RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...

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Creating a Progressive Web App (PWA) is a smart move to improve user experience. It uses web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PWAs are fast, reliable, and engaging, giving users a feel ...

Cameyo by Google streams legacy Windows or Linux apps to the Chrome browser on a ChromeOS device or to a progressive web app. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing ...

Update, November 8, 9:46 a.m. ET: The GitHub repository and its forks have been taken down. The original story follows below. Just hours after Apple launched a revamped web interface for the App Store ...

Apple launched a new App Store on the web today, allowing users to browse through and search for apps across all of its platforms. The updated apps.apple.com site provides a drop down for each ...

Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store experience right in your browser, with dedicated pages for the ...

Messenger made its triumphant return to the Facebook app back in 2023, with end-to-end encryption finally arriving later that year. Since then, you've still been able to access Messenger through the ...

Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online ...

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites early on Monday, Oct. 20. As of 3:15 p.m. ET, AWS said in a statement ...

AWS experienced a widespread outage early Monday that disrupted major sites and services. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is showing “significant signs of recovery” after a ...