Google Calendar finally lets you block task time like real meetings

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google Calendar’s latest feature update enables users to block off time for tasks and mark themselves as busy directly within the app. This expands the existing Tasks feature, fulfilling requests from Workspace users. The rollout began for Rapid Release d…

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Google Calendar can now include schedule tasks

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Apple's future iPhone cases could add touch surfaces beyond the screen

appleinsider - Apple is said to be working on cases that add extra touch controls to an iPhone, so you can do things like manage music playback without needing to touch the screen.A selection of iPhone 16 Pro cases. Smartphone users will be familiar with the screen and …

#hardware #mobiletech #innovation #apple #iphone #gadget #ux #technology #smartphone

Apple’s possible new case tech could reshape how you use your iPhone

3 months / digitaltrends

Apple Exploring iPhone Pro Case With Touch Controls

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Apple Exploring Touch-Sensitive Layers Built Into Official iPhone Cases

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Apple's future iPhone cases could add touch surfaces beyond the screen

3 months / appleinsider

Apple Exploring Touch-Sensitive Layers Built Into Official iPhone Cases

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X Rolls Out Encrypted ‘Chat’ to Replace DMs, But Admits Critical Security Flaws

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - X is replacing DMs with 'Chat,' adding video calls and end-to-end encryption. But the platform admits it has major security holes, leaving users vulnerable.The post X Rolls Out Encrypted ‘Chat’ to Replace DMs, But Admits Critical Security Flaws appeared f…

#cybersecurity #chatgpt #apps #security #privacy #ux #technology #instantmessaging #encryption #digitalprivacy

X just made your DMs a lot more secure thanks to a key upgrade

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X Launches Chat for Fully Encrypted, Private Messaging

3 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

X Launches 'Chat' Encrypted Direct Messaging Service

3 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs

3 months / theverge / Dominic Preston

X Rolls Out Encrypted ‘Chat’ to Replace DMs, But Admits Critical Security Flaws

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google rolls out new Gemini app design

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Google is rolling out a visual update to the Gemini app that introduces new design elements and color changes. This follows recent improvements to the app’s video generation capabilities and Gemini Live features. According to 9to5Google, the update brings…

#ai #automation #techpolicy #google #aiethics #apps #privacy #ux #updates #gemini

Eurofiber France disclosed a data breach it discovered late last week when hackers gained access to its ticket management system by exploiting a vulnerability and exfiltrated information.

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Eurofiber France warns of breach after hacker tries to sell customer data

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Project Gemini

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Google’s AI Just Mastered Video Games

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Google rolls out new Gemini app design

3 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

How to turn off Gemini AI across the Google services you visit every day

3 months / digitaltrends

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign requires a constant online connection and has zero checkpoints — mission levels are designed for four, necessitating repetitive tasks if you play alone

tomshardware - Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's approach to its single-player campaign has got players complaining.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign requires a constant online connection and has zero checkpoints — mission levels are designed for four, necessitating repetitive tasks if you play alone

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign can't be paused, has no checkpoints, and kicks idle players

3 months / techspot

Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em dashes. "Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes i…

#ai #software #openai #aiethics #chatgpt #ux #technology #patching #updates

Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

3 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI says it’s fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem

3 months / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is shaping up to be a glorious return for Samus

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - I’ve always greatly appreciated the Metroid series for how much of a different flavour it brings to the Nintendo catalogue. With many of the Japanese gaming giant’s family-friendly franchises including colourful platformers like Mario and Kirby or fantast…

#software #hardware #gaming #entertainment #nintendo #ux #technology #videogames #bugs

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond final preview: evolving the series with 4K HDR visuals and new powers

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is shaping up to be a glorious return for Samus

3 months / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

‘Metroid Prime 4: Beyond’ Puts the Switch 2’s Controls to its Biggest Test

3 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Metroid Prime 4 looks and feels great, but Im nervous about one little thing

3 months / mashable

'Metroid Prime 4: Beyond' thrillingly brings the series into the modern era

3 months / engadget

Netflix's New Era of TV Games Starts Now

BeauHD / slashdot - Netflix is launching a new slate of TV-streamed party games that are all playable using your phone as the controller. The Verge reports: To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and …

#gaming #digitaltransformation #streaming #entertainment #netflix #apps #ux #technology #tv #smartphone

Netflix is Bringing a Catalogue of Games to Your TV

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Netflix puts Red Dead Redemption in your pocket with Undead Nightmare

3 months / digitaltrends

Netflix's New Era of TV Games Starts Now

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Netflix introduces new Game Night feature with classic party games like Pictionary

3 months / mashable

Netflix is bringing its gaming service to the TV

3 months / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

Elissa Welle / theverge - Spotify is launching a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what you’ve already heard without needing to rewind. The company likens the feature, called Recaps, to a “previously on” segment at the start of episodes in a TV series. Recaps will be a…

#ai #mobile #streaming #aiethics #apps #music #ux #technology #spotify

Spotify Launches Audiobook Recaps on iOS

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Spotify adds Audiobook Recaps to get you up to speed

