Older Android phones won’t support many secure websites by September 2021

Posted on 07/11/2020 by Engadget

You might have to upgrade your Android phone before long if you want to visit large portions of the secure web. According to Android Police, Certificate Authority Let’s Encrypt is warning that phones running Android versions before 7.1.1 Nougat won’t...

Microsoft Edge adds an online shopping comparison tool

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

As part of a major update coming later this month, Microsoft Edge is getting two handy new features (via The Verge). The first is a price comparison tool that will allow you to add a product to a Collection and then click a single button to see how m...

A Redditor got Stadia to run on an iPhone

Posted on 28/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Although Apple cracked open the door for game streaming services to run on iPhone and iPad earlier this month, you can’t use Stadia, xCloud or GeForce Now on those devices yet. Well, at least not officially.Members of the Stadia subreddit have been t...

Microsoft outlines recent Edge browser improvements

Posted on 26/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In a new post on the Microsoft Edge blog, the browser’s Principal PM Lead Kim Denny has outlined how the company made it faster and more efficient over the past few months. To help users perform their tasks as quickly as possible, the team rolled out...

Opera update uses QR codes to sync data between PC and Android browsers

Posted on 23/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Opera browser is making it easier to sync between desktop and Android devices. The latest updates (version 71 on desktop and version 60 on Android) include a new feature called Sync that doesn’t require the use of an email and password. You just...

You can now set Firefox as your default iOS browser

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

One big benefit of iOS 14 is that you can set non-Apple-made apps as your default, including for email and web browsing. Hot on the heels of you being able to set Chrome and Gmail as your clients of choice, Firefox is enabling you to make its browser...

Waze lets you plan trips on the web and save them to your phone

Posted on 08/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Planning a trip on Waze just got a little easier. You can now plan a drive in your web browser of choice using the Live Map and then save it to your mobile app by clicking the “Save to app” button.When you set your preferred time of arrival, Waze wil...

Microsoft details how it will phase out Flash support in Edge after 2020

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft is providing more detail (via Bleeping Computer) about how it will drop support for Flash in Edge to dovetail with Adobe’s plans, including some notable exceptions. As expected, Flash will be disabled by default in Edge as of December 2020....

Amazon’s latest AR shopping tool fills your space with virtual furniture

Posted on 25/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Amazon’s newest AR shopping tool will let you see furniture and other home decor in your space before you buy it, TechCrunch reports. Coming to the Amazon shopping app for iOS and desktop browsers, “Room Decorator” will let you see multiple items at...

Chrome’s new tab grouping feature brings order to chaos