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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Zoom is down right now.

Many users are unable to sign into the app or connect to video calls, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you’re looking for a break from all-day meetings. The outage seemed to have started around 3PM ET, according to Downdetector.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
It’s dangerous to go alone. Play this.

You’ll already find the soundtracks for A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, and Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Music app. But this week Nintendo has finally added music from Link’s first Hyrule adventure on the NES, composed by the legendary Koji Kondo.

There are 12 tracks from The Legend of Zelda, but also 12 alternate versions from the Japanese Famicom Disk System version which are definitely worth a listen.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google Docs now lets you easily format more programming languages.

The app’s code block feature now supports CSharp, CSS, Go, HTML, JSON, Kotlin, and PHP in addition to the five languages it originally launched with in 2022.

Image: Google
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Google Translate blew me away during my vacation in Japan.

And I spent some time chatting with Tom Merritt about that on the Daily Tech News Show podcast! It’s a ten-minute segment, and I’ve already queued up the right part (at roughly the 24-minute mark) below.

TL;DL: On our most recent visit to Japan, we were both surprised how wildly ubiquitous and remarkably useful Google Translate has become. Here’s hoping Google gives it a more powerful real-time mode!

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The US told Apple to keep TikTok in the App Store.

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Apple a letter “telling the company it should follow President Donald Trump’s executive order” extending ByteDance’s deadline to sell TikTok by 75 more days, reports Bloomberg. The outlet had reported a similar letter sent to both Google and Apple prior to their decision to restore the app to their online marketplaces in February, too.

The 7 writing apps I used to start and finish my book

Can you ever use too much software? Yes, but hear me out first.

Kevin Nguyen