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Google has announced several new features for Google Play aimed at improving how users discover, purchase, and play paid games across both mobile and PC platforms. The updates introduce game trials, cross-platform purchases, and new community features designed to enhance the overall gaming experience.

Once again, YouTube appears to be testing a change that could restrict access to its popular playback speed feature to only those who subscribe to YouTube Premium. The experiment was first spotted in a screenshot shared by a Reddit user showing a prompt requiring a Premium subscription to adjust video playback speed, a function that has historically been available for free.

That's right, it seems that YouTube is testing out yet another kind of subscription service. This time, the company is testing a two-person Premium Plan in select markets, including India, France, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Soon, we may be able to get 5G connectivity even in the world’s most remote locations thanks to a joint effort by Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson, US chip company Qualcomm and French aerospace company Thales. Allowing users to wirelessly access super fast internet and low latency wirelessly where ever there are in the world, this new technology seeks to utilise low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

During the antitrust trial between Apple and Epic, there were a few documents from Apple which revealed that iMessage was not made available to Android devices even though the app did not run into incompatibility issues. This is largely due to the orders made by Apple executives to keep iMessage exclusive to the iOS platform, making it harder for existing iOS users to migrate to Android-powered smartphones.