Download of the Week

Dolphin Emulator will become available on Steam soon, but you don't need to wait. Download it here for free, available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even Android.

This week a sizable number of WhatsApp beta users have reported getting locked out of the app apparently due to a bug in the update mechanism. Meta released a new beta version today which solves the issue.

Microsoft released today the public preview of an all-new version of Teams promising big performance and UI improvements, while using up to 50% less memory. To try it, turn on the "Try the new Teams" toggle at the top left corner of the Teams app.

Rufus is a popular tool for creating bootable drives. Its latest release adds SHA-1 and SHA-256 x86 acceleration for supported CPUs. It's also the last Rufus that will run on Windows 7.

Magic Design, Magic Write, Magic Edit, Magic Eraser and Text to Image are some of the new AI-powered tools built in Canva that will help you generate designs, presentations and even videos.

Now when you highlight text in Opera or Opera GX, AI prompts can offer explanations. There's also access to the web versions of ChatGPT and ChatSonic in the browser, which will help you write code, get help with math, or even create images.

The latest version of WhatsApp adds settings that allow admins to control who can join a group and introduces the option to see which groups you have in common with your contacts.

The latest Tor Browser brings several bug fixes, a new version of NoScript, but most importantly updates to Firefox 102.9.0esr, which includes security updates and stability improvements.

Dashlane saves, encrypts and stores your vault in the cloud letting you access your vault from any device. On its free plan you can store an unlimited number of passwords and other sensitive data.

Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.4 is the last release before The Trails & Tales update, adding ride and damage commands, and introducing several technical changes and bug fixes.

NovaBench includes tests for CPU, GPU, memory, and storage. It is compatible with most operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Apple Arm-powered systems.

In addition to useful features like tab suspension, a built-in ad blocker, and CPU usage monitor, the Sidekick browser main feature is a 'distraction blocker' to replace bad habits with productive ones.

Radeon Adrenalin driver 23.2.1 offers optimizations for Forspoken, Dead Space, Spider-Man Remastered and Hogwarts Legacy. It also unifies the release for RX 400 series and later GPUs, including modern Radeon 6000 and 7000 GPUs.

The latest Firefox release enables GPU sandboxing on Windows, improves video playback on non-Intel GPUs, and allows user data imports from Opera and Vivaldi.

Geekbench 6 features among numerous other improvements a new multi-core benchmark that measures how cores cooperate to complete a shared task in modern processors with "performance" and "efficient" cores.

Nvidia's GeForce Experience addresses issues of potential vulnerabilities that may lead to code execution, data tampering, information disclosure and more on its latest version.

WhatsApp's latest update introduces a new private audience selector, voice status, status reactions, status profile rings for new updates, and link previews on status.

The latest LibreOffice version further improves dark mode support, brings new application and MIME-type icons as well as new PDF export options. For more information you can read the release notes here.

CPU-Z now fully recognizes Intel's 6 Ghz Core i9-13900KS CPU, the entire Ryzen 7000 (non-K) series and the upcoming 7000X3D line, expected to be released in February.

Wine is an compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux. This latest release brings an extensive changelog: completion of PE conversion, Direct3D optimizations, WoW64 implementation, support for Sony DualShock and DualSense controllers, and more.

Core Temp is a small utility that can show you the temperature of each individual core in your CPU, allowing you to monitor fluctuations in real time according to different workloads.

WinRAR 6.20 is now available for Windows, macOS and Linux. This release improves RAR5 compression performance on modern CPUs, improves the "Repair" command efficiency and fixes a memory leak when reading contents of ".tar.bz2" archives.

DreamPlan Home Design lets you design floor plans in 2D and visualize them in 2D or realistic 3D models. You can also import your existing plans and DreamPlan will render them into a 3D model.

Paint.NET is a capable image editor and Photoshop alternative that has gathered a following over the years thanks to its freeware nature. This new version adds new features like pressure sensitivity for pen input and GPU rendering for effect plugins.

OBS Studio 29 is a major milestone bringing important improvements like AV1 encoding for the Radeon RX 7000 series and Intel Arc GPUs (Nvidia was already supported), Intel HEVC on Windows, and HEVC and ProRes encoders on macOS.