Calm launches family plan for six people

Calm

If you want your meditation and mindfulness practice to extend to your family and other loved ones, you can now avail yourself of Calm's new family plan. It supports up to six accounts. In the US, it costs US$99.99 a year (around CA$125). As with family plans on other services, each profile will remain private to each user. So, sessions, stats, check-ins, and additional personal information of the individual users won't be viewable to other members.

The plan gives you access to Calm's whole content library, including gratitude and mood check-ins, sleep stories, hundreds of guided meditations, and more. Calm decided to add this tier after receiving feedback from its users. It was supposedly the top requested feature from the app's users.

Source: Mashable

Update on Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9:17PM by Nicole Batac

The family plan costs $109.99 in Canada

Twitter for iOS now lets you search within user profiles

Twitter for iOS finally rolls out a new search button on every user profile. This search option is visible in the top right corner of a user's profile. Before this update, you had to manually search for tweets from a user through the main search tab. And you needed to type out "from:" before a user's name and then search for the tweet you want.

This feature is also accessible in your profile. So, if you're looking to surface a specific tweet of yours, this is an easy way to do just that.

Source: 9to5Mac

Netflix's gaming service most likely to offer individual games on iOS

Netflix will most likely need to list each game it's offering on its gaming service as individual apps on the App Store to adhere to Apple's rules, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The streaming service won't be able to offer an all-in-one experience, as Apple's updated guidelines prevent the app from making it onto the store.

Netflix Games currently operates this way on Android. In areas where the service is being tested, users can browse games on offer via the Netflix app, but they'll be redirected to the Google Play Store to download the apps. And this approach gives us a look at how Netflix might implement its game service on iOS. It is a workable solution, but as Gurman pointed out, it's not an approach that will put Netflix Games "in the best position to succeed."

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How K-12 schools can protect against the next pandemic

By Marshal Sterio 

Lingering questions about COVID-19 and the rapid rise of the Delta variant have hung an ominous cloud over the start of the 2021-22 school year. Schools are debating mask policies, whether or not to require faculty to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, and some are even considering a continuation of remote learning practices developed over the first 18 months of the pandemic. So just how can schools keep their students and faculty safe this year and beyond?

According to the CDC, it all starts with encouraging vaccination. Children as young as 12 can now receive the Pfizer vaccine, so a large portion of the K-12 population is eligible for vaccination. Many colleges and universities are requiring students to have proof of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to return to campus, and the Los Angeles Unified School District is one of the first K-12 school districts to do the same. How many other districts follow suit remains to be seen; but regardless of whether or not your school requires the shot, there are other strategies to employ that will make your campus a safer place to be.

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