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If you’re like me, you like to procrastinate at work. Luckily, I get to work from home and don’t have to worry about a boss peeking over my shoulder any time I whip out my phone. If you’re one of those who get to experience this and you’re an avid Instagram user, there’s good news—Users will soon be able to get notifications when using Instagram through a browser on their PC. First spotted by Android Police , Instagram now has browser notification support. So, anytime you see an Instagram notification pop on your phone, you can head on over to Chrome, Safari, or the Firefox browser to peep that notification. You can view things like new followers, likes, or comments—The service will ask for permission first, and then notify you whenever there’s any activity on your accounts such as for as new followers, likes, or comments. Although you"ve long been able to scroll through Instagram News Feed via a browser, the best experience was always via...

Intel isn"t making sufficient processor chips to take care of demand. Now this has been going on for some time but the reason it’s making headlines now is because as we near the holiday season, PC sales are expected to jump. Now analysts J.P. Morgan think the Intel situation is going to be a problem. The firm gauges the Intel processor and chipset lack will sting final quarter PC shipments by 5 to 7 percent. According to Gokul Hariharan who is J.P Morgan’s Asia-Pacific technology analyst who spoke to CNBC, "Our conversations with PC vendors indicate that the shortage, which started in small magnitude in 3Q, has been progressively worsening and is likely to have the maximum impact in 4Q18. This drove Intel shares down 0.1 percent on Friday in a sign that there may actually be a shortage by year’s end. He continued by saying "We expect this to affect both notebook and desktop PCs and likely to have a higher impact on commercial and high-end consumer PCs, where using...

Opera web browser is now the first of the major browsers to include a cryptocurrency wallet and by doing this, they have removed the need for third party extensions thereby increasing the security of such transactions for users.  This desktop wallet supports major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and synchronises with the mobile version (Opera for Android) which was announced back in June. In a statement by Opera’s EVP of Browsers, Krystian Kolondra he said “after making crypto payments smooth and easy on mobile, we wanted the find the perfect solution for PCs. We realised the best way is to utilise our new mobile crypto wallet technology and to give our PC users access to it.” The security in the Opera approach is that instead of having to enter some kind of password, you just approve transactions using the biometric provisions like the fingerprint scanner to do it. Cryptographic keys and other resources are put away locally on the user’s telephone, as oppose...

Have you ever stepped away from your PC only to return and find it in the middle of an update? Such is the bane of forced updates on Windows 10. They"re not disappearing, but Microsoft is employing machine learning to train Windows 10 not to update itself at an inappropriate times. Windows 10"s overly aggressive update system, which sometimes restarts while using the device, has been a point of frustration for many users for a long time. Software has been developed to prevent forced update of Windows 10 by volunteers, but of course Microsoft also receives feedback from users and recognises that there is a problem with Windows 10 update. Microsoft currently has a snooze feature to postpone installing updates, but it still seems that complaints of "restarting while using the device" are still being sent.  To combat this issue, Microsoft has been testing a new system that uses a predictive model to learn when devices aren’t in use. So instead of applying an update whil...

Apple has announced that it has upgraded its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for faster performance; it has also introduced new pro features to the lineup. Both models now come with the new eighth-generation Intel processors, with the 15-inch laptop boasting up to 70-percent improved performance and the 13-inch version running up to two times its original speed. [caption id="attachment_12057" align="aligncenter" width="2400"]                          MacBook Pro now delivers faster performance for complex simulations and data manipulation. [/caption] "The latest generation MacBook Pro is the fastest and most powerful notebook we"ve ever made," said Philip Schiller, Apple"s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "The 8th-generation 6-core processors, up to 32GB of system memory, up to 4TB of super-fast SSD storage, new "True Tone" technology in its Retina display and Touch Bar, the Apple T2 chip for ...

Microsoft may soon extend its Movies & TV app beyond the Windows 10 hub. “Microsoft is building these apps to give consumers more of a reason to buy content in the Microsoft Store”.  According to a report by Windows Central . “Lots of people buy digital movies and TV content, and Microsoft has a huge store that a lot of people seemingly ignore or don’t know about because there is no mobile companion app for their phone,” the report added. Last June, Microsoft shut down its Groove Music service after announcing a partnership with the music streaming platform Spotify . The company requested its customers to transfer everything they had saved, downloaded and playlists they had created on Groove to Spotify, media reported. But the company did not touch the “Movies & TV” app then. The Microsoft Store has an impressive collection of films and TV shows available to buy, including many that aren"t available via streaming services, but until...

After achieving massive success with its mobile application, the social media giant WhatsApp is planning to strengthen its desktop presence and thereby become active in almost every space a user inhabits throughout the day from home to the office. Facebook owned messaging service WhatsApp is reportedly working with Microsoft to deliver a proper desktop app. WhatsApp is one of the few developers that consistently delivered updates to its Windows Phone app, but a report by Windows Central suggests WhatsApp is actually getting ready to deliver a proper desktop app as well. Over the years, there has been a huge demand for a native WhatsApp client for Windows computers. The idea of using a proper PC setup for chatting with your pals certainly appeals to many, even the developers themselves. However, there hasn’t been any dedicated app yet but the web client has been useful. It seems now that it’s about to change. Concept art for a Universal Windows platform (UWP) version of What...

Remember the Surface Hub? You probably won"t. Unlike Microsoft"s other PCs -- the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio -- the Hub was a giant and expensive device meant for workplace collaboration. It has never featured in any commercials or turn heads at Best Buy. But yet Microsoft admits that it only sold to more than 5,000 businesses in 25 countries, with more than half of Fortune 100 companies already own a Surface Hub, and of course it’s the most popular Surface device for enterprise customers. Surface Hub, it’s successor Surface Hub 2 was pre-announced by Microsoft in March, The news was little more than a heads-up that refreshed hardware was planned, but more info was expected during "first half of this year." Moving forward,  Microsoft has officially announced the first preview of Surface Hub 2 . The device is a 50.5-inch "more than 4K" display with a familiar 3:2 aspect ratio. There is also a 4K video camera, built-in speakers, a new Surface Pen ...