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How to Edit Your YouTube Viewing History
We’ve all probably clicked on a video out of morbid curiosity—maybe to “hate-watch” a particular music video or catch a cringe-worthy moment from a public figure you particularly dislike. Watch enough of those, and suddenly YouTube is autoplaying and recommen…
Weve all probably clicked on a video out of morbid curiositymaybe to hate-watch a particular music video or catch a cringe-worthy moment from a public figure you particularly dislike. Watch enough of those, and suddenly YouTube is autoplaying and recommending… [+1545 chars]
Brendan Hesse
2019-10-01 17:15:00
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Facebook wants Portal to be your next office webcam
Facebook‘s Portal video chat devices will be able to run Workplace, the company’s collaboration software, so you’ll be able to make video calls at work using the Portal’s video calling technology. Until now, Facebook has positioned Portal primarily as a way t…
Its bringing Workplace to some Portal devices
Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge
Facebooks Portal video chat devices will be able to run Workplace, the companys collaboration software, so youll be able to make video calls at work using the Portals video callin… [+1154 chars]
Jay Peters
2019-10-08 23:05:53
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Ring and Nest video doorbells include a free smart display with purchase at Best Buy
For a limited time, Best Buy is including a Google Nest Hub with purchase of Nest’s Hello video doorbell. The Ring Video Doorbell 2 comes with a free Amazon Echo Show 5, in case you’d rather go with Amazon products.
Pick between team Google or team Amazon
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
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Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Good Deals stamp of approval, so if you're looking for a deal on your next gadge… [+1404 chars]
Cameron Faulkner
2019-09-23 16:17:21
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GoPro Hero 7 Black Deal: $70 Off Right Now
The Hero 7 is still a great deal at $329, with superb image stabilization and awesome time-lapse video.
The GoPro Hero Black series cameras created and defined the concept of action camera. It's been the best action camera around and a WIRED reviewer favorite for years now. The latest model, the Hero 8 Black (8/10, WIRED Recommends), brings some great new featu… [+3388 chars]
Scott Gilbertson
2019-10-04 11:00:00
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Facebook Watch and the Emotion-Harvesting Future of Television
I spent a couple weeks watching the social network's video channel. The shows there were very engaging ... perhaps too engaging.
This story is part of a series on how we watchfrom the delight of Netflix randomness to crappy captions on YouTube.
At some point during episode four of Sorry For Your Loss, I started to get the sense that the show had been deliberately engineered to trigger… [+3776 chars]
Lauren Goode
2019-10-01 12:00:00
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Watch Thursday Night Football Using Your Prime Membership Starting This Week
This year Amazon is once again making some Thursday Night Football available for Prime members to stream through Prime Video at no additional cost beyond having a Prime membership. Read more...
This year Amazon is once again making some Thursday Night Football available for Prime members to stream through Prime Video at no additional cost beyond having a Prime membership.
The Thursday night games being broadcast on Amazon start this Thursday, Septe… [+872 chars]
Emily Price
2019-09-21 16:52:00
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How to Get Your iPhone Notifications Under Control
We all get too many notifications. In the video above, I go over the tools built in to iOS to help you filter out the noise and only receive the notifications that are important. Read more...
We all get too many notifications. In the video above, I go over the tools built in to iOS to help you filter out the noise and only receive the notifications that are important.
Quick Fix is a video series where I tackle your most commonly asked tech questi… [+106 chars]
Abu Zafar
2019-10-01 15:30:00
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Android Users: Update Signal Now to Prevent Eavesdropping
According to a late-September bug report from Google’s Project Zero team, an issue with the popular covert messaging app Signal, on Android, allowed any attacker to essentially eavesdrop on a person’s device (via audio, not video). Read more...
According to a late-September bug report from Googles Project Zero team, an issue with the popular covert messaging app Signal, on Android, allowed any attacker to essentially eavesdrop on a persons device (via audio, not video).
As Project Zero describes:
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David Murphy
2019-10-07 16:15:00
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Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video
“We’re going to get more and more of this content and it’s probably going to get of better quality,” says Sam Gregory of the human-rights nonprofit Witness.
