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Netflix released a mobile game that “Love is Blind” fans will want. Netflix Stories is an upcoming interactive fiction story game that lets players explore popular Netflix movies and shows. Netflix Stories: Love is Blind, the app’s first game, simulates a social experiment where singles try to find love before …

Microsoft released the public preview of Python in Excel today, allowing advanced spreadsheet users to combine Python scripts and Excel formulas in the same workbook. This feature will first be released to Microsoft 365 Insiders in Excel for Windows beta. While the feature will initially only be available in Excel …

Instagram Threads will launch one of its most requested features today: web access while logged in. The company says Threads users can post, view their feed, and interact with posts from the desktop at launch, but the experience won’t be identical to the mobile app. Web users cannot edit their …

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will display news links without headlines or descriptions. Fortune reports that the social network will display only the link and header image in posts. Musk said he made the decision “directly” in a Monday post. He said the change would “greatly improve the aesthetics.” This …

Nintendo announced Monday morning that Mario voice actor Charles Martinet is leaving. In over 100 Mario video games, the 67-year-old Martinet voiced Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and their babies in addition to the world’s most famous plumber. “Charles Martinet has been the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games for a …

Cellebrite phone hacking technology has been used by police and other government agencies worldwide for years to unlock phones and steal data. The company has been careful to use its technology secretly. Has learned that Cellebrite requires users to keep its tech and use of it secret as part of …

Bluesky, a Twitter competitor, buckled after Elon Musk announced that X will only support mutes instead of “block” functions. Bluesky users experienced slow post loading and occasional error messages. Graphics and images loaded slowly. Additionally, the site’s status page reported a performance issue being investigated. The Bluesky team has not …

After testing with select users for a month, Tumblr is launching its new web browser. The new navigation interface moves Twitter’s navigation bar to the left, like X. The new look moves the compose button to the bottom left of the screen, like on X. The company says it made …

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for years, but the platform is about to let streamers control who can watch. In Twitch’s latest Patch Notes, its monthly product update show, the company announced that streamers could soon block banned users. If moderators or streamers enable it, banned users will …

Threads hasn’t launched a web version, but the app’s latest update highlights social media reposts. Meta changed two app reposts. First, the profile page now has a “Reposts” tab so users can quickly browse their reposts. Users can now view their liked posts in the settings page, the company announced …