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Mobility major Ola cofounder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Sunday announced a new service by the cab aggregator. Aggarwal took to Twitter to announce the launch of Prime Plus which will offer “best drivers and top cars”, he said.The service will be a "premium offering" and will not include cancellations from drivers.Aggarwal added that the service will be initially available for select customers in Bengaluru starting Sunday and that he also will be “using it frequently” and share experiences on the microblogging…

Apple plans to shut down its My Photo Stream service on July 26th, 2023, the company . The free service has been available since the release of iCloud in 2011. You can use My Photo Stream to upload the last 30 days of images and videos – up to a limit of 1,000 – from your Apple devices to iCloud. My Photo Stream predates and gave Apple users a way to access their images and video clips on more than one device. Notably, content uploaded to iCloud through My Photo Stream do not count against your iCloud storage cap, though…

Dutch aviation startup ELECTRON Aviation has inked an agreement with Twente Airport, in the next step of its plans to launch a zero-emissions short-haul flight service from 2027.  The startup’s planned fleet of electric air taxis will transport up to four passengers at a time to various European cities within a 500km radius of the airport.  “To be clear, that gets you to Berlin, London, or Paris, all in under 2 hours,” said Josef Mouris, CEO and co-founder of ELECTRON.  The startup’s Electron5…

Get ready to pay a bit more to watch live-streamers without being constantly interrupted by ads. Twitch’s ad-free Turbo subscription plan is raising its price, jumping from $9 to $12 per month in the US. Twitch has offered no feature changes or add-ons to accompany this price hike. The monthly cost for Turbo is increasing throughout the globe, your country’s modified pricing. Current Turbo subscribers were informed about the pricing changes via emails sent out Thursday, but there’s some good news for long-time users.…

Ahead of the May 2023 PlayStation Showcase, I wrote that the presentation needed to “elicit confidence in Sony’s future with live service.” Well, multiplayer-focused live service games did end up being a big part of the show, but I can’t say I’m that confident in them yet. Between neat looks at single-player exclusives like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Synapse, Sony revealed four live-service games that it’s publishing. Those games are Haven Studios’ Fairgame$, Arrowhead Studios’ Helldivers 2, Bungie’s Marathon,…

In the end, it's all about keeping your data safe from third-party services and the ability to expand the applications, services, and tools you have available to you -- without having to break the bank or get a degree in computer science.You might either not know about Linux or believe it to be too challenging for your skills. Also: Ubuntu Cinnamon makes switching from Windows to Linux as painless as possibleFor those who haven't heard of Linux, it's a free operating system you can install on computers (or as virtual…

Aircraft VMS EVE carries with spacecraft VSS Unity during a flight test.Virgin GalacticVirgin Galactic is preparing to launch its first spaceflight in nearly two years on Thursday, as the space tourism company aims to pass a final test before flying commercial passengers.Called Unity 25, the mission represents the company's fifth spaceflight to date and is launching out of Spaceport America in New Mexico. It marks a "final assessment" flight, with six Virgin Galactic employees onboard for a short trip to the edge of…

Apple iPhone users were not able to send or receive iMessages due to a partial outage that affected many users around the globe. After the outage that lasted more than an hour, the iMessage is not back again. As per the company's support page, iMessage is fully operational again after experiencing some issues on Tuesday. Previously, the page said, "users may have been unable to send or download attachments in iMessage". The outage had occurred between 9:20 p.m. to 11:50 p.m., and some users were affected.…

Right now, Sony may be widely renowned for its ambitious single-player PlayStation games from franchises you’ve come to know and love — series like God of War, Horizon, and Spider-Man come to mind for me. But in just a few years, you might instead be playing a lot of new PlayStation franchises — and a lot of live service titles.As part of a business presentation on Tuesday, Sony shared some updates about how it plans to invest in its its portfolio. In the 2025 fiscal year, for example, it estimates that 50 percent of its…

Comcast is launching a live TV streaming service to rival Sling, FuboTV, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV and all the rest. It’s called Now TV and it has something competitors lack, an extremely attractive price tag. Now TV includes 60 live channels and a Peacock subscription all for $20 each month. There’s a slight catch. Now TV will only be available to Comcast Xfinity Internet customers and will operate as an add-on to any pre-existing service plan. A bare-bones Comcast cable plan costs $50 to $60 each month and doesn’t…