Reddit just reached a milestone in video views. In August last year, the popular online message-board site started hosting videos, rather than relying on third-party hosting platforms. It now has over 1 billion native video views every month, it said in a blog post Tuesday. Reddit is now serving 400,000 hours of natively hosted video …

Facebook wants to bring you even more video.  The social media giant on Tuesday rolled out Premieres globally and expanded its interactive video polls and Top Fans features. Facebook interactive video polls will be available for most videos soon.  Facebook Facebook started testing Premieres earlier this year. The feature lets you post prerecorded video clips — such as movie trailers or …

Steve Wozniak’s Woz U may not give students the programming skills they need. A number of former students and employees told CBS News the 33-week online program has many problems that make it not worth the $13,200 tuition fee. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, launched the digital institute in 2017. Among the complaints, former student Bill …

Venmo is again pushing aside concerns for its “Public by Default” privacy setting.  More than 25,000 Americans signed a petition asking the digital transaction app to change its default privacy setting from public to private, according to a Thursday blog post from Mozilla, which initiated the campaign in July. Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, delivered the signed petition to Venmo’s …

California is cracking down on Apple store thieves. The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, on Thursday said 17 people had been arrested and charged in connection with a robbery scheme targeting Apple stores across 19 counties, which caused over $1 million in property loss. The investigation is ongoing. The people charged allegedly went into the retail stores in large groups …

MetroPCS is donning a new name. T-Mobile said Monday it’s rebranding MetroPCs  as Metro by T-Mobile and will launch a new campaign to highlight the prepaid brand next month with two new unlimited plans. The plans will have tiers that include Amazon Prime membership and Google One cloud storage. “It drives me crazy that literally millions of hard-working people are struggling to get …

Apple on Monday said it’s completed a deal to acquire music recognition app Shazam, and the app will soon become ad-free for all users. “Apple and Shazam have a long history together,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music, in a press release. “Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become …

Kayak on Monday added a luggage measurement tool to calculate a carry-on bag’s size using augmented reality technology. When you open a flight search in the Kayak app, click on “new bag measurement tool.” Scan your bag with your phone’s camera starting from the floor and then all around to capture the bag’s size. The tool will calculate the bag’s …

The new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are expensive, but Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks innovation is worth it. “We want to make an iPhone for everyone,” Cook said during an interview Tuesday with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Cook was touting Apple’s newest iPhones and also defending their high prices. The iPhone XS starts at $999, while …

Google wants to make web addresses more readable, but apparently not everyone is happy with how it tried doing so. In the latest version of Google’s Chrome browser, released earlier this month, Google hid the HTTP or HTTPS prefix and stripped out website domain qualifiers like the initial “www” or “m,” which indicates a website geared for mobile devices. But Google …