YouTube Music now lets users save albums before they come out. Reddit users posted about the new feature in a thread on Monday, noting that the track lists for unreleased albums are now visible and available for saving to users’ libraries. One user noted that Neck Deep’s upcoming album, All Distortions Are Intentional, for instance, …
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Worldwide shipments of wearables grew more than 29% year over year in the first quarter of 2020, with total device volume hitting 72.6 million units, according to a Thursday report by market research firm IDC. Much of that increase was fueled by growth in hearables and wristbands, as smart and basic watches saw a decline. In the wristband category, devices like …
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YouTube hopes a new feature will make it easier for users to find specific parts of a video. Video Chapters, which launched Thursday on Android, iOS and desktop, uses timestamps from creators to break a video up into chapters, allowing users to jump to a particular section or rewatch a certain portion. The chapters show up at the bottom of …
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Disney Plus subscribers can now choose between watching The Simpsons in the original 4:3 aspect ratio or in the remastered 16:9 widescreen format when available, Disney said Thursday. The new feature is available on mobile, web and connected TV devices. From its premiere in 1989 up to 2010, The Simpsons aired in a 4:3 aspect ratio. The show switched to …
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AT&T on Tuesday said it will give DirecTV customers who subscribed to MLB Extra Innings and MLS Direct Kick credits for payments already made. Future charges have been postponed “until we learn more from the leagues,” the company said in an update on its site. The move comes as professional baseball and soccer seasons, as well as other sports, have …
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Google on Thursday rolled out a series of updates to Maps, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier aimed at improving user accessibility. The company also launched an app called Action Blocks that lets people create customizable home screen buttons for everyday tasks. The features arrive on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which aims to promote digital accessibility and inclusion. Google Maps‘ new Accessible Places feature …
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Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant at Sephora, gets a lot of calls about bionic limbs and people volunteering to go to space. That’s because her phone number once belonged to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Tucker gets at least three calls or texts meant for Musk each day, she told NPR, in a Thursday report. That volume …
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The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday demanded gateway providers cut off traffic from COVID-19-related international scammers or “face serious consequences.” The scam robocall campaigns include false service refunds related to COVID-19 and fake calls about Social Security accounts being suspended during the pandemic. “We expect nothing less from these providers than shutting down this scam robocall …
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HBO is partnering with “virtual movie theater” company Scener to let HBO Now and HBO Go customers co-watch shows and movies with friends over video chat. The feature works using Scener’s Virtual Movie Theater application on Google Chrome. The feature comes as the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered brick-and-mortar movie theaters around the world, and created an opportunity for companies to …
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The Samsung Galaxy A51 was the top selling Android phone in the world in the first quarter of 2020, according to a Wednesday report by Strategy Analytics. Six million units were shipped, giving it a 2% market share. Xiaomi Redmi 8 was the second most popular Android phone worldwide, according to the report, taking a 1.9% market share in the …
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