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Virgin’s Hyperloop One Successfully Completes Its First Passenger Test Run In a recent, what we can call, a milestone-event, a Hyperloop system has successfullycarried its first passengersas part of an initial test run of the upcoming, futuristic transportation system. The test run was conducted by Virgin Hyperloop, the US-based company that has beenplanningto bringthe magnetic mode of transportation to Indiain the coming years. Now, Hyperloop, if you don’t know, is an upcoming mode of high-speed transportation that aims to utilize the power of magnetic-levitation to deliver airplane-like speeds....

Amazon’s GameOn App Makes It Easy for Players to Share Mobile Gameplay Clips Amazonhas launched GameOn, a new service aimed at mobile gamers to record and share gameplay videos. Users can share game highlights, tips & tricks, and participate in weekly challenges through GameOn. With GameOn, you cancreate short videos ranging somewhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. You can also use the front camera to record intro/outro as a way to personalize the gameplay clip....

Apple AirPods Studio Headphones Design Shows up in Latest iOS 14.3 Beta Apple is known to have been working on its own pair of headphones,reportedly called AirPods Studio, for quite some time now. We’ve already seen some renders and leaked product images over the past couple of months. And today, with the rollout of the first iOS 14.3 beta, the folks at9to5MacandMacRumorshave spotted an icon that gives us a brief look at what Apple’s upcoming headphones will look like....

Apple MacBook Pro with M1 vs Apple MacBook Air with M1: Which One to Buy? In more ways than one, the Apple M1 chip has kickstarted an all-new era for Macs. An era where Apple computers will have a significant lead over rivals – in terms of efficiency and performance. Add to that the already robust macOS and you are looking at a computer that seems to be a runaway choice, especially for those who admire the deep integration between software and hardware....

Disney+ Hits 73.7 Million Subscribers Globally; India Accounts For 25% of All Users At its Q4 earnings call earlier this week, The Walt Disney Company announced that its streaming service,Disney+, hadgarnered 73.7 million subscribersglobally as of October 3rd. It is an increase of over 16.2 million from the previous quarter when the service was said to have had 57.5 million subscribers. Overall, the company’s streaming portfolio, which includes the likes of Hulu and ESPN+, now has more than 120 million premium users, the company said....

Facebook Rolling out Vanish Mode on Instagram and Messenger Having announced vanish mode alongsideFacebook Messenger’s major redesignin September, the company is now rolling out the feature on Messenger and Instagram (as they are now integrated). Vanish mode, as the name suggests, is anephemeral messaging modethat lets users send disappearing messages that are not saved in the chat history. Messages sent through vanish mode will disappear after you’ve seen them and leave the chat....

Firefox 84 Supports Multiple Picture-in-Picture Windows on Desktop Mozilla has long offered the option to view videos in Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode on itsFirefox browseron the desktop. The company is now preparing to add the ability to let users simultaneously watch multiple videos in PiP mode. FirstspottedbyTechdows, Firefox’s development team has nowaddedmultiple PiP video support in the latest Firefox 84 Nightly build. The feature is not present by default and you will need to change a preference to make it functional....