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Premier League on Sky will come with optional FIFA game crowd noise Whenthe Premier League returnson 17 June there will be one thing missing: a physical crowd. To combat the eerie quiet of empty football stadia, Sky Sports has announced that it is working with FIFA to bring optional crowd sounds part lifted from the FIFA football video games. In a press release Sky Sports said that EA Sports had worked to make team-specific, bespoke chants and crowd sounds that “replicate the vibrant atmosphere of Premier League clashes, so fans don’t miss out on the noise that goes with the action,” depending on the teams you’re watching and what is happening in the game, just like on FIFA....

Sonos S2 app: Upgrades, supported products & S1 compatibility Sonos has officially launched its new S2 app and while that might be a very simple software upgrade, compatibility issues means that customers have various options when it comes to supported products and whether to use the S1 app simultaneously. For a while, itlooked like older Sonos products were going to be obsoleteand effectively bricked. However, a strong response from the user base and mediaprompted a swift u-turn from Sonos....

Twitter fact check labelling ‘5G corona’ tweets with mixed results Twitter has started to label some tweets that mention both 5G and coronavirus, most with the phrase ‘5G corona’ in them. While it’s good the company is trying to stop the spread of misinformation about the falsehood of 5G causing the virus, the rule has turned up some worryingly wrong opinions (viaBusiness Insider): Clicking on the fact check label takes you to a page titled “No, 5G isn’t causing coronavirus” that presents you with verified journalistic sources....

Twitter will reintroduce the blue tick profile verification system Twitter has confirmed that it will relaunch its verification system (the blue tick) after the reliable reverse engineering ofJane Manchun Wonguncovered evidence of it in a future build of the desktop version of the app: Twitter is working on “Request Verification” 👀 (I’m not Twitter employee. I’m not tech support)pic.twitter.com/ED58QsD7kM TechCrunchreported that Twitter had confirmed the evidence was correct. Users will, as before, have to go through a step by step process to request verification....

Will the next OnePlus phone be called the OnePlus Nord? OnePlus hasn’t put out what we’d call a mid-range phone since the OnePlus X in 2015 but persistent rumours say that is about to end with theOnePlus Z. That was until new information surfaced that OnePlus might forgo the lettering route and call the handset the OnePlus Nord. That’s according toPhone Arenawho reported OnePlus’trademark applicationfor ‘Nord by OnePlus’. If they call the phone that, then maybe the company has lost its head....