Social networks, apps, streaming, productivity tools and how-to guides.
Generative AI’s least publicised work sits in phone accessibility menus: cameras narrate scenes, apps read photos aloud, captions convert speech to text. Be My Eyes is the most visible example of a use that seldom makes headlines yet changes daily routines. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Be My Eyes offer such tools to blind, low-vision, deaf … Read more
A private account narrows visibility; it does not erase you. Instagram and TikTok offer a single toggle, Facebook demands post-by-post audience management, and all three leave a public-facing core that anyone can see — even without logging in. Instagram and TikTok: one private-account switch; Facebook relies on per-post audiences and a bulk “Limit Past Posts” … Read more
On 23 October, Instagram’s App Store page added Apple TV through a separate tvOS build, version 66.0. It is free and requires tvOS 26.0 or later. The same version and requirement appeared in Spain and seven other stores checked: the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Japan and India. Meta has never published a country list; … Read more
Microsoft is now rolling out All Accounts—called Unified Inbox in some materials—for the new Outlook on Windows. According to Message Center notice MC1519843, published 21 October, deployment started in late September 2026 and was set to finish by late October. The view gives users one message list spanning several linked mailboxes, but it does not … Read more
Handing a relative your live position takes a couple of taps, yet the three dominant platforms do not hand over the same data — and they certainly do not switch off the same way. Whether you are following a teenager’s walk home after dark, keeping tabs on a parent hiking alone, or simply wanting to … Read more
Spotify has spent a year telling the music business that it takes AI-generated junk seriously. On 20 October the streaming platform put numbers behind the claim: more than 50 million tracks flagged as “slop and spam” have been pushed out of its recommendations during 2026. The verb is doing a lot of work. None of … Read more
WhatsApp chats may feel as if they live inside the app, but the history sits on the phone—and the backup lands in Google on Android or iCloud on iPhone. As of October 2026, WhatsApp is also testing its own cloud storage, a third path not yet universally available. Because WhatsApp does not store chat history … Read more
Deezer is preparing to hand listeners a blunt new instrument in the escalating fight over machine-made music: a single switch that wipes fully AI-generated tracks, albums and artists out of search results. The French streaming service announced the feature on 13 October and says it will reach users worldwide before the end of 2026, converting … Read more
WhatsApp is opening its calls to people who do not have the app — or even an account. In an announcement published on 14 October 2026, the company introduced guest calls, a format in which a host generates a link and anyone who receives it can join from a desktop browser after typing a name … Read more
Less than two weeks after shipping a free, open-source rebuild of Adobe’s creative suite, software engineer Brandon Thomas has set his sights on office software. His latest releases — WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft — replicate Word, Excel and PowerPoint as free, local applications written in Rust with substantial help from Anthropic’s Claude model. They open … Read more