5 h. ago Skype is permanently shutting down as Microsoft forces people to use Teams instead

Microsoft has announced it is shutting down the popular video calling service Skype. Its 2 billion users will no longer be able to access their accounts starting in May 2025.

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5 h. ago Skype shutting down for good as Microsoft axes video calling service to focus on Teams

Skype was used by 300million people every month.

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6 h. ago Microsoft announces it's permanently shutting down major service used by 2bn people in shock move

Microsoft has announced it is shutting down the popular video calling service Skype. Its 2 billion users will no longer be able to access their accounts starting in May 2025.

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6 h. ago Skype to be axed by Microsoft as video calling app users handed urgent message

Microsoft has revealed Skype will soon not be available as its users are urged to instead to log into Microsoft Teams instead to stay connected with existing chats and contacts

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16 h. ago Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’

After dodging toxic fans, ‘nepo baby’ jibes and her own projectile vomit, the 25-year-old has just spent eight weeks at UK No 1. She explains why she’s now writing about our dark, uncertain futureOn a video call from a hotel room in Hamburg, Gracie Abrams is expounding on the virtues of decoupling yourself from social media and living a life offline. “You can literally do so much when you’re not scrolling!” she enthuses. “You can retain more information; everything gets lighter. You have a greater capacity to be more present, to be there for the people in your life, to read a book that’s going to inspire your next album, or go on a hike and breathe air instead of sitting in a dark room on fucking Instagram. I’m doing lots of, like, tactile stuff, staying off social media,” she adds. “Needlepoint and shit like that. I’m just trying to make things to have some tangible evidence of having lived this year.”Of course, this is nothing the world hasn’t heard before: we’re well used to bein...

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39 h. ago Former Trump hotel chief calls president’s wild Gaza video ‘scary’ dictator ‘theater’

‘I think he does love the image that it portrays of him, as some sort of savior,’ said Jack O’Donnell

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64 h. ago Police video and 911 call play key role in trial of man accused in Palestinian American boy's murder

A harrowing 911 call, police video and other crime scene evidence are expected to play a key role as the murder and hate crime trial for an Illinois landlord accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy continues Wednesday

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67 h. ago ‘Superpod’ of more than 2,000 dolphins frolic off California coast: ‘like flying eyebrows’

Boat tour captures video of Northern right whale dolphins, Pacific white-sided dolphins and light grey baby calvesMore than 2,000 dolphins gathered off the California coast to form a “superpod”, gliding and breaching the clear, aquamarine waters off Monterey Bay.The superpod included Northern right whale dolphins and Pacific white-sided dolphins, as well as light grey baby calves. Evan Brodsky, a captain and videographer with the private boat tour company Monterey Bay Whale Watch, captured a video of the dolphins, and his company shared it on Facebook, calling the spectacle “mind-blowing”. Continue reading...

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