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How to enable dark mode in Slack on your desktop

Sep13
by on September 13, 2019 at 5:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. In March, Slack rolled out dark mode for its iOS and Android apps. Now, it’s rolling the feature out for its desktop apps: Windows, Mac, and Linux. To get the dark mode option, you’ll need to be on version 4.0.3 for Mac, or 4.0.2 for Windows and Linux. So update your app before you think of switching to the dark side.  ou can check which version you have by clicking on the menu button with…

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Microsoft will livestream its October 2 Surface event, suggesting big reveals

Sep13
by on September 13, 2019 at 1:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


In late August, we learned Microsoft was planning its next Surface event for October 2nd – although the fact that it was announcing hardware was more of an assumption than an official confirmation. But today Microsoft sent out a second, formal invite to journalists, and it’s now clear the company is planning big things for its next event. There are two main details alluding to a major announcement: For one, TNW has learned both Surface head honcho Panos Panay and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be in attendance. For another, Microsoft will be livestreaming the event this time around. This…

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Here’s what games I’d be playing if National Video Game Day was a real holiday

Sep12
by on September 12, 2019 at 10:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming, virtual reality


Oh wow it’s National Video Game Day again already? I couldn’t care less, and neither could you unless you’re selling something. It’s a stupid, nonsense holiday. But what if it wasn’t? What if we lived in a parallel universe where NVG Day was a universally revered high holy day? I might finally have a chance to catch up on a tiny portion of the gaming I desperately want to do if I spent all 24 hours glued to the screen. Here’s what that would look like: Hours 1-4: NBA 2K20 My original draft for this article had that as “Hour 1.”…

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