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X, formerly Twitter, is reinstating its misgendering and deadnaming policy. The Elon Musk-owned micro-blogging social media app's abuse and harassment policy was amended in April 2023 to remove the rule, however, it has now been brought back to prevent people being addressed with the wrong pronouns or name. Whilst the tweets won't be removed, they will be less visible, with those who have been violated urged to report cases to X. An update on X's abuse and harassment page read: “We will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what t...
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'Baldur's Gate 3' Xbox users continue to be plagued by a "firmware issue". Larian Studios has shared a temporary "work-around" for the data-saving issue whilst Microsoft works on fixing the problem. The studio posted to X: "We’re aware that there is a save issue on Xbox that continues to linger throughout the holidays. It occurs when exiting the game after saving. The game thinks the save was successful but due to a firmware issue, the save file is not fully committed to disk yet. "Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on it but obviously during the holidays everyone is working at low...
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Elon Musk's X suffered a major outage on Thursday (21.12.23). Thousands of users worldwide were greeted with the message "Welcome to X!" as they tried to use the micro-blogging site. In the US, more than 74,000 people reported issues, and across the pond in the UK at least 7,000 sent issues to DownDetector. The app and website going down comes as the official X page teased some improvements are on the way, including filtering posts. And after it was revealed that the European Union has officially accused X of violating its regulations. Meanwhile, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which w...
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Single tags have landed on Meta's X rival Threads. Now users can choose one topic to tag per post, similar to X - formerly Twitter - however, on the latter you can add as many hashtags as you'd like. Announcing the new feature on the official Threads account, a post read: "New on Threads: You can now tag a topic in a post. To get started, tap the # key or the new # button in the composer." In the summer, Meta launched a new web version of Threads. Facebook’s parent company's app enjoyed meteoric growth when it launched in July. But users rapidly deserting it partly due to its limited functiona...
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Elon Musk declared "citizen journalism is the path" to a "better future", as his social media site X removed headlines from posted stories. The billionaire businessman has made it less obvious if you are reading a news article, as of October 5, with just the image and the source in very small text being shown once you hit the "post" button. He wrote on X: “I almost never read legacy news anymore. What’s the point of reading 1000 words about something that was already posted on X several days ago? “Citizen journalism is the path to better future!” Elon recently explained why he wants X to becom...
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'Baldur's Gate 3' patch 3 update has been hit by a slight delay because of how big it is. Developer and publisher Larian Studios has apologised that the role-playing video game's latest lot of fixes and updates will arrive a day later on Friday (22.09.23). A post on Larian's official X page read: "Patch 3 is coming, and it’s a big one. To ensure thorough testing, we’re releasing Patch 3 this Friday, September 22 instead. "Thanks for your patience, all!" Mac users are waiting until the patch to be able to experience the title. The game has been rife with performance issues, particularly in the ...
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Elon Musk says he has played “the fool” and landed himself in “all sorts of trouble” on Twitter. He added his epic on-off £40 billion bid to buy the platform may prove he is a “masochist” but said he is driven to create a “trusted” and “transparent” ideas and news-exchange forum to avoid the further rise of the likes of Donald Trump’s Truth platform, which he described a “right-wing echo chamber”. The world’s richest man said when asked by the Financial Times about his antics on Twitter: “Aren’t you entertained? I play the fool on Twitter and often shoot myself in the foot and cause myself all...
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Elon Musk does not want to join a space flight to colonise Mars until he’s older as he fears there is a “non-trivial chance of dying”. The Tesla billionaire, 51, said he would rather stick around to see the two-year-old son, X, who he shares with singer Grimes, 34, grow up before he takes off. He told the Financial Times on Friday (07.10.22) when asked if he would like to join the pioneering colony to Mars he is championing: “Especially if I’m getting old, I’ll do it. Why not?” But when asked if he would be useful to his fellow colonists due to his age, dad-of-10 Elon – who referred to himself...
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Grimes appears to have slammed her former husband Elon Musk in a new break up song. The 33-year-old singer - who was in a relationship with the billionaire SpaceX founder from 2018 until 2021 - has released a new song titled 'Player of Games', which seemingly alludes to her former partner. In the song, she sings: "I’m in love with the greatest gamer, but he’ll always love the game more than he loves me" before going on to croon: "Sail away to the cold expanse of space, even love couldn’t keep you in your place." Before making his first million at the age of 27, Musk was an avid creator of vide...
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A company has developed a 'Safe Spacer', which makes a sound when you get too close to someone. Social distancing has become rife currently owing to the coronavirus pandemic and now IK Multimedia have developed a wearable device, which lights up, vibrates and makes "annoying" sounds when you get within two metres of someone. The device is said to be 10 times more accurate than Bluetooth and is available to purchase for $99.00. It can be fit within different devices including a watch, a lantern or a key chain, for example. It is currently being used by Enrico Iori's employees in Italy and the U...
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