3 months / mashable

Spotify just fixed the most annoying thing about audiobooks

3 months / digitaltrends

Spotify's Recaps Helps You Return to Started Audiobooks

3 months / cnet / Ty Pendlebury

Spotify is adding recaps for audiobooks

3 months / engadget

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

3 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

Spotify adds a new, less repetitive shuffle, plus audiobook recaps

3 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options

Hayden Field / theverge - OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August. OpenAI calls it an “upgrade” to GPT-5 that “makes ChatGPT smarter and more enjoyable to talk to.” The new models include GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The fo…

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 model gets a personality makeover and superior reasoning skills

3 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

OpenAI Releases Its ‘More Conversational’ GPT-5.1

3 months / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

OpenAI Launches Smarter, More Conversational ChatGPT 5.1

3 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

OpenAI Surprise Launches GPT-5.1, Promising A More Conversational Experience

3 months / bgr

OpenAI pushes ChatGPT toward a more personal assistant with GPT-5.1 update

3 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

3 months / openai

Airbnb tests letting users order groceries through Instacart

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Airbnb is testing a service in which guests can order groceries through Instacart, as reported by Bloomberg. This may not sound like a big deal at first, because guests can already use any grocery app during their stay to stock the house up with snacks. H…

#innovation #ecommerce #apps #food #travel #ux #delivery

Airbnb Experiments With Instacart Grocery Deliveries to Guests

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Airbnb Testing Option for Guests to Order Instacart Supplies Ahead of Their Stay

3 months / cnet / Giselle Castro-Sloboda

Airbnb will offer the "kitchen stocking" service during a three-month pilot program starting on January 5, according to an email sent to hosts.

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Airbnb tests letting users order groceries through Instacart

3 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Airbnb will let you stock the kitchen before a stay by bringing Instacart to the Airbnb app

3 months / mashable

Airbnb’s testing a ‘kitchen stocking’ service that lets guests place Instacart orders before their stay

3 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Google’s November 2025 Pixel Drop is here with a host of upgrades for your Pixel

digitaltrends - Google today announced a Pixel Drop for Pixel 6 and newer models, bringing theme packs, the Remix feature in Google Messages, and more.

#ai #software #google #android #aiethics #apps #photography #ux #updates

The November Pixel Drop is Here with a Big Update for Android Too

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Google’s November Pixel Drop adds more AI-related features

3 months / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

Google’s November Pixel Drop: Here are All the New Features

3 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Google’s November 2025 Pixel Drop is here with a host of upgrades for your Pixel

3 months / digitaltrends

Nano Banana AI Slides Into Your DMs And Other November Pixel Drop Features

3 months / bgr

Google's November Pixel Drop Adds Photo Remixing in Messages, Scam Protection and 'Wicked' Themes

3 months / cnet / Nelson Aguilar

Remix in Google Messages brings AI photo editing to even more phones

3 months / engadget

Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The tech giant says the change will enable users to use their voice more naturally to access content and more.

#voice #google #streaming #aiethics #genai #ux #technology #assistant #tv #gemini

Gemini for TV is rolling out to the Google TV Streamer

3 months / engadget

The tech giant says the change will enable users to use their voice more naturally to access content and more.

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Your Google TV Streamer is about to get a whole lot smarter

3 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Gemini for TV is coming to Google TV Streamer starting today

3 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer

3 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Gemini for TV is Now Rolling Out to the Google TV Streamer

3 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

iOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, and iPadOS 26.2 betas are here: How to download

mashable - Want to check out the next round of Apple software updates? You can do that right now.

#software #apple #ios #apps #ipad #ux #macos #technology #updates #operatingsystems

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

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iOS 26.2 public beta expands new Lock Screen and Health updates to all users

3 months / ithinkdiff / Asma Hussain

macOS Tahoe's Terrible Icons

3 months / slashdot / msmash

Apple Releases First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta

3 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

iOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, and iPadOS 26.2 betas are here: How to download

3 months / mashable

Spotify just turned Wrapped into a weekly thing with Listening Stats

digitaltrends - No more waiting for December to see your music story. Spotify’s new Listening Stats feature gives you a weekly snapshot of your top artists, tracks, and discoveries, all refreshed every seven days. It’s Wrapped, but faster, and designed for sharing straig…

#analytics #dataviz #mobile #streaming #apps #music #ux #technology #spotify

Spotify rolls out weekly listening stats for 60 countries

4 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Spotify Wrapped is now a weekly rather than annual event

4 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Spotify Just Added A Wrapped-Like Feature You Can Check Every Week

4 months / bgr

Spotify just turned Wrapped into a weekly thing with Listening Stats

4 months / digitaltrends

Curious about your music taste? Spotify now lets you check every week

4 months / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Spotifys new listening stats keep the Wrapped energy going year round

4 months / mashable

Get your Spotify Wrapped stats every week with this new feature

4 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Apple Releases First iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 Public Betas

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple today provided public beta testers with the first releases of upcoming iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, and watchOS 26.2 updates for testing purposes. The public betas come two days after Apple provided the betas to developers.After signing up for …

#software #mobiletech #apple #ios #ipad #ux #macos #updates #operatingsystems #developertools

iOS 26.2 to Allow Third-Party App Stores in Japan Ahead of Regulatory Deadline

4 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Apple Music finally remembers the words when you’re offline

4 months / digitaltrends

Apple Shares Liquid Glass Design Gallery

4 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple has made the first developer beta version of macOS Tahoe 26.2 available for downloadm, a day after beta versions of iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, and visionOS 26.2 were made available.

