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Amazon is selling Ring's newly released Battery Doorbell 2K (2nd Gen) for $39.99, down 60% from its $99.99 list price. The device records 2K video with up to 6x Enhanced Zoom and a 140°x140° field of view, and includes Live View, Two-Way Talk, motion alerts, and a rechargeable battery for wireless installation. It's available in Speckled Gray, Speckled White, and Matte Mocha finishes.
At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled updates to its 2025 creator dashboard, adding an AI 'agent' that scans a creator's back catalog for videos gaining new relevance and suggests updated titles or thumbnails. The tool can also generate sponsor pitches using channel demographic data, and creators can now get AI feedback on thumbnails or have the system auto-generate them, alongside a dynamic thumbnail A/B testing feature that assigns different images to different audience segments.
Adobe has released a full version of Premiere on the Google Play Store for most Android devices, offered free with optional paid features. The app supports importing multiple video tracks, trimming, splitting, adding effects, exporting up to 4K, extracting audio, reducing background noise, and adding voiceovers, replacing the discontinued Premiere Rush app.
Adobe has released its Premiere video-editing app for Android devices, roughly a year after it debuted on iOS. The free app includes a multitrack timeline, templates, transitions, and generative AI tools powered by Adobe's Firefly models, with some AI features requiring a subscription once free credits run out.
Adobe released its Premiere mobile video editing app on the Google Play Store, extending a tool that debuted on iOS last year. The free app supports a range of Android phones, including foldables like the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 8, allowing editing in both open and closed configurations.
Amazon Web Services is giving select customers early access to a video-generation AI model built by The Biological Computing Company, which derives its algorithms from patterns observed in rat brain cells. The startup records how biological neural tissue processes visual information and then designs software that mimics those processes, aiming to make existing generative video models more efficient. Both companies expect a broader rollout to AWS enterprise customers to follow this limited preview.
Actor Austin Abrams, who stars in Zach Cregger's new video game adaptation 'Resident Evil,' revealed he drew inspiration from the horror-comedy 'Shaun of the Dead' when developing his character. Abrams said he embraced an unpolished, everyman approach to surviving a zombie outbreak rather than playing his role as a conventionally heroic action figure.
A tech guide outlines how homeowners can assemble their own smart security systems using motion sensors, door sensors, cameras and video doorbells that store footage locally instead of in the cloud. The approach avoids recurring subscription costs charged by brands like Abode and SimpliSafe, while still letting users customize and expand their setup over time.
Disney Plus revised its subscriber agreement in Europe, sparking confusion that ads would now appear across all its plans globally. In reality, ad-free Standard and Premium subscribers in Europe and the US see no change to their viewing experience under the updated terms.
A new game in the Silent Hill series, titled Silent Hill: Townfall, has been revealed, signaling the franchise's return to its roots in psychological horror. Details on release date and platforms have not been disclosed yet.
A comparison of major apps found that video streaming services like YouTube, Netflix and Prime Video consume the most mobile data, with usage climbing sharply at higher resolutions—YouTube alone can burn through over 15GB per hour at 4K. Video calling apps such as Zoom use less per hour overall, though group calls increase consumption because separate audio and video streams are downloaded for each participant.
Prime Video has launched Neagley, a spinoff of its hit series Reacher, centering on Maria Sten's character Frances Neagley as she investigates the suspicious death of her childhood friend Tommy. The eight-episode series follows Neagley into a cult-run commune where a psychoactive drug tied to a pharmaceutical company appears connected to the death, with Alan Ritchson's Reacher making a brief cameo appearance.