Jimmy Kimmel Made Fun Of Streaming And Proved Gamers Can’t Take A Joke

I’m more than a little tired of being embarrassed about the childish behavior of certain vocal contingents of the gaming community, and this latest example is hard to ignore. Last week, in conjunction with the launch of YouTube Gaming, Jimmy Kimmel did a short two-minute skit poking fun at the concept of video gaming streaming, aka, watching someone else playing a video game online.

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Google will soon stop considering sites with full-page app install ads as mobile friendly

Clicking through a search result and being greeted by an app install ad covering the whole web page can surely be frustrating. Looks like Google has taken note of this, and is taking steps to ensure that web-masters adopt user-friendly ways to promote apps.

“Starting today, we’ll be updating the Mobile-Friendly Test to indicate that sites should avoid showing app install interstitials that hide a significant amount of content on the transition from the search result page,” the search giant said in a blog post.

The Mountain View, California-based company also said that starting November 1, mobile web pages that greet users arriving from its search result page with an app install ad that hides a significant amount of content won’t be considered mobile-friendly, which effectively means that those pages will be demoted.

However, Google also made it clear that the change does not affect other types of…

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Pebble Time Steel Smartwatch Review: Less Smart, More Watch

In one sense, there’s very little to say about the Pebble Time Steel that hasn’t already been said about the Pebble Time I reviewed earlier in the year. Taking a leaf out of the history books of Palm, the Pebble Time Steel is the ‘upmarket metal-cased’ smartwatch that echoes the Palm V, while the Pebble Time is the slightly cheaper, plastic cased Palm III equivalent, both building on the original.

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