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Android 16 Beta 3 Is Here with Battery Health, Outline Text, and a New Easter Egg
After two Developer Previews and Beta updates, Android 16 Beta 3 is finally rolling out. The update means Android 16 has now reached Platform Stability. This means, most of the features have been finalized and will be part of the stable release. While Beta 3 doesn’t bring a significant change that most users expected, it does squash a few bugs…
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Windows Notepad to get AI text summarization in Windows 11
Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool “Draw & Hold” feature that helps draw perfect shapes. Dubbed “Summarize,” the new and highly-requested Notepad tool is rolling out today to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11, who have upgraded to Notepad version 11.2501.29.0. “To get started, select the…
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Recent Windows updates make USB printers print random text
Microsoft says that some USB printers will start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. The known issue affects Windows 10 (version 22H2) and Windows 11 (versions 22H2 and 23H2), but according to an update to the Windows release health dashboard, the latest Windows 11 24H2 is not impacted. “After installing the January 2025 Windows…
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Don’t Fall for the Unpaid Parking Fee Scam Text
Unpaid parking tickets happen to the best of us—and one of the latest phishing scams is counting on you to believe you’ve missed or forgotten to pay an outstanding fee. This text message scam prompts you to pay overdue parking fines and hand your credit card number and other personal information directly to the scammers to turn around and use.…
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The Easiest Ways to Spot an Unpaid Tolls Scam Text
I’ve recently rented a car in two different states. Both times I was asked if I wanted to pay an extra fee per day to avoid worrying about paying tolls—a crucial issue in some states, like Florida, that no longer accept cash on the road and sometimes won’t even allow you to pay online. Both times I declined, and set…
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Calendar.txt is a Text Document That Could Replace Your Calendar App
Gina Trapani, founder of the website you’re reading right now, popularized a plaintext format for to-do lists way back in 2006 (please excuse any weird formatting on that nearly 20-year-old article). Called Todo.txt, it is used by many people to this day, in part thanks to an ecosystem of applications built around the format. I recently stumbled on Calendar.txt, by…
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Beware This E-ZPass Text Scam
Another day, another scam, and this time E-ZPass users are the target. Here’s everything you need to know about the scam, how to keep yourself safe, and what you can do if you do get scammed. Beware E-ZPass Text Scams and Phishing People across the United States have been reporting text messages claiming to be from E-ZPass, an electronic toll…
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3 exceptional text expansion tools for Windows – Computerworld
Autocorrect: Built right into Office apps It’s worth noting that Office apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote, and Outlook have a text-expansion-style feature built right into them. It will only work inside those Office apps. But, if you only need this feature while working in those specific applications, it’s perfect. And it might be the only solution for workers who…
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Microsoft improves text contrast for all Windows Chromium browsers
Microsoft says it improved the contrast of text rendered in all Chromium-based web browsers on Windows, making it more readable on some displays. This was done by bringing the company’s enhanced text contrast and gamma correction in the Chromium open-source project, making enhanced font rendering available for all Windows Chromium-based browsers, including Google Chrome version 132, released on January 14.…
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Analyze text using natural language with Claude for Google Sheets – Computerworld
Sonnet: Company and product name extraction Text Companies Products 10 steps to smarter Google account security Give yourself some added peace of mind by giving your Google account a thorough set of security reinforcements, both on Android and your desktop. Google Google account How ChatGPT works with iOS 18.2 iPhones and Siri Apple Intelligence is about to receive its first…
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