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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WhatsApp to roll out emoji reactions

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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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First 'Cyberpunk 2077' expansion to launch in 2023

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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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SiriusXM launches 'Live Experiences' with a FREE Alexisonfire concert

SiriusXM Canada announced a new multi-year partnership, making it Live Nation Canada's official audio music streaming partner. The strategic partnership will shine a spotlight on live music and comedy events from coast-to-coast in 2022 and beyond with SiriusXM bringing on-site perks, activations, broadcasts and more to fans and SiriusXM subscribers.

To celebrate the partnership and return of live events, iconic Canadian rock band Alexisonfire will perform a concert – their only Toronto appearance this year – on April 27 at HISTORY, Live Nation Canada's newest entertainment venue. The concert will be ahead of their 4-day concert series, Born & Raised, in their hometown of St. Catharines with co-headliner City and Colour. The band's latest album and first record in 13 years, Otherness, will be released on June 24, 2022. Fans can score a pair of FREE tickets* on a first come, first serve basis beginning April 15 at 10 AM EDT by visiting ticketmaster.ca/SiriusXM-AOF.

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