‘The Sims 4’ won’t constrain players by gender

A new update for The Sims 4 brings diversity into the mix. Electronic Arts and Maxis now allows players to customize their characters in any way they like, regardless of gender. You can now choose the kind of walk style, tone of voice, and other physical features of your Sim without being restricted by supposed gender. It opens up things like clothing and accessories to everyone without it being classified as male or female. According to a press release from Maxis, “We want to make sure players can create characters they can identify with or relate to through powerful tools that give them influence over a Sims gender, age, ethnicity, body type, and more.” The update is already up for download.

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Facebook now lets you respond with video comments

Facebook is bringing in another way to respond to comments: video. The idea was prototyped early this year at Facebook’s 50^th Hackathon but has been refined by the Facebook team afterwards to become an official feature. Being able to make video responses is available to all users around the world. You can post them as replies to posts by people and pages and also within groups and events. It works on desktop web, iOS, and Android. Just tap on the camera icon next to the comment field and share your video comment.

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Twitter experiments with putting Moments in main timeline

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Hoping to get more eyeballs on its Moments feature, Twitter is testing out putting a few of these “moments” on your timeline. Some users who have access to Moments have spotted this feature in their timeline as a carousel with five trending topics on it. If one of the topics interests you, you can tap on that and then the app will bring you to Moments. Of course, since they’re testing it out with a number of users, we can’t say you’ll be seeing the feature. But if Twitter deems it a success, they might bring it on as an official feature soon. Moments is designed by Twitter to help you see what latest stories are unfolding in your area and around the world.

Source: The Next Web

Apple Pay tipped to be coming to web purchases

If recent rumours are to be believed, Apple Pay won’t just be limited to select iOS devices but will be coming to online purchases as well, which means taking the fight to PayPal. It’s said Apple might unveil this plan at the upcoming WWDC 2016. It isn’t known though if it’ll work with devices that don’t have fingerprint sensors, such as desktops, or if it’ll only work with the Safari browser. At the moment Apple Pay only works with iPhone 6/6s, iPhone 6/6s Plus, iPhone SE, both iPad Pro models, iPad mini, and Apple Watch, because it makes use of your fingerprint to verify the purchase or your heartbeat, which is the case with the Apple Watch. There have been recent rumours that Apple is also releasing a new MacBook with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor, so that could answer that concern. We’ll just have to wait a few weeks if there is any truth to the speculation.

Source: Digital Trends