multimedia
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Netflix Turns Things Around After Months-Long Struggle
Netflix has gained more than 2.4 million paying subscribers over the past three months, the company announced in its 2022 third quarter earnings report. The uptick in customers is more than enough to make up for the back-t0-back drop in memberships the streaming service incurred earlier in the year. The number also exceeds expectations.
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Winamp Is Back (Again) to Play all Those MP3s You Don’t Have
Winamp died! And then it came back! Then it died again! And now it’s back once again, as the first release candidate of the re-resurrected Winamp 5.9 has been made available for download to a new generation who years ago transitioned away from MP3 files to streaming services.
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This Controller Lets You Feel VR Objects Slip Between Your Fingers, and the Possibilities Are Endless
The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been considerable research into creating VR controllers that let users touch and feel virtual objects as if they were real, but the SpinOcchio…
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I Would Happily Go Back to Using an MP3 Player if I Could Put Winamp in My Pocket
Despite the fact that nearly every device I rely on now has the capability to play or stream digital audio files, I would still happily embrace the inconvenience of carrying around a standalone MP3 player if it put Winamp, one of the earliest MP3 players for PCs, in my pocket.