Jay Peters
YouTubers can now share their channels using QR codes.
You can grab your QR code from the YouTube app. Big year for QR codes!
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More of the fediverse is showing up on Threads.
You’ll now start seeing replies from other parts of the fediverse under posts that aren’t yours, as shared by Threads’ Peter Cottle. Nice way to see more posts from other ActivityPub-based platforms.
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Spectre Divide is launching in September.
The Valorant-like shooter where you control two bodies will be available to play for free on Steam starting September 3rd.
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The new iOS 18.1 beta adds more summarized notifications and the Clean Up tool for Photos.
Notification summaries powered by Apple Intelligence have expanded from Mail and Messages to all apps in iOS 18.1 developer beta 3, MacRumors reports.
If you’re on that beta, you can try Apple’s Magic Editor-like Clean Up tool, too.
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Stardew Valley x Fortnite?
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone is open to it. Per a statement given to IGN:
One time we were playing and someone said ‘what if there was a Pam skin in Fortnite?’ And it kind of became a meme for us, like we were imagining us all playing as a squad with identical Pam skins. It was just a silly fun idea.
Then someone asked me if I would collab with Fortnite and I mentioned the Pam thing. There’s nothing official in the works or anything like that, but yea we would find it amusing and fun if we were able to play as Pam (or any other Stardew character, really) someday.
Epic Games spokesperson Alex Fong declined to comment.
Update: Epic declined to comment.
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The Peregrine lunar lander likely didn’t make it to the Moon because of a valve failure.
According to Astrobotic’s post-mission report:
After an extensive review of the events before, during, and after Peregrine’s mission, the board concluded that the most likely cause of Peregrine’s anomaly was the failure of a singular helium pressure control valve, called PCV2, within the propulsion system.
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Google Play now lets you download up to three app updates simultaneously.
If you try to download more than three updates at a time, you’ll see a “Pending” status, 9to5Google reports.
Google started allowing multiple full app downloads earlier this year; at the time, you were limited to just two downloads, but 9to5Google says that’s been bumped up to three.
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A horror-ible update.
The Resident Evil games on Apple’s App Store now require that you have an internet connection when you start them up, Capcom says. That’s a shame if you’re one of the reportedly few people who have bought Resident Evil 4, 7, or Village for your Apple device.
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X is working on a video conferencing platform.
Given the past history of X Spaces, I’m sure it will be easy to trust X Conference for your next important business meeting. (Well, assuming X Conference is released publicly.)