Xbox One users can now give voice commands to their console through other devices. “Voice-control functionality is already a thing through the console itself, but now this expanded function via Xbox Skill will be available for select users starting Thursday,” Variety reports. “Xbox Skill will allow users to control their Xbox One through any device which uses Alexa or Cortana.”

Twitter is testing a redesign of its desktop web site, including a “night” mode, a data-saving mode, and bookmarks. “The redesign will look very familiar to anyone who’s used Twitter on a mobile phone browser or Windows,” Business Insider reports. As a Twitter representative tells BI: “This is a limited test for now.”

Vimeo is moving from video to selling software tools. As Axios writes: “The pivot allows Vimeo to go after a less competitive social ‘SaaS’ (software as a service) market that focuses on stock images and video, as opposed to the saturated video viewing market, which is dominated by massive tech companies investing billions in original content to win eyeballs.”

Google just unveiled a new search engine for datasets for the scientific community. “The service, called Dataset Search, launches today, and it will be a companion of sorts to Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports,” The Verge reports. “Institutions that publish their data online, like universities and governments, will need to include metadata tags in their webpages that describe their data.”

CNN talks with Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity. “Gleicher … has been given the unenviable task of ridding Facebook of foreign trolls and state-run disinformation campaigns of the sort that wreaked havoc on the 2016 US presidential election -- and threaten to do the same in November,” it writes.

Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen and Ben Brody think it was unwise of Google to skip Wednesday’s hearing before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. “Steeped in an antitrust fight in Europe, Google now is facing calls from U.S. lawmakers in both parties for regulatory enforcement action,” they write. “The Senate hearing comes a week after President Donald Trump singled out the search engine, accusing it of tweaking news results against him.”