How long does it take to really get to know a TV-streaming service? After all, this could be the thing that replaces your pricey cable TV subscription. Is seven days -- the standard trial period for the likes of Sling TV, YouTube TV and others -- enough time?Nope. I think you need a solid month to decide if any given service is the right choice. Which brings us to this: For a limited time, Groupon is offering a free one-month Philo trial. Normally, you get just seven days. The trial is for new subscribers only.I actually just started testing Philo last week, and it didn't take long before I decided it was the best cheap live-TV service for cord cutters. Indeed, the standard 45-channel plan costs just $16 per month and includes unlimited DVR.Read more: The best live TV streaming services for cord-cuttersAs is common with trials like these, you'll need to use a credit card when setting up your account, and you'll start getting billed automatically after the trial period ends -- unless … [Read more...] about Try TV-streaming service Philo free for a month
You can now play YouTube Music on your Google Home for free
Google is expanding your free choices for music on Google Home. The search giant owns YouTube, but while you've been able to access the site's premium music streaming service, you couldn't access the free tier of YouTube Music on your smart speaker until Thursday.You can now play the ad-supported free tier of YouTube Music on Google Home and the company's other smart speakers like Google Home Mini. YouTube Music Premium costs $10 a month and gets rid of the ads. Along with YouTube Music, Google's smart speakers currently support both the free and premium versions of Pandora, Spotify and Google Play Music.You can make any of those your default music service, so when you ask to play a song with a voice command, the Google Assistant built into Google Home will search your preferred service first.The blog post announcing the update specifically mentions smart speakers, so hopefully the change rolls out to smart displays soon. Starting Thursday, you'll be able to play YouTube Music for free … [Read more...] about You can now play YouTube Music on your Google Home for free
Moto G6 available for $99 on Google Fi right now
For a limited time, Google's mobile network Google Fi is selling the Motorola Moto G6 for $99 -- that's $150 cheaper than its retail price of $249. As premium phones get more and more expensive (like the $1,000 iPhone XS Max or the $2,000 Galaxy Fold), it's important that affordable, midrange phones are available for other users who don't have much to spend. When the Moto G6 launched in 2018, it was one of CNET's favorite budget phones. In his CNET review Patrick Holland said it was "a sublime value" with minimal drawbacks. Now playing: Watch this: Motorola Moto G6 and G6 Play review 3:20 The phone is available on Google's Wi-Fi first network, which uses local Wi-Fi networks first (the same kind you set up at home, or connect to at a coffee shop or airport) to patch calls, send texts and browse the internet. If Wi-Fi coverage is not available or too weak, the network will then switch to US carriers T-Mobile's, Sprint's or US Cellular's networks. Since November 2018, the … [Read more...] about Moto G6 available for $99 on Google Fi right now
Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump
According to the report, the IRA had dozens of employees who were responsible for "operating accounts and personas" on all these social media sites. The IRA referred to these employees as "specialists," and they were in charge of creating pages that pretended to be personal accounts of people in the US and, later, fake US organizations. In one particular instance, the investigation found that the IRA controlled a Twitter account with the username @TEN_GOP, which purported to be connected with the Tennessee Republican Party but wasn't. Additionally, the IRA made accounts to pose as anti-immigration groups, Tea Party activists and Black Lives Matter protestors, all with the intention of pitting Americans against each other.The IRA also found ways to bring its digital footprint into the real world, using tools like Facebook Groups to recruit moderators of conservative pages to promote the toxic social media content it was generating. At one point, per the report, the IRA recruited someone … [Read more...] about Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump
42,000-Year-Old Foal Entombed in Ice Still Had Liquid Blood in Its Veins
A 42,000-year-old foal discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost contained a surprise: the oldest liquid blood on record. This is the second time that a defrosted Ice Age animal has turned out to contain liquid blood, said Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the Mammoth Museum at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. In 2018, Grigoriev and his colleagues extracted liquid blood from a 32,200-year-old mammoth carcass. That makes the foal's blood the oldest ever found by 10,000 years. Grigoriev and his colleagues are set on cloning a mammoth and other Pleistocene fauna, and they're already trying to clone the foal, a member of an extinct species called the Lena horse. It's a long shot, though, Grigoriev wrote in an email to Live Science. [Photos: Perfectly Preserved Baby Horse Unearthed in Siberian Permafrost] "But," he said, "we in Russia say that hope dies last." Lena horse The Lena horse (Equus caballus lenensis) foal was found in the Batagaika Crater in eastern Siberia last year. … [Read more...] about 42,000-Year-Old Foal Entombed in Ice Still Had Liquid Blood in Its Veins