For the first time ever, the NBA is streaming a regular-season game on Facebook Live for basketball fans in India. The league said it will stream Sunday night’s matchup between the Golden State Warriors in Sacramento against the Kings. The game between All-Stars Stephen Curry and DeMarcus Cousins and two of the NBA’s most tech-savvy …
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The video showed a man in Chicago being tortured, and it was right there on social media for everyone to see. As with other recent cases of live-streamed violence in the US, the reaction was swift, loud and highly politicized. Chicago Police called the incident, first seen in a 30-minute Facebook Live stream, “sickening.” On Thursday, authorities filed hate crime …
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Disgusted Facebook followers of Megyn Kelly let their feelings be known after the Fox News Channel anchor said on Tuesday that she’s joining NBC. After learning she’s leaving Fox, after 12 years, thousands of fans on Kelly’s official Facebook page called her everything from a sellout to a traitor to other things too nasty to mention. “I have decided to …
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Twitter is launching live 360-degree video streams on Periscope. The social network released the feature Wednesday, with the catch being that while everyone can watch videos in 360, only a group of “select partners” — likely celebrities and influencers — are able to stream in 360 for now. Here’s what the first video looks like: The launch comes more than …
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This is for basketball fans who watch games on TV with the remote in one hand and check their fantasy team’s stats on their mobile devices with the other. The NBA and fantasy sports site FanDuel said Thursday they are launching NBA InPlay, a real-time interactive fantasy game that lets fans watching nationally televised NBA games play against each other. …
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It’s one thing to tweet praise or criticism about what stars wear to the Golden Globes. Now, fans can watch in real time on Twitter what nominees like Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds don as they cross the red carpet. Twitter will team up with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions to live-stream …
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Yep, you still will be able to make and watch six-second Vine videos. Over and over and over. Vine, Twitter’s video app, was left for dead two months ago. But on Friday, the social network said in a blog post that the app will be renamed “Vine Camera.” Users will be able to post the looping videos they make to …
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Live video broadcasts can now be made directly on Twitter. The social network said Wednesday it’s made it easier for users to broadcast live video from the Twitter app. The service is similar Twitter’s live-streaming app, Periscope, which anyone can use to join a live video, add comments or, for those inclined to do so, those floating hearts. Here’s how …
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It can be awkward, sometimes even downright painful to start a conversation, especially when you’re looking for a job. LinkedIn is now offering users tips, called Conversation Starters, for how to connect or reconnect with other members through its messaging feature. The professional network launched the new option Tuesday with the simple goal of helping break the ice in informal …
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Amazon Prime members can now stream all the “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones” and “Last Week Tonight” they want — for an extra $15 a month. HBO and Cinemax are the latest premium channels available to Prime subscribers via Amazon Channels, the e-commerce giant said Thursday. Last year, Amazon began letting Prime customers add cable channels like Showtime and Starz to …
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