Topic: user feedback
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Windows President on Windows 11 AI Backlash: "We Have Work to Do"
Microsoft acknowledges user dissatisfaction with Windows, pledging to address reliability, performance, and ease of use concerns based on extensive feedback. The company is focusing on resolving long-standing issues like inconsistent UI dialogs and underwhelming tools, particularly for developers...
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Google Home's New Feature Sparks Supernatural Reactions
Google's new Home Brief feature uses AI to summarize key events from home camera footage, offering convenience but showing mixed accuracy in early user reports. Initial feedback includes both precise event detection and significant errors, such as misidentifying animals, vehicles, and even report...
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Rate Your Favorite Shows and Movies on HBO Max
HBO Max has introduced an interactive rating feature with options "Love," "Like," or "Not For Me" to personalize content recommendations and curate sections like "Because You Love." The feature, tested extensively last year, mirrors competitors like Netflix and is accessible across all platforms ...
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Google's Slow and Steady AI Strategy Wins With Gemini 3
Google's Gemini 3 launch was delayed due to a focus on quality, including extensive post-training refinements and synchronization across its ecosystem to prioritize user experience over speed. Gemini 3 is being used to accelerate the development of Gemini 4 by analyzing user feedback and aiding i...
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Microsoft's AI-Powered Windows Update: What's New
Microsoft is integrating advanced AI features like Copilot and AI agents into Windows to boost productivity, though many are exclusive to Copilot+ PCs, raising accessibility concerns. New AI capabilities include taskbar-accessible agents, voice activation with "Hey, Copilot," and tools for summar...
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Google's Dark Web Report Feature Discontinued in February
Google will retire its dark web monitoring tool in February 2026, citing user feedback that the alerts lacked actionable next steps for addressing data exposures. The tool, which scanned for personal information in data breaches, is being replaced by integrated security features like Security Che...
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Windows at 40: Evolving Into an AI-Powered Platform
Microsoft is transforming Windows into an "agentic" AI-native operating system, integrating advanced AI capabilities like Copilot to coordinate tasks and provide contextual assistance, despite facing user and developer backlash. The implementation of AI features has revealed significant reliabili...
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Get Personalized Morning Updates from ChatGPT Pulse
ChatGPT Pulse is a new feature that transforms the AI from a reactive tool into a proactive partner by delivering a personalized daily briefing based on your chat history, memories, and feedback. Currently available only to ChatGPT Pro subscribers at a $200 monthly fee, the feature analyzes your ...
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Hide Annoying YouTube End Screens With This New Feature
YouTube now allows viewers to hide end screens that show recommendations and subscribe prompts, giving them more control over their viewing experience. The feature was added due to user feedback about distractions, and testing showed it only causes a minor 1.5% decrease in views from end screen p...
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OpenAI Rolls Back GPT-4o Update After AI Gets Annoying
OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates.
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Never Miss a Google Meet Detail Again with 'Ask Gemini' AI
Google has introduced Ask Gemini, an AI assistant for Google Meet that provides real-time support by answering questions and summarizing discussions to help users stay on track. The tool uses meeting captions, shared documents, and public websites to highlight key decisions and action items, but ...
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Pinterest Lets You Limit AI Content in Your Feed
Pinterest has introduced new user controls allowing individuals to limit AI-generated content in their feeds, addressing concerns over "AI slop" degrading the platform's experience. The platform is enhancing AI content labels and enabling users to reduce visibility of synthetic imagery in specifi...
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Kayak Co-Founder Launches Supercal to Challenge Calendly
Supercal is a new, completely free scheduling platform founded by Paul English, designed to compete with established tools like Calendly by offering robust features without cost. Its standout feature is AI-powered group scheduling that scans multiple calendars to find suitable meeting times, book...
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Strava Locks Popular Year in Sport Recap Behind Paywall
Strava has moved its popular annual Year in Sport recap behind a paywall for the first time, a significant shift that has frustrated its free-user community. Users and critics have widely condemned the decision as greedy and exploitative, arguing it monetizes user-generated data instead of adding...
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Amazon pulls Fallout AI recap after factual errors
Amazon removed an AI-generated recap for its *Fallout* series after fans identified significant factual errors, including misstating a key scene's timeline and misrepresenting character dynamics. This incident reflects broader industry challenges with AI summarization tools, as similar features f...
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Take Control of Your Instagram Reels Algorithm
Instagram is launching a new AI-powered tool that lets users view and adjust the topics influencing their Reels recommendations for a more personalized feed. The feature, starting in the U.S., allows users to manage interests via an icon in Reels and is part of a plan to expand similar controls t...
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Hinge's AI Feature Ends Boring Small Talk for Good
Hinge has launched an AI-powered Convo Starters feature that provides personalized message suggestions to help users initiate more meaningful conversations based on a match's profile. The feature is a direct response to user data showing that adding a comment to a like significantly increases t...
