Month: March 2021

Tinder will soon let you gift a Lyft ride to your date

Tinder is partnering with Lyft to offer the ability to gift rides to dates without having to leave the Tinder app. It’s a small convenience if you already have the Lyft app downloaded, but like adding video chat in the app, it’s one less reason to switch your focus away…

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Xbox Live gets renamed by Microsoft – here’s the confusing change Best Dolby Xbox Series X games

18 years after launching Xbox Live, Microsoft has officially renamed it to Xbox network. Apparently, this is a careful rebranding of the actual service to further separate it from the similarly-named memberships. “’Xbox network’ refers to the underlying Xbox online service, which was updated in the Microsoft Services Agreement,” a Microsoft…

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Zoom is about to make video calls even more interesting Zoom

As being able to communicate over video can lead to greater engagement and collaboration, Zoom has announced that its Video Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available as part of the Zoom Developer Platform. By using the video conferencing firm’s Video SDK, developers can now leverage its HD video, audio…

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NASA’s new Mars rover is about to spawn a tiny helicopter

NASA’s Perseverance rover is getting ready to deploy a mini-helicopter named Ingenuity on Mars. The four-pound, four-blade rotorcraft will attempt the first flight of its kind on another planet, and in the process, it will test a new mode of mobility that could transform the way we Earthlings remotely explore…

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Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019

Open-source software advocate Richard Stallman is rejoining the board of the Free Software Foundation. Stallman founded the FSF in 1985 and acted as its president until 2019, when he resigned after making widely criticized statements about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Stallman announced the news during a live stream for…

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Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network

Microsoft is rebranding Xbox Live to Xbox network. Instances of the new branding started appearing in the Xbox dashboard recently for beta testers, with clips being uploaded to “Xbox network” instead of Xbox Live. Microsoft has now confirmed the name change. “’Xbox network’ refers to the underlying Xbox online service,…

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