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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Slack’s ‘Later’ tab is down.

The office collaboration / messaging app is still functional, but a notice on Slack’s website confirms there’s an issue affecting the Later tab for saved items in its desktop and web app as of about 1PM ET.

We’re looking into an issue impacting the Later tab on the desktop app and browser. Users may be having trouble switching from the In Progress tab to the Archived or Completed tab. Items may also be missing from the Archived or Completed tabs.

We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Google Photos now lets you edit shared album images and video on Android.

Only the albums’ owner can make changes, with the option to save the edits just to their own gallery as a copy or also to the shared album, Google writes in a help page. The feature is already live in Google Photos on the web and in iOS, and is now coming to the Android version of the app, as well, as Android Authority notes.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Firefox is finally adding tab groups.

That means you can now organize bundles of tabs into groups labeled by name or color. Firefox is also testing an AI-powered tool that will suggest tab groups and names based on the pages you have open in the browser.

Mozilla says it introduced the feature after a request for tab groups became the most-upvoted post on its Connect forum, with more than 4,500 people showing support for the suggestion.

Image: Mozilla
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
An ‘official’ Flappy Bird game is back, but it has nothing to do with the original creator.

Today, a Flappy Bird game launched in the Epic Games Store on Android (and nowhere else, so far), but is it the Flappy Bird? It’s from the same “Flappy Bird Foundation” that said it acquired the trademark last year, and also seems to have some kind of crypto / Web 3 tie-in ambitions.

However, its clone is being released without any involvement or arrangement with the game’s creator, Dong Nguyen, who pulled it from app stores more than a decade ago, saying the game was “too addictive.” He tweeted about it last September:

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Substack is down.

The newsletter-turned-more platform has been experiencing an outage for about an hour. However, the status page now says that “Substack publications, the publisher dashboard, and other functionality are fully recovered,” with work continuing on getting the app and webpage back up and running.

Increased error rates

[substack.statuspage.io]

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Yelp will let restaurants use AI to take calls.

Companies that offer services will be able to use the AI-powered answering service, too. Yelp will “soon begin testing” the product, according to the description of its video about the tool.

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David Pierce
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
WhatsApp is testing sticker reactions on Android.

That includes stickers available in WhatsApp’s sticker keyboard and those that users import, according to WABetaInfo, which spotted the change in a new beta for the Android version of the app. It works with animated stickers too, according to the site.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
How Skype shaped the world.

Ahead of Skype’s May 5th shutdown, Rest of World put together a list of stories from readers who recount how the service kept them connected with friends and family members across the globe. Some readers even recorded their blurb, complete with Skype’s iconic ringtone.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
YouTube Music is testing a Spotify-like lyrics sharing feature.

Android Central and leak hunter Assemble Debug point out that the feature has started to appear, as shown in this Reddit post. Beyond just displaying lyrics for certain songs, it allows users to highlight specific ones to create a social media-friendly sharing card, just like Spotify does.

Let us know if you’re seeing this in your app.

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Barbara Krasnoff
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Lucky for EU, users there can run Windows 11 on their iPads.

That’s because DMA rules let iPad owners access alternative app stores like AltStore Classic. That opens the door to iPadOS apps with just-in-time compilation (JIT) for modern hardware emulation and running things like Windows 11 on an M2 iPad Air, as YouTuber NTDev demonstrates in the video below. MacRumors has some details on how it works.

Meanwhile, the best I can do is JIT-less Windows XP on an M1 iPad Pro.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Figma is working on an AI app maker.

That’s according to security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who writes that the feature “accepts text prompt, Figma files, images, etc. as input, and is powered by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model.

In a separate post, Wong also revealed that the company appears to be working on a new website creator called Figma Sites.