HIGHLIGHTS Facebook will recognise if a blocked contact has created a new account Users can now ignore messages, moving them to Filtered Messages Facebook says women, journalists will benefit most from the features To prevent harassment on Facebook, the social media giant has introduced new tools that keep unwanted friend requests and messages from reaching you. The new features proactively recognise and help prevent unwanted contact when someone you blocked sets up a new account or tries to contact you from another account they control, said Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety at Facebook in a statement on Tuesday. ALSO SEEFacebook to Notify Users…
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It’s been a shockingly packed year for great new video games. Over the course of the last 12 months, it seemed like there was never really a pause, or a moment when there wasn’t something interesting to play. To celebrate, this week Verge staff will be publishing essays on their favorite releases of the year, the games that spoke to us personally. Expect to see a new one each morning, culminating in a list of our collective 15 favorite games of 2017 on Friday. You can keep up with it all right here. Playing Horizon Zero Dawn for the first time was a good reminder…
Here are all the most important video game releases of 2017. 2017 was a really incredible year for video games. Some big surprising indie hits joined a resurgence from Nintendo. Brand new AAA games came out from beloved studios taking a risk on new franchises, and long-running series saw new entries that were almost total overhauls of what came before. Here are the seven most important video games of 2017. 1. PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) – Bluehole Perhaps the most important game of 2017 was one that nobody saw coming. PUBG took a lot of ideas from the PC survival genre and created…
Last summer’s Pew Research Center and Gallup surveys showing sharply declining public support for colleges and universities — especially among Republicans — seriously rattled higher education leaders. Understandably so: with the GOP running the federal government and two-thirds of the states, those trend lines can translate not just into fewer Americans willing to finance a college education personally, but also less favorable treatment of colleges and universities by politicians and policy makers. A pair of new surveys conducted this fall offer a more nuanced picture of public attitudes about higher education. The surveys, by Civis Analytics and Echelon Insights, probably…
HIGHLIGHTS Apple Pay Cash lets you make payments through the Messages app Works with iPhone and iPad models that run iOS 11.2 and above Fixes variety of bugs and adds additional support for HomeKit Apple has released the official watchOS 4.2 update for all Apple Watch models. The new software update brings with it support for Apple Pay Cash, which when setup on an iPhone running iOS 11.2, will become available in the Messages app and Wallet app on Apple Watch devices. The feature is only available for US users as of now. Unveiled first at WWDC 2017 for launch with iOS 11, Apple Pay Cash was delayed…
HIGHLIGHTS Users can monitor CPU, GPU, RAM, fan speed and temperature in-game The smartphone offers controls for streaming and performance monitoring There are also improvements to streaming, power savings and performance AMD has released what it is calling one of its biggest and most significant driver releases ever. The new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition introduces an all-new in-game overlay with performance information such as the current performance in frames per second, CPU, GPU and RAM usage as well as temperature, power consumption and fan speed for the graphics card. Users will also be able to adjust per-game Radeon settings such…
Toshiba Corp. and its joint venture partner Western Digital have made peace over the embattled Japanese electronics giant’s plan to sell its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat. The agreement allows Western Digital to participate in future investments in their joint venture, clearing the way for a consortium led by Bain Capital to buy Toshiba Memory Corp., the companies said Wednesday. The deal also addresses concerns over protection of valuable patents and other intellectual property in the highly competitive field of flash memory products used in many high-tech products. The two companies said it settles all disputes in litigation and arbitration…
HIGHLIGHTS Celebrities will answer the most googled questions about them Will be available only on mobile search, not made for desktop Pilot is rolling out in the US initially Google launched an exciting new feature for Search on Thursday. Google Search will now show selfie-style videos, from certain celebrities, for answers to questions that users popularly search for about them. These celebrities will be a mix of rising stars and well-established personalities. In a blog post, Google said that it had started piloting the feature with a few celebrities, namely, Priyanka Chopra, Will Ferrell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Kenan Thompson,…
HIGHLIGHTS You can share live gameplay with your Facebook audience Facebook is testing playing games during video chats Games like Angry Birds and Sonic Jump coming to Instant Games next year Launched in May this year, Facebook Messenger’s Instant Games is getting upgraded with features like a new live-streaming option that lets you broadcast Instant Games to all your friends and followers with Facebook Live. Another feature will be rolled out for select games in which users will be able to video chat and play these games during a video call. Let’s begin with the new live streaming functionality for Facebook Messenger Instant Games.…
WhatsApp Business standalone app is expected to launch soon HIGHLIGHTS New FAQ listing shows WhatsApp Business app is in development WhatsApp earlier said to extend its app for businesses The WhatsApp Business will have a redesigned app icon WhatsApp seems set to launch a standalone app for businesses, which will feature both verified and non-verified profiles. In a new FAQ published on its website, WhatsApp has detailed the Business accounts, including key features and how to distinguish between verified and non-verified profiles. In Asia, organisations have been using WhatsApp as an informal means of coordinating with their clients and customers for the past…