Facebook Messenger app gets minimalistic makeover

Following in the footsteps of Spotify, which recently slimmed down its Premium app, Facebook Messenger has begun rolling out a more streamlined version of its mobile app for both iOS and Android.

Announced in a blog post, “Messenger 4” vastly simplifies the user interface of the app, reducing the number of tabs from nine to just three. In doing so,

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A new iPad Mini could finally be coming next yearA new iPad Mini could finally be coming next year

We’re only days away from Apple’s second launch event this year, to be held in New York on October 30, and we’re expecting the iPad Pro 2018 to be revealed, along with the latest range of MacBooks.

While we’re looking forward to seeing the new iPad, renowned TF International Securities supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has made some predictions for

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HP Spectre x360

HP has pulled the veil back on a brand new look and feel for its storied Spectre x360 series of 2-in-1 laptops. Both the HP Spectre x360 13 and Spectre x360 15 models come in an all-new design for 2018 – and with stronger silicon to match.

The new laptops, still convertible through a duo of 360-degree hinges, come encased in CNC aluminum shells

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AMD Navi graphics cards are already being lab tested, says reportAMD Navi graphics cards are already being lab tested, says report

We’re still waiting for AMD's 7-nanometer (nm) Vega graphics cards to finally appear at CES 2019, but it seems the chip maker is already stepping up testing on its next-next generation GPUs.

AMD is supposedly already lab testing 7nm Navi graphics cards that are well ahead of their rumored mid-2019 launch dates, according to Fudzilla. Not only are

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Google upgrades your Play TV Movie files to 4K for free & with a catchGoogle upgrades your Play TV Movie files to 4K for free & with a catch

If you’ve ever purchased a movie or TV show in SD or HD from the Google Play Movies - TV Store, Google is going to upgrade it to 4K free of charge. Probably.

The caveat is that you need to have purchased the film in one of the aforementioned lower resolutions (either HD or SD) and, more importantly, there needs to be an equivalent 4K version on

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Roguelikes: how Spelunky, Dark Souls and Isaac made death matter again

Death should be permanent. When games emerged in the early eighties, they opted for a certain count of lives. Usually three, though in many cases, this could be increased to five, or seven, or nine. Mario plunged into bottomless pits, Sonic brushed against one too many spikes and we’d wait for a jingle to finish before being reborn on screen for a

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