From The Verge: Google Photos’ portrait blur feature on Android will soon be able to blur backgrounds in a wider range of photos, including pictures of pets, food, and — my personal favorite — plants. It’s one of a host of updates coming to Google’s apps and services on Android, which also includes...

From PC Mag: Dinner parties are back, baby! After two years of solitary meals, Uber Eats is championing the formal return of indoor gatherings with a new suite of Group Ordering features.

It may be hard to remember, but there was a time not long ago when team takeout meant passing a single device...

From The Verge: President Biden is poised to issue a new comprehensive strategy for the federal government’s treatment of cryptocurrency, the White House announced on Wednesday. The White House described the pending executive order as “the first ever, whole-of-government approach to addressing the...

From PC Mag: Twitter is poking a hole in Russia’s attempt to block access to the social media platform by creating a way to access the site on the dark web.

To visit the page, a user has to first download the Tor browser, which is designed to anonymize your web traffic. It can also help users...

From CNET: April showers might bring May flowers, but before that March brings the Apples. The company's first launch event of 2022 added an updated iPhone SE, the small but powerful Mac Studio, the Mac Studio Display and an upgraded iPad Air to Apple's portfolio.

There were a few short...

From The Verge: Amazon is launching its long-rumored Clubhouse competitor today: a new app called Amp that’s more about listening to music than sitting around and chatting.

Anyone who signs up will be able to host their own live show, complete with the ability to stream “tens of millions of...

From PC Mag: After a two-year wait, AMD is once again on the verge of releasing a new EPYC processor. By that, we don’t mean the upcoming Zen 5-based Ryzen 7000 CPUs tipped at CES 2022 (though we do imagine those could be quite epic, as well). Instead, we are referring to the launch of AMD’s first...

From CNET: The Apple Store went offline Tuesday, ahead of Apple's "Peek Performance" event. The March 8 virtual event begins at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. UK, March 9 at 5 a.m. AEDT), and is likely to reveal new iPads, an upgraded iPhone SE and a Mac.

"Be right back," a message on the store...

From PC Mag: LAPSUS$ has been keeping busy. The hacking group, which recently leaked data stolen from Nvidia, has reportedly published what it describes as "confidential Samsung source code."

BleepingComputer reports that LAPSUS$ leaked nearly 190GB of data that's said to include source code for...

From The Verge: Nintendo has updated its Switch Online mobile apps for iOS and Android to version 2.0, which brings a tweaked design as well as some minor quality-of-life improvements. The app launched shortly after the Nintendo Switch in 2017. It’s designed to work in tandem with the console...