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The members of the Microsoft Teams Public Preview program can check out a new feature that lets them mute and unmute themselves in a Team call from an icon put into the Windows taskbar.

John Callaham · Jun 5, 2024 with 0 comments

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update today that adds 'always' mute option to the app. The new feature will allow users to mute chats forever and is now available on WhatsApp for Android, iOS and Web.

Mehrotra A · Oct 23, 2020 · Hot! with 11 comments

The latest WhatsApp beta comes along with a new 'mute' shortcut that accompanies notifications when unread messages from a source exceed a certain number, making it a bit easier to deal with spam.

Sharath Ravishankar · Jul 17, 2018 · Hot! with 4 comments

Google is making some big changes to Chrome, allowing users to mute individual sites starting from October 2017, and finally giving them the choice to disable autoplay videos from January 2018.

Usama Jawad · Sep 15, 2017 · Hot! with 16 comments

Twitter rolled out new features for its service today that are aimed at preventing abuse. Users will now be able to use the mute button in different ways, such as blocking keywords or hashtags.

Rich Woods · Nov 15, 2016 with 4 comments

Opera has released a new version of their web browser into their developer channel, bringing with it a number of improvements as well as a major new feature, the ability to mute tabs.

Chris Dupres · Nov 19, 2015 · Hot! with 11 comments

Microsoft has recently rolled out an update to Skype's Outlook.com integration to allow you to mute notifications, but with one step forward comes another annoying step backward as well.

Brad Sams · Jul 6, 2015 · Hot! with 23 comments

Twitter has officially added a new feature that will let users "mute" posts that they receive from other accounts, although those muted users can still see, reply and retweet posts.

John Callaham · May 12, 2014 · Hot! with 8 comments

Twitter made changes to its "block user" feature to simply mute the blocked users, but had to revert to the old behaviour of the feature after backlash from users related to privacy and harassment.

Shreyas Gandhe · Dec 13, 2013 · Hot! with 4 comments

Students taking part in Microsoft's Imagine Cup have created technology to convert sign language into speech, which could completely change how we communicate with those using sign language.

Paul Ferson · Jul 9, 2012 · Hot! with 3 comments

Steve Jobs has been back at his iPhone replying to some emails from users, this time in relation to an upcoming change that will come with iOS 4.2 when it is released next month. In...

Byron Hinson · Oct 25, 2010 · Hot! with 70 comments

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