When does a heckle become a racial taunt?
The Cavaliers are investigating an incident Sunday night in Cleveland when a fan is alleged to have yelled a racially insensitive pejorative at Spurs guard Patty Mills while he was shooting free throws. Mills replied to a fan's video post on Twitter in which the fan's heckling can be heard. …
YouTube Updates Live Streaming Features
SpaceX's successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket provided a recent showcase of YouTube's live streaming capabilities, attracting 2.3 million concurrent views. Kurt Wilms, YouTube's live video product lead, said the Google-owned site is offering new tools to improve on the experience for creators … Read More
YouTube Goes Local With Location Tagging for Uploads and Live Streams
YouTube now allows creators to tag their video uploads and live streams with locations, which in turn makes it possible for viewers to find videos and streams by location. The new feature was announced together with a number of other YouTube Live updates Monday. YouTube's mobile app now … Read More
YouTube live streams will soon include automatic captions
YouTube is announcing a few new features today meant to improve the experience for viewers watching live streams. First, the company has announced that it's bringing automatic English captions to live streams whenever professionally provided captions aren't available. The continued goal is to make … Read More
Despite ban, justice for talaq victims yet so far
Hyderabad: Though the Supreme Court has banned 'Triple Talaq', justice eludes women whose husbands had pronounced 'talaq' through WhatsApp and postal letters. Talaq cases of several women had grabbed public attention in February 2017, with the police registering cases against in-laws and … Read More
We can’t go to Kumasi – Final whatsapp chats Ebony had with management before accident
We can't go to Kumasi – Final whatsapp chats Ebony had with management before accident. Author: Charles Ayitey … Manager of the 20-year-old singer, Bullet Ruff N Smooth, released all conversation Ebony had with her management on their Whatsapp platform just hours before her trip to Kumasi. Read More
Man receives WhatsApp invite to join Lashkar group, cops question two teenagers
A team from the Rajasthan Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) along with the Bhilwara police conducted an inquiry on Monday and spoke to two teenagers who had allegedly created a WhatsApp group titled Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to the officials, a resident of Uttar Pradesh had alerted the police that an … Read More
Twitter can’t stop crying about Netflix’s “Queer Eye” reboot, and honestly, neither can we
Whether they're overhauling a house, a sense of style, or a mindset, makeover shows in any form are undeniably appealing. And when the makeover show at hand features some fabulous mentors and inspirational pep talks, you've really got yourself a smash. Which could explain why people are so … Read More
#NewLook: Twitter Eyes Redesign to Promoted Trend Ads
Twitter is experimenting with a redesign to its one of its first ad products, the "promoted trends" that let advertisers highlight the subject of their choice near the platform's closely watched list of trending topics. The idea is to make them more visual and in the process restore enthusiasm for …
LAPD Twitter account hacked to declare ‘White Supremacists’
The Los Angeles Police Department main Twitter account @LAPDHQ was hacked Monday to declare the force's members are "white supremacists. … Josh Rubenstein, the LAPD's public information director, in a message said the department's Twitter account had been hacked. "We are working to lock it … Read More