Category: Entertainment

YouTubers have raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees

[ad_1] YouTubers created videos about trees to promote TeamTrees, leading over 500,000 viewers to donate to the cause. While most donations were about $5, Elon Musk donated $1 million. He even changed his Twitter handle to @Treelon to draw attention to TeamTrees. The Arbor Day Foundation will begin planting the trees next month and will […]

The best games on Apple Arcade

[ad_1] Assemble With Care Cassette players. Film cameras. Slide projectors. In Assemble with Care, antique restorer Maria must repair objects and, in the process, help each owner ‘fix’ a fractured relationship. It’s wonderfully satisfying to take apart an old gadget and figure out how all of its components — which often include dinky cogs, wires […]

The Morning After: Samsung’s clamshell folding phone

[ad_1] Another Fold, but vertical this time.Samsung’s next foldable phone could be this RAZR-like clamshell Weibo user Wang Ben Hong shared five photos of what he claims to be Samsung’s latest foldable prototype — one that appears to be half the size of the Galaxy Fold. There’s no word on internal specs, but we can […]

Google Play Movies now lets you search Netflix and Disney+ content

[ad_1] You can search Netflix and Disney+ content by linking your accounts to the Play Movies app. To do so, open the app menu and go to “Manage services,” and you’ll see a selection of streaming services which you can add. With that done, if you search for a TV show or movie through Play […]

Facebook Watch could soon play music videos

[ad_1] Facebook previously negotiated with the labels to let users include songs in videos they post, but it doesn’t have the rights to official music videos. If it’s able to obtain those rights, Facebook could share full-length videos on Watch. That would likely drive more users to the service, and it could position Watch as […]

TiVo announces plans to merge with entertainment tech firm Xperi

[ad_1] The new entity will merge TiVo’s content aggregation, discovery and recommendation capabilities with Xperi’s home, automotive and mobile device licenses. According to TiVo, the two companies hold more than 10,000 patents and applications with minimal license overlap. That intellectual property will make Xperi one of the largest licensing companies in the world. “The combined […]

‘Mario Kart Tour’ rewards Gold Pass subscribers with multiplayer beta

[ad_1] Mario Kart Tour was released for iOS and Android in September, but unusually for a Nintendo game it was purely a single-player experience. Last month Nintendo confirmed it would be launching a real-time multiplayer mode, but only for paid Gold Pass subscribers. A Gold Pass costs $4.99 per month to unlock extra content as […]

Apple TV+ video game comedy series ‘Mythic Quest’ debuts February 7th

[ad_1] There are plenty of familiar names attached beyond McElhenney (who also stars as the developer’s creative lead) and Day. Philadelphia alumni David Hornsby and Megan Ganz are executive producing, while the cast includes Hornsby as well as F. Murray Abraham and video game actress Ashly Burch (Horizon Zero Dawn and Life is Strange). Mythic […]

YouTube’s series on AI with Robert Downey Jr. is finally available

[ad_1] In the debut episode “How Far is Too Far?,” the actor introduces viewers to Soul Machines CEO Mark Sagar. Sagar is a special effects artist who worked on films like King Kong and Avatar who is using his expertise in animating faces to create an AI-animated digital avatar for the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am. […]