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Apple Music is great but fans of the service have been longing for the ability to access their music library through a Web browser, rather than having to use iTunes. That all changes now, as Apple has finally launched a Web player for Apple Music. It’s currently in beta, but the feature is live at

Clue, a popular app women use to track their periods, has risen to near the top of Apple’s Health and Fitness category. It could be downhill from here. Apple plans this month to incorporate some of Clue’s core functionality such as fertility and period prediction into its own Health app that comes pre-installed in every

Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS devices with a new image blocking setting to prevent Gmail from automatically loading attached images. With the update, users can choose to be asked each time whether or not to display external images in an email. The new setting is meant to counteract the tracking services that

A new iPhone codenamed ‘iPhone 12,1′ has now been spotted on Geekbench tipping key specifications and CPU statistics. This new iPhone 12,1 is expected to be the successor of the iPhone XR, touted to be called the iPhone 11. Its reported score is 5,415 for the single-core results, and 1,1294 for the multi-core results. The

Google last week disclosed the details of an incredibly sophisticated campaign to attack iPhones and steal vast amounts of personal, uniquely identifying data over the course of several years. The company only said at the time that iPhones were affected, and that it notified Apple privately of the vulnerabilities in February this year. Apple then

A little over a year ago, Microsoft added support for a dark mode within Outlook.com. The technology giant is now bringing support for a dark mode on Outlook for Android and iOS. That’s not all, Outlook.com for Web and mobile will also receive a dark mode soon. Once Apple released iOS 13 later this year,

Google on Thursday announced that it has discovered a number of hacked websites that have been found to be pushing malware to Apple iPhone users for at least two years. These websites, controlled by an unknown set of people, were being used to indiscriminately attack their visitors using a iPhone zero-day flaw. The search giant’s

Skype has introduced several new features for desktop and mobile users in its latest update. This includes the ability to save unsent messages as drafts, the ability to bookmark messages, as well as preview media and files before sending. There’s also a new split window feature that has been made available only for desktop users

WPS Office, the popular freemium alternative Office suite, is now available on the Mac. The release of WPS Office 2020 — which was unveiled at the global launch event in New Delhi on Wednesday — fills a glaring gap in the portfolio of Kingsoft Office, the makers of WPS Office. The event also underlined company’s

Google Pay which reported 55 million monthly active users in India in May has set eyes on tapping over 12 million ubiquitous kirana stores to write its next India growth story, a top company executive said on Wednesday. According to Ambarish Kenghe, Director, Product Management, Google Pay, India, more and more people are embracing Google

Samsung sold over 75 million smartphones globally in the second quarter (Q2) 2019 and grew its share by 1.1 percentage points (year over year) after witnessing a decline in six consecutive quarters, Gartner said on Tuesday. Strong demand for Samsung’s new Galaxy A series smartphones and the revamp of its entire entry-level and mid-range smartphone

Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the regulatory authority of civil aviation in India, has asked the air passengers in the country to stop carrying select units of 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro laptops, which were recalled by Apple over safety fears, in their hand or checked-in baggage. DGCA’s notice comes over a month after US Federal

Qualcomm won a partial stay against the enforcement of a sweeping antitrust ruling in a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a court filing on Friday. The company on May 21 lost in an antitrust lawsuit and has been fighting to have the ruling put on hold while it pursued

Netflix is working on curation from real, honest-to-goodness humans, taking a break from algorithms for all of its show suggestions, as seen by testing by the streaming giant. “If you’re involved in the A/B test, you’ll see a pop-up the next time you open Netflix. It takes the place of the ‘My List’ queue at

Apple believes some of its zealous customers will treasure its new titanium credit card so much that they will spend time polishing its white finish. That’s why Apple has posted instructions on how to clean the card properly and warned that some materials might leave blemishes that are difficult to remove. The list of potential

Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple Inc and Firefox browser maker Mozilla took steps on Wednesday to block the Kazakh government from creating an internet surveillance system using their browsers. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will block a government encryption certificate that allows authorities to read anything a user types or posts using the browsers, including account

YouTube direct messaging service, not the most popular way to chat for a large number of users, is set to fade out soon. The Messages service is being pulled from Android, iOS, and the Web, Google announced in a support post on its site. “Two years ago, we launched a feature to enable you to

Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over an App Store that has become an industry unto itself. Under the new rules, which Apple had planned to implement next month, kids apps on Apple’s App Store

As the war between digital assistants intensifies, Google Assistant has once again beaten Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri when it comes to answering queries correctly on smartphones. In its annual test, research-driven venture capital firm Loup Ventures found that Google Assistant understood every single query and answered correctly 92.9 percent of the time. The research

Apple recently came under the scanner for locking batteries of select iPhones. If a user replaces the iPhone battery through third-party retailer – a ‘service’ message now shows up in the Battery Health section. Furthermore, the Battery Health data is not shown, and an error message is displayed instead. This happens even if the user

Apple iPhone 11 will reportedly come with the same OLED displays used for Samsung’s Galaxy S10 and Note 10.The move is likely to assist Samsung Display in a number of ways, including reducing the list of suppliers it uses to acquire materials, and buying more from a smaller supplier pool, a report has claimed. Ever

Google has introduced a revamped Socratic app after acquiring it last year. The app is now powered by Google AI, offering tonnes of new features, and resources to help high school and university students. The new Socratic by Google app is now live on the App Store for iOS users, and is said to be

Going by Apple’s annual rituals, the new iPhone range is expected to break cover in September. For the third time in a row, Apple is said to launch three iPhones. Recent reports however tipped that all three of the latest iPhone models will go on sale in the same month as their launch dropping the

Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour at a press event in San Francisco, California, revealed that the anticipated edit button isn’t likely to be available anytime soon on the platform. Beykpour’s response comes months after CEO Jack Dorsey suggested the arrival of an option to let users add a little clarification to the tweets that contain

Apple is expected to lift the covers from its 2019 iPhone lineup next month, if the past iPhone launch event timeline is anything to go by. Continuing the tradition from the past two years, Apple will reportedly launch three new iPhones in 2019 as well, but this time, there might be a major change in Apple’s

Apple has never shied away from boasting about how secure its systems are, but researchers have found that contacts saved on iPhones are vulnerable to an SQLite hack attack which could infect the devices with malware. SQLite – the most widespread database engine in the world – is available in every operating system (OS), desktop

Google Maps has now introduced a new tool that allows users to see their upcoming flight and hotel reservations while travelling. The new reservations tab can be spotted in the ‘Your Place’ section. It is also expanding the availability of Live View feature that uses AR to amp up the navigation experience. There’s also the

Apple appears to be preventing third-party battery replacement on few iPhone models, meaning users cannot replace the battery without any glitch forcing them to go to Apple authorised service providers only. The tech giant is reportedly locking down batteries with a software switch, and if users decide to replace the battery on their own, or

Apple has announced that its analytics platform for musicians, called “Apple Music for Artists”, is out of beta and available for all. The platform is intended to help artistes get insights about how their music is performing on a platform across the world, The Verge reported on Thursday, “Apple Music for Aritsts” has been introduced

WhatsApp has been spotted developing a Boomerang feature that would allow users to create looping videos. The feature is currently in a development stage and will be initially available for iPhone users, according to a report. However, it is said to also reach Android users soon after its debut on iOS. WhatsApp sister concern Instagram