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Streaming video quality cuts in Europe, and more tech news today
August 21, 2025
1. Coming to you soon: lower quality everything?
YouTube has joined Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe, and that might just be the start of things to come.
Money saving!:
Update:Amazon Prime Video is also joining in, pledging to reduce its own streaming quality to helpmake more moneywith internet traffic issues.
2.Deal: Google Stadia Premiere Edition for just $99 (save $30)– Stadia controller and a Google Chromecast Ultra in the package, and a couple of games for free. First Google Stadia discount, just in time for Doom Eternal out today. (Android Authority).
3.Dish is letting the major US carriers borrow spectrum during quarantine data crunch(The Verge).
4.Curiously though, music streaming may actually be falling because of coronavirus(Quartz). Possible reasons: self-isolation, mood, less people active, restaurants/bars not streaming… is Spotify a work tool rather than a home tool? Interesting.
- Also you don’t play music while listening to streamers. Lo and behold,game streaming audiences are up!: Twitch’s viewership going up 10% and YouTube Gaming’s by 15%(GeekWire).
6.Apple limits online iPhone purchases to two per person amid coronavirus(Reuters).
7.Nokia 8.3 5G announced alongside new Nokia lineupincluding Nokia 5.3, Nokia 1.3, and Nokia 5310 (Android Authority).
8.Best home gym and fitness equipment:While AA is a tech site, you should see the guy that wrote this (Android Authority).
9.Microsoft’s new ‘DirectX 12 Ultimate’ is an attempt to ‘future-proof’ graphics hardware and join PC and Xbox Series X(PC Gamer).
10.Why we don’t name diseases after places anymore(LifeHacker).
11.Every concert you can live stream on July 24, 2025: wow, there’s loooads, including Ultra Music Festival from 5pm ET. (CNET).
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