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Vivaldi is a popular alternative web browser, focused on packing in as many useful features as possible. Vivaldi 6.7 is now rolling out on iPhone and iPad, and it has some massive improvements for iPad owners and productivity.

Twitch allows streamers to automatically save a copy of their broadcast to the cloud. They also provide a quick way to download your videos so you can store them on your PC or upload them elsewhere. Here's everything you need to know about downloading one of Twitch's Videos on Demand (VOD).

Do you often find yourself unlocking your phone and then opening Google Maps to check directions? You can save yourself some trouble by using glanceable directions. But what exactly is the glanceable directions feature, and how do you enable it? Here's everything you need to know.

Google Photos gives you some photo storage and editing tools for free, but getting the most out of it requires paying for a subscription. That’s now changing, as some editing features are opening up to everyone.

Vibrant designs were all the rage in tech throughout the 2010s. Thankfully, developers have come to their senses, which is why we now have a dark mode on every major operating system and app. No matter what app or device it is, I always flip the switch to dark, and here's why.

Virtual wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay are extremely convenient, but are they safe? How do they protect your information from people that would try to steal it? Here is what you need to know.

Passkeys sure look like the future of passwords, and password managers are slowly adapting to the new technology. 1Password was one of the first services to add support for passkeys, and now that extends to the 1Password app for Android.

Signal is the gold standard for private and secure messaging, but it has always required you to share your phone number to start talking to someone, which can compromise your privacy unless you take additional steps. Signal is now rolling out regular usernames that can be used in place of a phone number.

It's been two years since Apple moved Safari's address bar to the bottom of the iPhone's screen. Now, after a long wait, Google is following in Apple's footsteps. A new setting in the Chrome iOS app moves its address bar to the bottom of your screen. This setting is optional and disabled by default.

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Madame Web, Sony's next addition to its Spider-Man universe, is fast approaching but we've seen fairly little of the movie so far, including lead Dakota Johnson's super suit.  Until now, that is. 

In the past few years, Mirzapur has been marked as one of the most promising web series for mafia enthusiasts. After getting a massive response in its previous season, makers are gearing up for the premiering of its next sequel.

WhatsApp, a leading Android messaging app, underwent significant upgrades, introducing a revamped dark mode for its Android app in December. However, WhatsApp Web did not receive a similar makeover at that time. Recent developments suggest this might change soon, with WhatsApp actively testing a new and improved dark theme for its web client. Check what the WhatsApp Web dark mode update will offer to its users.

Any series inspired by true events is always thrilling. From heart-wrenching dramas to thrilling action scenes, this genre has a separate fan base. These Hindi web series offer a glimpse into the lives of inspirational leaders, unsung heroes, and real-life crime stories.

WhatsApp web and desktop app has been widely used due to its easy accessibility. However, the PC version does not include the WhatsApp view once photos and videos feature that the mobile app has. Now, it is reported that WhatsApp is planning to bring the feature back to all the PC apps with improved security. Know how to access and use the new WhatsApp view once photos and videos feature below.

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With over 2 billion users across the globe, Google Chrome is certainly one of the world's most popular web browsers. It is a Chromium-based browser, Google's open-source software project. Last month, Google Chrome turned 15, and to commemorate that, Google announced that it would be rolling out the biggest redesign in the browser's history in the coming weeks. The update is now live and it has brought the ‘Material You' theme which became popular with Android 12, with refreshed icons and new colour palette options that can be used to customize the toolbar and tools. And finally, the new Chrome Web Store is now live.

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Madame Web may have only just released its first trailer, but it's getting memed already. 

The trailer just dropped and it offered a tease of what fans can expect from the movie in particular the. Here is a breakdown of each Spider-Woman seen in the trailer.

After a new trailer for the movie offered some details on the plot and the main villain hit the web, fans are curious to know who the villain is. Here is all you need to know about Ezekiel Sims.

Spider-Man arguably has one of the best supporting casts in comic books, a collection of friends and enemies nearly as iconic as he is. It’s one of the reasons he’s so popular, and why Sony is content to make movies like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter based on his rogues’ gallery, with no connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and nary a hint of Spidey himself.

