HIGHLIGHTS Twitter launched a special emoji for the World Suicide Prevention Day 800,000 people die due to suicide every year: WHO Focus should be on prevention and inclusive care: Twitter In a bid to raise awareness on suicide prevention in India, Twitter India on Monday announced a partnership with non-profit organisation White Swan Foundation in which, the […]
Visual search giant Pinterest has revealed that it is being used by 250 million people each month as it quietly continues to grow and other social networks slightly falter. “At a time when the Internet can feel increasingly negative and politicised, we think it’s remarkable that a quarter of a billion people are choosing to spend their […]
HIGHLIGHTS The new feature will include breaking news, personalities, and sports When accounts you follow go live, it will appear at top of your timeline We’re making it easier to find and watch live broadcasts: Twitter Micro-blogging platform Twitter will now show live streams and broadcasts right on top of your timeline. “We’re making it easier to […]
GDPR is now in full effect, seeing the biggest data protection legislation change since the 1998 Data Protection Act. Businesses from the mighty to the small have hit the headlines in the time since the legislation became enforced, from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s data scandal receiving a fine of only £500,000 because it happened prior […]
HIGHLIGHTS The Viveport app store offers 1,400 VR games Over 200 have been optimised for the Oculus Rift Oculus Rift users can subscribe to Viveport’s paid service HTC on Tuesday announced that it is opening up its Viveport VR-centric app store and subscription service to Oculus Rift users, which means that users of the Oculus Rift will now be able […]
HIGHLIGHTS The FIFA 19 demo is available from September 13 The full game will be on EA Access and Origin Access a week later Champions Edition buyers can play it from September 25 With FIFA 19 releasing on September 25 for those purchasing the Champions Edition and September 28 for the standard variant, EA has finally announced […]
HIGHLIGHTS Echo, Sonos, and other Alexa-powered devices can soon use Xbox One Insiders can power on the Xbox One, control volume, and launch games It is only for US users in the Xbox Insider program right now Microsoft will be allowing Xbox Insiders to test Alexa support on the Xbox One from today. The company is releasing an Xbox Skill […]
Epic Games detailed Fortnite’s newly-announced ‘High Stakes’ event on Sunday, which includes a limited-time mode called Getaway, a new outfit known as Wild Card, and several challenges. Fortnite’s High Stakes event was unveiled Friday on Twitter, with a promotional image showing the Wild Card outfit: a full-body suit, gloves, a face mask and a briefcase. In a separate tweet, […]
E-sports will shift away from violent content and towards sports-focused titles for the 2022 Asian Games, the CEO of Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s sports arm told Reuters on Sunday. Alisports CEO Zhang Dazhong, who partnered with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to feature electronic sports as a demonstration event in the 2018 Asian Games, said the […]
HIGHLIGHTS CS:GO free version limited to offline play Can also watch other matches Full version costs Rs. 459 in India Valve has released a free version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), which allows players to compete against bots in offline matches and watch matches through GOTV, the spectating client for the game. Called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Free Edition, […]