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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

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

July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages

News July 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar... Read more

June 29 Tech news roundup: Gmail is getting an AI, AMD wants to make game downloads faster, OneDrive is enabled automatically in Windows 11

News June 29, 2024

Windows 11 will automatically back up your folders to OneDrive Microsoft is enabling OneDrive folder back up in Windows 11 for new installations of the operating system. Prior to this change, on the first run, Windows 11 would ask the user for their permission to set up OneDrive on... Read more

June 22 Tech news roundup: Kaspersky banned in the U.S., Microsoft patches critical Wi-Fi security issue in Windows, Snapdragon X laptops fail to impress in gaming performance

News June 22, 2024

Biden administration bans Kaspersky products in the U.S. The United States Government has officially banned all Kaspersky products in the Country. Users will need to switch to alternative security products as the company can no longer sell its software in the U.S. The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry... Read more

June 15 Tech news round up: Apple announces iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, YouTube ads are getting more intrusive, Apple Intelligence is here to take on Copilot and Gemini

News June 15, 2024

Bitwarden Authenticator adds support for switching from other authenticators Bitwarden, the makers of the popular password manager service, have updated the Bitwarden Authenticator with a highly-requested feature. You can now switch from other authenticators easily using the new option to import security tokens, aka TOTPs (time-based one-time passwords). Bitwarden... Read more

June 8 Tech news round up: Spotify and Twitch subscription prices are increasing, Brave Browser and Search grows rapidly

News June 8, 2024

Spotify Premium plans are now more expensive in the U.S. Spotify has hiked its prices in the U.S. once again, for a second time in less than 12 months. The streaming service has announced that all subscribers will be notified of the price change within the next month. Spotify... Read more

June 1 Tech news round up: Chrome to disable Manifest V2 extensions soon, Windows 11 will let you copy text from photos on your phone, YouTube is causing some issues for ad blocker users

News June 1, 2024

Manifest V2 extensions will soon be disabled in Chrome Google has revealed the timeline for deprecating Manifest V2 extensions in its Chrome browser. Developers will be forced to use the new Manifest V3 API in their add-ons. The migration to Manifest V3 will reduce the capabilities of extensions, which... Read more

May 25 Tech news roundup: Firefox to get Vertical Tabs and Tab Group, Apple fixes Photos bug in iOS 17.5, Google Search is placing ads in AI overviews

News May 25, 2024

Mozilla Firefox is getting Vertical Tabs Tab Groups, and Profile Management Mozilla has big plans for Firefox, the browser maker announced its plans to add three user-requested features in the next year. The first of these is support for Vertical tabs. It will allow users to use a sidebar... Read more

May 18 Tech news roundup: VMware makes Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro free, iOS 17.5 and macOS Sonoma 14.5 update released, GTA 6 to release in 2025

News May 18, 2024

iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5 update brings an anti-tracking feature Apple released the iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5 and macOS Sonoma 14.5 updates. The Cupertino company has partnered with Google to add support for cross-platform Tracking Detection. Google had added the feature to Android devices last year. The anti-stalking feature works... Read more

May 11 Tech news roundup: Apple launches new iPad Pro, OpenAI wants to launch its own search engine, Google no longer needs your phone number for 2SV

News May 11, 2024

Apple releases iPad Pro with M4 chip Apple has launched a new tablet called the iPad Pro 2024. The device is powered by a brand-new Apple M4 Silicon chip, which is 1.5x times faster than the M2 CPU, and can deliver up to 10 hours of battery life. The... Read more

May 4 Tech news roundup: Arc Browser released for Windows, Netflix discontinues Basic plan, OneDrive gets an offline mode

News May 4, 2024

A new desktop browser is available for Windows 11. Netflix is discontinuing its cheapest ad-free plan. Let’s find out what else happened in this week’s tech news roundup. Netflix asks Basic users to move to other plans Netflix has begun prompting users who are subscribed to its Basic plan... Read more

April 27th Tech news roundup: Windows 10 faster, Adobe makes blurry video great again and Fallout 4 updated amazingly

News April 27, 2024

In this week’s edition of our tech news roundup, we discuss the release of a new browser for desktops, improvements to Windows 10, and more. Windows 10 updates are faster than ever because of a simple change One of the biggest criticisms with Windows updates are that they take... Read more