Published on: 2025-06-03 07:51:29
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has confirmed a bug in its Android app that is causing buttons in the bottom navigation bar to disappear for some users. Google says the issue is currently limited to Android users in the US, but users in Europe, India, and elsewhere are also reporting the same problem. The company hasn’t issued a fix yet, but has said it’s actively investigating the problem. YouTube has acknowledged a bug affecting the navigation bar in its Android app. In a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 17:17:09
WhatsApp is gearing up to launch a long-awaited feature: usernames. With usernames, users will be able to connect with others without sharing their actual phone number. Spotted by WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog) in a recent TestFlight beta version of the app, this under-development feature will finally allow users to pick a unique handle. Yes, just like on Telegram, Signal, and most other modern messaging platforms. While the feature isn’t live yet, even for beta testers, WABetaInfo found strings t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 21:17:00
WTF?! OneDrive is one of the most popular cloud storage services in the market, largely because Microsoft aggressively promotes it to Windows users. However, security researchers warn that OneDrive's File Picker feature may expose users and organizations to serious data risks by granting full read access to unauthorized parties. Microsoft is being extremely careless with security boundaries in OneDrive. A recent Oasis Security analysis revealed that OneDrive's File Picker tool can grant website
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 21:57:31
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google Wallet will soon no longer let you pay with your PayPal account in the US. On a help center page spotted by Android Authority, Google says it will stop supporting the payment method and automatically delete linked PayPal accounts on June 13th, 2025. The company has also stopped letting users link PayPal accounts to Wallet as of April 11th. N
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 21:16:55
Microsoft Bing announced today that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI’s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI, which has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora‘s video generation for paying customers only. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the first time that it will be available for free. Image Credits:Microsoft Bing At launch, Bing Video Creator is not yet available on desktop, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 01:01:21
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s Sora was one of the most hyped releases of the AI era, launching in December 2024, nearly 10 months after it was first previewed to awe-struck reactions due to its — at the time, at least — unprecedented level of realism, camera dynamism, and prompt adherence and 60-second long generation clips. However, much of the luster has worn off as numerous other AI vid
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 01:20:31
A platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to use these AI tools to create videos using their characters and then share them on a new social feed. “Character.AI started as 1:1 text chat and today we’re evolving to do so much more, inspired by what our users have told [
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 09:10:28
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet is ending its PayPal account integration for U.S. users, meaning they will soon lose the ability to use linked PayPal for payments. This change takes effect on June 13, 2025, and Google already stopped new PayPal linking for U.S. users in April. The discontinuation will not affect Google Wallet users in Germany or those in the U.S. who directly added a PayPal-branded Debit Mastercard. While Google struggled with branding its digital wal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 09:08:12
Millions of people are now using ChatGPT as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to vent to. In 2025, it’s not uncommon to hear about people spilling intimate details of their lives into an AI chatbot’s prompt bar, but also relying on the advice it gives back. Humans are starting to have, for lack of a better term, relationships with AI chatbots, and for Big Tech companies, it’s never been more competitive to attract users to their chatbot platforms — and keep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 17:30:40
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X’s Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing messages, encryption, and the ability to share files, alongside its audio and video calling support. The new features aren’t yet broadly available, as XChat only recently started beta testing among a select group of users. However, Musk said that the X team expects to bring XChat to all users sometime this week, unless they encounter scaling issu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:06:00
TL;DR: Smartphone users of Gmail are about to see a new layer of GenAI woven directly into their inboxes. Google has begun rolling out automatic AI-generated summaries for emails, a move that shifts the company's Gemini assistant from an optional tool to a more visible, default feature for many account holders. Until now, users seeking a quick overview of a lengthy email thread or a message with multiple replies had to tap a "Summarize this email" button to prompt Gemini to generate a summary.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 07:13:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Recap: Since Windows 11 launched in 2021, Notepad has received some of the most significant updates in its 42-year history. While the plaintext editor has traditionally served as a lightweight alternative to Microsoft Word for coding and simple note-taking, recent additions are making it increasingly resemble a traditional word processor. Windows Insiders can now access a formatting toolbar in Note
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 08:13:30
Long-time 9to5Mac readers will remember that the native Shortcuts app started as an indie project called Workflow, a clever, approachable tool that made automation fun and accessible to less technical users. Today, Shortcuts remains a powerful utility, particularly on the Mac. However, compared to how agentic AI tools have reshaped how we think about automation, it’s feeling a bit stagnant. That may be about to change. As reported by Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter, Apple is prepari
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:26:00
Facepalm: A recent Windows 11 security update has left some users facing unexpected trouble: their computers refuse to boot. The update in question, KB5058405, was automatically rolled out to devices running Windows 11 versions 23H2 and 22H2. Instead of simply improving security, it has triggered a critical error for a subset of users. The problem arises after installation, when affected PCs halt during startup and display a recovery error with the code 0xc0000098. This message typically indica
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 06:10:00
Facepalm: In the latest example of why we shouldn't blindly put our faith in online map services, German autobahns and highways were plunged into chaos when Google Maps incorrectly showed that vast sections of the roads were closed. The incident's timing was especially bad as it coincided with the start of a holiday break. German motorists likely felt disheartened at the sight of all the stop signs on Google Maps on Thursday. The Guardian reports that major roads in western, northern, south-wes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:00:14
