Twitch to add 350+ new tags for 'Your Community' tab

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Twitch will be rolling out soon over 350 new tags related to gender, race, sexual orientation, ability, mental health, nationality, and more. The tags will include transgender, Black, veteran, Vtuber, disabled, and more. According to Twitch, it will take out references to ally from the LGBTQIA+ tag and create a standalone ally tag. The additional tags won't change who the platform's tagging system works but will give creators more choices.

Twitch explained why it took them so long to implement the feature in the blog post announcing these new tags. When it introduced tags in 2018, the platform wanted to give creators a way to describe their content and not who they were or what they stood for. But their team realized that viewers love Twitch because of the creators and "what they care about... and the communities they have built." 

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Samsung won't drop Tizen for Android TV

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A future update will bring Apple Music's Lossless audio to both the HomePod and HomePod mini. According to a newly published Apple Support document, the speakers won't get the feature at launch. Still, they will get Spatial Audio at launch, a Dolby Atmos feature that offers an immersive, three-dimensional experience that makes it seem like music is all around the listener. 

Apple Music Lossless will come in two tiers and will be free for subscribers. The "Standard" Lossless tier has audio up to 48kHz, while the "Hi-Ress Lossless" has audio between 48kHz and 192kHz. The latter requires external equipment like a USB digital-to-analog converter. 

Source: MacRumors