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Xbox update brings noise suppression to Party Chat

June 22, 2022
Chatting while gaming on your Xbox One Series X/S can be fun, but party chat members’ poor quality mics that let in every barking dog and blaring TV? Not so much. Now, Microsoft is doing something about it by introducing noise suppression to party chat in the latest Xbox update.  “We’ve enabled a new feature which will process your microphone input through a noise suppression step…
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Apple's MacBook Air M1 is $100 off right now

June 22, 2022
While you may waiting in anticipation for Apple’s next iteration of the MacBook Air, the current model is on sale at Amazon. You can pick up the 256GB MacBook Air M1 for $900 right now, or $100 off its normal price. We have seen it lower before — last year’s…
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HP is putting an OLED display in a Pavilion laptop for the first time

June 22, 2022
After announcing a refresh of pretty much all its Envy and Spectre notebooks, HP has revealed that it’s also updating its mid-range Pavilion line with new components and features. The HP Pavilion Plus 14-inch laptop can be configured with up to 12th gen Intel Core H-series processors and with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 4G discrete graphics.  You can also choose to get it with an OLED…
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HP refreshes its Omen 16 gaming laptop with improved cooling

June 22, 2022
HP is sprucing up its gaming laptop lineup with an upgrade for an existing model and the addition of a new system. The company is refreshing the Omen 16, which it introduced almost exactly a year ago, with thermal upgrades. The cooling optimizations include a fifth heat pipe…
MobileNews

iOS 16 will let you skip CAPTCHAs on some websites

June 22, 2022
iOS 16 might just help you avoid the CAPTCHA anti-bot systems that stand between you and some web sign-ins. As MacRumors noticed, Apple used WWDC 2022 to detail a Private Access Token system in iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura that skips CAPTCHAs altogether for some apps…
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Android users can now add Google Password Manager to their home screen

June 22, 2022
While Google has long included a password manager among its account perks, accessing a native version of that tool on your Android phone or tablet hasn’t been straightforward. Before a recent Google Play Services update, you had to navigate to the “Privacy” section of Android’s Settings menu to find an option to launch the software. But as 9to5Google points out, you can now add a home…
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LG's extra-tall DualUp Monitor is available now for $699

June 22, 2022
If you’ve been eyeing LG’s super-tall display ever since December, you’ll be glad to hear that you can finally buy it. LG has released the DualUp Monitor for $699. As promised, the clamp-mounted design centers on a 16:18 aspect ratio, 28-inch LCD whose…
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WhatsApp finally makes moving from Android to iOS less painful

June 22, 2022
If the thought of losing your tremendous trove of WhatsApp chat histories, files and other data has been keeping you from making the jump to iOS, you’ll no longer have to worry. Today, the app is adding a feature to help you move your content over, and it’ll be part of Apple’s existing “Move to iOS” tool. To be clear, WhatsApp’s feature is available as a beta…
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