Google Assistant is getting smarter and more useful around the house. In a new update Tuesday, Google announced that its digital assistant can now move music between Home and Nest smart speakers. It can also move YouTube videos between Chromecast and Nest smart displays. The new feature means you can start playing music in your bedroom …
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Editor’s Note, Feb 4 2020: Sony shut down the PlayStation Vue service on January 30, 2020, but for a list of the best alternative live TV streaming services go here. Sony’s PlayStation Vue has a name problem. It’s a live TV streaming service that doesn’t include “TV” in the name at all. Worse, the name could imply that it only works on Sony’s PlayStation …
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Google on Wednesday announced enhancements to some of its products that give you more control over how long your activity history is saved, including adding the ability to use your voice to manage your Google Assistant data. The updates come amid growing public scrutiny of various tech giants’ use and handling of your personal data. The update to Google Assistant …
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Some time in the future all of our entertainment will come via the internet — on our TVs or on our mobile devices — and it will include a mix of some live TV but mostly binge-watchable shows. Services like YouTube TV and Sling TV are steadily growing, but what are they replacing? That old, beige cable DVR. TiVo has …
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Google’s live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, is finally available on Amazon Fire devices, effectively ending years of feuding between the two tech giants. YouTube TV will now be available on Fire TV devices including the second-gen Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Cube, Toshiba and Insignia Fire TV Edition smart TVs, and more. YouTube TV is a premium …
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Google’s YouTube Music is the company’s most recent attempt to rival Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal in music streaming — and it now appears that Google wants to give it a boost. In a blog post Friday, the search giant announced that it will be including the app with Android 10, the latest version of its popular mobile operating system. New …
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Locast — a nonprofit startup that grabs over-the-air channels and streams them free over the internet — said late Thursday that the four giant US broadcasters’ “sham litigation” against it is an antitrust conspiracy to drive it out of business and threaten its supporters. Locast’s first official answer to the copyright suit goes beyond simply rejecting the companies’ accusations of …
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki rejected calls to spin off YouTube, Google’s massive online video service, from the search giant and its parent company, Alphabet. “We use technology from Google that’s really helpful, like all the machine learning … to find the violative content. Being able to do that at scale, we benefit from the Google technology,” she said Wednesday at the …
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YouTube, Google‘s massive online video site, is about to embark on the biggest changes yet to kids videos. The company is reengineering how it treats clips directed at children, following this month’s record $170 million penalty for violating kids’ data privacy. YouTube pledged to disable comments, notifications and personalized ads on all videos directed at children, and its machine learning will police YouTube’s sprawling …
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Video site Vimeo launched a marketplace for video jobs, designed to connect creators looking for gigs with businesses, brands and agencies that need freelance video pros. Any paid Vimeo member can be included in the marketplace by marking his or her account as “available for hire,” and people on the hunt to hire someone can post listings via their own …
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