Amaya Toman Two years, spent in the middle of a global pandemic, have undoubtedly been difficult for almost everyone. The management of Microsoft is very well aware of this, which is why it has decided to pay its employees a rather generous one-time "pandemic bonus". In addition to this news, our roundup of the events of the past day will also talk about a new feature in WhatsApp or the successful auction of Super Mario 64.
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Microsoft pays its employees a "pandemic bonus"
Microsoft plans to pay its employees worldwide a "pandemic bonus" of $1500 this year. On Friday, the server The Verge reported about it, Microsoft communicated this news in one of its internal reports. The aforementioned bonus should be paid to all employees below the level of corporate vice president who started their work at Microsoft before October 31 of this year. Those who work part-time or for an hourly wage in the company are also entitled to a bonus. A spokesperson for Microsoft said that the payment of the mentioned bonus should be one of the symbols of appreciation of the way in which the company's employees were able to pull themselves together during an unusually difficult year. "We are proud to be able to honor our employees with a one-time cash gift," a company spokesperson said in an email to CNET. 175 employees work for Microsoft worldwide. Microsoft is not the only company that has rewarded its employees in this way - Facebook, for example, gave its employees a bonus of $508 to support working from home.
Super Mario game sold at auction for $1,5 million
Keeping your old games packed can sometimes be very beneficial. A few days ago, for example, a boxed copy of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 game console was sold for a respectable $1,56 million. This happened as part of the auction in the auction house Heritage Auction, and it also broke the record, which until now was held by a copy of the game Legend of Zelda, which was auctioned for 870 thousand dollars. In addition to the aforementioned Super Mario or Zelda, for example, a copy of the game Super Mario Bros. has been auctioned off in recent years. for 114 thousand dollars, the game Super Mario Bros. 3 for $156 or the game Super Mario Bros. for 660 thousand dollars. But it's not just games that have been on the rise in auctions of this type lately. For example, Pokémon cards, which enjoy great popularity in various auctions, are also gaining in value. Auction server eBay has even announced that it is introducing a special feature on its app to make it easier to scan Pokemon cards.
WhatsApp expands the possibilities of working with photos
Every WhatsApp user has surely complained at one time or another about how the quality of photos and videos is affected in the respective application, when some details are often blurred or reduced in quality. The creators of WhatsApp are apparently well aware of this shortcoming, so they are preparing a new feature for users that should help solve this problem. In the foreseeable future, users should be able to set the highest possible quality for shared media so that the recipient of photos or videos is not deprived of any detail. The WABetaInfo server informed about the upcoming news, according to which owners of devices with the Android operating system should first see the new function.
