We’ve had repeated rumblings about Twitter working on features for a subscription service, and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong on Friday posted an image showing that “undo tweet” will be among them. It’s the only feature seen in Wong’s screenshot. Wong previously posted a GIF showing how subscribers would undo tweets. The researcher also noted …
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Xbox Game Pass for PC adds EA Play, giving you 60 games to play
Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers will get a bunch more games Thursday, as EA Play is added to the $10-a-month service. The library includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2 and multiple games from the Battlefield and Madden series. Space-combat sim Star Wars: Squadrons is also being added to the service Thursday. The EA library is coming at …
Read More »Motorola wants to turn your Edge Plus into a WFH machine
Motorola on Wednesday rolled out software that lets you use your Edge Plus phone‘s features on a bigger scale. The Ready For software hub, available for Verizon customers, lets you use the 5G phone’s main 108MP rear camera for video calls while connected to a TV or a display with USB-C cable. You can also use the phone’s ultrawide camera …
Read More »Google follows Apple in cutting Play Store fees for developers
Google is cutting the service fee it charges developers for selling digital goods and services via its Play app store platform, the company said Tuesday. The fee will drop to 15% until developers hit $1 million in revenue for the year from such sales on the platform. Google follows Apple, which last November made a similar move with its rival app …
Read More »Amazon halts sales of books that treat LGBTQ identities as mental illness, report says
Amazon on Thursday told Republican senators that it removed a 2018 book because the e-commerce site will no longer sell literature framing LGBTQ identities as mental illnesses, The Wall Street Journal reported. This came as a response to a letter asking why people couldn’t turn to Amazon, Kindle or Audible for print, e-book or audiobook versions of Ryan T. Anderson’s …
Read More »Apple reportedly cuts iPhone 12 Mini production for early 2021
Apple is cutting component orders for the iPhone 12 Mini for the first half of the year, Nikkei reported Wednesday. It may reduce production of the 5G device by more than 70% until the end of June, it noted. The company has apparently reduced orders for all iPhones in that period by around 20%, compared to its plans at the …
Read More »Some Xbox controllers are failing to respond to button presses
The Xbox Wireless controller that comes with Microsoft’s shiny new Xbox Series X and S consoles may occasionally fail to register button presses. “We are aware some players may be experiencing unresponsiveness with their new Xbox Wireless Controllers and our teams are actively working on a solution,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement Friday. The A and X buttons …
Read More »WhatsApp adds voice and video calls to its desktop app
WhatsApp on Wednesday added the ability to make voice and video calls via its desktop app. The feature will be limited to one-to-one calls initially, but the Facebook-owned messaging app will expand it down the line to include group calls. Desktop calls work in both portrait and landscape orientation, appear in a resizable standalone window on your screen and are set …
Read More »Apple lets you copy iCloud photos, video to Google Photos
Apple is letting you mass-transfer photos and video stored on iCloud to Google Photos, it revealed in a support document earlier this week. You can find the service on Apple’s privacy site under “Transfer a copy of your data,” as previously reported by MacRumors. You’ll need to have two-factor authentication set up on your Apple ID and make sure your …
Read More »Amazon Luna cloud gaming free trial is now available on Fire TVs without an invite
You can try out Amazon Luna for free on Fire TV devices and order one of the controllers without an invitation, the company said earlier this week. The e-commerce giant’s cloud gaming service launched in early access last year, but was an invite-only party. See it on Amazon You can download the Luna app on your Fire TV and use …
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