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Facebook debuts video playback changes, including autoplaying with sound unless device is muted, picture-in-picture video, and rollout of vertical video format — People are watching and sharing more video on Facebook than ever, and we're focused on continuously improving the video experience.
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Facebook announces free app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TV, launching “soon” — The new app will let users kick back and watch Facebook videos from the couch. — Facebook is coming to your television. — The social network on Tuesday announced a new app … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's Eddy Cue says “Planet of the Apps” reality show will premiere this spring exclusively on Apple Music and will have its own dedicated app — At the Code Media conference this evening, Apple's Eddy Cue sat down alongside Ben Silverman for an interview.
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Google launches Cloud Spanner in beta, a globally distributed relational database service that the company's used internally for years, promises 99.9999% uptime — Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for a “Digital Geneva Convention” between nation states to prevent hacking and cybercrime — Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday pressed the world's governments to form an international body to protect against nation-state hacking …
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Microsoft brings its $50/year Office.com subscription option out of preview for US users, available for $20/year until March 31, with ad free inbox, more — There's no announcement from Microsoft, but Outlook.com Premium has shed its Preview tag, meaning it is now generally available. The bad news?
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Open Whisper Systems announces beta rollout of video calling feature for Signal app, which comes with new privacy tradeoffs — Even as the encryption app Signal became the go-to private communications channel for activists, journalists, politicians, and more, its encrypted calling feature remained less than perfect.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Nest adds automatic door activity detection and animated push notifications for Aware subscribers, adding to 24/7 video recording, more — Nest has updated its mobile app with additional features designed specifically for subscribers of its Aware program. On Monday, the Google-owned company announced … | Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Amazon launches Chime, a video teleconferencing service for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, available for businesses in three pricing tiers — Companies looking for a new video- and teleconferencing system have a fresh face to turn to in the market: Amazon Web Services.
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Google cancels PewDiePie's original series following Nazi controversy, removes him from the Google Preferred advertising program — PewDiePie also lost his preferred advertising status — YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie, has always flirted with controversy.
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IBM integrates Watson into its security operations platform — IBM's Watson has ingested more than 1 million security documents and been tested by about 40 customers in a bid to make the cognitive technology a sidekick to cybersecurity analysts. — IBM said Watson will be at the core …
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| Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times: |
YouTube Kids to launch original programming, with the first four shows beginning rollout in April — Mariangeli Collado, from left, Jenna Simmons, Tatiana McQuay, McKenzie Mack and Lexi Drew are the stars of YouTube Red's new family series “Hyperlinked.” The girls, who perform in the group L2M … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile adds HD video and 10GB of high-speed tethering to its “unlimited” plan in response to Verizon's new plan — HD video and 10GB of high-speed tethering starting Friday — It's been only a day since Verizon resurrected its unlimited data plan, and the company's competitors …
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