Recently, Gmail rolled out an update to its app to include a huge Google Meet button just below the compose button. And that can be really annoying if you don’t have to make a couple of Meet calls every day. Thankfully, you can easily remove this button using the settings. Here’s how to do it: Open the Gmail app on your phone. Go to Settings, and tap on the account name Scroll to General > Meet, and turn off the toggle to show the Meet button....

The rise of serial entrepreneurship has brought about the era of the non-specialist entrepreneur. These entrepreneurs are generalists who specialize in starting, operating, and scaling businesses and not in the ins and outs of the industry they’re looking to disrupt. You’ll find them across all industries, with the most lucrative being those still on the cusp of their technological revolution. If your aim is to build and scale a successful business, why would you enter the overcrowded world of dating apps or food delivery?...

What3words is an app and web-based service that provides a geographic reference for every 3-meter-by-3-meter square on Earth using three random words. If your brain operates more naturally in the English measurement system, 3 meters is about 9.8 feet. So, you could think of them as roughly 10-foot-by-10-foot squares, which is about the size of a small home office or bedroom. For example, there’s a square in the middle of the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers Turf Field coded to brilliance....

Sending a Slack message to a colleague in a different time zone is tricky business. You don’t want to disturb them during their late hours, but you wouldn’t want them to miss your message amongst others. Thankfully, the work messaging platform has been rolling out a feature called “scheduled messages.” Here’s how you can use it: Open Slack on your desktop. Search for the person or channel you want to send a message to....

Ephemeral messages are now a core part of popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal. The latter has had the functionality for a while, and lets you set different timers for messages too. Last night, Signal announced that it’s going to allow you to set a disappearing message timer for all your new conversations by default. So you don’t have to set timers for individual messages. — Signal (@signalapp) August 10, 2021 Here’s how you can enable this feature:...

The problem with watching anime, though, is that short of learning Japanese, you become dependent on human translators and voice actors to port the content to your language. Sometimes you get the subtitles (“subs”) but not the voicing (“dubs”). Other times, entire seasons of shows aren’t translated at all, and you’re left on the edge of your seat with only Wikipedia summaries and 90s web forums to ferry you through the darkness....

Despite it being almost six years old at the time of writing, the PlayStation 4 still holds some secrets from its players. Here are a few things you may have missed when using your console. Credit for some of these go to this Reddit thread, which opened with the revelation about hidden trophies that several PS4 owners (myself included) didn’t know — despite it having been introduced on the console three years ago, according to the PlayStation UK Twitter:...

When Jiro dreams of sushi, you’d hardly imagine him slicing sashimi with an ordinary, dull knife. Nor would you expect Usain Bolt to cross the finish line in shoes you could pick up at an outlet, the London Symphony Orchestra to grab the cheapest violins at the local music store, or Ford to take on Ferrari and win the Le Mans with any random car. Experts use expert tools. Rigorously tested, finely tuned, carefully built to perform at the highest levels....

After WhatsApp released its new controversial privacy policy last month, there has been a lot of talk about finding alternatives to the Facebook-owned app. Most of these conversations have revolved around Telegram and Signal. However, Viber has built a strong case for itself by establishing itself in non-western markets. I talked to the company’s CEO, Djamel Agaoua, about the app’s business model, operations, and how it plans to target a different audience than Telegram and Signal....

The new device features Tobii eye-tracking, which gives the headset two keen features: users can navigate menus just by looking at things, and foveated rendering. Navigating menus, selecting items, or even triggering animations by making eye contact with on-screen characters sounds pretty cool, but foveated rendering is a game-changer. Essentially, foveated rendering is a technique that allows the headset to render graphics the same way the human eye sees the real world....

Apple’s over-ear headphones are one of the more intriguing products the company has released in recent years — and I’ve found them both wonderful and frustrating. Yet, I find myself feeling warm towards them. For every misstep with something like that appalling case, there’s a positive point. And one of those was the digital crown, a little control dial on the headphones. But I’m here today with terrible news: its days might be numbered....

We’re all for it. In 2020 we published the first Polestar 2 Life Cycle Assessment, including its full methodology. This prompted a critical response from within the car industry, which became known as Astongate. It even has its own Wikipedia page. But fascinating though industry greenwashing scandals are, we’re more interested in what individuals think. Because we know that total transparency helps consumers make informed choices, which will drive the change to sustainable mobility....

India’s investment comes quite late as plenty of nations have already allotted grants for research in the area. In 2016, the European Commission announced €1-billion ($1.13 billion) in funding for quantum computing projects. In 2018, US President Donald Trump signed a bill that promised investment of $1.2 billion in the area. Meanwhile, China has already committed more than $2 billion over the years to fuel quantum research. Other countries such as Japan, Germany, and Canada have also announced various schemes to boost quantum computing programs....

According to a report from the Indian Express, officials have built an AI to help spot people at the event who avoid wearing masks. The authorities said that 100 out of the 350 CCTV cameras deployed for festivals have special sensors that could zoom in on people’s faces and send an alert to the control room if they’re not wearing a mask. Officials added that during the initial few days of the festival that formally started on April 1, they caught 350 folks not wearing masks through these cameras, with a total of 1,500 fines imposed during that period for breaking COVID-19 safety norms....

The court decided that the Indian government has to produce a restrictive order detailing the shut down within a week. For now, people in the region of Kashmir will be still offline. The bench said the internet is a major part of citizens’ rights that guarantee freedom of expression. It added the government can only shut down the internet as an extreme measure. Plus, such an order will draw judicial scrutiny....

The three platforms, which all belong to the Mark Zuckerberg empire, are experiencing down time, according to numerous reports on DownDetector. Among other things, users report being unable to reload their feeds, post stories, or create posts. It remains unclear what’s causing the issue, but it seems to be affecting numerous regions across the globe, including the US East Coast, Central Europe, and East Asia (and India). Curiously enough, the Instagram outage seems to be mostly affecting Europe....

According to Gulf News, Mirza, who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur, mentor, influencer, and philanthropist is now in custody at Al Awir jail. Mirza was reportedly taken into custody by Bur Dubai Police on October 27. He was arrested after a United Arab Emirates resident claimed they’d lost more than $150,000 in one of his dodgy schemes, Gulf News says. Back in April, an investigation revealed how Mirza had allegedly fooled victims from all over the world into participating in dodgy real estate projects, and Habibi Coin, a now worthless cryptocurrency....

Don’t worry, Instagram is testing a feature that might help you out unfollow some of them. According to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong,the social network is experimenting with a feature to let you group accounts — and it’ll even corral those courtesy follows for you automatically. Some automatic groups are “Least interacted with” and “Most shown in Feed,” calculated over the course of the last 90 days. You can go through accounts you don’t interact with much, and unfollow some to clear out your list....

The first feature is automatically blocking offensive comments using AI. The company said that it’ll detect these by using previously reported offensive comments. You can tap on “View Hidden Comments” to see them. The social network will automatically remove all comments that violate its community guidelines. This feature is currently in a beta mode. In addition to this, the company is expanding its “nudge” feature that notifies someone when they’re posting a nasty comment....

— Oli Clark (@PsyTechOli) June 26, 2019 As hot takes go, this one’s as fiery as a vindaloo. Why? Because people are often extremely particular about the food they eat. This is as true for vegans and vegetarians as it is for meat eaters, a small minority of whom perceive the increasing popularity of plant-based diets as a personal attack on their lifestyle. The thing is, Clark makes some excellent arguments, and I say that as an unabashed carnivore whose olfactory senses are currently being teased by the smell of a beef stew slowly simmering in a Crock Pot....