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Netflix Promises Not to Crack Down on People Sharing Accounts

Netflix Promises Not to Crack Down on People Sharing Accounts

Netflix recently tightened up the login verification system for its streaming platform, but the company promises that any changes will be made through a gentle process and without cracking down on users.

movies & tv series

Hubert Sledziewski

April 21, 2021

Netflix Promises Not to Crack Down on People Sharing Accounts
Discord Will Not be Acquired by Microsoft

Discord Will Not be Acquired by Microsoft

Discord has broken off talks with Microsoft over a possible takeover by the Redmond giant for up to $12 billion. What's next for gamers' favorite instant messenger?

hardware & software

Konrad Sarzynski

April 21, 2021

Discord Will Not be Acquired by Microsoft
Google Earth Just Received a Massive Update, Timelapse Option Available

Google Earth Just Received a Massive Update, Timelapse Option Available

Google Earth just got a big update, and with it the Timelapse feature. This enables us to see how the place of our choice on Earth has changed over the past 37 years.

hardware & software

Jacob Blazewicz

April 16, 2021

Google Earth Just Received a Massive Update, Timelapse Option Available
Internet is in Trouble, OVH's Data Center Burned Down

Internet is in Trouble, OVH's Data Center Burned Down

Today morning in Europe, a fire broke out at the Strasbourg branch of OVH, which hosts 140,000 servers, as a result of which the entire SBG2 data centre and part of SBG1 burned down. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

hardware & software

Hubert Sledziewski

March 10, 2021

Internet is in Trouble, OVH's Data Center Burned Down
Bringing Dead to Life in Photos With Deep Nostalgia Becomes Hot a Topic

Bringing Dead to Life in Photos With Deep Nostalgia Becomes Hot a Topic

MyHeritage has launched Deep Nostalgia, an intriguing service that uses artificial intelligence to bring to life a photo of people or even entire figure, turning them into animations using special algorithms.

hardware & software

Kamil Komaniecki

March 1, 2021

Bringing Dead to Life in Photos With Deep Nostalgia Becomes Hot a Topic
YouTube's Clip Creation Feature Undergoes Testing

YouTube's Clip Creation Feature Undergoes Testing

A feature enabling you to create clips from streams and published videos on YouTube is coming. It is currently being tested on a strictly limited number of channels.

hardware & software

Milosz Szubert

January 29, 2021

YouTube's Clip Creation Feature Undergoes Testing
Sony Shuts Down Official Website of Killzone

Sony Shuts Down Official Website of Killzone

The official website of Killzone went down permanently. Players have lost access to their stats from Killzone: Mercenary and Killzone: Shadow Fall, as well as the option to create clans in the latter.

video games

Paul Musiolik

January 10, 2021

Sony Shuts Down Official Website of Killzone
End of Flash; Microsoft Automatically Removes Plug-in From Windows

End of Flash; Microsoft Automatically Removes Plug-in From Windows

The end of 2020 brought us the death of the popular Flash technology. The shutdown, announced back in 2017 has become a fact. What next with many archival projects?

hardware & software

Paul Musiolik

January 2, 2021

End of Flash; Microsoft Automatically Removes Plug-in From Windows
Microsoft Acquires Popular Esports Platform

Microsoft Acquires Popular Esports Platform

After the acquisition of ZeniMax and Bethesda, Microsoft's shopping continues. This time the company acquired the smash.gg platform, which has been used for years by thousands of esports competition organisers, including in Nintendo's fighting games.

video games

Jacob Blazewicz

December 2, 2020

Microsoft Acquires Popular Esports Platform
YouTube Will Display Ads in All Videos

YouTube Will Display Ads in All Videos

YouTube has made changes to the terms and conditions of the platform, as a result of which ads will be displayed in all videos, regardless of the choice of the content creator and participation, or lack of thereof, in the YouTube Partner program.

hardware & software

Bart Swiatek

November 23, 2020

YouTube Will Display Ads in All Videos
Xbox and Call of Duty Consume Tons of Network Resources in the UK

Xbox and Call of Duty Consume Tons of Network Resources in the UK

On the day the Xbox Series X/S made its debut, the UK recorded record data consumption. This result, however, was influenced by many more factors, including the updates for Call of Duty games and the pre-load of Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War.

hardware & software

Christian Pieniazek

November 12, 2020

Xbox and Call of Duty Consume Tons of Network Resources in the UK
Netflix Like Classic TV as Direct Service Begins Testing

Netflix Like Classic TV as Direct Service Begins Testing

Netflix unexpectedly started testing the Direct service, which is reminiscent of a traditional TV channel. For now it operates in one country.

movies & tv series

Bart Woldanski

November 9, 2020

Netflix Like Classic TV as Direct Service Begins Testing
Ubisoft+ With New Features Will Replace Uplay+

Ubisoft+ With New Features Will Replace Uplay+

Ubisoft has announced the end of Uplay+. The existing subscription will be replaced by Ubisoft+, which will offer support for new features like cross-platform play and Google Stadia and Amazon Luna services.

video games

Jacob Blazewicz

October 27, 2020

Ubisoft+ With New Features Will Replace Uplay+
Facebook Reveals Its Own Free Cloud Gaming

Facebook Reveals Its Own Free Cloud Gaming

Facebook Gaming now offers a cloud game streaming service. For now, it will offer free productions and there will be no dedicated subscription. Facebook announced that it does not intend to compete with services such as GeForce Now and Google Stadia.

video games

Paul Wozniak

October 26, 2020

Facebook Reveals Its Own Free Cloud Gaming
Uplay and Ubisoft Rewards to be Replaced by New Service

Uplay and Ubisoft Rewards to be Replaced by New Service

Ubisoft Connect will replace Uplay and the Ubisoft Club loyalty program. The new platform will provide support for cross-play and cross-save options in upcoming games.

video games

Paul Musiolik

October 22, 2020

Uplay and Ubisoft Rewards to be Replaced by New Service
Amazon Announces Luna, Its Own „Netflix for Gamers”

Amazon Announces Luna, Its Own „Netflix for Gamers”

Amazon announced Luna, a video game streaming service to compete with similar services from Google, Nvidia or Microsoft. The official controller and list of launch titles were also revealed.

hardware & software

Bartlomiej Sagan

September 25, 2020

Amazon Announces Luna, Its Own „Netflix for Gamers”

Google Gives Up on Another Service

Google Play Music will close soon. The service will be phased out gradually and will end between October and the end of the year. At the same time, Google encourages subscribers to move their collections to YouTube Music.

hardware & software

Agnes Adamus

August 7, 2020

Google Gives Up on Another Service

Discord Breaks With the Image of Being a Paltform for Gamers

Discord has so far been associated mainly with conversations of players during online games. Now this is to change. The program will be profiled more towards a universal communicator for the community.

hardware & software

Arkadiusz Strzala

July 1, 2020

Discord Breaks With the Image of Being a Paltform for Gamers

Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Mixer

Microsoft ceases further development of the streaming platform Mixer. Users of the service will have to move to Facebook, although not all recognizable streamers can take advantage of this offer.

video games

Jacob Blazewicz

June 22, 2020

Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Mixer

PS Now Becoming Increasingly Popular

PlayStation Now, Sony's video game streaming service, is becoming increasingly popular. The Japanese reported that the number of its users has doubled since October 2019.

hardware & software

Christian Pieniazek

May 19, 2020

PS Now Becoming Increasingly Popular