Category: Software Category

April 3, 2020

Microsoft has published a second preview of .NET 5. A merger of .NET Standard and .NET Core that is intended to unify the .NET platform, .NET 5 is described by Microsoft as “the future of .NET.” The second .NET 5 […]

April 3, 2020

Zoom has decided to cease development of new product features so it can focus on fixing various privacy and security issues. The company has seen a surge in the use of its platform in recent weeks, as self isolation in […]

April 3, 2020

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have each issued reprieves to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1, aged encryption protocols that were to be bounced from browser support in March, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. By common agreement, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s […]

April 3, 2020

Business communication apps saw record levels of growth in March, according to statistics from mobile market data provider App Annie. With a growing portion of the global population now living under some kind of government lockdown, many organizations have had […]

April 2, 2020

Facebook today debuted a new Messenger app for desktop and PC, presumably in an attempt to get in on the massive new demand for good voice chat apps. The new app syncs calls across devices, boasts unlimited free video and […]

April 2, 2020

A working group of the C++ language standards committee has floated a proposal to evolve the language with an emphasis on safety and simplicity, rather than backward and binary compatibility, raising the question of whether the language could possibly fork. […]

April 1, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is a public health emergency. In just under three months, we have gone from distant reports of a new disease emerging in China to seeing cities locked down and health […]

April 1, 2020

Just a short while after Microsoft announced a Grammarly competitor called Editor, Grammarly announced its writing tool is now available on more Microsoft services. Specifically, Grammarly now works with Microsoft Word for the Mac as well as Word Online. Grammarly […]

April 1, 2020

Apple has done it again. The iPhone maker scooped up a beloved mobile application with plans to fold it into its own offering. Dark Sky sells for $3.99 and is popular due to its hyper-local forecasts. It’s important to point […]

March 31, 2020

Check Point has launched a new extension for Google Chrome called ZoneAlarm Web Secure Free that provides users with free protection against phishing attacks, malicious downloads and dangerous websites. The new solution is an advanced Google Chrome extension that can […]