Monthly Archives: November 2022

Best Ways to Beat the Bloat

Do you ever feel like someone should attach strings to you and float you along Central Park toward Macy’s? Bloating affects all of us. Sometimes, it’s worth the discomfort, but often it’s just unpleasant and embarrassing. You can beat the bloat, however, by avoiding things that cause you to retain water, swallow air or produce…

Netflix Launches ‘Basic With Ads’ Plan, But It Doesn’t Currently Work on Apple TV

Netflix launched its new ad-supported plan this week, but it doesn’t yet work on Apple TV devices, including the new third-generation ‌Apple TV‌ 4K launching today. Costing $6.99 per month in the United States, the new “Basic With Ads” plan is $3 cheaper than the standard Basic plan, but ‌Apple TV‌ owners looking to take…

Apple Tasks Second Assembly Partner in India With iPhone 14 Production

Apple has added another assembly partner to its iPhone 14 production roster in India as it seeks to build out its manufacturing base outside of China, reports Bloomberg. Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron is set to become the second Apple supplier to produce ‌iPhone 14‌ models in the country behind Foxconn, which began production in India…

YouTube wants to take on TikTok with Shorts videos for your TV

YouTube Shorts, the Google giant’s TikTok-alike feature, has become one of the video website’s latest obsessions, with more than 1.5 billion users watching shortform content on their devices every month. And now YouTube wants to expand that number by bringing full-screen, vertical videos into your TV, MIT Technology Review can reveal. From today, users worldwide…

YouTube Shorts are coming to your TV — and taking over the platform

Vertical video is coming to a TV near you. (Vertical TVs next?) | Image: YouTube YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube’s endless-scrolling short-form TikTok competitor, is quick to quote the numbers: 1.5 billion users a month are watching Shorts, and they’re watching 30 billion…