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Xbox Game Streaming coming to iOS soon
It's out there as a preview right now on Android and it's looking great, but Microsoft has confirmed it will be heading to iOS soon as well.
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New media platforms constantly transformed
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Asking people to read the bloody article is working, says Twitter
Twitter has been testing out encouraging users to read articles before they retweet them, and it's working so well it's going to go global.
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Performing arts high school trash TV is the perfect medicine
If you're on the hunt for your next comfortable TV blanket, Alice has some performing arts high school material to cure what ails you.
It's all about the Game Pass
Forcing exclusivity onto Bethesda, or iD, or Arkane, just isn’t Microsoft’s games strategy anymore. For Microsoft, owning games studios now serves its core long-term ambition of building out a dazzlingly good value subscription service through Game Pass.
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Reality show to send winner to the ISS in 2023
Ready to become a Space Hero? A reality show is planning on turning its winner into an astronaut with a visit to the ISS.
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Everyone dislikes Twitch's new mid-roll ad trial
Mega streaming platform Twitch has announced a trial where some viewers will experience mid-roll ads while watching streams.
Health
Here's what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong
If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don’t have the right context.
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Facebook only took most of a week to deal with its latest misinformation crisis
Facebook is finally removing false claims about Oregon wildfires, half a week after ridiculous claims spread on the social network.
Dark and full of terrors
Too many parents react swiftly to a few scary headlines but don’t actually do much to educate their kids or have conversations about being a savvy digital citizen.
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That TikTok video
How do we deal with viral videos that can put "things you can never unseen" into the social media feeds of every user of a platform?
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Twitch just became the best Watch Party tool around
Even if you don't care about trying to build an audience, this is a great tool for just sharing a show and hanging out with friends.
The value of uninformed consent
Everyone thought they were getting free services in exchange for ads. But if the depth of the tracking involved was truly known to make the ads so good, would we really have agreed at the start?