Developer reveals that their Xbox Game Pass deal allowed them to delay the game and add over a hundred hours more content

What you need to know Mike Rose of No More Robots has shared a thread on Twitter exploring the effects of Xbox Game Pass on the publisher’s most recent game release, Spirittea. Rose shared that more than 100,000 people had played Spirittea via Xbox Game Pass in its first week after launch.  Spirittea’s Game Pass […]

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‘We don’t allow ads on our platform that contain sexually explicit content,’ Google explains after an explicit ad surfaced on YouTube amid its firm stance on ad-blockers

What you need to know YouTube is doubling down on its efforts to detect and block ad blockers. Oddly, a Reddit user recently flagged a disturbing ad featuring explicit content while streaming videos on the platform. Google has pulled down the ad as it’s against the company’s policies. A privacy consultant is in a legal […]

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‘There were so many really interesting stories to tell’ in Remnant 2: The Awakened King, beyond the PvE balancing and new content

Remnant 2 is one of the best games I’ve played this year. Cleverly taking the Soulslike genre in a unique direction that features guns, Gunfire Games has added to the world of Remnant 2 by releasing its first DLC, The Awakened King. Gearbox and Gunfire contacted me to set up an interview and live demo, […]

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iOS 17.2 to Expand Sensitive Content Warnings on iPhone

Starting with iOS 17.2, which is currently in beta and is expected to be released in December, Apple’s opt-in Sensitive Content Warning feature will work with Contact Posters in both the Contacts and Phone apps, as well as stickers in the Messages app. When turned on, the Sensitive Content Warning feature uses on-device machine learning […]

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Forza Motorsport (2023) to get its first major content update with new races, more cars, and lots of fixes

What you need to know Forza Motorsport (2023) released around a month ago to mostly positive reception, but the game clearly needed fixes. Turn 10 Studios has been preparing those improvements, and the first major batch is coming in Update 2. The update also includes more content, such as the Yas Marina track, more cars, […]

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Samsung Gallery Week: Sync content to cloud with OneDrive

One of the many features Samsung Gallery has built-in is integration with Microsoft OneDrive. This feature allows Gallery users on Galaxy phones and tablets to sync their photos and videos with the OneDrive platform and create backups in the cloud. Galaxy device users get free 5GB of OneDrive storage to back up their Samsung Gallery […]

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Samsung Gallery Week: Your personal library of visual content

A new Monday is upon us, and if you’re a regular SamMobile visitor, you probably already know what that means. It’s time to pick a new Samsung topic to explore throughout the week, and here it is: For the next five days, we’ll dive deep into the first-party Samsung Gallery app and its most prominent […]

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Google will let publishers hide content from Bard. Should Microsoft do the same with Bing?

What you need to know Google has launched a new opt-out experience dubbed Google-Extended, which will help publishers restrict Bard from using their content to generate responses.  The company indicated that this new feature is designed to help publishers establish more control over their content. The emergence of AI and chatbots has negatively impacted website […]

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Google will let publishers hide content from Bard. Does Microsoft do the same with Bing?

What you need to know Google has launched a new opt-out experience dubbed Google-Extended, which will help publishers restrict Bard from using their content to generate responses.  The company indicated that this new feature is designed to help publishers establish more control over their content. The emergence of AI and chatbots has negatively impacted website […]

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Undead Labs is working on State of Decay 3, but SoD2 continues to breathe with a new content update next week

What you need to know For a couple months, Undead Labs and Wushu Studios have been teasing and testing the next State of Decay 2 update. Update 34: Curveball is officially coming to all players across Xbox and Windows PC on Sept. 18, 2023. The update introduces Curveballs, a wide variety of random events that […]

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Dataminers leak Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Vault Edition content

What you need to know Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to be revealed during a Warzone event on August 17.  Despite Activision and lead developers Sledgehammer Games trying to keep things hush hush the game has been continuously leaked and details datamined. The most recent leak from dataminers revealed the contents of […]

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Microsoft Teams says two videos are better than one with new feature for content cameras

What you need to know Microsoft Teams will soon support sharing a second video stream that’s a content camera. Content camera uses image processing to make a presenter appear partially transparent, allowing them to show content behind them. Those in the Teams public preview can test the functionality now. Microsoft Teams has a feature that […]

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I love Diablo 4, but I’m not playing its live service content

As I sit down to write this, it has been less than 24 hours since I finally completed the seven-part campaign (a Prologue, six Acts, and an Epilogue) for Diablo 4. Finally witnessing the slow scroll of credits honoring the many talented people responsible for this incredible game was an emotional experience, arriving shortly after […]

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The FTC argues that Xbox-exclusive content would be bad, ignoring that PlayStation has had it for years

What you need to know During the June 22 public hearing for the case of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vs. Microsoft, the FTC voiced concerns about in-game items being made exclusive to Xbox if Microsoft successfully acquired Activision Blizzard King. The FTC also pointed out that Microsoft could launch games earlier on Xbox with […]

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iOS 17 Can Automatically Block Unsolicited Nude Photos With ‘Sensitive Content Warnings’

Apple in iOS 17 is adding a new feature to iOS that is designed to automatically block incoming messages and files that may have sensitive content like nudity. Opt-in blurring can be applied to sensitive images sent in Messages, AirDrop, Contact Posters for the Phone app, FaceTime messages, and third-party apps. The feature will prevent […]

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Samsung TV Plus gets more content, including Apple TV+, in Vietnam

Samsung is bringing more free content to TV users in Vietnam on the occasion of being the world’s number-one TV brand for seventeen years consecutively. The company’s Samsung TV Plus service is getting seven new channels, so users can get entertained in more ways. One of the new channels also includes 8K content. Samsung is […]

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Reddit App Improves Content Sharing to iMessage With Rich Link Previews

Reddit’s official iOS app has received an update that gives users the ability to more easily share content on the social discussion website with the help of rich link previews. Previously, sharing a link to a Reddit post via a messaging service such as Apple’s Messages app only displayed the URL address in the conversation […]

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PSA: Latest macOS Ventura 13.4 Beta Doesn’t Play Nice With Content Filter Apps

Apple today released the fourth beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to developers, and it appears that there are some issues with content filtering apps like Little Snitch, Radio Silence, and others. After installing the beta, some users on the MacRumors forums and on Twitter had problems with network connectivity, and managed to narrow it down […]

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Apple Warns Amazon About Sexually Explicit Kindle Content Accessible to Children

Both Apple and Alphabet have asked Amazon to improve content moderation for its Kindle app after it was found that children could use the app to access sexually explicit images, reports Reuters. Amazon’s Kindle platform sells adult-oriented books that include photographs that are not suitable for children, with the content first discovered by parents who […]

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