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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced that she’s stepping down from the helm of the streaming video service. Wojcicki, who joined Alphabet nearly 25 years ago, said she’s starting “a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” In her farewell letter, Wojcicki said Neal Mohan, her de-facto deputy, is … Read more
The story behind how Tetris became a global phenomenon is the basis of an upcoming Apple TV+ movie. The film will hit the streaming service on March 31st and Apple has just dropped the first trailer. Taron Egerton stars as Henk Rogers, a Dutch entrepreneur who (spoiler) secured deals to distribute Tetris on the Game … Read more
YouTube Kids is finally available on more than a handful of devices in your living room, if not quite in the way you’d expect. As 9to5Googlereports, Google is rolling out the YouTube Kids experience on game consoles, Roku devices and more smart TVs through an update to the main YouTube app. If you switch to … Read more
Paramount+ will get a bit more expensive later this year as it folds in Showtime’s streaming service. The Premium tier of Paramount+, which will be renamed to Paramount+ With Showtime, will soon cost $12 per month, up from the current $10, as Variety reports. The ad-supported tier, which will not include Showtime, is going up from … Read more
Microsoft launched its Bing AI chat product for the Edge browser last week, and it’s been in the news ever since — but not always for the right reasons. Our initial impressions were strong, as it offered up workout routines, travel itineraries and more without a hitch. However, users started noticing that Bing’s bot gave … Read more
The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard, Season Three, Episode One: “The Next Generation.” In the 25th Century… There’s a wounded starship playing possum in the beautiful, merciless vastness of space, and inside, is a museum. The captain’s quarters holds a trove of props from that old TV show you watched when you were … Read more
Plex now has the capability to skip intros and credits, so you don’t have to sit through them if you don’t want to. The streaming media service has introduced its new “Skip Credits” feature, a couple of years after a similar feature debuted for intros, and it shows up as a button at the bottom … Read more
The PlayStation VR 2 is the virtual reality upgrade console gamers have been waiting for — but is it really worth $550? That depends on how much you need high quality VR. The virtual reality landscape looks completely different today than it did in 2016. The original PlayStation VR arrived amid the peak of the … Read more
If you’ve been using Twitter’s For You feed this week, you might’ve noticed the algorithmic feed showed a lot of Elon Musk’s tweets and replies. According to Platformer, which interviewed Twitter employees, engineers tweaked the social network to benefit their CEO. Elon’s cousin and Twitter employee James Musk sent an urgent message on the company’s … Read more
IK Multimedia has been in the guitar rig emulation game for a long time. It released the first version of AmpliTube way back in 2002. And while the company has branched out quite a bit since then into synths, microphones and studio monitors, it hasn’t given up on the world of guitar just yet. In … Read more