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 …
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The fifth Oculus Connect developer conference is underway in San Jose, California this week. Besides being a place for VR developers to meet up and discuss the future of immersive technologies, Facebook — the owner of Oculus — laid out its next steps for where VR (and AR) will head. And yes, that includes new hardware: the $399 wireless Oculus …
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The Ryder Cup pits 12 of the best golfers from the US against a dozen of the best European golfers. It’s great theater because it’s one of the few times where you get to see golfers acting like teammates, from the matching golf shirts the teams wear to the awkward high-fives they exchange. The tournament takes place every other year, …
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PayPal has refused to let Infowars use its service any longer. In an announcement on Friday, PayPal says that it has ended its business agreement with the right-wing conspiracy site and its related websites. The money transfer service says that Infowars “promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions,” which violates PayPal policy. Infowars and its host Alex …
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YouTube Kids has reached the terrible twos. Released in 2015, the free app attempts to eliminate the unseemly parts of YouTube by offering only cartoons, educational shows and other kid-friendly content. Of course, the internet being the internet, people are making fake videos with disturbing content — Peppa Pig drinking bleach, Spider-Man urinating on Elsa from Frozen, PAW Patrol characters …
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YouTube has renovated its hub for gaming fans before it cuts off its dedicated Gaming app. On Tuesday, Google’s massive video service launched an updated homebase for videos about games and for streaming games as other people play them. The revamped hub is more consistent with how YouTube normally looks on a laptop or desktop. The Gaming hub already has more …
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YouTube Kids rolled out a new feature on Thursday that lets parents handpick the videos and channels their children have access to. The new parental controls are available worldwide on Android and will launch soon on iOS. To enable the feature, open YouTube’s settings, go to the child’s profile and choose “approved content only.” You can then start selecting videos …
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While Apple’s event on September 12 should be packed with new iPhones and a new Apple Watch, rumors don’t point to a new Apple TV. Nope, no Apple TV 8K, not even any Fortnite. I hope Apple doesn’t ignore it completely, however. The Apple TV 4K is one of my favorite streaming devices already, thanks to its industry-leading format support, superb …
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Google is rolling out a dark mode to its YouTube mobile apps. Last year, it added the previously hidden ability to change YouTube’s background from white to black to YouTube on desktops and laptops. Dark mode is available now for iOS and is now rolling out to Android devices, XDA Developers reports. Here’s how to enable it on iOS: Launch …
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Vevo’s long-standing financial chief, Alan Price, was named the new CEO of the slimmed-down music-video streaming service on Wednesday. Alan Price has been an executive at Vevo since its founding. Vevo Vevo is a popular purveyor of online music videos, but most people know it best as the little watermark in the corner of more than 300,000 official music videos on YouTube. …
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