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WhatsApp said on Tuesday it is adding a new shopping feature to its app as the Facebook -owned instant messaging service looks to court more merchants and invite a larger portion of its 2 billion userbase to shop. The instant messaging platform, where business accounts already process messages from more than 175 million people, said it is adding carts to WhatsApp around the world ahead of the holiday shopping season. Carts are aimed at making it easier for consumers to buy multiple items from a business, and for merchants to keep better track of order inquiries and manage requests. WhatsApp said it is adding the new feature after early positive response from some businesses who tested it recently. On WhatsApp, users will now see the option to add items to the cart. When done, users will be able to send the order request as a message to the business. WhatsApp said carts are going live for users across the globe today. (You can read the complete how-to flow here .) In recent months, W

One of my favorite recent features in Windows 10 is the revamped Windows clipboard.  It lets you access several previously copied items—a convenience that's long overdue on all computing platforms.  You access the list of copied items using Windows Key-V instead of Ctrl-V.  Syncing the cloud clipboard means that they're accessible on other PCs you're signed in to, and later this will extend to phones via the SwiftKey add-in keyboard. You turn on Cloud Clipboard in a new Settings option. Note that according to Microsoft, "currently, the clipboard history supports plain text, HTML and images less than 1MB."

Microsoft Edge is getting an interesting visual change that will allow you to access your browsing tabs in a vertical layout. After a new update, Microsoft says it will allow you to set all your tabs to one side of the screen. The feature is officially called “Vertical Tabs” and it will allow you to access your tabs from the left side of the display. At the moment, it’s not clear if users will be allowed to change the location of the vertical tabs. Microsoft Edge vertical tabs feature is currently rolling out to the testers in the Dev and Canary channels. Vertical tabs feature was first announced in March and it recently began rolling out to a small set of users. After today’s update, you’ll be able to access this new tab navigation experience by clicking on a new icon located at the top left of the tabs. The new button lets you switch between vertical and horizontal layouts. Interestingly, you can also rearrange the tabs vertically. To rearrange the tabs, you can press and hold Ctrl

Microsoft is testing a new feature that will automatically group your tabs in Chromium Edge so you don’t have to. The feature is currently rolling out to Microsoft Edge Canary and it’s hidden behind an experimental flag. Like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge also allows you to group tabs, but this is possible only when you activate an experimental Edge. Tab Groups could save you a whole lot of time by allowing you to group tabs and keep your browser neatly organized. With Tab Groups, you can select related tabs and create a cluster to keep your browser window neatly organized. Currently, Edge and Chrome require you to create the groups manually. To address this problem, Microsoft is now enabling support for automatic grouping process. As per the flags menu, Edge will automatically and intelligently create tab groups for you and organize the tabs when you open links from the same website. For example, if you visit Wikipedia and open its pages in new tabs, Edge will intelligently include a

We've known for more than a year that Google Play Music's days were numbered. Its death had even been officially announced , but it's now really, really real.  Open the Android app now and you'll likely be greeted by a white splash screen with a Play Music logo that morphs into a YouTube Music one. Bold text tells you Google Play Music is no longer available and explains that you can transfer your whole library to YouTube Music. Two buttons are provided below that, one to kickstart the transfer process and another to manage your data. The latter takes you to the Google Play Music site where you can download and delete your full library, and delete your recommendation history. Once you're done, the app's widget should disappear by itself from your home screen if you had added it there. What Google didn't think of is an easy way to manage your locally-stored data on your phone. If you've downloaded music for offline listening, you can't do that anywhe

Microsoft has begun work on the major Windows 10 update due to land in the second half of 2021 – and the first update of next year will be a minor one. This rumor comes courtesy of Windows Latest, which claims that internal testing has already begun on the H2 2021 update codenamed ‘Cobalt’ by the Microsoft staff. The other possibility is that Microsoft is doing things the other way round in 2021 by not having a major update (H1) followed by a minor update (H2), as has been the case for the last two years. Apparently the plan for 2021 is that the spring update (H1) will be a minor affair, not introducing much in the way of changes, whereas all the big features will arrive with the second upgrade of the year. Effectively, progress on Windows 10 could be slowing for the moment, then, but there are some major changes expected for H2 to make up for this. That includes a big overhaul for the interface which we’ve been hearing a lot about in recent times, codenamed Sun Valley, which will brin