Month: May 2020
You can launch Facebook’s Zoom rival from your Instagram inbox
Facebook’s Zoom rival now works with Instagram, too. The update allows Instagram users to create Messenger Rooms from their Instagram Direct Inbox.The new feature, which is starting to roll out to Instagram now, comes as Facebook has added a steady s… Source
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YouTube can tell you to stop watching and go to sleep
Perhaps now more than ever, it's all too easy to get sucked into the bottomless well of YouTube, watching autoplaying videos for hours on end until you realize it's well past your typical bedtime. In an expansion of its screen time management and dig… Source
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Hulu is bringing back a simpler, more familiar home screen
Hulu’s grand experiment to reinvent the user experience of a streaming app is coming to an end. Today, starting on Apple TV and Roku, the company is rolling out a revamped home screen that’s much closer in line with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and other streaming services. The new look…
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YouTube adds bedtime reminders to help you log off late at night
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new bedtime reminders feature to help even the most dedicated of extremely online types log off late at night. The new feature joins the platform’s existing “take a break” reminders, and both are among a broader set of YouTube wellness and screen time tools released…
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Signal adds PINs, which will help you move your profile across devices
Signal has added PINs to its secure messaging service. It’s a move that’s intended to make the company less reliant on phone numbers as its users’ primary identification. The feature is available to all Signal users now, according to ZDNet, and once the feature is enabled, you’ll be able to…
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GE’s soft robot bores holes like a giant earthworm
A giant earthworm robot was not on the list of things I expected to see when I logged in this morning. But it’s here, and I’m here for it. Designed by a team at GE Research, the robot in question nabbed a $2.5 million award as part of DARPA’s Underminer.…
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