The global PC market grew 13% in the third quarter of 2020 compared with the same period last year, rising to 79.2 million units, according to Canalys. That’s the biggest growth in the last 10 years, the tech market analyst said. Over the course of the year to date, shipments saw a weak first quarter, …

Google is celebrating the 197th birthday of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an American-Canadian newspaper editor and publisher — as well as a journalist, teacher, lawyer, abolitionist and suffragist — on Friday with a dedicated Doodle. Shadd Cary is credited as North America’s first Black female newspaper editor and publisher. She was also the second Black woman to earn a law …

Google on Thursday rolled out a new feature for Android designed to alert people with hearing loss about “critical household sounds” such as appliances beeping, water running and dogs barking. Sound Notifications will send a push notification, trigger a flash from your camera light or cause your phone to vibrate to grab your attention. While the feature is focused on …

Google on Thursday said it’s expanding its Fi mobile service to include Samsung’s latest 5G phones, like the Galaxy Note 20 5G, Galaxy S20 5G and Galaxy A71 5G. Customers will get all the benefits of Fi as well as a “faster connection with 5G coverage nationwide included as part of your plan,” Google said in a blog post.  Fi …

Lyft on Tuesday unveiled a partnership with Grubhub that provides users of its Lyft Pink membership plan with free access to Grubhub Plus, which offers perks for restaurant orders. As part of the collaboration, Lyft Pink members will have unlimited free delivery from restaurants, member perks like free food and discounts, and donation matching via Grubhub’s Donate the Change program. …

Netflix’s documentary The Social Dilemma has sparked conversations about social media’s impact on our lives and mental health, and Facebook has now officially joined the discussion. The company shared a post on its site Friday titled “What ‘The Social Dilemma’ Gets Wrong,” in which it says the documentary “buries the substance in sensationalism.” Facebook complains that the film’s creators don’t …

Google is rolling out a measure in its latest Pixel phones that’s designed to curb the negative impact of unrealistic beauty standards. Starting with the Pixel 5, Pixel 4A and Pixel 4A 5G, the company is turning off face retouching options by default in the camera app, it said in a Thursday blog post.  People can still access the retouching features …

Twitter said it’s working on adding transcriptions to voice tweets in order to make the feature, which it began testing in the summer, more accessible. This comes after many criticized the social media platform for not taking all users’ needs into consideration before the release. “We’re rolling out voice Tweets to more of you on iOS so we can keep …

Arguably half the fun of TikTok is in watching creators react or contribute to videos by other users. This is commonly done through the short-form video app’s Duet feature, but the company has also rolled out a feature called Stitch that lets you clip and weave in scenes from another creator’s video into your own. This lets you reinterpret or …

The latest iOS beta includes several new emoji, including bubble tea, a transgender flag and roller skates, according to a Tuesday blog post by Emojipedia. iOS 14.2 is currently in beta for developer testing, so iOS users should have access to the new emoji sometime next month, the site estimates. The latest additions are also included in the most recent …