Twitter Blue Rolls Out Cheaper Annual Subscription Twitter is dropping the price of its premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, but there’s a catch. Users who want the lower price will have to stump up for an annual subscription. Twitter Blue has been central to Elon Musk’s plans to increase monetization on the social media platform and turn the struggling company into something profitable. Blue was around long before Musk but wasn’t that popular....

Twitter introduced bothpolls in tweetsand aMoments featurefor discovering trending stories back in October 2015. Additionally, Twitter for iOS has had the GIF search feature since February 2016. Even though Moments, Polls, and integrated GIF search have been available on the web at twitter.com and via Twitter’s mobile application for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, it wasn’t until today that these features finally rolled out to Twitter’s Mac app. Here’s a quick overview of the aforementioned features: A more detailed overview of each new feature follows....

Twitter Finally Drops One Of Its Most Annoying Features For a brief spell starting on June 30, Twitter implemented a controversial change that made it mandatory to log in for viewing tweets or a Twitter profile. In a nutshell, the Elon Musk-owned company closed the entire social media platform for people that don’t have a Twitter account. That policy appears to have been quietly repealed. Now, if you open a tweet URL, you are no longer given a log-in prompt....

The UK government has launched a collaborative initiative worth £1 billion to increase 4G mobile coverage to 95 per cent of the country by 2025. All of the major networks - BT (EE), O2,Vodafoneand Three - have welcomed the proposals, which will see them share masts as part of a Shared Rural Network. This will dramatically improve 4G signals in areas that, in some cases, do not even have 3G coverage at present....

VPNs May Not Be As Safe As You Thought The internet is a much more secure place than it once was. Everything online — from banking services to online shopping and social media platforms — is encrypted. But the internet is also much less privacy-friendly than it used to be. Advertisers follow users around the web, tracking their moves across different sites and devices. The data collected from this intrusive mining is either used for targeted advertising or sold to brokers....

It’s hard to imagine a time before Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. He has been part of the pop culture landscape for the past 17 years. But this weekend, the icon brings it all to a close with his final X-Men movieLogan. To celebrate, the collective Internet has started to share a video that has been around for a while. It shows Hugh Jackman auditioning for the role of his lifetime way back in the 90s....

What Does The Triangle Symbol Mean On Your Car’s Dashboard As a new driver, you must get used to the alerts and warning signs on your car’s dashboard. The dashboard is your primary interface with your car. It’s how your car lets you know how fast it’s going, how much fuel is in its tank, what doors are open, and so on. Your car interprets these messages through symbols. One common dashboard signal is the triangle with an exclamation mark at the center....

The Legend of Zeldahas been a staple in my household since Ocarina of Time. Even though Link holds a special place in my heart, the name of the gameis“Zelda,” soEchoes of Wisdomproved a much-wanted change of pace while still keeping the heart of this classic franchise. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - 10 Tips and Tricks We Wish We Knew Sooner These tips and tricks will have you being the King of Hyrule in Echoes of Wisdom....

What’s The Difference Between TRD And GR, Toyota’s Racing And Performance Brands? A performance sub-brand can prove a longstanding and valuable asset for an automaker’s profitability. It serves as a form of exclusive shop window for high-class, high-performance products from the manufacturer for customers looking to have a more exotic driving experience. Yet Toyota decided to provide its consumers with double the variety in performance sub-brands when it launched its Toyota Gazoo Racing (“TGR,” or “GR”) sub-brand in 2017....

The 96thAcademy Awardsare fast approaching, and movie enthusiasts everywhere are eagerly waiting for the big reveal of the year’s Best Picture winner among those in the rest of the categories. Because2023was one of the strongest recent years in cinema, it has become difficult to choose a favorite from all the amazing stories told across every genre. Fortunately, for those who did not have a chance to go to the theaters and watch their pick of movies, streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Prime Video make it easy for you to have your own front-row seats and experience these cinematic masterpieces....

AtApple’s “Let Loose"event this week, newiPad modelswere announced, including the new iPad Pro. The new iPad Pro is Apple’s thinnest product ever, with the 13-inch model coming in at 5.1mm thick, and weighing only 0.98 pounds. For reference, the last iPod Nano was 5.4mm. The fact that we can now fit the power of a computer into a tablet thinner than an MP3 player is, to me, truly awe-inspiring. In the 1980s, Apple co-founder Steve Jobsenvisioneda computer you could carry around with you, and in the 1990s, he worked on the Newton MessagePad, which was a PDA that looked a lot like a tablet....

Why You Probably Shouldn’t Buy A Used Hard Drive Nothing beats the convenience of a good old hard drive. However,when buying a hard drive, you’ll need to consider several things like storage capacity, compatibility, type (HDD or SSD), connectivity options, and more. Even after you’ve decided on all of this, you may still face a common dilemma: Should you buy a brand-new hard drive or go for a used one to save money?...

Will A MacBook Alarm Go Off When It’s In Sleep Mode? MacBooks are popular computers, and you might even considerswitching over to a MacBook from Windows for several reasons. However,MacBooks do have some major limitationsthat can be frustrating. Just like the iPhone, the MacBook has the capability to set an alarm, which may be convenient if you charge your iPhone in a separate room at night to avoid distracting yourself before bed, or your phone died just before hitting the hay and your laptop is conveniently at your bedside instead....