Sony Pictures has released the first Madame Web trailer for its upcoming Spider-Man spin-off movie set in its Spider-Man universe.

It’s certainly not every day that a developer announces they’re making a new game set in the universe of Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s long-running supernatural-action comic series. For Patrick Martin and Adam Langridge, co-founders of U.K.-based game studio Upstream Arcade, it was a dream come true.

Spatial announced today that it’s launching a new season of in-house games, releasing several games that will be available to play on web, mobile and VR. It’s also launching games from third-party studios IzyPlay and Zaibatsu later this year, allowing them to be played by users directly from browser. According to Spatial, it plans to launch more titles around the holiday season.

WhatsApp Web is often the version of the platform that is neglected in terms of new features and updates. All other versions, including the Android, iOS, and desktop receive updates more regularly compared to the web client. That is why it is exciting news for WhatsApp Web users when this client gets new features. Very soon, the web client will get a feature that will make looking for older messages a piece of cake. According to reports, users will soon get a date filter while searching for messages, allowing them to filter their search in a smaller section, allowing them to better pinpoint its location.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 delivers an incredible story about heroes and villains grappling with loneliness.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

The Silent Hill brand is about to venture into the territory of interactive entertainment. Tonight, Halloween night, Genvid Entertainment and Konami join forces to invite fans and newcomers alike to enter the world of Silent Hill: Ascension.

Coming-of-age stories are always heartwarming and relatable when done well. And The Viral Fever, also known as TVF, has built up a mastery over it. After the success of popular web series such as Kota Factory, Panchayat, and Hostel Daze, it released a show focused around the lives of those who prepare for one of the toughest exams in India, Union Public Service Commission - Civil Service Examination (UPSC - CSE) called Aspirants. The first season gained immense popularity, and now the second season is here. If you have not watched it already and are looking to find out where to watch Aspirants season 2 OTT release online, just read on.

has improved upon the traversal mechanics in the previous games with customization options to allow for more traditional physics-based web-swinging and new features such as web wings, which haven't been part of an open-world game before. Developer Insomniac Games' previous games were praised for their web-swinging mechanics, but with improved loading and rendering speeds available through the PlayStation 5's hardware, its sequel has been able to build upon this for even more variety.

As easy as Insomniac might make it look, taking a property from the pages of a comic book and breathing digital life into it is no small or simple task. Baying legions of rabid fans are the first obstacle, and developers will have to weave through a chicane of potential online vitriol, before you hit the sizeable bump in the road of either creating a wholly new narrative or translating a well-worn one that you can’t possibly divert from.

There’s a new web event for Genshin Impact to promote the release of its new OST album, but some seemingly AI-generated artwork featured in the event leaves a lot to be desired.

This week Meta rolled out a new way for you to control how Instagram tracks your web activity.

It’s been decided: Web Grabber is the best gadget in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. In Spiderman 2, there are four new gadgets that are all cool and useful, but myself and the community agree that Web Grabber is the best.

US regulators are set on Thursday to reinstate rules aimed at ensuring that everything on the internet is equally accessible — a principle known as net neutrality that has stoked debate and controversy across technology and telecom industries for more than two decades.

Hellboy Web of Wyrd is now making its way to digital store shelves around the globe with a cast list made up of many familiar names.

Hellboy Web of Wyrd launches today now across platforms, with its launch marking one of Lance Reddick's final performances following his death earlier this year.

As a longtime Hellboy fan, it continues to astound me that there are desperately few video game adaptations of the big red monkey devil’s exploits. There’s a lot to love about Mike Mignola’s almost 30-year-old hellion, from his look, to the fable-flavored supernatural world he skulks around righting wrongs and protecting the innocent, to the often touching pieces of self-reflection throughout the many stories that touch on themes of loneliness, discrimination, found families, and the risks and rewards of rising to a higher calling. Seven hours with Web of Wyrd was a good reminder of the challenges involved with turning such a complex work into an interactive game where our actions matter. While it nails much of the look of the graphic novels, Web of Wyrd trades substantial story and characters for an entertaining but low-stakes, action-packed romp whose roguelite elements fail to put up enough of a fight to give the heavy-handed devil his due.

