You can now tune into Facebook videos from your friends and global live broadcasts on Apple TV.
Fittingly dubbed “Facebook Video,” the new app from the social network offers videos shared by your network of Facebook friends, along with clips from Pages, top Live Videos from around the world, and recommended content based on your activity.
The app made its debut on Samsung’s line-up of Smart TVs, including its new QLED TV range, on Monday. Now, it has been spotted on Apple’s fourth-generation set-top box, 9to5 Mac reports. Facebook also plans to bring the video-centric service to Amazon Fire TV.
The Facebook video app takes the platform’s mix of personal and public broadcasts beyond mobile, desktop and laptop devices and on to a bigger screen. Additionally, viewers can see their history in order to rewatch clips. You can check out how the app looks on Apple TV in the screenshots below, via 9to5 Mac.
Apple TV users can download the free app from the tvOS App Store right now — it is also currently featured on the App Store home page. Samsung Smart TV owners can access the app by logging into their Samsung Smart Hub and downloading it. Then, all you have to do is enter a one-time Facebook login.
The big blue social network is currently busy ramping up its video offering. The company is reportedly in advanced talks to bring Major League Baseball games to its new app and desktop and mobile video tab. It also recently secured a deal with Univision to broadcast 46 games from popular Mexican soccer league Liga MX.
Last week, the web giant revealed how it plans to incentivize publishers (including Live video creators and media companies) to create more visual content using ad revenue-sharing. For viewers, this will essentially result in having to sit through several potential ad breaks during longer live and prerecorded broadcasts on the Facebook app.
Updated 02-28-2017 by Saqib Shah: Added info of availability of Facebook Video on Apple TV.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?