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Instacart will pay shoppers to take videos of store shelves
Instacart is introducing a new way for shoppers to make money: taking videos of store shelves “one aisle at a time.” The new earning opportunity, called Store View, will allow Instacart to determine which products are available, as well as which ones are out of stock. Instacart says Store View will also help its predictive models estimate when a store…
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Google Messages Just Fixed Some Serious Issues With Receiving Photos and Videos
If you’ve been dealing with Google Messages issues—particular with regards to sending photos and videos—you aren’t alone. Messages users are complaining about images that are slow to load when sent via RCS. Media shows up blurry for minutes at a time before users can actually open them. Photos and videos are also arriving compressed, which is something to be expected…
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Bluesky’s Latest Update Brings 3-Minute Videos, DM Requests, Muting, and More
You might have forgotten about Bluesky, but we surely didn’t. The app garnered headlines as the most popular X alternative in the midst of all the drama going on the platform. The decentralized microblogging platform recently introduced short-form videos similar to TikTok, and now they are pushing their length up to 3 minutes with the latest Bluesky version 1.99 update.…
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I Tried Prime Video’s New AI Dubbing, and I Have Thoughts
We may earn a commission from links on this page. When you watch a piece of media produced in a language you don’t speak, you have a couple of options. You can, of course, turn on subtitles and follow along by reading. But in some cases, you can switch the audio track to whichever language you speak. This is called…
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YouTube Premium Lite Gives You Ad-Free Videos at a Lower Price
YouTube is expanding its YouTube Premium Lite subscription service, which gives you ad-fre YouTube but without the added YouTube Music service and other features. It started in Thailand, Germany, and Australia, and now it’s available in the United States and will come to other countries soon. This new YouTube Premium Lite lets you watch most videos without ads for a…
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Prime Video’s new thriller is one of the most unique movies I’ve ever watched — and you need to experience it
On the surface, “Broken Rage” might seem like a fairly boilerplate crime thriller. It centers on an aged hitman forced to go undercover in a criminal syndicate after cutting a deal with two police detectives. It sounds like pretty standard stuff for the genre but this Prime Video original is hiding a secret. Directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano,…
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Tapestry Lets You Combine Social Media, Blogs, and Videos to Create Your Own Timeline
As convenient as the internet is, when big tech companies chase endless growth, that can mean bloat. Nowadays, it feels like every company wants to lure me into an algorithm trap, convince me to use their AI services, or try to make me pay a premium to browse like I used to. One of my favorite tools for fighting back…
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How to Save Your TikTok Videos and Data Before the Ban
If you’re a TikTok enthusiast, you probably have hundreds—or, more likely, thousands—of videos saved and organized into collections within your account. If you follow CR’s TikTok, maybe you’ve saved some of our expert laundry tips or advice for first-time car buyers to refer back to later. Archiving favorited videos en masse is more complicated and time-consuming than doing it one…
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How to bulk save your TikTok videos
There’s a general sense of doom on the TikTok feeds these days, and no wonder: it looks like the video service may be banned in the US as of January 19th. TikTok creators are offering satirical goodbyes to their Chinese spies and wondering how quickly they can download the several hundred — or thousand — videos they have up on…
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9 iPhone Accessories for Better Videos
You may have seen some videos online that were “shot on iPhone,” but somehow your own videos don’t quite match up. Let’s be real, there might be an iPhone at the center of it all, but those videos have been made with the help of numerous accessories, just like these essential examples. 1 A Gimbal DJI While modern smartphones all…
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