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Apple Releases First iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 Public Betas

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First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Beta Now Available to Developers

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iOS 26.2 Might Let You Adjust Your iPhone's Liquid Glass Even More

4 months / cnet / Zachary McAuliffe

iOS 26's First Big Update Brings Liquid Glass Control, But Users Say It's Not Enough

4 months / slashgear

First macOS Tahoe 26.2 beta released for developer testing

4 months / appleinsider

Apple Releases First iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 Public Betas

4 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Beta Now Available to Developers

4 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Snap and Perplexity sign $400 million deal to put AI search directly in Snapchat

engadget - Snap and Perplexity AI have struck a $400 million deal that will bring the AI search engine directly to Snapchat sometime in "early 2026," the two companies announced. With the partnership, Perplexity's AI search engine will be a prominent part of Snapcha…

#ai #ml #digitaltransformation #aiethics #business #snapchat #apps #ux #technology #perplexity

Perplexity, Snap ink $400m deal to pump more AI into Snapchat

4 months / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

It finally happened: Snap surprised on earnings. A slight beat on revenue ($1.51B vs $1.49B) and DAU (477M vs 476M), but the headline is Perplexity paying $400M to put its chatbot in Snapchat. The wild part? Snap gets paid not the other way around. Surp

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Snap stock jumps on Perplexity AI partnership and better-than-expected earnings results

4 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Snap and Perplexity sign $400 million deal to put AI search directly in Snapchat

4 months / engadget

Snap Shares Soar on Perplexity AI Deal

4 months / wsj

Snap shares rocket 25% on strong forecast, $400 million Perplexity deal

4 months / cnbc

Apple Releases 26.1 Updates to Its Operating Systems

John Gruber / macstories - John Voorhees, writing at MacStories: With iOS 26, Apple placed two big buttons onscreen when an alarmwent off. One was for stop and the other snooze. That wasn’t a bigdeal for many of the alarms you set throughout the day, but whenyou’re waking up in the…

#software #mobiletech #apple #ios #ux #technology #smartphone #updates #operatingsystems #timcook

Tired of Manually Downloading Security Updates? This iOS 26.1 Setting Can Do It Automatically

4 months / cnet / Zachary McAuliffe

iOS 26.2 Beta 1 Finally Lets You Customize The Liquid Glass Effect On The Lock Screen

4 months / bgr

iOS 26.1 fixed my Liquid Glass frustrations — and served a few other surprises too

4 months / digitaltrends

iOS 26: How to customize the iPhone's Lock Screen clock

4 months / appleinsider

Apple just fixed this annoying lock screen feature with iOS 26.1

4 months / pocket-lint / Kelsey Fogarty

Apple Releases 26.1 Updates to Its Operating Systems

4 months / macstories / John Gruber

iPadOS 26.1 brings back a beloved multitasking feature to Apple’s tablets

4 months / digitaltrends

iOS 26.1 update is here and it brings a fix for the controversial Liquid Glass look

4 months / digitaltrends

Not a Fan of Your iPhone's Liquid Glass Design? Change It With This iOS 26.1 Setting

4 months / cnet / Zachary McAuliffe

Apple Launches App Store for the Web

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple launched a new App Store on the web today, allowing users to browse through and search for apps across all of its platforms.The updated apps.apple.com site provides a drop down for each platform, and it includes the Today section with app and game r…

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Apple Gives its App Store a Proper Web App

4 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Apple revamps App Store on the web

4 months / mobilesyrup / Brad Bennett

Apple’s App Store gets a new web interface

4 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Apple Finally Brings Its App Store To The Web

4 months / bgr

Apple brings its App Store to the web

4 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Apple finally brings the full App Store experience to the web

4 months / appleinsider

Apple Launches a Fresh New Look for the App Store on the Web

4 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Apple Launches App Store for the Web

4 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Historical commentary nuances

Apple's App Store website is actually an app store website now

4 months / engadget

Non-Apple device access

The App Store finally works on Windows and Android browsers

4 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

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Before this update, users could see individual pages for apps on the web, but there was no way to browse within the App Store.

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Apple’s new browser-based App Store lets anyone browse, search, and share apps across every platform, no Apple device required.

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Apple Launches App Store for the Web

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How to make your lock screen background holographic in iOS 26

Rob Webb / engadget - Apple continues to refine the look and feel of the iPhone with each major iOS release, and iOS 26 places more emphasis than ever on personalization. The one big change is the introduction of Spatial Scenes, a feature that allows you to create what Apple c…