Wonderland and Robot Invader have partnered on a novel way to get players excited about playing a virtual reality game.

The arc represents one of the great epics in comics, spanning three decades of imaginative historical pulp storytelling built upon the gorgeous art and iconic vision of creator Mike Mignola, but its explorations into other media have varied greatly in quality. Upstream Arcade's stands as Big Red’s newest video game foray, an unsteady clunker of an action-roguelite which borrows from other genre classics but seemingly fails to understand the fundamentals of the greats, feeling like either an interrupted project or a mismanaged would-be gem.

One of Marvel's Spider-Man 2's actors thinks their series' villains are second only to Batman's.

A new Dungeons & Dragons actual play is in the works, featuring even more familiar faces from the voices and creatives of the gaming industry. Titled «Natural Six», the campaign posted the Kickstarter trailer—shown above—to their YouTube channel earlier this week (thanks, Dicebreaker). Leading the group as its DM is Harry McEntire, who is the voice of Noah from Xenoblade Chronicles 3. 

Microsoft recently revamped its Teams app for Windows and Mac to improve its functionality. And the company is not stopping at that. Yesterday, October 6, it also launched the new web app store for Windows. This new web app store is not a mere redesign or addition of new functionalities, in fact, the company claims that it was built from scratch using a new user interface (UI) to make it more intuitive and seamless when looking for new Windows apps and Xbox PC games.

An Insomniac staffer shared an interesting feature that his studio added into Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

Hatch, a consumer software firm founded by veterans of Valve and Picnik, has launched its no-code creative web development platform.

The task management tool called Microsoft Lists, will now be made available to users across all devices on iOS, Android, and Web. The app was launched back in 2020 for businesses and enterprise users so they can track information and organize tasks effectively. Users with Microsoft accounts can now access the app and utilize its benefits. Know more about the Microsoft Lists here.

We're quite looking forward to Hellboy Web of Wyrd. This upcoming game based on the popular comic books puts a roguelike spin on the character and his supernatural world, matching the visual style and telling an original tale as well. However, publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment has announced it'll be a slightly longer wait than we were expecting.

Adobe Photoshop is a widely used tool for photo editing globally. Everyone who can afford it, uses it to generate some awesome images and more. Until recently, users could only use through its app. But now, Adobe has finally announced the web version of this photo editing tool, thereby providing users with much greater flexibility.

ChatGPT Plus subscribers get frequent access to new features, such as the latest GPT-4 model and plugin support. OpenAI previously introduced Bing-based browsing capabilities, only to pull it after users discovered a paywall glitch.

Hellboy Web of Wyrd has been delayed for two weeks. The game will now be released on October 18th, 2023. The developers did this so that they could make sure that the game is released everywhere at once.

Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Upstream Arcade have delayed roguelite action adventure game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd from its previously planned October 4 release date by two weeks to October 18. It will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

The US Department of Justice has removed public access to emails, charts and internal presentations from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that had come out as evidence in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the tech titan.

Another set of leaks have revealed Microsoft’s discussions about getting Xbox cloud gaming running on a PlayStation 5.

Insomniac Games is bringing together two Spider-Men for a sequel that it hopes will elevate what has come before by iterating on it.

We got another glimpse into Marvel's Spider-Man 2 today, including insight on new suits, new tech, and new areas of the city. 

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

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Over the past few years, there have been several Bollywood films and shows showcasing the glamour and the underworld era of Mumbai, with Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, and Sacred Games just to name a few. Now, another web series based on similar themes is set to debut soon. Named Bambai Meri Jaan, the web series stars Kay Kay Menon in one of the lead roles, who has recently been seen on several OTT shows such as Farzi, Special Ops, Special Ops 1.5, and more.

With the full release of EA Sports FC 24 just around the corner, everyone’s been wondering when the EA FC 24 Web App and Companion App release date will be.

If the last Hellboy film left you cold on the franchise, the new game – Hellboy: Web of Wyrd – might just have you rekindling what you love about the character and world all over again.

