YouTube launched paid “Super Stickers” in 60 countries Tuesday as a new way for fans to send money into the hands of creators they want to support. It’s the latest in a lineup of features broadening the ways creators can make money on YouTube other than just ads. YouTube is initially launching eight sticker packs, five …
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Russell Westbrook and James Harden are back together again. The Houston Rockets traded for Westbrook in the offseason to reunite the two guards who previously played together in Oklahoma City at the beginning of the decade. It remains to be seen how these two ball-dominant guards will coexist in the same backcourt or how (if?) they’ll contribute defensively. Perhaps the …
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The sun was already setting on the Dubs dynasty with the departure of Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson expected to miss the upcoming season. And now things look even bleaker after Stephen Curry broke his hand. Suddenly, it’s D’Angelo Russell’s team, and he’s in his first year with the Golden State Warriors. Wins might be tough to come by for the team …
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Game Seven. Those are two of the best words a sports fan could hear. Wednesday night, baseball fans will be the lucky recipients of such a gift with the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals set to play the final game of the 2019 MLB season. After the Nats jumped out to a 2-0 lead heading back to the nation’s capital, the Astros rallied off …
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Are you a PlayStation Vue subscriber? Sorry to break it to you: Not anymore, you’re not. After trying (and failing) to find a buyer for the streaming-TV service, Sony abruptly announced plans to shutter Vue at the end of January 2020. That means you’ve got just about three months to decide on a replacement. Thankfully, there are plenty of options, …
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The 2019-2020 NBA season’s opening week continues Wednesday night as 11 games follow the opening night tip-offs of the Pelicans, Raptors, Lakers and Clippers last night. The defending champ Raptors needed overtime to outlast the up-and-coming Pelicans — even without star rookie Zion Williamson, who is out for six to eight weeks after knee surgery — while former Raptor and Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers to take round …
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Mozilla is publishing anecdotes of YouTube viewing gone awry — anonymous stories from people who say they innocently searched for one thing but eventually ended up in a dark rabbit hole of videos. It’s a campaign aimed at pressuring Google’s massive video site to make itself more accessible to independent researchers trying to study its algorithms. “The big problem is we have …
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For the National League Championship Series, and the Nationals, it all comes down to tonight. In the last seven years Washington has made the playoffs four times, only to lose in the NLDS. The 2019 Nationals now find themselves on the brink of a World Series berth — the first for the franchise. Up a commanding three games to zero after …
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Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube have revolutionized how we watch TV by streaming movies and shows to your screen of choice. Then they went a step further to take the streaming out of streaming video, at least when it comes to phones and tablets. If anything, downloading a show gives you even more freedom because you can watch literally anywhere at …
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Actor Jim Meskimen has released a video on YouTube giving a “deeper” look at his skills as an impressionist. The voice work is all his, but thanks to deepfake software, he also takes on the facial features of 20 celebrities — and becomes recognizably those people. Deepfakes, video forgeries that make people appear to be doing or saying things they …
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