US Wireless Video Streaming Sucks, Study Says
The US lags behind dozens of countries thanks to arbitrary throttling practices. Continue reading US Wireless Video Streaming Sucks, Study Says
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Twitch Plays Battling Robots?
Audience interaction reached an all-time high in 2014 with Twitch Plays Pokemon, an online gaming stream where viewers were able to collaboratively command an emulated Game Boy playing Pokemon Red. Since then, the concept has taken off. Today, we see this extended to robots in the real world, with [theotherlonestar]’s Twitch Chat Controlled Robots.
The build is one that takes advantage of modern off-the-shelf components – an ESP8266 provides the brains, while a Pololu Zumo provides a ready to go robot chassis to save time on the mechanical aspects of the build. An L298N dual motor controller then handles …read more
A Few More Details About Microsoft’s Xbox Scarlett Game Streaming Service
Microsoft’s streaming service with its next-gen console is coming into focus about how the hardware will work and what to expect from the experience.
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Affiliate Movie Streaming Scam Service
Dear readers,
I’m sharing some information here wondering if anyone can identify the criminal affiliate program at the root of this scam service.
The scam begins with what seems to be an automated bot-response posted on Facebook. One of the outst… Continue reading Affiliate Movie Streaming Scam Service
Pewdiepie Is Teaching His Audience that Women Are Asking For It
A feud between Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg and a streamer who goes by “Alinity” encapsulates the way many gamers and Twitch streamers feel about women online. Continue reading Pewdiepie Is Teaching His Audience that Women Are Asking For It
Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme
A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely as possible. Continue reading Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme
How the Music Industry Messed Up Legal Streaming the First Time Around
Lessons from the music industry’s initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard. Continue reading How the Music Industry Messed Up Legal Streaming the First Time Around
Fix Your Insecure Amazon Fire TV Stick
I recently spent a largely sleepless night at a hotel, and out of equal parts curiosity and boredom, decided to kill some time scanning the guest network to see what my fellow travelers might be up to. As you’d probably expect, I saw a veritable sea of Samsung and Apple devices. But buried among the seemingly endless number of smartphones charging next to their sleeping owners, I found something rather interesting. I was as picking up a number of Amazon-made devices, all of which had port 5555 open.
As a habitual Android tinkerer, this struck me as very odd. Port …read more
Cord Cutting in the US Has Nearly Tripled Since 2013
A new report shows that the number of people who only watch TV through streaming services increased from around 5 million households to 14 million. Continue reading Cord Cutting in the US Has Nearly Tripled Since 2013
High-Effort Streaming Remote for Low-Effort Bingeing
There’s no limit to the amount of work some people will put into avoiding work. For instance, why bother to get up from your YouTube-induced vegetative state to adjust the volume when you can design and build a remote to do it for you?
Loath to interrupt his PC streaming binge sessions, [miroslavus] decided to take matters into his own hands. When a commercially available wireless keyboard proved simultaneously overkill for the job and comically non-ergonomic, he decided to build a custom streaming remote. His recent microswitch encoder is prominently featured and provides scrolling control for volume and menu functions, …read more
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