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Discovery+ launches today, and it’s available on Fire TV, Roku and more

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Discovery waited until the last possible moment to announce where you can stream content from Discovery+. But now that the service is officially available in the US, the company has finally shared that information. The list of places where you can do...

Discovery+ starts streaming in the US on January 4th for $5 per month

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Discovery’s long-in-the-making streaming service is nearly ready. The media giant has revealed that its Discovery+ service will launch in the US on January 4th, 2021. It’ll cost the $5 per month you’d expect for some specialty services, but that stil...

Eurosport follows ESPN in airing an esports racing championship

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A pan-European TV network is joining ESPN in broadcasting virtual races while motorsport is shut down due to COVID-19. Eurosport has signed a deal to broadcast Torque Esports’ The Race All-Star Series on cable, satellite, IPTV and streaming (both liv...

Smithsonian opens up 2.8 million images to the public

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The Smithsonian Institution is releasing a whopping 2.8 million high-res, two- and three-dimensional images from its collections to a new Open Access online platform. The material comes from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, librarie...

Food Network’s cooking classes begin on Echo Show and Alexa devices

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At Amazon's big Alexa event last month, Discovery revealed its Food Network Kitchen service, which is now live across its iOS and Android apps and Alexa-powered devices. It includes live, interactive cooking classes featuring the network's star chefs...

Food Network’s cooking instruction service lets you ask Alexa for help

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Discovery wants to be your one-stop shop for cooking classes, and it's enlisting Amazon's help to make that happen. The broadcaster has unveiled a Food Network Kitchen service that offers a mix of live classes from celebrity chefs, on-demand classes...

Bullet’s captioned snippets make podcasts a lot more shareable

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While becoming more and more popular, podcasts are far less share-friendly than videos because of their long-form and audio-only nature. An Adelaide-based company aims to change that with a new iOS app called Bullet. It lets you create 30 second vide...

‘Unprecedented’ 3D magnetic interactions could change computing

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The field of spintronics, or spin electronics, uses an electron's spin and its magnetic movement to encode instructions and other data. It's sometimes seen as an alternative to electronics, which relies on the electron's charge to encode data. While...