You Can Get Amazon Fire Sticks for Over 50% Off Right...
Photo: Picturesque Japan (Shutterstock)Early Prime Big Deal Days deals are here. You can find an assortment of early deals like these Blink security cameras going for up to 60% off, this Ring camera bundle selling at 40% off, or this Echo Pop bundle going for 87% off. The actual Prime Big Deal Day, which will be…
You Can Get an Amazon Fire TV Stick for 57% Off...
Photo: Picturesque Japan (Shutterstock)If you’re looking for a low-cost, capable streaming device, Best Buy has a limited time deal with your name on it. Right now, you can get an Amazon Fire TV Stick for $22.99 (normally $39.99), plus three free months of Apple TV+, four months of Amazon Music, and a 30-day trial of Fubo…
Delete Your Snapchat to Escape Its Rogue AI
Earlier this wee, Snapchat’s AI chatbot, My AI, seems to have gone rogue. With no explanation, it posted a story to all Snapchat users consisting of a 1-second video of what looked like a wall and ceiling. This is not what My AI is supposed to do, and there is no explanation for why it…
The Best Amazon Fire TV Stick Deals for Prime Day
Photo: Colleen Michaels (Shutterstock)Amazon Fire TV Sticks are on sale for Prime Day, with some discounts over 50% off. Of course, there are a ton of deals happening for Prime Day, but also competition sales at other major retailers like Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. For their own products though—like Echos, Fire TV Cubes, and Fire Tablets—Amazon’s…
Amazon’s Fire TV Cube Has Its Cheapest Price Ever for Prime...
Photo: Eric Broder Van Dyke (Shutterstock)Amazon Fire TV Cubes are among the best sales happening for Prime Day. The hands-free streaming device is currently at $110, which is the cheapest it’s ever been. If you’re looking to upgrade your TV to be hands free and want an Amazon device to do it, this is as…
Why You Should Buy the Dumbest TV You Can Find
Photo: Gaurav Paswan (Shutterstock)Watching television used to be a pretty straightforward experience. At one time, there were roughly seven channels and you got them by fiddling with an antenna. But the proliferation of programming platforms and the advance of technology has made interacting with your television a much more complex experience. Enter so-called “smart” televisions…
How to Use Twitch’s New Security Features to Stop Hate Raids...
Photo: Ink Drop (Shutterstock)In news that will be a relief to any streamer who has ever been targeted on Twitch, the video-streaming site unveiled a new set of tools this week aimed at preventing “hate raiding” and other harassment. The much-longed-for features give creators and moderators greater control over Twitch’s chat by allowing them to…
How to Play Music on Your Livestream Without Getting Banned
Machine learning has helped solve many of our biggest tech-related problems, and now it can help you find and create auto-generating, royalty-free music to play on your videos and livestreams so you won’t get hit with a copyright violation. Mubert is a royalty-free music streaming service available on the web, iOS, and Android that uses…
Show Up to Your Next Virtual Meeting As a Pixar Character
Behold: Pixar Emily. Screenshot: Emily LongListen, we’ve all spent way too much time on video calls in the last year-plus, but we’re hanging on to whatever we can to make our time on Zoom (or Teams, or Google Meet) tolerable, if not a little bit fun. With the Delta variant on the rise, it’s obviously…
Update Your Snapchat Password Immediately
Snapchat users have bombarded with repeated, unexpected two-factor authentication (2FA) text messages this week, but it’s unclear whether the cause is due to a glitch on Snapchat’s end, or due to hackers attempting to break into unsecured Snapchat accounts en masse. Either way, it’s not a bad idea to update your Snapchat password right away.As…
