Gmail gets a dedicated place to track all your purchases

Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - Gmail reorganizes its order-tracking and promotion filters ahead of the holiday season.

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. [...]

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Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store.

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees. Microsoft has removed the one-time fees for its store, and developers no longer need a credit card. Details

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Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

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Lossless audio finally comes to Spotify - here's how to enable it

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Spotify is rolling out lossless audio support for Premium members, and it's easy to turn on and start listening.

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After years of waiting, Spotify Premium users can at last stream in lossless audio -- a feature Apple Music has offered since 2021.

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Spotify finally launches lossless audio

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Spotify Premium subscribers can now stream in lossless quality after years of waiting

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Lossless audio finally comes to Spotify - here's how to enable it

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

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Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

Elissa Welle / theverge - For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, …

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Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

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Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

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Grammarly now offers spelling and grammar check for five more languages

5 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Spotify is Finally Beginning to Roll Out Lossless Audio for Premium Members

Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - Spotify has finally begun to rollout its lossless audio to Premium members, supporting 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC.The post Spotify is Finally Beginning to Roll Out Lossless Audio for Premium Members first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

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Spotify Premium Users Get Lossless Streaming After Years of Delays

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@hicks.design if only they added a music only setting as well... www.theverge.com/spotify/7751...

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Spotify is finally adding lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing. Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan www.theverge.com/spotify/7751...

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Spotify is finally launching lossless music streaming support after consumers demanded it for years.

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Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

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Spotify Adds Lossless Streaming For Premium Members At No Extra Cost

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Spotify is Finally Beginning to Roll Out Lossless Audio for Premium Members

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Spotify Premium Users Get Lossless Streaming After Years of Delays

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

5 months / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

5 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

New Live Translation Feature Coming to AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's Live Translation feature, unveiled during its AirPods Pro 3 announcement, is expanding to older models including AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation and AirPods Pro 2. The new Live Translation functionality requires AirPods updated with the l…

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New Live Translation Feature Coming to AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2

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New Live Translation Feature Coming to AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2

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Live Translation will also work with AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2

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Apple's AirPods 4 with ANC and AirPods Pro 2 will also support Live Translation

5 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Firefox wants you to shake your iPhone like a Magic 8-Ball for AI summaries

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Firefox wants you to start shaking your iPhone to create AI-generated webpage summaries.

#apple #browsers #iphone #apps

Apple Intelligence Powers New Firefox Summarize Feature

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Firefox wants you to shake your iPhone like a Magic 8-Ball for AI summaries

5 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Firefox 'Shake to Summarize' Webpage Feature Uses Apple Intelligence

5 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

5 months / engadget / Sarah Fielding

Firefox launches ‘shake to summarize’ on iPhones

5 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Claude Can Now Create PDF, Word, And Excel Files For You

bgr - Anthropic's Claude AI can create and edit files for the user via an "Upgraded file creation and analysis" tool. Here's how to enable it on your Claude account.

#ai #anthropic #genai #apps

Claude’s new trick: finished files, not just advice

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Claude Can Now Build Spreadsheets and Documents as Anthropic Focuses on Enterprise Productivity

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My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name

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Anthropic's Claude now lets users edit Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDFs in chat

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Claude Can Now Create PDF, Word, And Excel Files For You

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Claude can now edit and create files, including Excel spreadsheets

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Claude Can Now Spin Up Spreadsheets, Reports and Slide Decks Directly in Chat

5 months / cnet / Macy Meyer

Bluesky finally has a private bookmarking feature

engadget - Bluesky has added a built-in bookmarking feature so users finally have a way to privately save posts on the platform. The update is out now on Bluesky's website and app.Bookmarks on Bluesky work pretty much like they do on any other service. Save a post a…

#software #bluesky #apps #privacy

Bluesky finally has a private bookmarking feature

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Bluesky adds private bookmarks

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Signal rolls out new encrypted backup features

Signal is stepping up its security game by launching a pair of backup options – one free and one paid – that offer end‐to‐end encrypted storage for chats, media, and messages. This dual-pronged approach aims to ensure users can safely restore their communications even after mishaps.

