on smartphones were frowned upon. Google, Apple,…
Whenever there is an option to turn on a compact mode, I pick it. The main reason for that is that compact mode removes whitespace so that more content is displayed on the screen at the same time. Google is testing a compact mode for its Chrome web browser. An experimental flag was added in…
In some years from today, search engines will likely look completely different. The traditional way of showing links to websites that match the search query best, at lest according to the search engine that you are using, is being phased-out. The replacement comes in form of AI generations. AI takes the user’s query, generates a…
Google is updating the Android spam and minimum functionality policy to weed out low-quality apps in the Google Play store. Here are the details: Google lists several examples of app types that it considers substandard: In other words: Google is expanding the classification of substandard Android apps to include static apps and apps that do…
A report suggests that Google has sneaked code into Chromium-based browsers that is favoring Google-owned properties. Browsers like Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge appear affected. If true, it would give critics of Google’s dominance in web browsing a mighty powerful argument. Here are the details: Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers give *.google.com sites full…
There has been a lot of talk about Google replacing the extensions system of the Chromium web browser with an updated version. Chromium is the source for many browsers, including Google Chrome, Brave Browser, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and many more. While open source, it is Google that controls Chromium to a large degree. Brave Software,…
Opera Software has released a preview version of its upcoming updated Opera One browser. Called Opera One R2, it comes with new and improved functionality. Where to download: you can download Opera One R2 Preview from this page on Opera’s website. Note: if you install the browser on Windows, you may get a SmartScreen security…
Mozilla plans to release the first Firefox 127 point update later today. Firefox 127.0.1 will be released for all supported platforms. It is a non-security update that fixes four different issues in the browser. The release won’t include the fix for YouTube playback issues mentioned earlier this week. It will be in Firefox 127.0.2, so…
For approximately four months, some Firefox users have experienced video playback issues while playing videos on YouTube. Affected users noted that certain videos would stop playing on the site all of a sudden. YouTube would show a loading animation and it appeared that buffering was the culprit in many cases. When Mozilla started to analyze…