Chrome for Android Gets “Listen to this page” Mode (with Background Playback)

Months ago, Google introduced “Listen to this page” mode in Chrome (for Android) as an experimental flag. The accessibility feature reads texts from websites in over 25 languages, allowing users to customize playback speed and voice. “Listen to this page” is now rolling out globally with even newer functionalities. Minimizing the browser to use other…

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WhatsApp to Help Users Auto-Block Messages from Unknown Numbers

About a year ago, WhatsApp released a privacy feature that silences unknown callers. Now, WhatsApp is developing a similar message-focused variation to help users block messages from unknown or unsaved numbers. WhatsApp introduced the feature (dubbed “Block unknown account messages”) in an earlier Android beta release (2.24.17.14). However, all beta testers can now access and…

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WhatsApp Introduces “Custom Lists” for Better Chat Filtering

WhatsApp’s latest feature, Custom Lists, permits the creation of custom categories for chat filtering. Previously, WhatsApp had only three chat filters: Unread, Favorites, and Groups. These filters were uneditable, so users could only filter conversations by preassigned categories. With Custom List, WhatsApp users can create new categories and sort chats using custom filters. For instance,…

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How to Compile the VMware Workstation Pro Kernel Modules on Ubuntu/Debian

Once the VMware Workstation Pro desktop virtualization software (Type-II hypervisor) is installed on your Ubuntu/Debian system, you must compile the VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules for your Ubuntu/Debian system for it to work. In this article, I will show you how to compile the VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules on Ubuntu/Debian. I will also discuss…

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