Month: March 2021
Disney’s new hockey deal will see over 1,000 NHL games stream on ESPN Plus
Disney and the NHL have just signed a massive new TV rights deal for the next seven years that will see ESPN and ESPN Plus become key places to watch and stream hockey games, starting with the upcoming 2021-2022 season. It’s the first time that ESPN will offer NHL hockey…
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Watching cable TV on your Xbox One is about to become exponentially more difficult Xbox OneGuide
If you still use the Xbox One as an intermediary between your cable box and your TV, Microsoft has some bad news for you: soon, you’ll no longer see TV listings inside OneGuide. The news comes from a new Xbox Wire blog post which mentions that, while you’ll still be…
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Why Terry Crews is launching a social currency
Actor Terry Crews is going in on the blockchain. With the help of social currency startup Roll, Crews is launching his own social currency, $POWER. But first, let’s break down what that means. Anyone can create a social currency, which hundreds of creators have already done via Roll, to change…
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Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April
If you opened your phone this morning to see a Twitter app update, you might have been excited — and then confused — to see an advertisement for Twitter Spaces, the audio chat rooms that the social network recently launched to compete with the similar Clubhouse app. “Introducing Spaces,” the…
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Xbox language tags will make it easier to find games you understand
In a useful accessibility move, Microsoft will now let you see exactly which languages are supported in Xbox games on the Microsoft Store and Game Pass app. Even better, the company is breaking down that information so you can tell which languages a title's interface, subtitle text and audio supports.…
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Facebook moves to dismiss the US government’s antitrust case
In two motions filed Wednesday, Facebook called on the courts to dismiss a pair of sweeping competition cases brought on by the federal government and a coalition of states. The Federal Trade Commission and a group of state attorneys general filed separate lawsuits against Facebook last December accusing the tech…
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