What are the biggest TV shows and web series in September 2023? Sex Education season 4 leads the pack of new releases this month, alongside Gen V, a college-set spin-off series based on The Boys. The former sees everyone's favourite sex therapist Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) finally in college, hoping to set up his new clinic while trying not to come across as a loser to his new peers' awkward glares. Marking the final chapter in the lives of the Moordale Secondary's sex-obsessed gang, Sex Education returns September 21 on Netflix. Chase that down with a healthy dose of Compound V, as a group of gifted students at Godolkin University compete for the top ranking in Gen V. It premieres September 29 on Amazon Prime Video.

Want to prevent prying eyes from peeking at your Google Photos folders? Google has now extended its Locked Folders feature to iOS and the web.

Project Mugen is an upcoming free-to-play action RPG from new developer Naked Rain (a subsidiary of Netease) with anime characters who can web-swing through a city like Spider-Man. Its first trailer is a mash-up of Grand Theft Auto and Genshin Impact, an urban anime game with several characters to play as.

October continues to fill up. The latest game entering this particular month is Hellboy Web of Wyrd, the roguelite brawler with an art style to match Mike Mignola's comics. It's coming to PS5 and PS4 on 4th October 2023, as revealed in this new trailer.

Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism around how OpenAI scoops up data to train ChatGPT, its groundbreaking chatbot, the company made it possible for websites to block it from scraping their content. A short piece of code would tell OpenAI to go away (and it would kindly obey).

Dozens of websites are using AI chatbots to copy and repurpose articles from top publishers, according to a report from the news-rating group NewsGuard, offering a glimpse into how artificial intelligence tools risk undermining media companies and muddying the online news industry.

October is already the most stacked month for releases, and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: Web of Wyrd joins the pack. The upcoming brawler based on the popular comic series kicks off Halloween month with its arrival on October 4.

The has been set by a new trailer for the upcoming rogue-lite brawler video game.

The new Hellboy video game, Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, finally has a release date, and it's coming up fast - October 4, to be precise. And along with the announcement of Web of Wyrd's release date, developers Good Shepherd Entertainment have released a new trailer, highlighting the story of the game, seen above.

A fresh Mac threat has emerged, and it's a revamped version of the notorious XLoader malware. This time, it's disguised as a productivity app called "OfficeNote." Here's what you need to know to keep your Mac secure.

Roguelite action adventure game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on October 4, publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Upstream Arcade announced.

The wait is finally over! Ever since its launch on July 5, many were wondering why the newest social media platform by Meta, Threads, was only available on mobile apps and not as a website. The Instagram-powered text-based platform was touted to get a web app by both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Yet, almost two months later, it still was not live. But this changed just a few hours ago when Zuckerberg posted a picture of him working on the Threads website and officially announced the web version of Threads. The web version will begin rolling out starting today. All users across the globe will get it over the next few days.

If ever there was a comic book element that was destined to become the signature weapon of a video game, it’s Hellboy’s Right Hand of Doom. I mean just look at it – a massive stone fist made purely for beating the seven bells out of massive monsters. And that’s exactly what you do in Hellboy Web of Wyrd (pronounced ‘wurd’, not ‘weird’), a roguelite brawler that looks like the contents of a Mike Mignola comic emptied onto your screen.

Meta's Twitter competitor will soon no longer be confined to mobile.

Meta, the company behind social media apps like Facebook and Instagram, is getting ready to launch a new web version of its app called Threads. This will allow it to better compete with X ( formerly Twitter) and other social media platforms.

Regular readers will know that we're huge fans of WipEout. The futuristic racing series has long been ignored by Sony — much to our disappointment — but if you're yearning for a quick fix of eye-watering speed (and perhaps a healthy nostalgia hit) then you may be in luck.

Every user of online services, whether for personal or professional purposes, knows that the cyber threat is always present and that their devices can easily be hacked and they may lose their data or even their money. So, in a bid to protect its users from online identity theft and fraud, Google is launching a new feature called Dark Web Report for its Google One subscribers in India. But what exactly is this, and why should Indian users be excited about it?