Discord first launched the shop to Nitro subscribers in October, but now everyone can purchase avatar decorations and profile effects. Nitro members will still get these items at a discounted price.
Instead of having just a single navigation bar at the bottom of your screen, Google Chat has decided to add another navigation menu on top of that with options to access the home screen, direct messages, spaces, and mentions. I don’t have it on my mobile app yet, but it looks a little chaotic.
Jacob Ward, an NBC correspondent who worked at Popular Science for seven years and spent some time as editor-in-chief, shared some thoughts about the end of the 151-year-old magazine in a video on YouTube:
The magazine — like all magazines — was handed from owner to owner to owner over time and there was all things began to get lost... I got to the editor in chief position, and I just saw how this very beautiful, very historical, a real treasure of American popular intellectual publishing was kind of disposable in the minds of people who make money for living.
The $9.99 / month Instacart Plus subscription already offers unlimited free grocery deliveries and lower service fees, but now it’s bundling in Peacock’s Premium plan, too. The streamer’s Premium plan offers ad-supported access to a range of content on Peacock and typically costs $5.99 per month.
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The iPhone maker sent a proposal to Goldman Sachs asking to terminate their partnership within the next 12 to 15 months, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Goldman Sachs currently issues the Apple Card and powers the company’s savings accounts. However, recent reports suggest their partnership isn’t going all that well, and Goldman Sachs has reportedly explored offloading the Apple Card onto American Express.
This deep dive from Polygon explores what happened when Niantic, the creators of Pokémon Go, teamed up with the theater company Punchdrunk, to develop an in-person game that blended tech and the surrounding environment.
But the experience, which involved having players interact with actors on the street and looking for hidden objects, never came to fruition due to concerns about safety and costs:
“The number one challenge was always safety,” wrote former general manager of Niantic’s Los Angeles studio Greg Borrud in an email interview with Polygon. “We were always looking for ways to push the limits while still keeping safety at the forefront. We knew we had to test the boundaries to see where they were during development. But we also knew we had to reel things back in as we looked to put a live product out there.”
