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- Hazel Donovan
- May, 09 2022
Spotify Will Stop the Work of its Stations App This Spring Spotify is a huge streaming service, but it seems that the company experiments with different ways to increase its influence in the music industry. In 2018, the company launched its Stations app, but now Spotify decided that it’s time to say goodbye to this project.
The Stations app has been promoted as a lightweight application for both paid and free subscribers of Spotify. The app works similarly to a radio, which means that you get immediate access to a random selection of music. Stations was first developed for Android devices and then introduced for iOS smartphones in 2019.
Recently, Spotify has announced... -
- Ronan Blackwood
- May, 04 2022
The Next Genshin Impact Update Postponed The upcoming Genshin Impact 2.7 update is postponed. This follows from the tweet posted by the official account of the game by HoYoverse (formerly miHoYo). Originally, the update was scheduled on May 10, but because of some unspecified reasons, the players will have to wait a little longer. How much longer? It’s not known so far.
Genshin Impact, an incredibly popular JRPG by a Chinese developer Hoyoverse, is (among all) known for its substantial updates that always add a lot of new content. The updates are released rather frequently, so there was no wonder there have already been three of them... -
- Freya Beaumont
- May, 02 2022
YouTube to Ask You Whether You’re Good with Its Ads Unless you have already subscribed to YouTube Premium, you will see ads in most videos you’re watching. But are you comfortable seeing these ads? Maybe the topic is irrelevant or even frustrating? YouTube is about to improve your experience by asking you questions about the ads it chooses to show to you.
This feature is named “Sensitive ad categories on YouTube” and can be found in the user settings. You can check whether this feature is already activated for you under Settings/Privacy. Click on the “Google Ads Policy” link; if it’s not active yet, you will receive an error message. If... -
- Freya Beaumont
- Apr, 27 2022
Developers Not Happy with Apple Removing Older Games from the App Store Apple has come up with a new policy that has already stirred up the community of game developers. A number of developers that had games in the App Store already received ‘App Improvement Notices’ in which they were warned that their games will be removed if games weren’t updated for some time.
There have already been plenty of developers complaining about such notices on social media. The user Protopop posted a screenshot where we can see that games are scheduled to be removed in 30 days unless developers provide updates for review. This new policy can be especially harmful to indie... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Apr, 25 2022
No Longer as Popular? Netflix Continues to Lose Subscribers It seems that the winning streak of Netflix has come to an end. The service has been extremely popular since 2011 and has never lost such a significant number of subscribers as this year. The company has recently made this announcement when closing the quarter. While the company still has a huge number of subscribers, the numbers can definitely worry investors.
The streaming company announced that they have lost about 200,000 Netflix subscribers. What is more, the company expects to lose about 2 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2022. The most likely reason for such a huge number of... -
- Aria Leighton
- Apr, 20 2022
Blizzard President Claims That No NFTs Will be Added Blizzard has been gauging the response of their community to NFTs and whether people will be interested in them. The same was also done for AR, VR, metaverse, cloud gaming, and play-to-earn.
However, these weren’t simply polling about NFTs, since at the end of the poll, you would be sent to Blizzard’s shop, which has outraged quite a lot of people.
NFTs have been receiving a lot of hate from the users, especially after GSC Game World and Ubisoft have run their NFTs projects. It seems that Blizzard is never too subtle about “extorting” money from its player base, so you shouldn’t... -
- Freya Beaumont
- Apr, 18 2022
Zoom is Adding New Features for Teachers Zoom has announced that they will be adding much-requested features that will be useful for teachers, administrators, etc. The list of features includes the Blur for Chromebooks, Virtual Background, enhancements to the Break Room, and Anywhere Polls. These new features should make lessons more engaging and stimulate students to submit their homework. Some of these futures will become available fairly soon, while others will only get released later this year.
Virtual background and blur features will allow adding virtual backgrounds or blurring the existing background. These features are already available and are easy to turn on.
Breakout Rooms are also being enhanced.... -
- Hazel Donovan
- Apr, 13 2022
Fans of Genshin Impact Ask Developers to Improve the Expeditions Reward System Over the years, Genshin Impact has grown into a huge gaming universe with a large number of players all over the world. One of the beloved activities for players in the game is sending different players on expeditions. During such events, characters can get useful materials from different corners of Teyvat. A number of regular players asked miHoYo for some quality-of-life changes for the process of getting expedition rewards in the game.
Players get access to expeditions once they reach Adventure Rank 14. The duration of an expedition can be different, from 4 to 20 hours, and non-K.O’d characters can go... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Apr, 11 2022
Twitter Tests Its ‘Unmention’ Option to Allow Users to Leave Chats Twitter has been working on the ‘unmention’ feature for a long time now. Finally, the initial live testing of this tool has started on the platform and some users can begin removing themselves from conversations that they don’t want to be a part of.
Mentioning someone in a Tweet is extremely easy, but active users may find it difficult to deal with all the replies and notifications that pile up. Luckily, with this new feature in place, this problem should be solved. All you have to do to remove yourself from a chat is click on your username and ‘Leave the... -
- Ronan Blackwood
- Apr, 06 2022
Halo TV Series Content to Appear in Halo Infinite One of the most frequent complaints about Halo Infinite was about the lack of content. One of the things that surprises watchers in the Halo TV show on Paramount+ is lots of non-canonic content. But it seems that both problems can be solved in one move. The developers say that the new content in Halo Infinite will be largely inspired by the TV show.
While the story mode in Halo Infinite is made quite well, the multiplayer is still wanting: too few maps, smaller locations, all weapons familiar. The most disappointing element is that there is little narrative and progress beyond... -
- Freya Beaumont
- Apr, 04 2022
American YouTube TV Users to Get Picture-in-Picture Mode on iOS YouTube TV gains more popularity among American users, but it used to lack one necessary feature for a TV app: picture-in-picture mode. Finally, YouTube introduces it on iPhone and iPad. Now you will be able to do whatever you want on your devices while keeping an eye on the TV when your favorite show is about to appear on air.
Now, you just need to swipe up from the bottom as you’re watching YouTube TV in the dedicated app. As you do, the app shrinks to a small window, while your home screen remains available. Thus you can run any other... -
- Hazel Donovan
- Mar, 30 2022
Pixel Users Would Be Able to Leave Android Beta Google is going to give the new Pixel owners a chance to get rid of the beta Android program. It will happen in the future. Officials say it will take place somewhere in June.
Many Pixel users were complaining about the Android beta program installed. It caused numerous problems and is still unstable in its work. This is why Google decided to open the opportunity to anyone who wants to use Android and to allow users to switch to the stable version.
The situation appeared when Google released the Android 12 QPR3 beta version to all Pixel owners. Once users updated their...