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Emma Roth

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    The Steam Deck finally has its own friends list icon.

    If you have the latest Steam client beta, you may notice a new Steam Deck icon in your friends list indicating who is on the handheld.

    That should make it easier to figure out which of your friends is on the Steam Deck or Big Picture mode, as Steam previously used the gamepad icon for both.

    Image: The Verge
    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Bending Spoons acquires file-sharing service WeTransfer.

    The Italian software company, which notably acquired — and limited free access to — Evernote, has added WeTransfer to its growing portfolio. WeTransfer CEO Alexandar Vassilev says the company will “continue to serve your creative tooling needs” following the acquisition.

    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    The Starbucks app’s online ordering feature is back after some downtime.

    A little over a week after the CrowdStrike outage brought down mobile orders at Starbucks, the app had some trouble again today.

    For most of the morning, around the globe weren’t been able to place orders, with the app saying, “We’re having trouble with store locations right now.” It looks like the feature is back online now though, so we won’t have to wait in line for our drinks.

    Update, July 30th: Noted that mobile ordering works again.

    A screenshot showing an error in the Starbucks app
    The Starbucks app couldn’t pull up nearby locations.
    Image: The Verge
    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Google is adding a version of Circle to Search to Chrome on desktop.

    A new option spotted in the Chrome 128 beta lets you search with Google Lens by clicking and dragging a box around the area of a website you want more information about. Google will then pull up search results based on the image or text you’ve highlighted — sort of like Circle to Search.

    The feature matched our image of a Motorola Razr Plus to related search results.
    The feature matched our image of a Motorola Razr Plus to related search results.
    Image: The Verge