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You can now send short video messages in a WhatsApp chat, Meta announced on Thursday. A video message can last for up to 60 seconds long and is protected with end-to-end encryption. “Video messages are a real-time way to respond to chats with whatever you want to say and show in 60 seconds,” Meta said in a post announcing the new feature. “We think these will be a fun way to share moments with all the emotion that comes from video, whether it’s wishing someone a happy birthday, laughing at a joke, or bringing good…

Jonas Brothers are taking their latest live run, ‘The Tour’, across the world adding 50 new dates across 20 countries, including the UK.The new leg marks their first time performing in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Hamburg, Lyon, Munich, and Norway. The band also revealed a colossal extension in North America to their most ambitious outing with 26 new shows, bringing their biggest tour ever to 90 shows across 20 countries.Produced by Live Nation, ‘The Tour’ kicks off with two…

Diablo IV's next patch will look to address some pain points players of the ARPG have had since launch, including the game's inventory space problems.As revealed during a developer livestream where Blizzard vowed it would never release a huge, player-power-affecting patch similar to the game's controversial Season 1 update "ever again," Blizzard additionally announced another patch is right around the corner. Patch 1.1.1 will bring a number of improvements to the game, several of which directly address…

Meta-owned popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp keeps developing new features to improve user experience. The company is now developing a new feature for the WhatsApp Channels which rolled out earlier this year. According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has rolled out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program. The latest beta update shows that WhatsApp is working on a message reaction feature for channels. This feature is currently under development and is expected to be available for more users with an…

Samsung Wallet, like Google Wallet, is a useful app to store all your most important cards, and now that includes student IDs for college students. Samsung today announced officially that Samsung Wallet is adding student IDs to the app in partnership with colleges across the US. So if you attend one of the compatible schools, you can store your ID inside of the app and use that anywhere you’d need the physical ID. Presumably this should work for anything around campuses where an ID might be needed. Though it’s not hard…

Version 2.1.0 also has some DLC bug fixes With the street date for the Pyra and Mythra amiibo approaching (July 21), Nintendo managed to update Xenoblade Chronicles 3 right on the cusp of that dual-figure release. Version 2.1.0 is now live, and it adds in amibo functionality for the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 duo, which arrives in the form of cosmetic sword skins (two forms of the Aegis Sword). To the delight of many Nintendo has been pulling back hard requirements for amiibo unlocks, so there is another way: to acquire…

Hiya Pals! It might be a Wednesday in the middle of summer, but we can’t stop thinking about all things spooky as Disney‘s Haunted Mansion theatrical debut gets closer and closer. For us, spooky season starts when the Fourth of July draws to a close, and right now, we’re just waiting for everyone else to catch up. With less than two weeks until the happy haunts at the Haunted Mansion welcome us in, Disney treated us to a new trailer for the delightfully spooky film. Walt Disney World is also making a big step forward in…

Illustration: Maria Diaz/ZDNET | Logo: GoogleCompanies keep finding fun new ways to implement generative AI, and I'm all for it. After a lot of ups and downs with its AI chatbot, Bard, Google is now integrating generative AI into Google Meet to enable users to generate their backgrounds. This means you could enter a prompt within Google Meet to request an image of what you want, like a "tidy, well-lit home office" or "the bleachers at a baseball stadium," and have Google generate a background for your…

Schneider Electric/ZDNETSchneider Electric hope its new solution will help sway doubters: "Unlike some smart panels, this allows homeowners to control only the loads they need to control with the app, making this a cost-effective solution for app-based monitoring and control of home energy usage," said Ndaw. The new Square D Control Relays snap directly onto the Square D QO Plug-on neutral breakers, and the Schneider Energy Monitor can be added at the same time. Together, this solution give homeowners the same…

To say The Flash bombed at the box office is a bit of an understatement. The film cost around $200 million to make, and anywhere between $70 million and another $200 million to promote. Now, The Flash is leaving theaters with a worldwide haul of only $267.2 million as of July 16 — meaning it never broke even at the multiplex. Basically, Warner Bros. Discovery totally lost its shirt, and it’s hoping that Barbie can re-seam it as fast as possible. To incentivize people to buy The Flash on digital and 4K, director Andy…