You can now use GIFs as your Tinder profile picture

Think a static Tinder profile photo is too bland? Well, you can use GIFs, if you’re on iOS, that is. The dating app is testing out this new feature here in Canada, Sweden, the US, UK, and many other countries. Tinder is calling it Loops and it is as the name suggests Loops a two-second clip of you doing something you love or showing off your personality. You can record a clip or use an existing video. If you want to use an existing video, all you need to do is tap on the “Add Media” button. Once you have that, select the part you want to loop and then add that to your profile. Easy-peasy.

‘Far Cry 5’ update adds photo mode

It took over three months but finally Far Cry 5 gets a photo mode. Title Update 8 brings the feature to the game, letting you pause at any point to take the shot you want. As Kotaku points out, it doesn’t have as many options as Assassin’s Creed: Origins’s photo mode but you at least get the basics. You can flip the camera around and even take a shot of your character (despite this being a first-person game). It also has focus and aperture adjustment and you can change the way the game world looks (like what time of day it is or whether any person or animal appears beside you. There are also filters to choose from. So far, this is the big feature to come with this update but there are also some bug fixes as well as new assets for the game’s online multiplayer mode, Far Cry Arcade.

Netflix tests out new ‘Ultra’ pricing tier

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Netflix might be trying out a new higher pricing tier that could affect existing plans. The streaming service is calling this new tier Ultra and it allows up to four devices to receive Ultra HD video and audio streaming at the same time. The existing subscriptions plans are Basic ($8.99), Standard ($10.99), and Premium ($13.99). Basic allows for one screen at a time; Standard allows for two; and Premium allows for four. The new plan, as seen tested in different countries, costs €16.99 in Italy (approx. CA$26). And with it in play, some users are seeing the Premium downgraded from four screens to two and Standard to just one display.

Not all subscribers will be seeing this test, though. According to Netflix spokeswoman Smita Saran, We continuously test new things at Netflix and these tests typically vary in length of time. In this case, we are testing slightly different price points and features to better understand how consumers value Netflix."

Source: CNET

Microsoft claims Outlook.com’s Dark Mode is coming ‘very soon’

The wait for Microsoft to bring Dark Mode into Outlook.com might be over soon. According to one team member working on the email client, this feature will be coming “very soon.” Microsoft first teased this for Halloween last year and it seems the company has been working on it these past few months. The delay is supposedly because of Microsoft’s “insistence that we deliver the best Dark Mode of any leading email client (you’ll understand when you see it, I guarantee).” The one they previewed at Halloween was said to be a prototype and still needed a lot of work before it was ready for a full release. Microsoft claims they have redesigned the code and colors “multiple times” and that they’re now in the final stretch of finishing this new theme.