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Google’s New Accessibility Features Will Finally Make Small Text Easier to Read on Mobile
Ahead of Google I/O 2025, which starts on May 20, the company has announced a few big accessibility focused features for Android and Google Chrome. Among these are improvements to the Android screen reader, more expressive captions, and easier to read text in Chrome for Android. This follows Apple’s recent accessibility focused announcements, with both companies’ posts timed to mark…
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All the New Features and Changes in iOS 18.5
You can finally get rid of these stock contact photos in Mail. Credit: Khamosh Pathak Some software updates pack in a number of features and changes, while others fundamentally overhaul the experience of using the device in question. iOS 18.5 is neither: This is a minor update, but that’s to be expected. WWDC is next month, where Apple will almost…
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Apple just announced huge accessibility upgrades for iPhone, Macs and more — 9 biggest new features
Apple is making its devices easier to use for those with impairments. The company announced many new accessibility features scheduled to arrive later this year for iPhone, Mac, Vision Pro and more. Some of the most interesting features are designed for those with vision impairments, but accessibility features are coming that are intended to benefit everyone. In total, Apple revealed…
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Google Keep On the Web Is Getting New Formatting Features
Summary Google Keep now has rich text formatting for the web. The update is rolling out to Google Workspace and personal accounts. New formatting options include bold, underline, italic, and heading styles. Do you love Google Keep but wish the web version had many of the same features we enjoy on the mobile app, like text formatting? If so, we…
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5 Windows Features I Hope Linux Never Copies
You’ve probably heard that Linux distros lack a lot of Windows functionality. That can be more or less true, but I’d argue that some of that functionality Linux is better off never adopting or imitating. 5 Bing Web Search in the App Launcher Windows likes to insist, for some reason, that searching your computer needs to involve searching the internet…
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Windows 11’s new AI features for Copilot+ PCs coming in 2025
Windows 11 for Copilot+ PCs is expected to roll out several new AI features in 2025 and beyond. These enhancements aim to transform the user experience through deeper integration of AI across the system and apps. Some of these features include Windows Recall, Click to Do, Semantic Indexing, and Copilot Vision. Microsoft is also integrating AI more broadly across the…
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Awesome features in a slimmer watch!
The Garmin vivoactive 6 may initially appear to be a minor upgrade from its predecessor, the vivoactive 5, when assessed solely from a hardware perspective. Some might even view it as a lackluster attempt to motivate users to upgrade. However, such an assessment is very inaccurate. After using this smartwatch for ten consecutive days, I evaluated not only its hardware…
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WhatsApp unveils ‘Private Processing’ for cloud-based AI features
WhatsApp has announced the introduction of ‘Private Processing,’ a new technology that enables users to utilize advanced AI features by offloading tasks to privacy-preserving cloud servers. This is required to utilize AI functionalities such as message summarization and writing suggestions on WhatsApp, which are too demanding for on-device hardware. The new feature will be entirely opt-in and not enabled by default,…
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Build 26200.5562 (KB5055642) for Windows 11 brings new AI features to Dev Channel
Another preview of Windows 11 (build 26200.5562) is now rolling out in the Dev Channel as the update KB5055642. This new release brings new features to the existing AI experience, including Click to Do and Windows Search. As usual, this preview build also includes other improvements and fixes for File Explorer, Widgets, Windows Security, the Settings app, Start menu, Task…
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6 Translation Features to Use on Your Google Pixel 9
If you often find yourself translating text, your Google Pixel 9 offers many smart translation features. These features allow you to quickly and efficiently translate any piece of text on your phone. I’ll show you what these features are. Live Translate: Automatically Translate On-Screen Text One of my favorite translation features on the Pixel 9 is Live Translate. With this…
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