I didn’t realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I’ve had recommendations turned off this entire time.
We’ve all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you’re so excited you’re practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You’re so engrossed that you forget there’s a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner.
Spotify is once again raising prices. This time around, the subscription bump is to pay for something that subscribers might not want in the first place.
A new “social networking app” named Palmsy wants you to know that you don’t need to have thousands of followers or be a celebrity to get a lot of likes on social media. In fact, it’ll send you all the likes you want. There’s just one catch: They’re fake.
When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the promotional images for her new photo-sharing app, Shine, on Tuesday, I thought I was looking at one of the Facebook posts my elderly aunt has a habit of creating. But alas, the person posting was not my aunt, it was Mayer.
I spent a lot of time watching YouTube on my TV, so you can imagine my surprise when app researcher Nima Owji shared an early look at X’s upcoming TV app: It looks almost exactly like YouTube.
Facebook and Instagram appears to be coming back online as of 12:30 p.m. ET after a nationwide outage. Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according to Down Detector.
As someone with a tech-related job, I’m regularly bombarded with questions about the best smartphones, why emails might have suddenly stopped showing up, and how to back up photos and videos. There’s another common question I hear a lot as well: How do I use Microsoft Office for free?
If you’re pissed that Amazon recently pulled a fast one and inserted ads into its previously ad-free streaming service Prime Video, you can now make your wrath felt.