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Snapchat Revives Classic 2D Bitmojis for Subscribers
Snapchat is reintroducing 2D Bitmoji avatars as an exclusive feature for its Snapchat Plus paying subscribers, offering a new "Comic Bitmoji" style. The new 2D style functions like a filter, maintaining customization and expressive features while providing a comic book look with more poses and de...
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Steam's New Game Discovery Tool Is Surprisingly Useful
Steam has introduced a Personal Calendar feature that displays upcoming game releases tailored to users' tastes over the next two months, helping them cut through the clutter of new titles. The calendar uses algorithms to analyze users' gaming habits and compare them with similar players, updatin...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Browser Gets Major Upgrade: Tabs, Profiles & More
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser challenges competitors with AI-powered features, with upcoming enhancements including user profiles, tab groups, and an optional ad blocker. The browser's core AI functionalities will see improvements like faster response times, better integration with services, and...
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Apple's new 'tinted' option lets you undo Liquid Glass look
Apple has introduced a Clear and Tinted appearance toggle for its Liquid Glass interface in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS beta updates, offering users greater flexibility and addressing feedback on readability and navigation. This customization mirrors Apple's past approach to user feedback, such as wit...
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iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets You Reduce Liquid Glass Transparency
Apple's iOS 26.1 beta 4 introduces a new "Tinted" option to reduce the transparency of the Liquid Glass design, offering a more opaque and higher-contrast interface across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Users can find this setting in Display & Brightness on iOS/iPadOS or Appearance in macOS Syste...
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iPadOS 26 Beta Reverses Key Multitasking Feature
iPadOS 26.1 beta has reinstated the Slide Over multitasking feature after user feedback criticized its removal, addressing a gap for daily users who relied on its quick access functionality. The revived Slide Over allows a compact app window to float above others but now limits users to one app a...
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Google Gemini for Home: Early Access, Public Preview & Launch Date
Google has clarified the rollout strategy for Gemini for Home, distinguishing between Early Access for select users to test features and a Public Preview, with availability expanding to more countries starting next week. The voice assistant component will launch for Google Home Premium subscriber...
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X Tests Community Notes to Highlight Popular Posts
X is expanding its Community Notes feature to identify posts with broad appeal across diverse viewpoints, moving beyond just fact-checking. The platform uses a "bridging algorithm" to surface content that resonates with opposing perspectives, now applying this to highlight widely appreciated post...
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Over a million people now have access to the gen-AI powered Alexa+
Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ has reached over one million users, offering advanced generative AI features like fluid conversations and smart home integration, currently available by invitation. Alexa+ provides personalized responses, natural language processing, and premium services like email su...
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Google Unlocks Free Gemini Live Visual Features on Android
▼ Summary - Google is making its advanced AI feature, Gemini Live, free for all Android users via the Gemini app.- Initially, Gemini Live was limited to high-end devices and…
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Why Newsletter Saturation Doesn't Scare Beehiiv's CEO
beehiiv is expanding from a newsletter platform into a comprehensive content toolkit, adding an AI website builder, podcast support, and digital product sales to meet user demands for flexibility. The platform's growth increases competition with other creator tools, but beehiiv believes its maste...
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Android 16 QPR2's Sideloading UI Gets a Major Visual Upgrade
Google has updated the Android Package Installer's visual design in Android 16 QPR2, aligning it with the Material 3 design language for a more cohesive system experience, though it requires a full OS update. The redesign features a centered app name and icon for clarity, and introduces distinct ...
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Spotify Wrapped 2025 Launches Multiplayer 'Wrapped Party'
Spotify Wrapped 2025 shifts focus from AI to interactive, social features, introducing new elements like the multiplayer **Wrapped Party** to make listening stats a shared event. New interactive features include a **Top Song Quiz**, **Listening Age** analysis, and **Wrapped Clubs** that categoriz...
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Dia's AI Browser Integrates Arc's Top Features
Dia is a new AI-powered browser that combines popular features from its predecessor Arc, such as the sidebar mode, with advanced AI capabilities, following its acquisition by Atlassian for $610 million. Arc, launched in 2023, introduced innovative features like separate workspaces and a Command B...
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Tinder Introduces New Dating Modes for Better Matches
Tinder is introducing new modes like Double Date and College Mode to focus on better, more intentional matches rather than just increasing the number of potential partners. Double Date enables friends to match with other pairs, leading to a 25% increase in messages per match, while College Mode e...
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Google's AI Now Understands What You Really Want
Google is using AI to help recommender systems interpret subjective user preferences, like "funny" or "cute," by bridging the semantic gap between human language and machine processing. The research employs an adapted technique called Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) to translate individual user...
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Google Photos Revives Face Search for People & Pets
Google Photos has reintroduced visual "face shortcuts," allowing users to quickly find photos of frequent people and pets with a single tap, addressing user feedback for a simpler search method. The shortcuts appear in both the classic search tab and the newer "Ask Photos" interface, providing im...
