CDs have been around for a long time, with people still having ones from decades ago. Even today, CDs — which stand for compact discs — are sold to people who like owning physical music and want the additional content included with the physical copy rather than what is on streaming services.

Physical media is having a bit of a revival at the moment, and vinyl is getting a lot of attention with claims about its supposed superiority over digital audio. Music CDs, on the other hand, have received a more muted revival.

They're aimed at protecting minors, but the rules are not universally supported.

The company is suggesting that its work with traditional fact checkers could come to an end.

NVIDIA unveiled new AI for Media tools at IBC 2026 for real-time video upscaling, frame generation, synthetic-video detection and live broadcasting.

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NVIDIA unveiled new AI for Media tools at IBC 2026 for real-time video upscaling, frame generation, synthetic-video detection and live broadcasting.

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Snapchat Plans lets you organize IRL gatherings, though it's missing one seemingly obvious detail.

WhatsApp has ended support for Android 5.0 and 5.1. Learn how to check your software, back up chats, and move to a compatible phone if necessary.

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The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.

WhatsApp has ended support for Android 5.0 and 5.1. Learn how to check your software, back up chats, and move to a compatible phone if necessary.

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Small and medium-sized business owners can lack the time and budget required to keep their audience...

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Australia plans to let social media users choose algorithmic or follow-only feeds under new digital safety rules targeting platform design and control.

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Australia plans to let social media users choose algorithmic or follow-only feeds under new digital safety rules targeting platform design and control.

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The insights section of the Threads app now surfaces AI summaries and contextual info about post performance.

Plex is best known as the streaming platform that lets you host your own video content and then stream it to devices on your local network. However, Plex has so much more to it, and chances are there's at least one of these five features you weren't aware of.

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into your PC. Chances are, though, that nowadays your PC doesn't have a CD drive. So what do you do when you want to play your old games on your new PC?

For most people, a 25-year-old video patent expiring sounds like a piece of legal housekeeping that has nothing to do with their computers. But for Linux users, it removes one more obstacle that has historically made something as basic as playing a video more complicated than it should be. Here’s everything you need to know and what this means about your media usage.

A federal court decided that "Twitter" was off-limits, but tweet and the bird logo were fair game.

X’s continued need of “formerly Twitter” just won it a preliminary injunction.

Instagram will limit recommendations for AI-generated influencer profiles that fail to disclose their synthetic identities under a new labeling policy.

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