YouTube's new paid service and Star Wars ticket madness (CNET Radar)
YouTube's new paid service and Star Wars ticket madness (CNET Radar)
2015-10-24
these are the top stories of the week a
new paid version of YouTube Microsoft's
making money Star Wars ticket blows and
what flew under the radar google
announced a new paid version of YouTube
called YouTube read it costs 999 per
month and with that price you'll see no
ads on videos you'll be able to save
videos for offline playback and videos
will play in the background on tablet or
phone apps all of those features extend
to YouTube's gaming sites and a newly
announced YouTube Music app but wait
there's more the price also includes a
google play music subscription if you
have a subscription of google play music
you'll have a subscription of YouTube
red and vice versa google also says
there will be exclusive content for
YouTube red subscribers starting early
next year youtube red launches october
20th don't worry youtube with ads still
exists for free microsoft announced
earnings and there was a big surprise
bing is now profitable being is
microsoft search engine and for years it
was a money-loser in a recent earnings
call microsoft said that Bing brought in
over a billion dollars in revenue with
an operating profit big searches are up
since it's integrated into Windows 10
and it powers Microsoft's assistant
Cortana it was a mixed week for Star
Wars fans the good news is a new trailer
arrived in tickets went on sale the bad
news is getting tickets was a mess for
lots of people people trying to buy
tickets on fandango were greeted with
error pages fandango in a statement said
traffic surged to seven times it's
typical peak levels which should explain
the problems so if your favorite Star
Wars fan seems to press now you know why
let's check with flew under the radar a
company called magically released a demo
video showing how augmented reality
would look using this technology in the
video you first see a floating robot
under a table next you see the planets
orbiting the Sun while a person works in
the background the craziest thing is the
small text on the bottom of the video it
says shot directly through magic leave
technology on october 14 2015 no special
effects or compositing were used in
creation of these videos now why is this
important a while ago magically showed
off its vision of augmented reality
controlling apps in the air and playing
a first-person shooter with the help of
special effects house wetter this time
magically claims this is the real deal
we
have yet to see the magic leaf device
and things like pricing and availability
still aren't known but it sure does look
cool for more information on everything
tech go to cnet.com Amaya's akhtar
signing off
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