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WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Rip and Digitize DVDs for Free You might think that in 2020, no-one needs a DVD ripper application. But It’s more important now than it was in the past. If you have dozens of movies on DVD, now is the time to create a digital copy of the movies and keep them backed-up and safe before all the laptops and desktop no longer support DVD drives. While there are many DVD ripping software on the market, not all of them are good....

BookMyShow Lays Off 270 Employees as Pandemic Shuts Down Theaters, Stadiums Home-grown ticketing company,BookMyShow, has laid off or furloughed 270 employees– around 18 percent of its total workforce – because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In an official blog post on Thursday, the company’s founder and CEO, Ashish Hemrajani, said that the decision was being taken because of the effect the pandemic has had on the consumption of out-of-home entertainment....

ByteDance Wants to Move TikTok Team out of China: Report Last week, Disney’s Kevin Mayer became the CEO of ByteDance-owned popular short-form video platform TikTok. As reported first byReuters, this is apparentlyone of ByteDance’s steps to move the decision-making authorities and research team from China. According to a recentReutersreport citing industry sources familiar with the matter, ByteDance has been making moves to shift its teams from China as part of a new strategy....

Google Is Bringing 6 New Games to Stadia Pro in June Google’s cloud gaming service,Stadiahas been around for a few months now and the service’s Pro tier offers a couple of free games every month. Last month, Stadia added a total of four new games to the mix. This included the incredibly popular battle royale game, PUBG. Stadia also saw theaddition of DOOM 64. Now, the company has announced that it will add 6 new games to Stadia Pro in June....

Google’s ‘Sodar’ AR Tool Will Help You Follow Social Distancing Guidelines Want to ensure that you’re practicing social distancing in the time of COVID? Now there’s an app for that! Well, it’s technically not an app, but a browser tool that will help you follow social distancing guidelines. Called ‘Sodar‘, it is an augmented reality (AR) software by Google, and is expected to help users follow social distancing rules when they’re out and about....

Instagram Starts Showing Two-Row Stories to Select Users Are you someone who hops onto Instagram every so often to check out new Stories? Is it a hassle scrolling through the single-file carousel looking for a particular story? Well, Instagram is currently testing aminor redesign of the Stories carouselto let you see updates from more users in one go. The single row of scrollable Instagram Stories has now been replaced with a two-row carousel, as seen in the images below....

Mi Box 4K Review: The TV Box You Were Looking For For the longest time, I’ve held out on buying a smart TV to replace the 43-inch plasma TV I have at home for the last 7 odd years. I just couldn’t justify discarding a perfectly good TV just to get the latest one available, and so I never did it. Plus, there’s the value proposition. However, anAndroid TVbox? That has always sounded like a good idea to me....