From The Verge: Google is rolling out a new feature to Google Workspace customers: the ability to lock Google Drive files.
While a file is locked, no one with any level of access can make edits, comments, or suggestions; essentially, it’s in read-only mode until you unlock it. The company wrote in...
From PC World: Intel’s NUC, short for “Next Unit of Computing,” is a funky series of teeny-tiny PCs packed with the latest tech the company can offer. It’s also dead… but only “mostly dead.” Shortly after Intel announced that it was done making the NUC hardware line, Asus said that it was happy to...
From CNET: Back in 2019, Sonos launched its first portable speaker, the aptly named Move, which had a lot to like about it, notwithstanding its somewhat high $400 price. Now the sequel is here with some modest design upgrades, much improved battery life (up to 24 hours) and a new dual-tweeter...
From The Verge: Meta plans to “deprecate” the News tab in Facebook’s bookmarks section in the UK, France, and Germany. That’s typically been company speak for removing a feature. The changes are supposed to go into effect in early December, according to Meta.
“As a company, we have to focus our...
From PC World: WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be removed in a future version.
BleepingComputer noted the change, which has been made...
From CNET: If the rumors are right, the iPhone 15 Pro will get a periscope camera. That's probably only exciting if you know what one is. If you don't, we're here to explain it for you.
In short, a periscope camera uses clever engineering to pack a bulky telephoto lens into a compact smartphone...
A few weeks back, I was lamenting over the cost of fixing my car. I had taken my car to the dealership for regular maintenance, and they found several leaks. I knew they were going to find them, as I too had observed some liquids dripping out the bottom of my car for the past week or two. Confirming my fears, they read out the issues as well as the damage to my wallet. At that point, I was concerned about driving the vehicle, but I was also...
Recently at work, I have been able to do more software programming-related tasks, which I have found quite interesting. I did do programming tasks in my early years at the company, but it felt very different as the program was more foreign to me at that time. While I learned a lot from my early encounter with company-specific code, it is very rewarding to be back at it with more experience and understanding of general projects. It is also a lot...
From The Verge: Zoom is trying to expand its video chat platform into a full-service office suite, and its latest addition hits on the need to create and share documents. The company is adding a feature called Notes that allows users to create, share, and simultaneously edit a text document.
Notes...
From PC World: Here’s a peek behind the curtain of writing tech news every day: Sometimes the only suitable header image for the articles we write is a still frame from a web video. And that’s kind of a pain to collect — on YouTube I typically have to set the quality as high as possible, then slow...
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