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Google has announced that YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium have all launched in India. The services join Google Play Music and Google Play Movies, which arrived in India in 2017. India consumes a tremendous amount of music on YouTube already. A Nielsen report from 2018 says YouTube …

Elon Musk’s plan to build express-route tunnels in Las Vegas received its first approval Tuesday, after the board of directors for the city’s Convention and Visitors Authority voted in favor of Musk’s Boring Company for a new people-mover project. The plan involves digging a loop of underground tunnels that could …

In October, The Verge reported on new conversational features Twitter was testing in an effort to promote friendlier interactions on the often hostile site. Some of those features are now becoming more widely available — but only within twttr, a new public beta app that the company is using to …

Google has posted another teaser for its event at the Game Developers Conference next week, inviting people to gather around as the company unveils its “vision for the future of gaming.” The company first announced the event last month, but the latest teaser puts it front and center on Google’s …

No one likes waiting to get their money, especially when you’re stuck waiting for PayPal to process it. Fortunately, PayPal is addressing that today with a new option that will let users instantly transfer funds to their bank account (for a small fee, of course), via TechCrunch. It’s essentially an …

If you want smooth gameplay without screen tearing and you want to experience the high frame rates that your Nvidia graphics card is capable of, Nvidia’s G-Sync adaptive sync tech, which unleashes your card’s best performance, is a feature that you’ll want in your next monitor. To get this feature, …

The White House wants $72.4 million to fund the establishment of Space Force headquarters, according to a statement released by the Department of Defense today. That’s far less than previous estimates for standing up the Space Force. Last September, a leaked memo signed by Secretary of the Air Force Heather …

Microsoft is planning to push notifications to Windows 7 users warning them about the upcoming end of support. The software giant will stop supporting Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020, and it will start warning consumers about this cutoff date next month. Microsoft’s end of support date means that Windows …

Netflix plans to make more interactive TV shows after Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the Choose Your Own Adventure-style program, found international success, Netflix product VP Todd Yellin said in Mumbai at a keynote presentation on Tuesday, as reported by Variety. “It’s a huge hit here in India, it’s a huge hit …

Over the weekend, Nintendo held its first competitive tournament for the surprise battle royale hit Tetris 99. The Tetris 99 Maximus Cup ran from March 8th until March 10th, and participants were tasked with playing — and winning — as many games as possible over that short span. Points were …