Musk wants to revive Vine

Elon Musk wants to bring back Vine (and polled users agree)

The rumour mill and shakeup surrounding Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition continues to churn. This time around, Twitter's new owner wants to bring back its looping video app Vine. Axios cites multiple sources that Musk has ordered engineers at the company to reboot Vine before the year ends. He's tasked engineers to look at the app's old code base, which hasn't been maintained or updated since the service shut down in 2016.

According to one source, this would need "a lot of work." A tweet from a former Vine staffer, Sara Beykpour, advises it would be better for them to start over. And it is sound advice with possible API changes, security concerns, and other elements that need maintenance. 

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Twitter wants to charge US$20 per month for verification

One of Elon Musk's first projects for Twitter includes an ultimatum. He wants verification (a.k.a. the blue check) to be a monthly subscription. And he wants to fold that into Twitter Blue, which he wants to significantly bump up the price from US$4.99 to US$19.99. With this plan, verified users have 90 days to subscribe to keep their verification.

Employees were reportedly told they needed to meet the November 7 deadline to launch the feature or get fired. Musk mentioned before his acquisition that he wanted to change how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. And it looks like this is how it wants to handle it for now.

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Samsung's expected to release One UI 5.0 for Galaxy S21 FE soon

Most of Samsung's recent flagships have already gotten the stable version of the Android 13-based One UI 5.0. Now, we're expecting the update to make its way to the Galaxy S21 FE. It wasn't part of the beta test, but we're expecting to see it soon. 

Traces of One UI 5.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE was spotted on Samsung's servers, suggesting the update should come next month. We haven't gotten confirmation yet of this news. But we hope to have updates soon. Samsung promised at least four major updates for its flagship devices, so this would mark the first for the S21 FE.

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'Sonic Prime' to debut on Netflix on Dec. 15

Netflix has a multiverse Sonic series. And it's debuting on the platform on December 15. The streaming service also shared details about Sonic Prime's story. "It's the Sonic you know and love until an incredible twist thrusts Sonic into a new adventure featuring a reinvented cast and Sonic like you've never seen him before, where the fate of the multiverse rests in his gloved hands," according to the Sonic Prime synopsis. 

The series debuts around a month after Sega's Breath of the Wild-like Sonic game comes out (a.k.a. Sonic Frontiers). It's also not the last Sonic material to expect. There's an Idris Elba starred Knuckles series coming to Paramount Plus and a third Sonic the Hedgehog film in the works.

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