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The feature works in the same manner as following an account on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter, where you get new content from those accounts on your timeline. Here, any new articles published by the sites you follow on Chrome will surface on the new tab page. A new “Following” tab will appear alongside the existing “Discover” tab of recommended articles. If you have followed multiple sites, articles from each site will be listed separately....

If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, you’ve probably seen the pop-up about the Winter Olympics. The pop-up is basically reminding you to add the Winter Olympics to your DVR, so you can watch everything you wish to watch, and also letting you know that you’ll be able to watch in 4K. Now, not everything will be in 4K, the pop-up does say that some events will be in 4K while others will not....

Mohan was speaking with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast this week, and talked quite a bit about YouTube TV. And its price increases. Mohan mentioned that the price hikes are due to the “economic realities of how content pricing works and the like”. Mohan also noted that the new channel additions are usually user requested. Toward the end of the segment about YouTube TV, Mohan mentioned that there’s “not another price hike or anything in the near term”....

For starters, YouTube Music introduced Wear OS Shuffle For starters, YouTube Music introduced Wear OS Shuffle This is one thing that’s bothered people who use a Wear OS device: you want to shuffle your downloaded music using your smartwatch but can’t. The app didn’t allow people to do that. You could only shuffle your music in playlists. Well, with this new update, YouTube Music added Wear OS Shuffle. With this feature, YouTube Music will let Wear OS users shuffle the music they have downloaded on their devices....

The CEO talked about the increasing competition from apps like TikTok and Apple’s iMessage. “We also expect to make significant changes to Instagram and Facebook in the next year to further lean into video and make Reels a more central part of the experience,” Zuckerberg said during the earnings call (via). Additionally, he said that Facebook is conducting an internal “retooling” to increase focus on younger users, saying such users are its “North Star....