Xbox Game Pass Family Plan Testing Begins in Columbia and Ireland

Xbox Game Pass family plan preview testing has begun in select countries. Gamers in Columbia and Ireland can now apply for an Insider preview to share their Game Pass account benefits with friends and family. There is no word on an India preview test yet.

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Twitter expands Location Spotlight tool to all businesses globally

Twitter has made a new feature available for all businesses globally to display their location address, hours of operation and additional contact details on their profiles on the platform.

Earlier, the 'Location Spotlight' feature was available to users in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

In addition, Twitter is also offering a new monthly live series called "Taking Care of Business" to help budding entrepreneurs on its platform.

"We are proud of the foundation we've laid with the initial suite of products we've unveiled to date and we're excited to continue introducing new ways to help professionals achieve business success on Twitter," it said in a statement.

The 'Location Spotlight' feature allows professional accounts of brick-and-mortar stores to display details on their profiles.

Users can see the new information when they visit a business' profile.

Tapping on the location will get directions to the shop through a mapping app like Google Maps.

Professional Accounts allow businesses, brands, creators, and publishers to "have a unique and clearly defined presence on the platform and the ability to grow and strengthen their presence on Twitter".

The businesses can also customise the feature to showcase the days and times they want people to visit their location.

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YouTube may soon let users Zoom in on Videos

San Francisco, Aug 5 (IANS) Google-owned streaming platform YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video.

The latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos -- and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape view, reports The Verge.

According to the company, the zoom feature will remain in testing until September 1, giving YouTube about a month to gather user feedback and refine things before potentially rolling it out more widely.

To enable pinch to zoom, open YouTube's settings menu either on your phone or from the website. If you are subscribed to YouTube Premium, there should be a "try new features" section.

Recently, the platform announced that users can now turn their longer videos into Shorts by adding a new "Edit into a Short" tool to its iOS and Android app.

With this new update, which is now rolling out across iOS and Android devices, users can now convert up to 60 seconds from their own existing long-form YouTube videos and turn them into Shorts.

YouTube Shorts is now being watched by over 1.5 billion signed-in users every month with more than 30 billion daily views.

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Iron Man Game: EA Reportedly Developing Single-Player Title Based on Marvel Superhero

An Iron Man single-player game is rumoured to be in development at EA. Game journalist Jeff Grubb stated claims that the new Marvel game is part of EA’s upcoming single-player lineup. The news comes merely a week after reports of a Black Panther open-world game flooded the internet.

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ISRO gearing up for lift-off of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle on 7 August

Chennai, Aug 4 (IANS) India's newest rocket, the 34 metre tall and weighing 120 ton Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) will lift off from the first launch pad at the Sriharikota rocket port on August 7 at 9.18 a.m. on its maiden flight, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday.

The three staged SSLV-Developmental 1 (SSLV-D1) is primarily powered by solid fuel (total 99.2 ton) and also has a velocity trimming module (VTM) powered by 0.05 ton of liquid fuel for precise injection of satellites.

The rocket with a maximum luggage carrying capacity of 500 kg will be carrying an earth observation satellite-02 (EOS-02) formerly known as Microsatellite-2A weighing about 145 kg.

Just over 12 minutes into its flight, the SSLV-D1 will put into orbit the EOS-2 satellite.

Prior to that, the rocket will coast - moving because of the momentum and not powered by its engines - twice for about four minutes.

The piggyback luggage will be the eight kg AZAADISAT built by 750 students of government schools facilitated by SpaceKidz India.

According to ISRO, the SSLV is a ready to transfer rocket with modular and unified systems with standard interfaces for production by the industry.

The SSLV design drivers are low cost, low turnaround time, flexibility in accommodating multiple satellites, launch-on-demand feasibility, minimal launch infrastructure requirements and others, ISRO said.

The commercial arm of ISRO, NewSpace India Ltd plans to transfer the SSLV technology for production in the private sector.

The Indian space agency said the EOS-02 satellite is an experimental optical imaging satellite with high spatial resolution. The objective is to realise and fly an experimental imaging satellite with short turnaround time and showcase launch on demand capability.

According to ISRO, the new technologies realised for the microsat series of spacecrafts include payloads with a common fore optics and metallic primary mirror realised with the limited mass and volume of Microsat Bus.

With the new included in its product lineup, ISRO will have three rockets - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle and SSLV.

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World of Warcraft Mobile Game Cancelled Three Years Into Development: Report

A World of Warcraft mobile game has reportedly been cancelled three years into development. Internal disagreements between Activision Blizzard and NetEase resulted in both parties cancelling the hotly-anticipated Warcraft MMO. The cancellation comes at an interesting time, as Blizzard tries getting into the Asian mobile gaming market, via their recently launched Diabl...

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Musk-Twitter Battle: Elon Musks Responses To Be Made Public

If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last few months, you would have heard about the Musk-Twitter acquisition saga. The whole process of Elon Musk, who has developed a cult-like following around him on the internet, asking to buy off Twitter, and then things falling apart, has developed to be nothing short of a film script. Now, adding another link to this never-ending chain is the news that Musk’s response to Twitter’s lawsuit could be made public soon.

To set some context for the uninitiated, since March earlier this year, which was the time when Musk first floated the proposals and almost bought the microblogging platform, sealing the deal at $44 billion, and then he attempted to back out. 

All of this, while being in the news for several other reasons, Musk brought the world to a standstill. After Musk’s withdrawal from the deal, Twitter filed a lawsuit against him. During the proceedings of the lawsuit, a judge ruled on Wednesday that Musk's responses are to be made public by Friday.

I made an offer https://t.co/VvreuPMeLu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2022 Twitter wants to review Musk’s arguments

Musk’s attorneys initially proposed filing a public version of their answer and counterclaims on Wednesday. However, Twitter’s attorneys were against it and called for more time to review the drafts from Twitter’s side. That is what prevented Musk’s side from making their side of the arguments and claims public. 

Commenting on this matter, one of Twitter’s attorneys, Kevin Shannon, wrote, “Few cases attract as much public interest as this one, and Twitter is mindful of this court's commitment to ensuring maximum public access to its proceedings.” Shannon added, “Twitter has no interest in proposing any more redactions to defendants' responsive pleading than necessary.”

With things developing by the hour, it will be interesting to see where things go on from now, and what claims Musk’s side makes. 

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