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GTA 6 Drops its First Trailer, Confirms 2025 Release on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
There is no doubt that Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is the most loved gaming application among everyone. The sixth edition of the game, GTA 6, is all set to be released and will have greater graphics and an improved experience than GTA 5. Rockstar Games was officially supposed to launch the trailer for the game on December 5, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. ET, as per the announcement from them on the 1st of December, but things got quite nasty as the one-minute and thirty-second trailer was leaked on the X platform.
However, the American video game company took quick action by suspending the account that leaked the trailer. After that, Rockstar Games officially launched the video on their YouTube site for viewers. The first GTA 6 teaser is now breaking YouTube audience records. Reportedly, the non-music video has amassed over 78 million views in a single day on YouTube. All these moves show the craze of the game, whose launch date is too far from now. Yes, you heard it right. GTA 6 will be arriving two years from now, that is, in 2025.
Experience a new world of Vice City in GTA 6:
The largest, most immersive Grand Theft Auto series to date, Grand Theft Auto VI takes players to the state of Leonida, home to Vice City’s neon-lit streets and beyond. Although Rockstar Games has previously stated that it is working on the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game, this is the first time we’ve heard any kind of information on what to anticipate. The trailer seems to confirm that the rumors about GTA VI, including a male and female protagonist, were true as well.
The female character seems to be an ex-con, and there are a number of videos in the game that resemble TikTok and Instagram Reel content, so it appears that there is some sort of in-game social media. In addition to the Leonida wetlands and a joke about Florida Man, the trailer showcases Vice City, Rockstar’s interpretation of Miami. All in all, the trailer looks no less than a live-action film. Rockstar Games said in a press release that Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X in 2025. As the debut approaches, Rockstar Games will likely disclose an official release date.
Google is continuously working towards the betterment of the Android ecosystem. It has brought several new features and innovations to its own designed applications, including Google Wallet, Google Maps, Google Messages, and many more. Now, with the latest development, the company is getting a new option in settings that lets you turn off the expressive animations.
Google Messages introduced expressive animation two months ago. Under this functionality, users get a cool animation feature that enables your still emoji to be expressed in an expressive way and makes the conversation more interesting. Now, with the latest development, if you don’t like this animation, you can also turn it off.
You can follow these simple steps to turn off the expressive animation: Navigate to the settings and then scroll down. Here you will find the new toggle option’show expressive animations’. Just tap it to turn it off.
The new option for turning off the animated expressiveness appeared with the latest Google Messenger beta 20240426_01_RC00, which indicates that the new changes are limited to those users who have already joined the beta program, while for other users it will take a while to expand this feature.
If you haven’t enrolled in the beta program and want to try this new option, you can apply for it now from the Google Play Store. Once you get registered, it will provide you with a new update immediately. Now you just need to install it and check for the option.
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ByteDance wants to kick off TikTok in the US market rather than selling it to an American firm
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, would have to shut down TikTok in the US market rather than sell it to an American firm. Following many assertions and statements for years, finally, it appears that ByteDance wants to ditch TikTok from the US market. Menahile, earlier reports significantly suggested that eventually TikTok will get banned in the US and was officially approved by the US House, Senate, and President of the US, Biden.
According to a source shared by Reuters via Android Police, ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, seems looking up to ditching TikTok in the US completely rather than selling it to an American firm, while after the official approval, ByteDance was given the last 270-day deadline that either the company needs to release TikTok from its ownership forever or completely stop TikTok in the US market.
ByteDance counts a small part of TikTok’s revenue, though:
Meanwhile, the company is currently eyeing over some other legal options, but if all the legal options proved unsuccessful, then it’s quite clear that TikTok would be leaving the US market forever. On the flip side, some sources also reveal that the highly engaging properties of TikTok are due to its core algorithms, while these core algorithms are the most essential section of ByteDance’s technology. Moreover, this ditching of TikTok in the US will not really impact ByteDance’s current operations in the US market, as the company accounts for a small part of revenue through the app.
Sources further added that last year, TikTok gained about 25% of its revenue from the US market, which significantly means that it could be a sudden decrement within the revenue stream. However, ByteDance’s dedicated app, Douyin, which is certainly a Chinese version of TikTok, Also, no American firm is willing to pay billions to acquire TikTok without its core algorithms. Meanwhile, all these factors significantly indicate that if the legal efforts proved to be a failure, TikTok would have to leave the US market for sure.
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).