Disney + and ‘The Mandalorian’ Are Driving People Back to Torrenting . TV is exhausting now. Where once the future of streaming promised to cut down bloated cable bills and create a more efficient customer-provider service—“Imagine a future where you only pay for the 10 channels you actually watch,” I remember excitedly telling my parents earlier in the decade—the ...

3 Takeaways From Moscow State University's 2019 Codec Comparison . From my perspective, one of the most useful and credible codec analyses comes from Moscow State University, which just published its 2019 Video Codec ...

Curie subsea cable set to transmit to Chile, with a pit stop to Panama . Google’s Curie private subsea cable is ready for service between the U.S. and Chile, with a branch to Panama

Google’s Curie private subsea cable is ...

close-x . First Slate of Disney+ Originals Premiere Alongside Extensive Collection of Library Titles From Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National ...

YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video . YouTube is rolling out updated terms of service on December 10th, and a new line acts as a reminder that the company doesn’t have to keep any video up that it doesn’t want to.

“YouTube is under no obligation to host or serve content,” the new terms of service policy reads.

It’s another way of saying ...

Amazon Could Use An AWS Boost . A couple of weeks ago online retail giant Amazon (AMZN) disappointed the street when it missed on earnings and issued weaker than expected Q4 ...

A laser pointer can trick your smart devices into opening your doors, starting your car . A thief lies in wait across the street, hiding in the bushes and waiting for the lights of your television to go dark. Once you’re in bed, he aims a laser pointer at your Amazon Echo device, and tricks it into opening your garage door. With another laser, he tells Alexa to start your car.

A team of ...

Thieves with laser pointers can trick your smart devices into opening your doors, starting your car . A thief lies in wait across the street, hiding in the bushes and waiting for the lights of your television to go dark. Once you’re in bed, he aims a laser pointer at your Amazon Echo device, and tricks it into opening your garage door. With another laser, he tells Alexa to start your car.

A team of ...

An Oral History of LimeWire: The Little App That Changed the Music Industry Forever . And the untold story of a Spotify killer that never saw the light of dayIn 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down ...

Netflix will stop working on these popular TVs next month - and users are furious . It’s the go-to TV streaming service for many people, but it seems that Netflix will soon stop working on several popular TVs.

From December 1, Netflix ...