Melbourne supermarkets are grappling with significant staff shortages as thousands of workers are being forced to isolate because of COVID-19.

Thousands of workers are serving mandatory isolation periods, leading to supermarkets having to cut opening hours and delays in stores fulfilling click-and-collect and delivery orders.

Coles Chief Operating Officer Matt Swindells said the current two-week isolation period required after a person was exposed to the virus was posing "a significant issue at a local level".

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"We're working towards living with COVID… but we're applying eliminating COVID rules," he said.

Mr Swindells is calling on the state government to urgently change the rules.

"We've got high levels of disruption through our workforce… the actual risk is very very low," he said.

"If we look at the current government modelling, by mid-December, we would have to isolate almost a third of our entire Victorian workforce if we continue to follow those elimination protocols."

In the past three months, 30,000 Coles employees have been forced to isolate for a fortnight, with the company saying none have tested positive.

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Most supermarkets in Craigieburn have been recent exposure sites, leaving them struggling to fill orders for people stuck at home.

"I know people who have waited like three or four days… sometimes the order gets cancelled as well," supermarket worker Lexi said.

"So they're just left in the lurch really… how do they get their food?"

Lexi is one of the 1000 Woolworths staff currently isolating after a COVID-19 positive case entered her Craigieburn supermarket.

Her two weeks in quarantine is supposed to be about to end and she said she had not heard anything from the Health Department.

Today the state government flagged two weeks in quarantine may not be required in future for those who are fully vaccinated.

However, there are no further details as yet.

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A Sydney nursing home has come up with an ingenious way to allow their residents to connect with loved ones until in-person visits are allowed.

A visitor's pod has set up in the car park of Ashfield Baptist homes which separates people by a pane of glass but is a little more personal than a video call.

The pod is set up with comfortable chairs and the residents and visitors can chat to each other on the phone while just a few metres apart.

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Xbox gamers can now take advantage of enhanced visuals with Dolby Vision while gaming on the Series X and S consoles.

The Xbox Series X|S is the first to fully support Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for the console's gaming.

Xbox says there is more than 100 next-gen HDR titles available now or coming soon in Dolby Atmos.

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Thousands of classic HDR10 and Auto ADR games will also get a picture quality bump through Dolby Vision on the Xbox Series X|S.

But what is Dolby Vision?

It's the next step, while small, above a 4K display – a full-spectrum, visual boost.

While it's not adding any pixels or the like, Dolby Vision boosts the vibrancy on compatible TVs, creating more vivid colours, brightness and contrast support.

Xbox previously enabled Dolby Vision for its streaming apps in 2018, but this is the first time we've experienced Dolby Vision through gaming.

Xbox owners are the first of the next-gen gamers to take advantage of the upgrade, but only if their TVs allow it.

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To check if your TV is compatible with Dolby Vision you'll need to check your Xbox's settings.

Here's how to check if your TV is compatible:

Head to Settings > General > TV & display options > 4K TV details then Enable Dolby Vision on Xbox Series X|S.

If you don't see it there you may need to check your TVs display settings and make sure its gaming mode or low-latency mode is enabled.

You can also check out the Dolby website to see if your TV supports Dolby Vision.

TikTok has hit one of the most exclusive milestones in the tech industry.

The company said in a blog post on Monday that it now has more than one billion monthly active users around the world, making it the rare social media application not owned by Facebook or Google to claim an audience of that size.

The short-form video app's popularity surged as people spent more time on their phones during the pandemic.

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It has also both benefited from and fuelled the growth of the creator industry, as more people look to make a living from posting content to social media sites.

The growth of the Chinese-owned app comes despite an effort by former President Donald Trump's administration last year to shut down TikTok in the United States.

And while Trump's effort ultimately fizzled, the app has been banned in India and faces scrutiny from European regulators over its data protection practices and children's safety.

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TikTok has also maintained its popularity despite rivals launching copycat products, including Instagram's Reels, YouTube's Shorts and Snapchat's Spotlight.

The app's monthly active users in August were up 25 per cent compared to the same month last year, according to app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower.

The announcement solidifies TikTok's place among the competitive ranks of legacy social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Facebook-owned Instagram, the latter of which hit one billion monthly users in June 2018.

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By contrast, Snapchat, which has been around nearly twice as long, said earlier this year that it had reached 500 million monthly active users.

When Twitter last reported this metric in 2019, it had 330 million monthly active users.

During the pandemic, TikTok was successful in drawing in more millennials and high-profile creators from Instagram and other sites.

TikTok also launched a $1.38 billion creator fund last year to encourage users to create content on the platform.

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