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Twitter Blue subscription no longer available; checkmarks gone from some paid accounts

November 11, 2022
The Twitter Blue subscription – which turned the social media platform into a theme park for trolls, pranksters, and scammers – is no longer available in the iOS app. (It was never available in the Android one.) Additionally, some of those who paid for the subscription report that their blue checkmark is gone. It’s unclear at present whether this is as a result of the company’s latest…
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Twitter reportedly suspended Blue subscription sign-ups 'to help address impersonation issues'

November 11, 2022
Twitter Blue is currently missing from the iPhone app’s menu rail. On iPads, it’s still there, except clicking on the option to subscribe returns an error. One of Engadget’s editors tried it out on his iPad and got a notification that says it will be available in his country in the future, even though he’s in the US, which is one of the service’s launch locations.
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AI and the future of gaming

November 11, 2022
Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an exciting topic for some and horrifying to others.
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This Steam Deck dock has a thermoelectric cooler

November 11, 2022
If you’re lucky enough to track down a Steam Deck, chances are you’ve already experienced the sweaty palm syndrome with this handheld console — just as our very own Jess Conditt did in her review. Worse yet, the machine is prone to throttling or even crashing due to overheating, to the point where modders came up with their own creative solutions. For the rest of us who don’t…
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Google Play ‘User Choice Billing’ starts with Spotify as pilot comes to US

November 11, 2022
Google announced User Choice Billing for the Play Store in March to let Android apps use their own payment system. Spotify is now rolling out initial billing support, while Google Play is bringing UCB to more markets, including the US. User Choice Billing lets Android apps offer their own payment system alongside Google Play Billing for apps distributed via the Play Store. In September, it…
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