Facebook's New Video Player Takes Inspiration From TikTok

From CNET: Facebook is taking a page out of TikTok's playbook. The social media giant is launching an updated video player that incorporates all video lengths and formats, including Reels, longer videos and live videos. As part of the update, horizontal videos can be opened up in full-screen mode...

Spotify’s price is reportedly going up again

From The Verge: For many years, Spotify held strong at its monthly subscription of $9.99, but that changed last July when Premium jumped up to $10.99. Now it appears that the leading subscription music service is planning another price hike — and not waiting nearly as long this time. Bloomberg...

Ads are coming to Discord, and gamers are already planning to block them

From PC World: Discord has emerged as a de facto standard chat protocol for gamers, whether it’s actually integrated into their games or not. And it’s also becoming widespread for chat groups in all kinds of interests, and even direct customer support for some small companies. It’s also about to be...

Oura's New 'Labs' Mode Lets You Be the Judge of New Smart Ring Features

From CNET: Oura, the smart ring that gives you notes on your sleep, measures your stress, helps you track your menstrual cycle and more, is pushing your hand even further into health tracking. The company behind the smart ring on Wednesday announced Labs, a platform in the Oura app that will allow...

Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

From The Verge: Instagram’s co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale. Yahoo has hundreds of millions of readers — but could use a dose of tech-forward cool to separate it from all the internet’s other news aggregators. And...

Microsoft Teams and Office 365 are breaking up

From PC World: Microsoft Teams, a corporate messaging and video meeting service, will no longer be included with Microsoft Office. The software break-up comes as a result of antitrust investigation in Europe, where Teams and Office 365 have been de-bundled since October of last year. The software...

FSP Hydro G Pro 1200W Report (Page 1 of 4)

"Just admit it, deep down inside, you are a big fan of him," one of my friends told my other friend, referring to me. "No I am not, I do not like him!" my other friend quickly shot back, then looks at me. "Also, what is your Instagram?" Does what someone literally say always reflect what they actually think? In this case, I do not think so, and neither does anyone else around us. In reality, this happens not just with people, but also with things...

Cooler Master MM712 Wired Review (Page 1 of 4)

Last year, for my girlfriend's birthday, I got her a Lego set of Captain Rex's helmet. As she is a big fan of both Star Wars and especially this character, I knew she would appreciate the final finished product. I also enjoy building Lego with her because we both contribute in our own ways. At first, I let her connect everything while I picked up all the necessary bricks for her next step. In the middle of the build, we would swap roles, so we...

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