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. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

Google is fixing an oversight in its default messaging app.

Learning when and how to use the cut, copy and paste commands in your word processor dramatically improves your productivity. Instead of retyping a sentence you want moved, you can cut and paste it to ...

One of the most common early complaints about the iPhone was its lack of support for cut, copy, and paste text editing capabilities. In fact, Apple didn’t add a copy-paste feature until 2009’s release ...

Promises, promises. Yet this sounds like a step forward, but it presents yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone: a copy-and-paste application that only works on jailbroken iPhones. The only other ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool. You can now ...