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Control ChatGPT's Enthusiasm with New OpenAI Feature
OpenAI has introduced granular user controls for ChatGPT's personality, allowing adjustments to traits like warmth and enthusiasm via a new Personalization menu. This customization addresses past issues where the AI's tone was perceived as overly flattering or too cold, highlighting the challenge...
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Google's Dark Web Report Tool Shuts Down After a Year
Google is discontinuing its free Dark Web Report tool, with a full shutdown on February 16, 2026, as part of a strategic shift toward more actionable security guidance. The tool, which scanned for users' email addresses on illicit dark web sites, was criticized for not providing clear, practical ...
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Google Home Removes Another Popular Feature
Google has removed the "Call Home" feature from its Home app, eliminating the direct smartphone-to-smart-display calling capability that used Google Duo. This change aligns with Google's transition to Meet as its primary video platform and requires users to now call via Meet or Household contacts...
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Spotify Wrapped 2025 Breaks Records with 200M+ Day-One Users
Spotify Wrapped 2025 achieved record-breaking engagement, with over 200 million users interacting within the first day—a 19% increase from 2024, which it took 62 hours to reach the same milestone. The feature's virality surged as users shared results over 500 million times, a 41% jump from the pr...
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ChatGPT Now Helps You Shop Smarter
OpenAI has launched a shopping research tool in ChatGPT that creates personalized buyer's guides by searching the web for products based on user needs and preferences. The tool uses a specialized GPT-5 mini model, achieving 52% product accuracy for complex queries, and refines results in real-tim...
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Xbox Insiders Get Full Screen Mode on Windows 11 Now
A new Xbox full screen experience is now available on Windows 11 handheld devices, offering performance improvements and a console-like interface for faster game access. The feature is also in preview for other Windows 11 devices like laptops and desktops, with a controller-friendly interface and...
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GPT-5.1 Launches With Superior Instruction Following
OpenAI has launched the GPT-5.1 series with two new models, GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, offering enhanced conversational interactions and reasoning abilities, initially available to paying subscribers. The models feature improved instruction following, adaptive reasoning for complex que...
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Meta Launches AI-Powered Short-Form Video Feed in Europe
Meta has launched Vibes, a new AI-generated short-form video platform in Europe, offering a continuous feed similar to TikTok but with all content created by artificial intelligence. Users can create videos from text prompts or remix existing ones, with the feed personalizing over time and allowi...
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YouTube's New Video Player: What's Your Verdict?
Google has officially launched a redesigned YouTube video player across all devices, marking a significant visual overhaul to the core viewing experience. The new design on desktop features oversized, opaque white buttons and semi-translucent borders that are harder to distinguish, leading to a c...
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ChatGPT Pulse: Your Personalized Morning Briefing
ChatGPT Pulse is a new proactive feature for Pro subscribers that delivers personalized daily briefings based on user data, moving the AI from reactive to assistant-like behavior. The system uses chat history, preferences, and optional service integrations to generate ephemeral visual cards with ...
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Google's AI Model Now Better at Solving Complex STEM Problems
Google has upgraded its large language models to significantly improve performance on complex STEM questions, offering more precise academic assistance. The updated model provides tighter, easier-to-scan responses, aiming to make technical information more digestible for users. This enhancement i...
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Alexis Ohanian's New Social Platform: One Rule, No Toxicity
A new social platform aims to foster genuine, respectful online conversations by using community-driven moderation and real-time feedback to discourage toxicity. The article suggests democratizing wealth by giving children stock market access from birth and improving investment inclusivity to ben...
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Top CRM Software with Email Marketing for 2025: Expert Reviews
Choosing the right CRM software with email marketing capabilities is crucial for managing customer relationships and boosting sales, requiring evaluation of features, pricing, and performance. Recommendations are based on hands-on testing, vendor data, and authentic user feedback to ensure reliab...
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Google's AI-Powered 'Ask Photos' Search Returns With Speed Boost
Google has relaunched its AI-powered "Ask Photos" feature with improved speed, addressing earlier issues with response time and accuracy. The tool now provides instant results for simple queries (e.g., "beach") while processing complex requests (e.g., "license plates from Maine") in the backgroun...
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Affinity's Image Editors Go Freemium in Major Post-Canva Update
Canva has merged the Affinity suite into a single freemium application called "Affinity by Canva," offering core features for free while reserving generative AI tools for paid subscribers. The shift from a one-time purchase model to a freemium approach may disappoint users who preferred perpetual...
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Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race: The Best Budget Direct Drive Wheel
The Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race KD3 bundle offers an affordable direct drive racing setup with a 3.2Nm wheelbase and Hall effect pedals, designed for both desktop and cockpit use. While the standard wheel rim is a weak point with cheap-feeling buttons, an optional premium FR-X formula-style whe...
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