IT&Software
Amazon hikes Prime membership price for monthly subscribers
Canadians are exempt from the monthly fee hike because all of Prime memberships in Canada are of the annual variety, the company confirmed to CBC News in an email. Amazon doesn't disclose how many Prime members it has, but it has had success with the program because Prime members tend to buy more things on the site, more often, because shipping is quick and low-priced. [Full Article...]
Bayek's Story Continues in Assassin's Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones
Ubisoft has shared the trailer for the upcoming DLC story expansion of Assassin's Creed Origins . The Assassin Brotherhood has grown in strength and clashes against the occupying Roman army in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, a new area in the game. [Full Article...]
Vivo X20 Plus Under Display Fingerprint Variant Launch Set for January 24
Last week Vivo had showcased the world's first working under-display fingerprint sensor at the CES 2018 . That's what the first device with an in-display fingerprint sensor is called. Other rumored specifications on the handset will include 4GB of RAM and 128GB of built in storage, the handset is also expected to feature a microSD card slot for extra storage and it will come with high end... [Full Article...]
Apple announces support for 'The Malala Fund' to empower girls' education
Apple has become the first Laureate partner for the Malala Fund. It also wants to extend funding programmes to India and Latin America, with the goal of broadening education opportunities to more than 100,000 girls. As of fall 2017, the 20-year-old is studying at the University of Oxford. Malala and her father Ziauddin founded the Malala Fund to empower young girls by providing them quality edu... [Full Article...]
Google could soon start selling audiobooks on Play Store
We don't have any estimated timeframe for the launch of the audiobooks on Google Play Store. The first audiobook purchase will be 50% off and Google has started advertising audiobooks. Fans will be hoping that a dedicated section of the audiobooks would provide them with more options and variety to choose from. Since Google is the one that's in charge of Play Services, no one should be shock... [Full Article...]
Google Doodle rediscovers Russian film legend Sergie Eisenstein on his 120th birthday
Eisenstein's films are politically loaded and they galvanised cinema of the former Soviet Union and beyond with their bold narrative approach, stylistic flourishes, dramatic use of cinematography, editing and music, and marriage between ideology and the craft of filmmaking. [Full Article...]
Apple is building a new US campus and hiring 20000 people
Revealing the news in a press release entitled 'Apple accelerates U.S. investment and job creation', the scheme will also look to create a brand new campus - powered entirely by "green energy" - to house the 20,000 or so fresh workforce in, all by 2023. [Full Article...]
Facebook to Have Users Decide What Is 'High Quality' News
As a result of the changes, people can expect the level of news in the news feed to drop from 5 percent to 4 percent, Zuckerberg said. And we're starting next week with trusted sources. "Policing this is going to be a nightmare for Facebook and publishers are going to go batty trying to game it", Jessica Lessin, founder and editor-in-chief of the technology news service The Information, . [Full Article...]