Apple Market Cap Crosses $1 Trillion Again Following iPhone 11 Launch

Apple Market Cap Crosses $1 Trillion Again Following iPhone 11 Launch A day afterApple unveiled its latest iPhone,iPadandApple Watchlineups, the company’s market-cap once again touched the magical figure of $1 trillion, more than a year after it first achieved the milestone in August 2018.According to CNBC, the company’s stocks rose over 3 percent during trading on Wednesday to hit a closing price of $223.59, giving the company a nominal market-cap of $1....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 319 words · James Hendrix

Firefox Starts Testing a Free In-Browser VPN Service

Firefox Starts Testing a Free In-Browser VPN Service Mozilla is known to heavily focus on user privacy and well, its latest move only further reinforces this rationale. The non-profit organization has made available on its Firefox browser a new VPN service for users to try out – that too free of cost. This is similar to what Opera already provides through its desktop browser, but you’ll need to install an extension to access Firefox’s offering....

September 12, 2019 · 3 min · 431 words · Robert Jackson

Google Abandons Plans to Bring ‘Touch-less’ Chrome to Feature Phones

Google Abandons Plans to Bring ‘Touch-less’ Chrome to Feature Phones Several changes to the Chromium codebase suggest that Google may be abandoning plans to create a ‘touch-less’ version of its popular web-browser for feature phones. Believed to have been firstreported by 9to5Google, Google has apparently been“removing all references to touchless Chrome and deleting the hundreds of files within the ‘touchless’ folder”. According to the report,the commitin the Chromium Gerrit now reads“Remove touchless* with the exception of Blink code”, which seems to suggest that the underlying code for touch-less controls will still remain part of the Blink engine, meaning it could still be implemented by third-party software....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 286 words · Jessica Jackson

Google Play Store’s Dark Mode Starts Rolling Out

Google Play Store’s Dark Mode Starts Rolling Out One of the major changesAndroid 10has brought is the system-wide support of dark mode. Over the past few months, the software giant has been adding dark mode to its apps includingGoogle Photos,Google Maps,Google Fit,Google Chrome,Android Auto, andGmail. However, few apps still don’t have the dark mode. There’s Gmail, Play Store and more, but today, we have come across screenshots that show the Play Store in all its dark mode glory....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 357 words · Gerald Thompson

How to Mute Google Assistant Responses on Your Android Phone

How to Mute Google Assistant Responses on Your Android Phone Imagine it’s midnight and you want to know the agenda for the next day. As anyone who adds and regularly adds events to Calendar, you will askGoogle Assistantto list them. While Assistant helps you get a complete picture regarding the plan for the day, you may end up waking up your roommates or loved ones if you don’t have headphones plugged in....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 375 words · Timothy Brewer

Huawei Reportedly Shipping Cheaper MateBook Laptops With Linux in China

Huawei Reportedly Shipping Cheaper MateBook Laptops With Linux in China Originally launched in 2018 before being upgraded this year with new hardware, Huawei’s ‘MateBook’ laptops have become fairly popular around the globe, but they’re still only powered by Windows 10. That, however, is apparently changing, with the company reportedly starting to ship at least some of its MateBook devices with Linux. According to Redditor,u/xi_save_earth, the Linux models includeMateBook 14 (2019),MateBook X Pro (2019)and MagicBook Pro Ryzen edition, although only base models are apparently available with the Linux option, which means people choosing to buy more powerful models will still have to buy theirs’ with Windows....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 308 words · David Walters

Microsoft Brings Battery Indicator in Your Phone App for Windows 10 Insiders

Microsoft Brings Battery Indicator in Your Phone App for Windows 10 Insiders Microsoft’s Your Phone is getting some significant updates in the recent days that may make you finally consider using the app on a daily basis. The app recently gained the ability tosync phone notificationsand is working on a feature that allows you tomake phone callsstraight from your Windows PC. The Redmond giant is now adding a battery indicator so thatyou will be able to know when to charge your smartphone....

September 12, 2019 · 2 min · 377 words · Kimberly Schwartz
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