Skype now supports group calls of up to 50 people

Skype is catching up with its competitors by expanding the capacity of group calls to 50 people instead of 25. The service has been testing it out this feature since last month, but now it’s rolling out to all users. Skype is also adding a notification feature for these calls. Instead of it ringing your device, you could get a notification prompt for a group call. It’s also still possible to call people individually to join said group. Or if you have a call with less than 25 members, you can call everyone, if the notifications aren’t enough to get them to jump into the conversation.

Twitter tests out labels for conversation threads

Twitter is testing out a new way for its users to make sense of the threads. The social network has added labels—which include author, mention, and follow. This is said to make it easier to prevent spam as well as adds some context and clarity to a jumbled thread. Some users claim these are distracting and unnecessary, but Twitter seems adamant to try out new things and find ways to make it easier to track conversations on its service. What do you think? Do you find this useful?

We want it to be easy to follow and join conversations on Twitter. We’re testing out labels on replies: author, mentioned, and following. If you see them, let us know what you think! pic.twitter.com/L228sMbh75

— Twitter (@Twitter) April 4, 2019

Source: Engadget

Netflix confirms season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’

We’ve heard about this a few days ago but now Netflix has confirmed that The Umbrella Academy is getting a second season. The main cast—which includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min—are all coming back to reprise their roles. It’ll be a 10 one-hour episode season, but we don’t know yet when the new episodes will drop. However, production will begin this summer. Steve Blackman will be returing as showrunner and executive producer. My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who is the creator of the comic series the show is based on, will be coming back as co-executive producer.

The Umbrella Academy just got confirmed for Season 2, and if anything happens to Five we riot. pic.twitter.com/zoMkmsNwK2

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) April 2, 2019

Source: Engadget

Audi teases AI:me self-driving city car concept

Volkswagen isn’t the only one with a self-driving concept that will be debuted at the Shanghai Motor Show. Audi will be showing off the AI:me. The car maker teased a sketch of the car and describes it as a “vision of an automated driving compact car for the megacities of tomorrow.”

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