YouTube today announced several new features designed to improve the live streaming experience for both creators and viewers. The most notable additions include the ability to play back a live chat after the live stream ends, and the launch of live automatic captions on videos. YouTube began offering automatic captioning back in 2009, and has since added captions to a billion videos, the… Read More
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A new bipartisan bill calls on the Department of Congress to study the effect of connectivity on communities.
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Huawei didn’t have a new phone to show at MWC this year, so it did what any good smartphone maker would: it put the Mate 10 Pro in an autonomous car and drove it directly at a dog. Of course, the promotional video was a lot more dramatic than what the company was actually demoing at the show itself. And while the company insisted to us that the dog in the video was, indeed real and not… Read More
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Lenovo revealed six new devices at Mobile World Congress: Three Windows 10 PCs, and three Chromebook models priced under $360. The Windows 10 PCs are all based on Intel eighth-gen Core i7 processors and optional GeForce GPUs.
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500px, the photo-sharing site that once proposed to take on Flickr and Getty, has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), a strategic investor in 500px via previous financings. A publicly-traded image licensing company – and China’s Getty, so to speak – bought Corbis in 2016, and is now the world’s third-largest visual content provider. It sees 500px, which now has… Read More
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Actions on Google, the Google Assistant’s version of what Amazon calls ‘skills,’ have been around for a while, but Google today announced that is expanding the platform to support a wider group of international developers, in addition to a number of other features for the platform. Maybe the most important update here is that Actions are now available in seven new… Read More
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Google’s apps for its digital assistant, called Actions, gain new languages, including Hindi, Thai and Dutch.
Source: CNET
We unwrap one of the first S9 phones ever made. See what comes in the box!
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We take a look at what you get in the box with the new Galaxy S9 Plus.
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Amazon has renewed Lore for a second season, bringing on Sean Crouch (from The Exorcist and Numb3rs) as showrunner. Lore is an anthology series focused on the supernatural, adopted from the Lore podcast by Aaron Mahnke. The first season of Lore came out last year, using dramatic scenes, animation, narration and docu-style scenes to root the supernatural in truth. Executive producers include… Read More
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