NEW YORK, January 11, 2026 — Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show conference, a new open standard designed to enable AI agents to handle the full shopping journey—from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase support—across different retailers and platforms. Developed in collaboration with major retailers including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP creates a consistent framework for AI agents to interact with e-commerce systems....

Leveraging the new iOS 16 Lock Screen abilities, Google announced a bunch of widgets for users to quickly access their apps right from the iPhone lock screen. Apps participating in Google widgets for iPhone lock screen include Maps, Gmail , Chrome, Drive, Search, Google News , and YouTube . Users can make a quick search with voice or typing, find music playing, or navigate through roads right from the iOS 16 Lock Screen....

Google Photos gets a new feature called Snippets, set alongside the other current creation features in the app. This is currently available only to a handful of people. Initially spotted by a Reddit user and later noted by Android Police, Snippets in Google Photos uses machine learning to make short, shareable clips out of original videos on users’ phones. These will be shown up in the home page carousel, and initially focuses on pets videos....

Unknown hackers have breached a Russian cryptocurrency exchange called Livecoin and cashed out huge profits by inflating the prices. It’s reported that they had artificially ballooned the prices of popular cryptocurrency coins and withdrawn funds. Livecoin asked users not to make any transactions for now. A Carefully Planned Hack Against Livecoin Established in 2014, Livecoin has a fair volume of $16 million worth of transactions happening a day and is ranked 173rd in CoinMarketCap’s index....

Tensions rose new heights after Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei promising brutal vengeance for the death of their military general, Qasem Soleimani. He was being air attacked by a US drone when he disembarked a plane in Baghdad. This planned assassination of him led fears throughout the world of a potential World War 3. Who’s Qasem Soleimani? Image by Metro The second powerful person of Iran, Qasem Soleimani is the major general of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was given Iran’s highest military honour Order of Zolfaghar medal....

Are you bored using the same alarm tune to wake up every morning? Then check this guide out to learn how to change Alarm sounds on iPhone. By the end of this write-up, you can set the alarm sound on your iPhone to your favorite song from Apple Music. You can also set a customized vibration pattern if you are not fond of hearing a blaring alarm in the morning....

It’s happening again; a new version of Windows is here, and that may terrify you over the last decade. Microsoft has given us upgrade whiplash, making our computers worse than better than worse again but wait, Windows 11 has good news for us. I’m personally using this, and it’s the best PC experience I’ve had since Windows XP. There are many features that Windows 11 offers, including touchpad gestures. It is not like this feature was only introduced in Windows 11, but Microsoft made some changes in it this time....

Are you using Facebook daily? If yes, this post is relatable to you. People use Facebook for messaging and entertainment purposes. So most of the time, when you open a Facebook feed, you see there are most of the useless posts from pages you liked a long time ago. Sometimes our taste changes, and we do not like these posts anymore, but it is showing in your feed anyway, so you end up scrolling....

I love getting lost in the epic battles of Company of Heroes 3 , but hitting a DirectX error that stops the game cold is a real mood-killer. If you’re dealing with this issue, I’ve got your back. This error often pops up because of outdated drivers, software glitches, or hardware hiccups. But I’ve put together simple steps to help you fix it and get back to leading your troops....

NVIDIA Game-Ready drives are essential to enhance the functionality of your graphic card and make your gaming experience better. NVIDIA Game-Ready drivers are required by many games for better support and fixing bugs. NVIDIA Installer Cannot Continue is an error message that you may get when trying to install the NVIDIA graphics card driver? You may get this error message when your computer fails to install the NVIDIA graphics card drivers....

In this guide, we will learn how to install Chrome extensions on iPhone and iPad. Chrome is a commonly used and popular browsing app on various device platforms. It is also available on iOS through the App Store. However, Apple is quite strict when it comes to non-official applications. The major restriction comes from denying running an extension by third-party apps. Installing the Chrome browser app from the App Store is allowed, but integrating any extension with the browsing app is not allowed on iOS....

Is the internet not working on your PC, and are you looking for a way to reset it? then you are in the right place, below we have mentioned the best ways to reset the internet connection and flush the DNS cache. It is frustrating when you are in the middle of some important work and your internet starts facing connectivity issues on Windows. In this situation, everyone wants to solve the problem quickly, but they don’t know how to do so....

In this comprehensive guide, we will talk about the methods used to restart Windows Explorer on Windows 11 and the benefits when you do it. Well, talking about Windows Explorer is a file manager that allows you to manage files, search, and navigate through files and folders. It also lets you know how to work with files and folders, such as create, save and rename the file. However, Windows 11 without Windows Explorer is the same as mother earth without Ocean....

India’s SBI Card and HDFC Bank have sent warning emails to their customers dealing with cryptocurrencies. As shared on Twitter, the warning email cites a blanket ban regulation from RBI in 2018, which India’s apex court later struck down. Yet, customers are warned of blocking banking services if they continue. Indian Banks Hesitate to Support Cryptocurrencies Just as we saw a couple of years ago, Indian banks are warning and blocking services to those who’re dealing in cryptocurrencies....

As shared by a Brazilian user who’s under this testing, Instagram will only show the first three Stories slides and hides the rest. Though viewers can click on Show All button to watch the rest, they may better skip avoiding watching useless content. A New Story Layout on Instagram Realizing that users are posting everything they experience in their daily lives as static posts, Instagram introduced Stories to avoid junk. Stories are an interesting concept, where anything users post disappears after 24 hours....

Klarna, a Swedish fintech company, had a bug in its mobile app that let its users find sensitive details of other users. This intriguing experience was shared by many on Twitter, which soon led Klarna to issue a statement saying about 0.1% of 90,000 customers are affected by this. Access to the app was immediately terminated for everyone and possibly working on its rectification. Klarna Bug Exposing Users Sensitive Data Klarna is a Swedish fintech company that offers financial services to customers, like processing their payments and offering loans....

Marques Brownlee , a well-known name in the technology community has risen to that stage after years of work. While many wonder how Brownlee and other YouTubers earn money from their channels, he explained about his YouTube business in a podcast of The Verge’s podcast “ Decoder .” Here’s How Marques Brownlee Earns Marques Brownlee started saving up his highschool allowance to buy a new laptop, and other petty essentials to start a new YouTube channel ....

Making its native browser and search more productive and exciting, Microsoft has announced many features are coming to Edge and Bing later this month . Notables include vertical tabs and improved startup times in Edge browser and dynamic results in Bing Search, including more visuals for appeal. Microsoft Edge and Bing Gets New Features As Microsoft is determined to take a chunk of Google’s Chrome market, the Windows maker is rolling out some exciting features to its Edge browser and the Bing Search later this month....

Microsoft has just rolled out the new version of its native browser – Edge v98, which comes with an interesting feature called Edge Bar. Similar to Google’s search bar in Android phones, the Edge bar in Windows 10 and 11 will be a floating search bar. This will let people browse quickly, and launch websites instantly. Edge Bar gets most of the features of customization from the regular browser counterpart....

After pulling the app over few hardware controversies, Microsoft has brought back the PC Health Check app in Windows 10. Previously available only to Windows Insiders, it’s now available for all users to check whether their hardware is compatible with Windows 11 update or not. Download the app and run it to check your eligibility. Checking Eligibility For Windows 11 At the time when Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft rolled out a new app called the PC Health Check tool, which determines if a user’s PC is eligible for receiving the Windows 11 update or not....