Tech Roundup: TikTok Digital Wellbeing Tools, Vivaldi Email Client & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Google adds new option that allows education users to auto-transcribe Google Meet calls to a Google Docs document and live stream Google Meet sessions to YouTube; brings new classroom-specific features to Chrome OS, enabling teachers and students to record video lessons and reports via Screencast
• Vivaldi launches a free built-in email client that integrates its Calendar and Feed Reader; grants option to add multiple email accounts without leaving the web browser.
• Meta is moving away from its goal of establishing its Portal smart display as a consumer product, instead focusing on selling future versions to businesses; switches up its roadmap for augmented reality glasses and scales back the launch of a consumer-ready version, scheduled for 2024, by a few years to focus on a second version, in addition to reportedly shelving plans for a dual-camera smartwatch.
• Popular note-taking platform Notion acquires calendar application Cron as part of its ambitions to become an all-in-one workspace.
• Microsoft's GitHub announces plans to sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011, on December 15, 2022.
• New investigation from The Wall Street Journal reveals that the precise movements of millions of users of the gay-dating app Grindr were collected from 2017 to early 2020 were shared with an mobile ad network named MoPub (to help micro-target ads) that then were made available for sale to advertising firms, which, in turn, sold them to their clients; comes as Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included report finds that dating, mental health and prayer apps are characterised by a severe lack of security and privacy protections.
• It's a fact that applications collect a variety of sensitive data from their users. However, in the absence of a stringent data protection laws, users are completely at the mercy of these applications when it comes to ensuring that their data is processed ethically.
• Microsoft unveils Project Moorcroft that's designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass subscribers; brings a personalised gaming homepage to Edge web browser that provides easier access to the Xbox Cloud Gaming library, a built-in efficiency mode that reduces resource usage when a game is launched and a "Clarity Boost" feature to help improve the fidelity of games streamed over the cloud.
• ByteDance-owned TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits and a reminder should the app be used beyond the user-defined period of time.