Facebook’s new Instagram update makes the app act more like a messaging app. Now, Instagram users can see when their friends were the last update in the Direct Messaging section of the app. It works very much like WhatsApp as well, in that users can tu this off for more privacy, but will also lose t...

Imagine being able to generate high-quality photos just be describing them to a computer. This sci-fi scenario is now a reality, thanks to Microsoft’s new AI tool. Drawing Bot created the above image simply from the description of “a bird with a yellow body, black wings and a short beak,” using a ne...

Mozilla’s Firefox has been praised for its dramatic speed increase with Firefox Quantum. The firm is aiming to make its browser app even better with Firefox 58 (via Neowin). The firm will be adding a new 2-tiered compiler to the browser, compiling code with a baseline compiler compiling code 10 time...

Microsoft today released an update for Groove Music app in Microsoft Store for Insiders in the Fast Ring. This update brings the much-awaited Equalizer feature. Users can access the equalizer from the Settings page. Microsoft is offering several presets like Flat, Treble Boost, Bass Bost, etc for us...

Fox has a ounced that its video game division founded last year, FoxNext, has acquired Cold Iron Studios to work on a game based on the Alien franchise. The game is set to be a shooter for consoles and PC (via Polygon). “Cold Iron Studios has amazing design, craftsmanship and development talent that...

Back in September last year, Slack a ounced a new brand new feature called Shared Cha els which co ects two separate organizations, creating a common cha el for both sides to make use of Slack’s features and platform integrations when working together. Shared Cha el differs from Guest Access which k...

Microsoft is currently embroiled in a long-ru ing 2013 data jurisdiction case, with Microsoft is currently in the US Supreme Court fighting a data request by the DoJ for information held in Ireland on their servers on an Irish resident. The DoJ has argued that since Microsoft controls the servers th...

Microsoft today released Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17069 to developers. This SDK can be used with Windows 10 Insider Build 17074 or later. At this stage, it, unfortunately, comes without a changelog, but likely includes support for C++/WinRT compilers in the Windows SDK as its headline feature. T...

Ubisoft is deploying a patch tomorrow for Assassin’s Creed Origins on all platforms that adds a new quest and provides a host of other fixes within the game. Part of the patch also adds support for the upcoming story expansion, The Hidden Ones, which is set to release at the end of this month. Ever ...

Microsoft has become increasingly aggressive in pushing people who downloaded their Cortana for Android app to integrate the app into the Android OS, with one of their new features tu ing the app into rather a nice overlay for reminders on your home screen as can be seen in the screenshot above. Now...

A new Preview Alpha build that released for Xbox One Insiders today has added the ability to schedule your themes. This comes shortly after another Alpha build earlier in the week that allowed Insiders to test a Do Not Disturb feature. Preview Alpha build 1802.180109-1916 going out today contains bo...

We recently posted the full specs of the GPD Win 2, the successor to the well-received GPD Win mini gaming laptop, and now the device has finally become available for pre-order on Indiegogo. The first 1000 buyers managed to snag the mini-PC for $599, but that perk already appears to be sold out, wit...

One of the rather superfluous apps in Windows 10, even more than Candy Crush Saga, is the Windows 10 Messaging app, which is meant to keep track of messages sent to you over LTE from your mobile operator and SMS messages sent via Skype SMS Relay service, but don’t actually let you send messages. The...

There has been an increasing momentum around folding smartphones, which would let smartphone screen sizes escape from the confines of being pocketable. Despite interest from a number of companies it was ZTE which brought the first mode smartphone with a dual-screen design, the ZTE Axon M, exclusive ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft included a helpful volume popup and media control widget, akin to that on what was then called Windows Phone so that when users pressed the volume keys on their devices, they could also change the media playing as well. As Windows 10 has become more desktop focused, some us...

While the world was recovering from the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, F-Secure found a new security issue which will allow hackers to gain full control of the laptops in merely 30 seconds. The new vulnerability was found in Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) that allowed any hacker to ...

Seamus Blackley, one of the men who designed the original Xbox, has a ounced that the Duke controller is coming back at the end of March for $69.99, close to the price of a standard Xbox One controller. Back in September, Blackley a ounced that Microsoft had partnered with accessory manufacturer Hyp...

We reported recently that Samsung has confirmed that they were working on a folding phone and another rumour that they would be showing it off to insiders at CES 2018. Now a person present at one of these private meetings has spilled the beans after seeing the device there. Apparently, two versions ...

Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are rumoured for a long time now and recently the company did confirm February as the launch date for the device. We have already known the rumoured specs for a while now but it looks the official specs have just been leaked. The above picture shows a box which looks a ...

The IDC reports PC sales were better than expected in Q4 2017, with shipments actually growing 0.7% YoY instead of declining 1.7% as expected. A total of 70.6 million traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) were shipped. A total of 259.5 million PCs were shipped in 2017, supported by co...