It’s the biggest tournament for the biggest sport on Earth, and it comes around only once every four years. The 2018 FIFA World Cup will feature 32 teams and 64 games across four glorious weeks of action in Russia. In the US, Fox and FS1 will broadcast games in English, and Telemundo and NBC Universo will …
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YouTube is giving big uploaders new ways to make money by giving them the chance to sell merchandise directly on the site and set up monthly paid membership subscriptions that unlock perks for superfans. It comes after more than a year of demonetization drama at YouTube. Google‘s massive video site, which has 1.9 billion monthly users, mostly pays back money to its …
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Fed up with flicking between watching music videos on the YouTube app and listening to audio on your music streaming service of choice? Google thinks it’s cooked up just the thing for you. The company on Monday launched YouTube Music, a subscription service that serves as its latest challenger to Spotify and Apple Music. The app is available now on …
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Will tonight be the last time we see LeBron James in a Cleveland Cavaliers uniform? A free agent this summer, James will have many suiters. Lose to the Golden State Warriors again and he may seek a third team with which to tilt at the championship. The Cleveland Cavaliers blew Game 1 when JR Smith lost track of the score and …
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Using PayPal to purchase things with Google Pay is nothing new. That specific partnership was announced over a year ago, but the two companies recently decided to extend their partnership. Starting later this year, you will be able to use PayPal in Google Play, YouTube and Gmail. Here’s how to set it up and what to be aware of. How …
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Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals will take on the guys that play for the Golden Knights of Las Vegas. (Sorry, I stopped following the NHL after my Minnesota North Stars left for Dallas in the early ’90s.) I can be excused for not knowing the name of a single Golden Knight because the franchise didn’t exist until this season …
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Pandora is taking on Spotify‘s popular Discover Weekly personalized playlists with its own individualized mixes it calls Soundtracks, which center on themes like high-energy music or tunes to help you focus. Pandora, a streaming-music provider best known for its free digital radio, is widening these personalized playlists Wednesday to all subscribers of its Premium service, which is a $10-a-month membership that competes with …
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On Saturday, high-end cinema camera maker Red held an event to show off its unreleased Hydrogen One phone. Red was eager to let people experience the phone’s 4-View holographic screen, which displays 3D content without the need for glasses. Booths from companies partnering with Red on the phone dotted the perimeter of the event. One of those companies was Lucid, …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at the much-watched royal wedding Saturday, but you might have been asleep when it happened. In case you missed the big event, you can watch the ceremony on YouTube by clicking here (unfortunately, YouTube won’t allow embeds). You can also view the wedding by signing up for a free trial of BritBox. …
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YouTube is remixing its subscription services, relaunching its Spotify-like YouTube Music as a $10-a-month membership mostly devoid of video and recasting YouTube Red’s ad-free, paywalled video tier as YouTube Premium — with a $2 price bump. In addition, Google Play Music, the other subscription streaming music service from the same parent company as YouTube, will be going away eventually. In a …
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