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The death knell has been ringing for Adobe Flash for years now, but since we haven’t quite gotten completely rid of it yet, Microsoft is adding a feature to its Edgebrowser that will automatically pause unnecessary Flash content. Peripheral content – ads, random animations, etc. – will

Papal document calls for Catholic church to revamp its response to modern family life, but remains firmly anti-abortion Pope Francis says ‘every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected’. Photograph: Giorgio Onorati/EPA Pope Francis has called for the Catholic church to revamp its response to

Twitter has scored a deal to live-stream Thursday night National Football League games, the NFL announced—a move that helps the social media group connect with new audiences. The streaming rights had been hotly contested, with Amazon, Verizon and others reportedly in the running to help the NFL

With Nielsen reporting that 92% of people trust recommendations from friends and family, there’s no denying that word-of-mouth is one of the most trusted and effective marketing methods for swaying buying decisions. Many businesses have tried to take advantage of this by deploying employee advocacy programs, seeking to share brand

The Sony SmartWatch 3 is finally receiving an OTA update to Android Wear v1.4 for API 23 based on Marshmallow, an update that started rolling out earlier this year for other smartwatches, and is among the last devices to receive the update. Sony’s SmartWatch 3 is now

s one of Opera’s centerpieces in the form of Speed Dial, which allows users fast access to favorite sites from any new tabs, yet it also has a slew of new features that make it stand out from almost any other browser. Instead of going the route

It’s a weird, confusing, exciting time for CSS. Over the past few years we’ve seen a proliferation of paradigms, concepts, architectures, libraries, and frameworks emerge to assist us with writing modular, scalable, maintainable CSS. The inspiration for these things is commonly rooted in resolving specific issues the

As ever, as a new month begins, new figures emerge on the market share of the various versions of Windows, and another dollop of stats has been revealed which shows how Microsoft’s latest OS is progressing. These figures are drawn from visitors to US government websites –

A tiny USB memory stick is unlikely to bring down Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, but thousands upon thousands of them just might help enlighten the North Korean people to the freedoms enjoyed by the outside world, according to human-rights activists. The New York-based Human Rights Foundation and

At last week’s Microsoft Build 2016 conference, Executive Vice President for Cloud + Enterprise Scott Guthrie announced innovations in mobile app development, the Internet of Things, microservices and intelligence designed to help developers create apps for the company’s Azure cloud environment. One is Azure App Service, which