#infosec #cloudsec #apps #privacy

Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

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Signal adds secure cloud backups to save and restore chats

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Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups

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Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats

5 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Yes, Google Meet Is Down

Matt Novak / gizmodo - "Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue."

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Yes, Google Meet Is Down

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Google Meet Appears to Be Suffering an Outage

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Google Clarifies Gemini AI Daily Usage Limits for Free and Paid Tiers

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has officially detailed its daily usage limits for the Gemini AI platform, providing concrete numbers that clarify what users of its free, Pro, and Ultra tiers receive. In a support page published on September 6, the tech giant replaced vague descr…

#ai #google #alphabet #apps

Gemini app finally expands to audio files

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Here's How Often You Can Use Google Gemini's Free Plan Each Day

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Google Details Exactly How Many Prompts You Can Use With Gemini Free

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Google reveals Gemini AI pricing and usage limits

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Google Clarifies Gemini AI Daily Usage Limits for Free and Paid Tiers

5 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google explains Gemini Apps limits and upgrades for Google AI subscribers

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Google Gemini Has A Feature To Help Make You Money - Here's How To Use It Now

bgr - Google is attempting to boost the capabilities of one of its apps, injecting its AI model into it, which promises to add some new useful features.

#ai #google #genai #apps

Google finally details Gemini usage limits

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Google Gemini Has A Feature To Help Make You Money - Here's How To Use It Now

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ChatGPT Just Got A Useful New Feature No Other Chatbot Can Match

bgr - OpenAI just added the ability to branch conversations in ChatGPT, giving users the ability to explore different paths from any point in a chat.

#ai #openai #chatgpt #apps

ChatGPT Just Got A Useful New Feature No Other Chatbot Can Match

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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

cnbc - Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform.

#ai #gaming #aiethics #apps

Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and jump into an experience right from a video.

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Roblox rolls out facial age estimation feature to limit children's exposure to adult strangers

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Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

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Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

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Circle to Search adds continuous translation

Dominic Preston / theverge - Google has announced a pretty major upgrade to the convenience of the translation built into Circle to Search on Android, which will now continue translating as the content on-screen changes. Google has slightly undersold the feature with the name “Scroll…

#ai #mobile #google #apps

Google's Circle To Search Is Getting A Game-Changing Translation Feature

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Circle to Search Is One of My Favorite AI Tools. Shame It's Not on the iPhone Yet

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Circle to Search adds continuous translation

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Scrolling support for Google Translate arrives in Circle to Search

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21 years later, Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook 'poke'

engadget - Meta currently has lots of priorities Mark Zuckerberg likely never would have imagined back in the early days of Facebook. The company has pivoted from social networking to the metaverse and, most recently, to AI. But somehow, one of its earliest — and mo…

#meta #apps

Facebook Pokes are back – and your guess is as good as ours

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21 years later, Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook 'poke'

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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

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Apple Arcade keeps adapting in hopes of finding its audience

appleinsider - Apple has made it clear that it's not ready to throw in the towel on Apple Arcade yet, but the service still faces an uphill battle to prove its value.Apple ArcadeWhen Apple Arcade initially launched in 2019, the company decided that its primary draw woul…

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Apple Arcade keeps adapting in hopes of finding its audience

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Six years after launch, Apple Arcade is striving for a bigger audience

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Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling. Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen changed. The update ensures the translation feature wil…

#ai #google #alphabet #apps

'Scroll and Translate' Is Coming to Google's Circle to Search. Here's How It Works

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Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

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Google’s Circle to Search can now translate as you scroll

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

engadget - That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta…

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Meta says says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/3042352/

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Threads Users Can Now Add Up to 10,000 Characters to Posts

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

6 months / engadget

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

6 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links