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Apple’s HomePod smart speaker is reportedly getting a number of new features in an upcoming update, including the ability to (finally) make and receive calls.

iGeneration reported on the iOS 12 update, which is currently in public beta, meaning there may still be more to come to Apple devices as the update is finalised.

The calling feature is likely

To celebrate and coincide with the grand finals of the Overwatch League, Blizzard is making the game free to play for all-comers this weekend.

And when we say this weekend, we mean a long weekend, starting on Thursday, July 26 at 11am PDT in the US (7pm in the UK, 4am July 27 AEST in Australia), running through until Monday, July 30 up until the

Snap is closing its peer-to-peer payment service, Snapcash. The feature, which is built into Snapchat, will shut down on August 30.

Eagle-eyed teen Ishan Agarwal spotted a deprecation message in the code of Snapchat's Android app, and the company later confirmed to TechCrunch that Snapcash is on borrowed time.

"Snapcash was our first product created