Hey guys Brainy here and welcome to another video on the channel and welcome to another
episode of tech news.
Now before I get on with the video I wanna say one thing, and that is the reason why
there was a lack of videos for about 2 weeks.
Well, that's mainly because I haven't been 100% in the last few weeks, mainly with
a sore throat but now things are clearing up and I'm ready to get back into the grind
of making videos.
Now, lets get into it.
So a majority of the stories for today come from the verge .com with another coming from
Cnet.com so let's start with cnet.
YouTube is cutting it's 30-second unskippable ad format next year.
Yeah you heard right.
Youtube has planned to get rid of their 30 second unskippable ad format by 2018.
Google will scrap the unskippable 30-second advertisements that sometimes play before
YouTube videos.
Shorter ad formats, such as ones that can be skipped after five seconds, will remain.
It remains to be seen how this will impact YouTube Red, Youtube's paid subscription
service, a selling point of which is ad-free.
"We're committed to providing a better ads experience for users online," a Google spokesperson
said, confirming the report.
"As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018."
To the surprise of no one, most viewers are not fans of YouTube ads.
In a survey done by Accenture last year, over 80 percent of respondents from various countries
said they thought their online video watching was interrupted by ads too much.
It's possible that Google is making the move after feeling heat from Facebook, a company
that's been focusing more and more on video content in recent years.
So that's quite interesting.
As to how it will affect the ad revenue of content creators, I do not know but I think
youtube will most likely come up with something to replace this ad format mainly because youtube
is in the business of making money and making a profit.
So, they probably have something else in mind.
But onto something else, lets talk about one of the most popular devices planned for release
this year.
The Nintendo switch, in an article from the verge.
Four things you should get for your Nintendo Switch before it arrives.
Now, sometimes when I see articles like this I scroll away but hey, I was a bit interested.
And well, I made a mistake.
The article basically talks about the basic necessities for almost any device that you'll
be using in 2017.
And while they're not lying in their post, to someone like me, it wasn't a complete
necessity.
So what they mentioned was MicroSD Cards, A Case, Usb C Cables and an Ethernet adapter.
Now they did make some good points in their post and I will link it below as usual if
you wanna go in depth into what they said.
Moving on it seems that Apple could include Kinect-like camera tech in next iPhone.
Apple is said to be working on "revolutionary" camera technology, which could be used for
facial or iris recognition, augmented gaming experiences, and 3D selfies for the next iPhone.
That's according to a new research note by the typically reliable KGI Securities analyst
Ming-Chi Kuo, summed up here by 9to5Mac.
Though this kind of tech might be uncommon on a smartphone, what Kuo is describing sounds
a lot like the tech Microsoft popularized with the Kinect — the setup is even pretty
much the same.
Kuo says that Apple will build this technology into the front of the next iPhone, augmenting
the traditional camera sensor with an infrared projector and receiver.
(The Kinect is also composed of a traditional camera, an infrared projector, and an infrared
receiver.)
Now this story is actually very interesting and if Apple actually goes along with this
idea it would be a really interesting test for the company to see how this would effect
users experiences on a whole.
Finally our last bits of news are both circulated around Samsung.
First off, Samsung will soon let you unlock any Windows 10 PC using a Galaxy fingerprint
reader.
Samsung is planning to expand its Flow Android app to support Windows 10.
Samsung first introduced the ability to unlock its Windows 10-powered Galaxy TabPro S with
a Samsung Flow app for Android last year.
You simply use the fingerprint reader on a compatible Galaxy smartphone to unlock the
Windows 10 tablet.
Sammobile reports that Samsung has responded to requests to make this feature available
across any Windows 10 PC, and the company is now planning to enable this with the Windows
10 Creators Update.
While Microsoft hasn't officially announced a release date for the Creators Update, it's
expected to arrive in April.
Samsung was already using Microsoft's Windows Hello Companion Device Framework to enable
its fingerprint unlock, and it appears the company is simply expanding on that with the
latest update to Windows 10.
Now finally a bit of information on the Galaxy S8.
The Galaxy S8 design might have just been confirmed by a leaked Samsung app.
A leaked version of Samsung's Secure Folder app for the Galaxy S7 has been making its
way around the internet this morning.
But alongside offering fingerprint security for a specific folder of apps and contacts,
the leaked app might also have confirmed the design for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8,
as spotted by SamMobile.
The leaked image seems to confirm the various rumors about the S8, albeit in the broadest
way possible — a buttonless design with dramatically reduced bezels, similar to leaked
images from last month.
The app would also seem to indicate that Samsung is planning to bring the Secure Folder feature
— previously exclusive to the now defunct Galaxy Note 7 — to the S8, in addition to
the S7.
The Galaxy S8 is expected to be released toward the end of March, when we'll presumably
find out more on the design and software of Samsung's next flagship.
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