June Wan/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans already provide plenty of utility for people with low vision, but the glasses are about to get even better. Also: I've tested the Meta Ray-Bans for months, and these 5 features still amaze me Meta has announced two new accessibility advancements for its smart glasses designed to help users navigate the world around them. The first feature is available now. Meta said users can get descriptive responses about what their glasses see. Meta explained that this feature
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 17:15:55
Don't want AI to summarize your Gmail messages? You might see it anyway. Some Gmail app users soon will see AI-generated summaries of their emails, according to a Google blog post on Thursday. Gmail users with paid Workspace accounts and accounts with Google AI Premium subscriptions will see the summaries in the Gmail app on Android and iOS. Previously, users had to tap the "summarize this email" button at the top of their phone screen for the AI summary, but now, the summaries will just appear
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 00:00:00
Apple has for years been fighting antitrust battles all around the world, most of them concerning the App Store, and most of them coming down to a single issue: having monopoly control over the sale of iPhone apps. Opinions on both sides of the debate are strongly held, and there’s little sign of that changing anytime soon – but it seems to me that there is one thing we could perhaps all agree on … Briefly addressing the monopoly issue Let’s just quickly address the monopoly issue, before som
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has signed a bill that cracks down on social platforms’ features that could keep kids online for longer. Under the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act (LB504), major platforms must let users choose to see a chronological feed, rather than one provided by a recommendation algorithm, which experts have found could negat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 09:31:26
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . ExpressVPN is good at its job. It's easy to be skeptical of any service with a knack for self-promotion, but don't let ExpressVPN's hype distract you from the fact that it keeps its front-page promise of "just working." Outside of solid security, the two best things ExpressVPN offers
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 20:37:17
MinIO, a popular open-source object storage solution, has made significant changes to its community version that have sparked controversy among users. The company has removed key web-based management features from the free version, directing users to either use command-line tools or upgrade to paid plans. Major Features Stripped from Community Version The latest changelog reveals that MinIO has deprecated several core management features in the web interface. Account and policy management, con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 09:16:35
Tinder is leaning into dating apps’ reputation for superficiality with the launch of a new feature that lets paid subscribers add their height preferences to their profiles. After a Reddit user posted a photo of the new height setting in the Tinder app, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the discovery setting has been launched as a global test. Tinder Gold and Premium subscribers in the test group will have access to the feature, but not free users, we’re told. In addition, th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:05:18
WhatsApp will soon allow users to post collages, music and new stickers as part of their WhatsApp Status. The status feature within WhatsApp functions similarly to the Stories feature on Facebook and Instagram. Users can share text, photo or video to their status, which will disappear after 24 hours. Since March , users have had the option to add a song clip to their status and can select songs from the app's music library. These music clips can be 15 seconds long when posted with photos or 60
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 21:37:35
Discord is further distancing itself from its ad-free beginnings by offering users a new virtual currency for clicking on in-platform advertisements. Acoording to a blog post this week by Peter Sellis, Discord’s SVP of product, a “small group” of Discord users around the globe can now earn "Orbs" through Play Quests, which Discord announced in March 2024 and let users earn in-game rewards by getting people to watch a stream of them playing a sponsored game. With enough Orbs, Discord users can p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 13:00:23
Mark Zuckerberg told the company's shareholders that Meta's artificial intelligence now has 1 billion monthly active users across all its apps, according to CNBC. He also said during the annual shareholders meeting that the company will be focusing on "deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and entertainment" this year. Meta will keep growing the product until opportunities to earn money from it appear, such as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 13:37:28
Google’s latest Drive features can give Workspace users more information about the videos they’ve saved. A Gemini AI feature that summarizes documents and PDFs in Google Drive is now expanding to video files, allowing users to gain insights about what’s in the video without having to watch it themselves. The Gemini in Drive feature provides a familiar chatbot interface that can provide quick summaries describing the footage or pull specific information. For example, users can ask Gemini to list
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 12:00:00
As Kevin Malone from “The Office” once said, “Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?” For Julia LeStage and Lisa Le, the creators of a new dating app called LoveJack, finding love online doesn’t have to feel like filling out a mountain of paperwork. Sometimes, all you need are a few carefully chosen words to spark a connection. LoveJack profiles look like those on other blind dating apps, but with a twist. Instead of blurred or hidden profiles, users see five words chosen by poten
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 22:42:31
WhatsApp is developing a solution for users to take a break from the messaging service without nuking their account data. A new “Logout [internal]” option spotted in the WhatsApp 2.25.17.37 beta release by Android Authority presents users with the choice to sign out on their primary WhatsApp device while either retaining or erasing their app data and preferences. For all intents and purposes, the only way that users can currently sign out of WhatsApp’s mobile app is to either wipe the app data
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 00:11:23
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Instagram app on Android was causing excessive battery drain, as users reported. Comparisons showed that lately, Instagram was using significantly more battery power than other apps with similar screen-on times. Google has acknowledged the problem and advised updating to Instagram build 382.0.0.49.84, which users say has resolved the battery drain issue. Google has confirmed that the Instagram app has been draining the battery on Android phones, s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 08:39:00
Under a deal announced Wednesday, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, will be available to Telegram users for one year starting sometime in the summer. Telegram is a cloud-based social media and instant messaging service that is free but offers a paid tier. According to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who announced the partnership on X, Telegram users will be able to pin Grok to the top of their chats. Users will be able to ask questions, create stickers, write suggestions and summarize chats, links and d
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