It has always been good advice to take what you see on the internet with a pinch of salt, but online video has lately become even less trustworthy. Deepfakes, clips altered or fabricated with an artificial intelligence technique called machine learning, make … [+1580 chars]
Tom Simonite
2019-10-06 12:00:00
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Logitech acquires popular game streaming tool Streamlabs for around $89M
If you’re into livestreaming video games, you’ve probably heard of Streamlabs. They make a popular, free software tool for overlaying content on top of whatever game you’re playing, allowing streamers to pop everything from sponsorship logos to donation alert…
If you’re into livestreaming video games, you’ve probably heard of Streamlabs. They make a popular, free software tool for overlaying content on top of whatever game you’re playing, allowing streamers to pop everything from sponsorship logos to donation alert… [+1007 chars]
Greg Kumparak
2019-09-27 19:30:59
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Trump gets on Twitch
The reelection campaign will be livestreamed. US president Donald Trump has joined Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch. Twitch is best known as a social video streaming platform for gamers but does host other content, including politics. The verified D…
The reelection campaign will be livestreamed. US president Donald Trump has joined Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch.
Twitch is best known as a social video streaming platform for gamers but does host other content, including politics.
The verified… [+2238 chars]
Natasha Lomas
2019-10-11 11:05:06
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Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia will launch on November 19th
Google dropped a bit of news right off the bat at this morning’s Made by Google event: Stadia, its on-demand cloud game streaming service, will launch on November 19th. Stadia is Google’s experiment in changing up the way we play video games; rather than rend…
Google dropped a bit of news right off the bat at this morning’s Made by Google event: Stadia, its on-demand cloud game streaming service, will launch on November 19th.
Stadia is Google’s experiment in changing up the way we play video games; rather than ren… [+286 chars]
Greg Kumparak
2019-10-15 14:15:32
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Plex partners with Lionsgate to expand its ad-supported video library
Plex has added a new content partner for its soon-to-launch ad-supported video service. The company announced this morning its service will now also include movies from Lionsgate, which will join Plex’s existing partner Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distri…
Plex has added a new content partner for its soon-to-launch ad-supported video service. The company announced this morning its service will now also include movies from Lionsgate, which will join Plex’s existing partner Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distri… [+1938 chars]
Sarah Perez
2019-09-18 16:09:05
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How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh’, won the local video streaming market with just $10M
Thousands of miles away from the U.S., where technology giants, cable networks, and studios are locked in an intense multi-billion dollar battle to court users to their video streaming services, a startup in Bangladesh has already won the local video streamin…
Thousands of miles away from the U.S., where technology giants, cable networks, and studios are locked in an intense multi-billion dollar battle to court users to their video streaming services, a startup in Bangladesh has already won the local video streamin… [+900 chars]
Manish Singh
2019-10-02 19:48:30
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YouTube TV is now available on Fire TV devices
Earlier this year, Google and Amazon reached an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each other’s platforms, following years of anti-competitive, anti-consumer behavior on both of their parts. Initially, the official YouTube app launched on Fire T…
Earlier this year, Google and Amazon reached an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each other’s platforms, following years of anti-competitive, anti-consumer behavior on both of their parts. Initially, the official YouTube app launched on Fire T… [+2166 chars]
Sarah Perez
2019-09-30 14:30:56
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Facebook rolls out new video tools, plus Instagram and IGTV scheduling feature
Facebook on Monday announced a number of updates aimed at video creators and publishers, during a session at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) taking place in Amsterdam. The updates involve changes to live video broadcasting, Facebook’s Watch Pa…
Facebook on Monday announced a number of updates aimed at video creators and publishers, during a session at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) taking place in Amsterdam. The updates involve changes to live video broadcasting, Facebook’s Watch Pa… [+4545 chars]
Sarah Perez
2019-09-16 14:30:50
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Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M
Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop or loop or frame or rotate or soundtrack or… Then you need Kapwing…
Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop or loop or frame or rotate or soundtrack or… Then you need Kapwing… [+708 chars]
Josh Constine
2019-09-24 17:07:13
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How to Tell Someone to Get Off Their Phone
Smartphone addiction is real. According to a log of my screen time, in the last seven days, I spent three hours and 15 minutes a day on my iPhone (and over 22 hours in total last week—almost an entire day). And I’m not alone. Our social media producer, Tim, s…
Smartphone addiction is real. According to a log of my screen time, in the last seven days, I spent three hours and 15 minutes a day on my iPhone (and over 22 hours in total last weekalmost an entire day). And Im not alone. Our social media producer, Tim, spe… [+3362 chars]
Josh Ocampo
2019-09-19 18:15:00
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Unprecedented Video Shows Pigs Using Tools
Pigs may never fly, but they’re capable of using tools, as fascinating new research demonstrates. Read more...
Pigs may never fly, but theyre capable of using tools, as fascinating new research demonstrates.
Chimps, elephants, dolphins, otters, crows, and, of course, humans, are among the few creatures on Earth known to use tools. We can now add pigs to this exclusiv… [+5447 chars]
George Dvorsky
2019-10-09 20:50:00
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