Badges

Twitter under Elon Musk’s rule is launching new grey badges of verification Reportedly, Elon Musk claimed that users who choose Twitter Blue will receive this blue verification badge. However, a company executive has since clarified that some verified accounts, such as major media outlets and governments, will receive a different official label. Esther Crawford announced the news on Twitter, writing, “Many people have questioned how you’ll be able to discern the difference between @TwitterBlue subscribers…

Twitter is delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers of its new $8 (roughly Rs. 660) a month service until after Tuesday's midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The US midterm elections on Tuesday will decide whether Republicans or President Joe Biden's Democrats will control Congress.Changes to Twitter's verification process came a week after Elon Musk took over the social media company in a $44 billion (roughly Rs. …

| It's time. San Diego Comic-Con 2023 runs from the 20th to the 23rd of July, 2023. And those wanting to attend can buy their tickets this weekend. Last year had a lot of tickets following over from the cancelled pandemic shows, so it might be a little easier to attend this time. There's none of the press-refresh game from the Big Bang Theory days. But you will have to have all your ducks in a row for the 5th of November 2022. Big Bang Theory screencap That means registering or validating your Member ID with San Diego…

Ford F -6.18% Motor Co. has delayed deliveries of certain vehicles because it didn’t have the blue oval badges that go on them, in another example of how supply-chain challenges have hit auto makers.The car company has run into supply constraints with the brand-name badges and the nameplates that specify the model, according to people familiar with the matter. Both parts are affixed to the vehicle’s exterior and are important identifiers for the auto maker’s products.…

A Ford F-150 pickup truck is offered for sale at a dealership on September 6, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Recent supply chain problems for Ford Motor have included a small, yet important, part for the company and its vehicles – the blue oval badges that don nearly every vehicle for its namesake brand.The Detroit automaker has experienced shortages with the Ford badges for vehicles such as F-Series trucks as well as the nameplates that specify the model, a Ford spokesman confirmed to CNBC.…

Alerts and notifications can show on your iPhone's home screen via sound, banner, or pop-up window, displaying messages and reminders from texts, emails, phone messages, and a host of other information from your resident apps. Notifications are one thing. Notification badges are quite another. You can receive notifications with or without the Red Badge of Shame plastered to the upper-right corner of your app icon. What are notification badges? They're the red dot, usually with a number inside, showing how many…

Media reports say that the Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram is internally testing a new tipping feature for creators on the platform.The test feature called "Gifts" would enable creators to earn money through Reels."This feature is an internal prototype and not testing externally," a company spokesperson was quoted as saying in an email to the website.Read AlsoThe feature was first spotted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi back in July, when Instagram was developing the feature under the name…

NBA 2K23 is nearly here, and that means a fresh badge system is upon us. While we can't yet provide our complete NBA 2K23 badge tier list--we need to play the game for that--we do already know the complete list of new badges, as well as which ones have been removed or combined into preexisting badges in this year's game. NBA 2K23 introduces a drastically overhauled badge system, which splits the badges into tiers and allows for some additional badge slots for all players. The team at Visual Concepts has…

Google Chrome is one of the widely used browsers, and one of the reasons for its adoption may be due to the availability of extensions, which can be accessed on the Chrome Web Store. However, as there are around 140,000 extensions available in the pool, users often face the issue of finding good and safe extensions. To solve this issue and aid users in searching for extensions of the highest quality, Google has introduced two new badges – the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge. The badges are aimed at…