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October 12 Tech news roundup: Wayback Machine Hacked, Steam Clarifies Game Licenses, and Google Ordered to Open Play Store

News October 12, 2024

Google ordered by court to open up the Play Store to third-parties Google has lost its appeal against the verdict that was given in the antitrust lawsuit filed by Epic Games. The search giant lost the case last year, but had appealed against the ruling because it did not... Read more

October 5 Tech news roundup: Windows 11 24H2 is out, Apple fixes iPhone Touch Screen issues, Mozilla’s big blunder could cost it dearly

News October 5, 2024

PayPal data sharing policy sparks debate on digital privacy PayPal has made a silent change to user settings that has raised some privacy concerns. The company has enabled an option that lets it share your shopping preferences with third-parties. What could possibly go wrong? The main problem is that... Read more

Never Lose Again Your Digital Memories

Back Up and Recovery Best Software Photo and Image September 30, 2024

Losing photos and precious videos is incomparably much more than just a technical inconvenience: it is an emotional loss of dear memories. Cherished captured moments from family gatherings, vacations, and personal milestones hold deep sentiment. It’s as if part of our past has been torn out when these things... Read more

September 24 Tech news roundup: Kaspersky replaced by UltraAV in the U.S., YouTube Premium prices increased, HP Print AI is coming to printers

News September 28, 2024

UltraAV was installed automatically on PCs that had Kaspersky antivirus in the U.S. Kaspersky users were in for a shock in the U.S., when their PC’s security software was uninstalled automatically. And, it was replaced by UltraAV antivirus. The migration was a result of a ban issued by the... Read more

September 21 Tech news roundup: YouTube will display ads when you pause videos, iOS 18 and macOS 15 are here, Windows 11 24H2 to release this month

News September 21, 2024

YouTube confirms that it will display ads when you pause videos Many users had been complaining that they had seen videos play when they had paused YouTube videos. Well, it is official now. Google has confirmed that YouTube will display ads when users pause videos, and the company has... Read more

How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Best Software News System Tuning September 19, 2024

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing... Read more

September 14 Tech news roundup: Apple launches iPhone 16 series, Google Search adds links to pages from Internet Archive, ChatGPT Plus prices could be increased

News September 14, 2024

Apple launches the iPhone 16 series with major improvements Apple announced the iPhone 16 lineup this week, with several hardware improvements. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are powered by an A18 SoC, while the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max have an A18 Pro chip.... Read more

September 7 Tech news roundup: Remote desktop is renamed to Windows App, Marketers could be using your smart device’s microphone to spy on you, Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10 user share

News September 7, 2024

Goodbye Remote Desktop, Hello Windows app Microsoft has announced that it is renaming the Remote Desktop app. It will now be called the Windows app. That’s quite confusing, the older name was pretty clear about what the app was used for. The newer one is rather unusual, Microsoft terms... Read more

August 31 Tech news roundup: AMD’s Performance Patch impresses gamers, Control Panel may be around for longer,

News August 31, 2024

AMD’s Performance patch is now available for Windows 11 23H2 Windows 11 24H2, which is the upcoming feature update, is scheduled to be released this Fall. It adds a number of new features, and also includes a very important patch for AMD computers powered by Zen 3, Zen 4... Read more

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Mac News Video Editing Software Windows August 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences,... Read more

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News August 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated,... Read more

August 17 Tech news roundup: Google Chrome kills ad blockers, Windows Update is causing PCs to lag, Pixel phones are vulnerable to a hack

News August 17, 2024

The end of ad blockers on Chrome? Here’s a fix Google will soon update Chrome to use a new system for extensions, and this is rather bad. The change has been introduced as a part of the Manifest V3 API, which will end support for many extensions. It also... Read more

August 10 Tech news roundup: Google loses antitrust case in the U.S., Firefox gets new Reader view features, 3 AI features are coming to Chrome

News August 10, 2024

Nvidia driver update may cause Blue Screens on older CPUs Nvidia has ended support for CPUs that don’t support POPCNT, meaning its display drivers are not compatible with chips that don’t support the instructions. POPCNT, or Population Count, was first introduced in the SSE4.2 architecture that debuted in 2008,... Read more

August 3 Tech news roundup: Chrome may soon stop supporting old extensions, YouTube frustrates ad blocker users, Apple releases security updates for old devices

News August 3, 2024

Google Chrome may soon stop supporting some extensions Google Chrome users are seeing an unwanted change, the browser has begun displaying a warning that says “These extensions may soon no longer be supported“. The message appears on the Extensions page, but what is about? Why are the add-ons going... Read more

July 27 Tech news roundup: CrowdStrike says that a bug caused the massive outage, Apple Maps is now available for web browsers, Windows 11 has a new pop-up ad

News July 27, 2024

CrowdStrike says that the global outage was caused by test software Last week, the world was shocked by Windows computers crashing across various organizations. It affected offices, airports, hospitals, and several businesses across the globe. Microsoft was incorrectly blamed for the massive outage, which was actually caused by a... Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Repairing Corrupt PST Files

Best Software Desktop News Productivity July 25, 2024

PST files, or Personal Storage Table files, are file formats used by Microsoft Outlook to store local copies of users’ email messages, calendars, events, and other items. PSTs are designed to allow us to manage our emails offline, without being connected to our POP3 server, and let the system... Read more

July 20 Tech news roundup: Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage affected thousands of PCs, Intel CPUs have a big problem, Kaspersky exits the U.S.

News July 20, 2024

Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage causes computers to fail across the world Thousands of Windows computers experienced a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error on Friday. The result left thousands of computers across the world. Several offices were affected by the issue, and many hospitals, banks, airlines, TV Stations were left without... Read more

July 13 Tech news roundup: Windows Notepad gets a spell checker, Firefox adds simpler data clearing options, Xbox Game Pass is now available on Amazon Fire TV devices

News July 13, 2024

Notepad gets a spell checker on Windows 11 Microsoft has added a very important feature to Notepad on Windows 11. The text editor, which has been part of the operating system for 41 years, now supports spell check. The latest version of Windows Notepad now checks the spelling of... Read more