YouTube Music brings free background listening to Canada first

YouTube Music users in the country will soon be able to listen to their songs in the background while your phone screens are off or you're doing something else on your phone. What's great about this news is it's coming to free and Premium users. This is the first time YouTube Music offers a feature without requiring users to subscribe to its Premium tier. It is coming to Canada first, with other countries coming at an unspecified later date.

Starting November 3, it will be available on the standard ad-supported, personalized radio mixes, and any uploaded content you've added to your account. It might be a bit late in the game, given this is a feature we expect from music streaming apps. But at least we're getting first dibs.

Source: Google Canada | Via: The Verge

YouTube makes it easy to continue a mobile video on your desktop

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YouTube adds a new feature that makes it easy to switch from watching on your smartphone to your PC. If you're watching on the YouTube app on Android or iOS and exit before it finishes, a mini-player with the same clip will open in the bottom corner when you launch YouTube on the web. Instead of showing the channel name at the bottom, "Continue watching" is displayed beneath the title. The feature is rolling out to users. If it hasn't made its way to you, you might just have to wait a bit.

Source: Engadget

Razer and miHoYo collaborate on 'Genshin Impact'-themed accessories

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If you're a big fan of Genshin Impact, you might want to check out this new collaboration between Razer and miHoYo. They have come out with Genshin Impact-themed gaming peripherals, including the Iskur X gaming chair, Goliathus Medium gaming mouse pad, and DeathAdder V2 Pro wireless gaming mouse. 

Each accessory comes with in-game rewards, including 500 Primogems, 100,000 Mora, 20x Hero's Wit for the chair; 30 Primogems and 5x Adventurer's Experience for the mouse pad; and 200 Primogems and 80,000 Mora for the mouse.

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Samsung finally started taking out its ads from its first-party mobile apps

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As the company promised earlier this year, Samsung has begun taking out its ads from its first-party apps. And if the update made its way to you already, you won't see Samsung advertising things on Weather, Theme, and Health. Samsung Pay still gets a dedicated space for special offers, but it makes sense that the company retains that given what the app offers.

Now, if you still see ads on your Samsung device, you'll need to push through the update by using the force stop functionality in Android and then manually restart them. 

Source: Engadget