Saturday
Apr162022

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup – 4/10 – 4/16

Saturday
Apr162022

YouTube Shorts will let you splice long-form videos into your clips

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If you wanted to use a part of a YouTube video in your Shorts clips, that's now possible with a new update to the feature. It brings a similar experience to TikTok's Stitch feature. You can add 1- to 5-second segments of eligible long-form videos and Shorts to use in your clips. Of course, the original clip will be credited in the video via a link. You get a lot of videos to use, but, of course, creators have the option to exclude their content from being remixed. The videos with a copyright claim or set to private can't be sampled. iOS users are the first to get the feature, while Android users will get it later this year. YouTube is also making Shorts available on the web and tablets, so you should be seeing a Shorts tab across your different devices over the next few weeks.

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Friday
Apr152022

WhatsApp to roll out emoji reactions

Source: WhatsApp

You can soon add emoji reactions to your WhatsApp chats. The app will be getting six emoji reactions first when the feature launches "soon." But the Meta-owned app promises to bring "all emojis and skin-tones" in the future. Right now, you can react to messages with a thumbs up, heart, laughing face, shocked face, crying face, and the prayer hands. Sometimes we're just too lazy or preoccupied to type out how we feel about certain messages, so we're happy to see WhatsApp include the option. 

WhatsApp also increases max file size sharing to 2GB instead of the 100MB limit before. And you can get up to 32 people in a voice at once instead of eight.

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Friday
Apr152022

First 'Cyberpunk 2077' expansion to launch in 2023

Source: CD Projekt Red

After a rocky release for Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red is ready to move forward with the game. The developer announced that the first expansion for the title is coming in 2023. Unfortunately, beyond that announcement, we don't know anything else. All CD Projekt Red says is that we can expect more details "later this year."

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