YouTube Will Run Back-to-Back ‘Ad Pods’ Before Videos to Reduce Interruptions YouTube has finally realized that fewer ads are better for a more immersive user experience, and also lead to fewer viewer dropouts from the video. The company will launch ‘Ad Pods’ or back-to-back commercials before a video begins to boost visibility metrics for the ad and also decrease user attrition mid-video due to multiple ad breaks. “Our recent user experience research suggests that in addition to factors such as the length of ads, viewers are quite sensitive to the frequency of ad breaks, especially during longer viewing sessions....

Chrome Will Soon Let You Organize Tabs into Groups If you are among people whose entire day involves sifting through a ton of tabs and often findChrometedious to use in your workflow, your suffering might soon come to an end. Google is working on a new feature that will make organizing tabs on Chrome browser much easier by allowing users to bundle multiple tabs in separate groups. The upcoming feature, which is currently in the early stages of development, is calledTab Groupsthat will let users‘visually organize tabs’....

How to Take a Screenshot on Android Taking a screenshot might sound like a very simple thing to do, however, with different manufacturers including multiple methods to take screenshots, and a plethora of third party screenshot apps that bring added functionality, it can be somewhat confusing to figure out the best way to get screenshots on your Android smartphone. So, if you’re wondering how to capture screenshots on Android, here are all the ways that you can try....

Latest OxygenOS Update Improves OnePlus 6T’s Screen Unlock OnePlus has released a new OxygenOS update for theOnePlus 6Twhich brings a number of system improvements, camera optimization and solves a notification issue associated with third-party apps. OxygenOS 9.0.6 is now being rolled out as an OTA update in a phased manner and will soon reach users in all regions. The changelog states that the update will improve the screen unlock experience, however, it is not clear if it enhances the authentication speed of the in-display fingerprint sensor....

10 Years of Emojis on iPhone: A Brief Timeline Apple has played a major role in popularizing emojis ever since they arrived on the iPhone 10 years ago on November 21, 2008. Back then,emojiswere only available on the iPhone solely for users in Japan when iOS was called the iPhone OS. Now that emojis have completed 10 years since their arrival on the iPhone, let’s take a look at brief the history behind them and how they’ve evolved over the years....

50 Best Black Friday Deals on Games For PC, PS4, XBox One It’sBlack Friday time! Which means all the best games of the year are being sold at a bargain. Most AAA titles start coming out during the fall season, and Black Friday is the perfect time to buy them without having to pay the full price. If you’re a PC pr console gamer, you’ll certainly be interested in some of the great discounts that we’ve hunted for you....

Amazon Admits It Exposed User Names and Email Data, But Refuses to Say More 2018 seems to be a particularly dark year when it comes to user privacy. We all know what happened withFacebook’s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, right? And just when I thought that we’ve been through enough this,Amazonhas now confirmed that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses and names. The e-commerce giant says that it encountered a technical error that mistakenly exposed some users’ personal data....