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WhatsApp has recently been improving the groups experience for its users. It has added some new features such as group descriptions, a new catch up feature, and protection for people who are added to groups they have left repeatedly. The Facebook-owned company today announced that it’s adding a one-way broadcast messages feature to groups.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new group setting which will allow only group administrations to send messages to a group. No other person in the group will be able to send a message when the administrator has this feature enabled.

The company acknowledges that the groups feature is used by many people for important announcements and information such as parents and teachers at school, non-profit organizations, and community centers. They can enable this feature and rest assured that no one else in the group will be able to flood other members with messages that may not be relevant to the purpose of the group.

WhatsApp competitor Telegram already offers this functionality. It lets users create groups or channels. The former are for conversations where different people can contribute while channels are meant only for one-way broadcast messages.

The Facebook-owned service is essentially introducing channels with this feature. Group admins can enable this feature from “Group Info,” by tapping Group Settings > Send Messages and selecting “Only Admins” in the latest version of the app.

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Instagram has seen a lot of success with the Stories feature that it pinched from Snapchat with more people actually using the feature on Instagram than they do on the ephemeral messaging app. Stories are front and center in the Instagram app as they’re displayed in a bar above the feed. It appears that the Facebook-owned service wants people to interact with Stories more as it’s now testing a fixed Stories bar in the app.

The Stories bar normally stays at the top and doesn’t follow you down the feed but The Verge has noted that Instagram is now testing a persistent approach which will see the Stories bar follow you down the feed.

Some of the over 400 million people that use Instagram Stories on a daily basis might like this change but many others won’t. They might find it annoying to look at the Stories bubble no matter how far down they go in their feed.

Instagram only seems to be testing this change with a small number of users at this point in time. The company confirmed to the scribe that “We’re always testing ways to improve the experience on Instagram and make it easier to share any moment with the people who matter to you,” but didn’t say if it’s planning to make this a permanent thing.

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Xbox Live Gold subscribers get a handful of new titles every month as part of their subscription. Many would have been waiting to find out the games that Microsoft will offer them next month and they will be delighted to know that the company has now revealed the Xbox Games with Gold for July 2018. The free titles are offered to subscribers on both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One.

Xbox Live Gold subscribers on Xbox One actually get four free titles every month as part of this subscription because the games offered to members with an Xbox 360 are backward compatible with the current-gen console.

Assault Android Cactus is a twin-stick shooter will be available for download on the Xbox One from July 1-31. The co-op puzzler Death Squared will be available to subscribers on the Xbox One between July 16th and August 15th.

Online competitive playing game Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown will be offered to Xbox 360 owners who subscribe to Xbox Live Gold from July 1st to July 15th. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction with its single-player campaign and co-op campaign will be available for the Xbox 360 from July 16th through July 31st.

Both of these Xbox 360 titles are backward compatible which means that they will also be available for free in the aforementioned periods for Xbox One owners.

Xbox Games With Gold For July 2018 Revealed , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Timmy Kinner is in custody after allegedly carrying out an attack in Boise that injured multiple children and adults.

I loved every single episode of Futurama when it was on the air, and have watched most of the episodes at least twice since they first ran. Matt Groening’s animated sci-fi comedy may not be making new episodes anymore, but that doesn’t mean you can’t show your love for the series every day. This replica of the Planet Express ship should serve as a great reminder.

I can imagine tiny versions of Fry, Leela, Bender, Professor Farnsworth, Hermes, Zoidberg, and Amy flying around the universe making same day deliveries in this miniature Master Series Planet Express ship. The ship is a perfect replica of the one on the show, and features lots of neat details.

The 12″ long model even lights up at the push of a button, with LED illumination of the cockpit, portholes, and rocket exhaust pipes. Quantum Mechanix are the guys behind this awesome collectible, and they know a thing or two about making great toys and replicas.

And here’s the good news, everyone! You can buy one today over at ThinkGeek, and it won’t break the bank either, since it’s priced at just $59.99. How could you NOT afford to buy one?