Tag: apps

November 18, 2016

Facebook’s Safety Check is a powerful tool to help users find out if their loved ones are okay in case they’re in an area struck by a natural disaster or crisis. It’s great, except for the fact that people have […]

October 12, 2016

Android 7.0 Nougat may have only launched in August, but that isn’t stopping Google from already prepping a major update. The company today announced version 7.1 – the same running on its new Pixel phones – will be available to […]

October 10, 2016

Facebook is launching an all new app today dedicated solely to events, the creatively named Events from Facebook.’ It’s basically a glorified calendar with some useful social media chops. The key feature is discovery: Open up the app and you […]

October 6, 2016

If Google’s recent hardware launch event got you excited about its new Assistant that it showed off on Android, we have some bad news: It’ll be a while before you can try it – unless you buy a Pixel. A […]

October 5, 2016

Facebook has rolled out end-to-end encryption for all 900 million Messenger users so your conversations can’t be monitored by third parties. However, the new feature isn’t as usable as it needs to be. You’ll need to manually enable the ‘Secret […]

September 19, 2016

At its I/O conference in May, Google unveiled a ‘smart messaging app’ called Allo, which only requires your phone number to identify you. It looks like we won’t have to wait much longer to try it. According to expert tipster […]

August 31, 2016

Earlier this week, Dropbox reset user passwords for all accounts that hadn’t changed them since 2012, following its discovery of a file containing hashed and salted passwords that were obtained in a previous security breach. Now, Motherboard reports that the […]

August 12, 2016

Microsoft is making it dead simple to report a bug to the Edge team: just tweet it. The idea comes from developer Lea Verou, who suggested it to Microsoft back in June. And now her wish has become reality. There […]

August 9, 2016

These days, it’s common for people to get work done using more than one device — whether you’re sending out an email on your smartphone, checking Slack on your tablet or crafting spreadsheets on your PC. And it’s created a […]