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CNET Update - GoPro streams live video directly to Periscope

2016-01-26
get ready for extreme live streams and your twitter feeds I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update GoPro action cameras can now send a live stream of video to periscope which is owned by Twitter that means in your Twitter feed you may come across live video from someone recording on their GoPro but there are some restrictions anyone can see it but to broadcast you do need to have an iPhone and one of the newer GoPros the hero4 black or silver camera the periscope app lets you switch between showing the iphone view or the GoPro view and the footage is still saved locally on the camera even while broadcasting in real time a few X Games athletes will be streaming live this week from Aspen and buttermilk mountain and you can catch it on GoPros Twitter account but this also means you can expect people to be streaming in real time from their drones so do we call these drone casts and speaking of casting those of you with the new Apple TV should now have a software update to get the Apple podcast app so you'll be able to stream your favorite video podcasts from your living room likessee net update of course it never made much sense why you couldn't get podcasts before when the older Apple TV models already had it but it's there now and if you are a Mac or iPhone user beware for print going around that can crash your browser if you go to the website crash safaricom guess what it's going to crash your Safari browser but the link isn't always obvious right away if it's hidden in a short URL so people are trying to fool others to click on it the website overloads the Safari browser and after a few seconds it forces your phone to reboot some may notice their phone will get hot as it tries to process the page there are reports it can also screw up chrome on Android but a reboot should fix things remember kids always practice safe browsing but here's a new twist on safe driving uber is starting to monitor its drivers in the US to see if they are speeding by looking at the phone's accelerometer and other motion sensors the idea is that if a passenger complains but the driver accelerates too fast and brakes too hard uber could into a driver's phone sensors to see if it's true in the long run it can also gather data on the average speed of a driver down a certain path and which drivers are going faster than they should the phone knows all that's it for this tech news update being catch up on the latest at cnn.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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