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HBO Max made its long-awaited debut last week, but you still can’t watch The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo or reruns of Friends via your Roku or Fire TV. That’s because those popular devices remain without HBO Max apps. Despite being available on a host of platforms and devices — including iOS and Android, Xbox One …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. A group of US senators on Monday introduced a bill to regulate contact-tracing apps, aiming to protect user privacy as technology is used to track the spread of the novel coronavirus.  The proposal is called the Exposure Notification Privacy Act and seeks to …

In these uncertain times, your health is more important than ever. So it’s timely that Apple’s newest iPhone software update — iOS 13.5 — comes with a small, but potentially important feature. The update is available right now (go to Settings > General > Software update), and after installing it, you’ll have the option to automatically send all of your …

Google on Thursday rolled out a series of updates to Maps, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier aimed at improving user accessibility. The company also launched an app called Action Blocks that lets people create customizable home screen buttons for everyday tasks. The features arrive on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which aims to promote digital accessibility and inclusion.  Google Maps‘ new Accessible Places feature …

Web apps, websites that can be converted into standalone apps, are moving closer toward becoming first-class software citizens on Windows 10. Google coined the term progressive web app, or PWA, to describe websites that can assume the power and prominence of conventional native apps you’d download from an app store. For a taste of PWAs, visit coronavirus.app, which with most …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As cities across the globe begin to ease shelter-in-place measures, Apple is reopening a smattering of its retail stores. Just under 100 Apple Stores have reopened their doors to customers — around a fifth of its worldwide total — the company said in an …

Keeping track of what people are saying about your tweets is now a little easier. Twitter for iOS now lets you see all your retweets with comments in one place, and it just takes one click.   Tapping on the retweet counter will show a single feed of retweets with comments attached to your original post, including images and gifs …

Apple’s been rumored to be prepping over-ear AirPods headphones for some time, and now we seem to be getting a little more detail about what some of the features will be in the rumored AirPods Studio.  The latest rumor, via 9to5Mac, details how the new headphones will have “neck detection” sensors that may function similarly to how current AirPods pause …

For the past few years, Google Lens has been expanding its features in an attempt to be the computation camera for your phone. Sometimes it feels like an extension of Google’s camera-based AR applications, but it’s often more practical.  Google’s new Lens update, which works on iOS and Android via the Lens app, can be used to scan text and …

Along with new Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 laptops Microsoft on Wednesday released two new headphones: The Surface Headphones 2 and the Surface Earbuds. (The earbuds were announced last October and subsequently delayed till now.) Microsoft hadn’t previewed the full-size noise-canceling Headphones 2 at its Surface event last fall, but the originals are now about 18 months old, so …