Legendary shooter Spec Ops: The Line is disappearing from storefronts forever — You may have only HOURS to buy it on Xbox

What you need to know Spec Ops: The Line is a legendary third-person shooter originally released in 2012. While the game saw middling success at launch, it has remained relevant thanks to its brutal campaign following the horrors and traumas of war. Thanks to expiring music licenses, however, Spec Ops: The Line is permanently disappearing […]

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Microsoft’s latest disappearing act for a Windows 11 feature is only temporary

What you need to know Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Build 23541 to Insiders in the Dev Channel today. Following the update, rich thumbnail previews for cloud files in the Recommended section of the Start menu may temporarily disappear. The build also includes a few fixes. Earlier this week, Microsoft disabled the option to ink directly […]

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WhatsApp now lets you hold onto disappearing messages if the sender agrees

Today WhatsApp has officially unveiled its latest feature, and it’s a twist on the Disappearing Messages functionality which was first introduced in 2020. It’s called Keep in Chat, and basically allows you to hang onto texts you need for later, even if they’re of the disappearing type. The way this works is that, once you […]

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WhatsApp Users Can Now Save Disappearing Messages If the Sender Consents

WhatsApp has announced a new option for disappearing messages conversations that lets recipients keep individual messages if the sender approves the request. “Keep in Chat” enables users to long press a disappearing message and ask to keep it, which sends a notification to the sender: “Someone kept your message so they can refer back to […]

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Quantum Break disappearing from Xbox Game Pass is a complicated licensing issue

What you need to know Quantum Break is a 2016 game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.  A recent listing in the Xbox Game Pass home tab showed that Quantum Break was leaving Xbox Game Pass.  Microsoft has confirmed that Quantum Break should return to the service after resolving licensing issues. […]

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The Mesopotamian Marshes Are Disappearing, Again

From the start of last summer until late October, more than 2,000 families were forced to abandon their homes due to the retreating marshlands, according to the FAO’s El-Hajj Hassan. Some of the displaced have moved to areas of marshland that still have water, while others have abandoned their traditional way of life and moved […]

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WhatsApp to allow users keep disappearing chats as ‘Kept Messages’

In the recent past, WhatsApp has received a slew of new features. The company may not be as far ahead in terms of features as its competitors, such as Telegram, but it is working hard to meet the needs. Reportedly, a new WhatsApp feature is in the works, that would allow users to keep the […]

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The Mystery of Alaska’s Disappearing Whales

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years old, his father decided it was about time he started learning to hunt beluga whales. Schaeffer was an Iñupiaq kid growing up in Kotzebue, a small city in northwest Alaska, where a healthy store […]

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Xbox players report achievements disappearing due to a new bug

What you need to know A growing number of Xbox users have reported that many of the achievements they unlocked in Xbox 360 games are disappearing from their profile. Users report that achievements are still visible when viewed on an Xbox 360 or TrueAchievements.com, but are not displaying on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S […]

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Carbon-Rich Peat Is Disappearing. But Is It Also Growing?

All of this creates a contradiction that scientists are only beginning to investigate: As the Arctic warms, more peat dries out and ignites, but more vegetation grows, which could eventually form new peat. “People think that there are no new peatlands initiating at the moment, but our data is—very tentatively, at least—showing that this is […]

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WhatsApp Stops Auto-Saving Media From Disappearing Messages on iPhone

WhatsApp is changing the way the platform handles media sent over chats with disappearing messages enabled, reports WABetaInfo. Going forward, WhatsApp will no longer automatically save images and other visual media to your iPhone’s Photos library if they appear within a chat thread that has disappearing messages turned on. The “Save to Camera Roll” option […]

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