Google hopes to make group messaging simpler and more focused with a new app called Spaces, the company announced Monday. Articles, images and videos will be the center of group conversations, called “spaces,” because of the app’s built-in integration to other Google products such as Google Search, YouTube and Chrome. For example, you can invite …

When the hard drive on your MacBook is getting full, you have a few options: You can purchase an external hard drive and offload low-priority files to it; pick up an inexpensive USB drive; or take on the task or replacing internal storage yourself. Or, there’s TarDisk. TarDisk is a small, SD card-like device that expands the storage of your …

Microsoft’s new Edge browser may be fast, modern and Chrome-like, but up until now it’s been lacking something big — browser extensions. The new browser debuted over six months ago without support for this handy feature because Microsoft wanted to make sure everything was secure before adding extras to the mix. The first test extensions — Mouse Gestures, Microsoft Translator …

A new iPhone diagnostic app has been given the cold shoulder by Apple. Released little more than a week ago, an app dubbed System and Security Info aimed to deliver core details about your iPhone, including your CPU, memory and disk usage along with a list of all running processes. More critically, the app aimed to reveal if your device …

Microsoft has a new way of trying to get Windows 10 onto your computer, whether you want it or not. Users of Windows 7 and 8.1 have become familiar with — jaded by, even — the insistent, seemingly daily popups urging them to “Get Windows 10.” Those messages have started taking a more aggressive turn. Instead of simply giving you …

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Do airport security lines make you feel like one of the walking dead? You’re not alone. A Cryptkeeper-looking fellow took a flight out of Atlanta on Sunday, because even after you die, there’s no escaping a flight through the world’s busiest airport. The US Transportation Security Administration posted a collage of photos of the freaky pre-flight check to Instagram with …

Windows 10 users will receive a big update — the Windows 10 Anniversary Update — this summer. This update will bring several new features to the operating system, including long-awaited browser extensions for Microsoft Edge, a smarter and more integrated Cortana and newcomer Windows Ink. Windows Ink is, according to Microsoft, an “all-new experience” focused on “putting the power of …

Now playing: Watch this: Here comes Walmart Pay…and QR codes? 1:14 Walmart has launched its Walmart Pay mobile payment system in 590 stores in Texas and Arkansas, the company said Monday. Walmart, which announced the creation of Walmart Pay in December, is the first US retailer to have its own proprietary system that lets customers use their smartphones as a …

As a great man once said, the answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV! That man was Homer Simpson, and this weekend he appeared in the first ever live segment on “The Simpsons“. In the episode “Simprovised”, broadcast on Sunday 15 May, Homer spent 3 minutes fielding questions from fans, his animated character …