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As of Nov. 8, Walmart+ members can get an onn. Roku smart TV for just $148 at Walmart during Walmart’s Black Friday Deals event.
SPECIAL BLACK FRIDAY PRICING: Walmart+ members can get an onn. Roku smart TV for just $148 during Walmart’s Black Friday Deals event. The discount pricing is available to paid Walmart+ members beginning at 12 p.m. ET on Nov. 8, and will be available to the general public beginning at 3 p.m. on Nov. 8.
This year, Walmart is offering early access to Black Friday deals to Walmart+ members, giving them a chance to grab the best savings before they’re gone. Walmart’s Black Friday Deals event features a wide range of discounts on everything from tech and home goods to toys and apparel. Whether you’re looking for a new TV, a cozy blanket, or the latest video game console, Walmart has you covered.
Speaking of TVs, Walmart+ members can get their hands on an onn. 50-inch Roku smart TV for just $148. That’s a pretty good deal considering similar TVs from other brands typically cost around $200 or more.
This TV has built-in Roku streaming capabilities, allowing you to access all your favorite streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+. Or you can watch via cable, satellite, or HDTV antenna. With a 4K Ultra HD resolution, you can enjoy sharp and vibrant visuals, making your movie nights and gaming sessions more immersive. Plus, with voice commands, you’ll never have to tediously enter your password with the remote again.
Unfortunately, new trial members aren’t eligible for this perk, so if you’re not already a Walmart+ member, you’ll need to sign up for a paid membership to enjoy these early access deals.
Grab this deal on a Roku smart TV while it’s still available.
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Elon Musk acquired Twitter in April 2022 and officially took over six months later. A lot has changed since Musk has been at the helm.
Gone are the days we used to sign into Twitter and share tweets. It’s now November 2023, more than a year since Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired the popular social media platform, and the cheery, avian blue-and-white icon got replaced with a dark insignia that simply says “X.”
Many users, including Mashable’s Chris Taylor, believe that Twitter — er, I mean “X” — has taken a turn for the worse. Others, on the other hand, find the rebrand to be refreshing. However, no matter where you stand, you can’t deny that there are some features stripped from the platform that we’ll all miss.
In July, Musk called X an “everything app,” but for an app that lets you do “everything,” there’s quite a lot we can no longer do.
Lurkers once had the luxury of sifting through Twitter without logging in or being a registered user.
Now, if you want to browse the social media platform, you have no choice but to sign into a Twitter account.
As Mashable’s Deputy UK Editor Sam Haysom mentioned in mid-September, quote tweets used to be easy to access during Twitter’s heyday.
Unfortunately, due to an irksome redesign, you have to take a few extra steps to see quote tweets. You must now click on the three-dot icon and tap on “View post engagements” before clicking on “Quotes.” Plus, X no longer tells you how many quote tweets a post has.
In late September, X announced that it’s sunsetting Circles, a feature that allowed users to pick and choose a subgroup of followers to receive specific posts.
In other words, with Twitter Circles, instead of tweeting to all of your followers, you could interact with a smaller crowd. Unfortunately, you can’t do that anymore.
Now, when you input a link into your tweet (e.g., an article), the headline will not be displayed. The Verge has a pretty good “before and after” picture that illustrates this frustrating new feature.
Musk, demonstrating his aptitude for crushing it at spelling bees, tweeted that he made this change to “improve the esthetics [sic].”
An analysis from The Markup discovered that X is throttling traffic from competitors, including Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack.
This report isn’t surprising considering the fact that Musk briefly banned links from Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and other rivals in December 2022.
Access to Twitter’s API used to be free, but as we reported in March, Musk is putting a price on it now — its cheapest package is a whopping $42,000 per month.
As a result, gaming platforms like Microsoft and Sony are terminating their integrations with X. In other words, gamers can no longer share their video game captures directly with Twitter / X.
As CNN puts it, Musk transformed the blue check from a status symbol to a badge of shame.
The blue check once authenticated influential accounts and high-profile figures, but now, Musk has eroded its value. Anyone can purchase a blue check by subscribing to X Premium. However, it’ll cost you $16 a month as of this writing.
This list is far from exhaustive — and it will continue to climb. Elon Musk said he will kill the block feature on X. Plus, Musk suggested that he may put X behind a paywall, too.
We can’t wrap our minds around Musk’s endgame for X, but as Mashable’s Matt Binder discovered, it’s not looking good for the Tesla CEO so far. Daily active users appear to be dwindling as we speak.
Nintendo is making a live-action “The Legend of Zelda” movie directed by Wes Ball and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad.
Nintendo has announced it is making a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie. Let the casting speculation begin.
The project has apparently been in the works for some time, with Maze Runner‘s Wes Ball already set to direct. The Legend of Zelda film will be co-produced by Nintendo’s Representative Director Shigeru Miyamoto and Arad Productions’ Chairman Avi Arad.
The founder and former CEO of Marvel Studios, Arad has been the producer on a long list of films such as Morbius, Uncharted, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. He was also executive producer on all three Tom Holland Spider-Man films.
“I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now with Avi Arad-san, who has produced many mega hit films,” Miyamoto wrote on Nintendo’s official X / Twitter account.
“I have asked Avi-san to produce this film with me, and we have now officially started the development of the film with Nintendo itself heavily involved in the production. It will take time until its completion, but I hope you look forward to seeing it.”
Deadline reports that the adaptation will be written by screenwriter Derek Connolly. Connolly has previously penned Jurassic World, Detective Pikachu, and co-wrote the story for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
No details have been released regarding whether the Legend of Zelda film will be based on any of the video games in the franchise, or if it will follow an original story. It will be co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with the latter also taking care of global theatrical distribution.
Nintendo’s Hollywood ambitions have likely been galvanised by the recent success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The video game adaptation earned $1.3 billion at the global box office, making it the second biggest animated film in history. It also made some pretty drastic changes to Mario’s iconic voice, demonstrating that audiences probably won’t be too put off if Legend of Zelda protagonist Link finally breaks his famous silence.
Sony is dropping X, formerly known as Twitter, integration from its PlayStation gaming consoles.
Yet another company has announced it will be removing X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, from its products. And this is a big one.
Sony has announced that it is terminating PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4’s X integrations this month. The removal of this feature will mean that PS4 and PS5 gamers will no longer be able to publish video game clips and other content directly from their consoles.
“As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles,” reads Sony’s statement, which was posted on Monday. “This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).”
PlayStation users will still be able to manually clip gameplay moments, transfer the content to their computer or mobile device, and then post the content from the X app from there. This isn’t as intuitive, but that is the workaround that Sony is recommending.
Sony did not say exactly why it was removing PlayStation’s X integrations. However, the company is not the first to do so. Sony competitor Microsoft similarly removed the same integration from its Xbox video game console in April. Microsoft also announced the removal of its Twitter integration from its online advertising platform that same month as well.
Other companies, however, like the customer service live-chat company Intercom, did explain why it was removing Twitter integrations when they also made the change in April: Elon Musk’s changes to the Twitter API. Namely, the reason was the exorbitant fee Musk decided to charge for API access, which had previously been free.
Earlier this year, Musk depreciated Twitter’s API program and instituted a new model that charged exorbitant fees for access. At the time, many apps that utilized Twitter’s API needed to shut down as its founders discovered it would cost a minimum of $42,000 per month under the social media service’s new API model.
While we do not yet know for sure, Sony likely came to the same conclusion that many other companies also did: X’s API wasn’t worth the cost.
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