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    Add a fancy background AND a hat to your Meet call.

    Google is going to let you combine multiple video effects when you’re on a Meet call, as detailed in a blog post. The company is also introducing AI-powered studio lighting and audio quality, but those two features are only available for people using the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.

    One more new feature: Google will let you join Meet calls on mobile without having a Google account.

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    Jay Peters
    Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta’s board of directors.

    She won’t stand for re-election to the board this May, she said in a post on Facebook, though she will serve as an “advisor.”

    “Serving as Facebook’s — and then Meta’s — COO for 14 ½ years and a board member for 12 years has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” Sandberg writes. “I will always be grateful to Mark for believing in me and for his partnership and friendship.”

    Sandberg stepped down as COO in 2022.

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    Netflix is getting a bunch of classic movies.

    First up in the “Milestone Movies” collection are some films from 1974, including Blazing Saddles, The Great Gatsby, and Chinatown.

    Movies from 1984, 1994, 2004 will come to Netflix in April, July, and October, respectively, Netflix says in a press release.

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    Is this iPad add-on overkill?

    Take a look at Federico Viticci’s modded iPad Pro with an iPhone holder and stereo speakers, which he wrote about on MacStories.

    This would be overkill for me, but I’m a boring single-monitor person on my computer. I respect Viticci’s effort.

    A photo of Federico Viticci’s iPad setup.
    Image: MacStories
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    Jay Peters
    Baldur’s Gate 3 players on Xbox: update your console.

    Some BG3 players on Xbox have had to deal with lost saves, which is obviously frustrating in a game as massive as Larian’s hit RPG, but Microsoft says a new system update should fix things. Larian said last week the firmware update was coming.

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    Threads might let you save posts.

    That’s according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who regularly spots features in the works for apps like Threads and Instagram.

    I’m not much of a bookmarker myself, but if you are, I’m hoping for you that this feature comes out soon.

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    Jay Peters
    Substack now has a report button in its app.

    You can report posts and publications from the app, according to Substack update notes spotted by Chris Messina. (It appears you’ve been able to report things on the web for at least a few months.) But for people who are unhappy with Substack’s moderation policies, as Messina says, it might be too little, too late.