Tribeca partners with YouTube to host a free digital film festival to benefit WHO

With film festivals having to be cancelled or postponed, Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube decided to host one big digital film fest called the "We Are One: A Global Film Festival." The 10-day festival will take place on YouTube starting May 29 until June 7 over at YouTube.com/WeAreOne. And the programming will include content from 20 festivals, including Toronto, Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Locarno, New York, and more. The festival will be free for viewers, but there will be a way to donate through the channel. It will benefit the World Health Organization as well as other relief partners for this COVID-19 pandemic. We don't know yet what will be shown, but it will include films, shorts, documentaries, music, comedy, and conversations. The full schedule will be released closer to the festival start date.

'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' to stream on Disney+ on May 4

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Star Wars Day a.k.a. "May the 4th" becomes even more special. Disney+ will be home to the entire Skywalker saga as the streaming service adds Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on the said date. It's the same day the documentary series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian and the series finale of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be airing. 

With shelter in place ordered in a lot of places around the world, it seems like Disney and Lucasfilm want to take advantage of that captive audience. And while Star Wars fans can't celebrate outside of their homes, this might be the next best thing.

Apple Music is coming to Samsung Smart TVs

Here's another first for Apple and Samsung. Apple is bringing Apple Music to Samsung smart TVs, particularly those launched in 2018 and later. It's the first time Apple is bringing its music streaming service to a smart TV. The look of the app is similar to the Apple TV version. Recent Samsung TVs also have the Apple TV app, which gives you access to Apple TV+ service, Apple TV channels, as well as movie and TV show rentals and purchases.

Source: MacRumors

Twitter tests a new way to discover quoted tweets

When you use Twitter, you know that there's an option just to retweet a tweet or retweet one with an attached comment. A new test on the platform will make it easier to view "Retweet with comments" tweets over those that were just retweeted. The new feature will be seen alongside existing Likes and Retweets number counters, so you'll know how many retweets have comments attached to them. It is being tested on a small group of iOS Twitter users. But even though the social media network is testing out the feature, it doesn't necessarily mean that it'll get a wider release. Twitter is known to experiment with user interface changes without adopting these versions. So, we can't say if this particular test will amount to a UI change soon.

Source: The Verge