Periscope added GoPro support earlier this year, allowing drone owners to mount one of the cameras and live stream to the service. If you own one of the more recent DJI drones though, Periscope will now natively connect to the drone's remote to broadcast footage live. In an app update this week, the new feature will let you switch between the drone's camera and your iPhone camera, and even sketch on the video to highlight points of interest....
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The 12 best iPhone apps of 2015 0
December 23rd at 4:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsFrom beautiful new games to apps that helped supercharge our productivity, many apps became new favorites in 2015.
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Bjork launches virtual reality app for iPhone and iPad 0
December 22nd at 7:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThe real world finally caught up with Bjork's virtual reality style music, and now you can get it via an iOS app.
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LG to launch webOS 3.0 with mobile connection for smart TVs 0
December 22nd at 6:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsLG is hoping its webOS 3.0 platform can compete with the new world of set-top boxes.
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Twitter's Periscope claims App of the Year in Apple's 2015 App Store picks 2
December 9th at 9:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Wednesday published its annual Best of 2015 feature for the App Store, highlighting the company's own picks as well as overall bestsellers.
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Periscope Turns Screenshotting Into A Social Experience 0
September 22nd at 7:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new version of Periscope popped itself up on the App Store today which allows viewers to share screenshots that they take during your stream. Additionally a little screenshot icon will show up in chat letting you and everyone else know that a screenshot has been taken.It’s a really smart feature that works seamlessly, giving the viewer some context to share with their own…
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Periscope live video viewing app in development for next-gen Apple TV - report 0
September 8th at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwitter's Periscope platform will come to the next-generation Apple TV in the form of a third-party app, to be available for download on the device's dedicated App Store, a new report reveals.
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Periscope now lets you mute users who live stream too much 0
July 28th at 8:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsTwitter has added a much-needed feature to its Periscope livestreaming app: the ability to cut back on notifications from those who livestream way too much.
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You can now mute people who Periscope too much 0
July 28th at 12:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe rise of live-streaming apps this year has proven a boon to journalists, media organizations, and everyday people who find themselves standing at the center of a news event â and those who want to watch them unfold. But their drop-everything-and-look nature can be addictive, and frequent broadcasters wind up spamming the notifications of the people who follow them. It's been my biggest complaint about Periscope, Twitter's live-streaming app, from day one. Today the company took an important step...
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You can now watch Periscope replays on the web 1
June 24th at 1:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsSince live streams began taking over Twitter feeds earlier this year, a common complaint has been that they end before you could watch them. Periscope did enable replays within 24 hours after a stream ended, but only on its apps for Android and iOS. That changes today with the launch of web replays. Just click a link to a Periscope stream, and once the page opens in your browser, you can hit the play button to re-live the stream....
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Periscope’s new map view helps you find broadcasters by location 1
June 5th at 9:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe iOS version of Periscope, Twitter's livestreaming app, received an update yesterday that brought with it a new map view. The new view lets users browse streams from specific locations around the world, selecting live broadcasts from different areas by zooming in on countries, cities, and towns. Streamers will see their broadcasts appear automatically on the map view if they enable location data sharing in the app....
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Now Periscope lets you sign up without a Twitter account 1
May 12th at 6:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsPeriscope's update lets you sign up for the service without the need of a Twitter account.
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You can now stream on Periscope without a Twitter account 1
May 12th at 6:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsA new update released today for Twitter's iOS-only livestreaming app, Periscope, means you no longer need a Twitter account to start broadcasting video through the service from your smartphone. While Twitter still recommends you sign up through a Twitter account so it can use your social graphs to find people to follow, new users can now sign up using their phone number instead. The update also makes it easier to reply to comments on live broadcasts, changes the app to show when a streamer blocks a...
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New York Times goes free in app update, Periscope moves beyond Twitter accounts 0
May 12th at 4:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a pair of iOS app updates on Monday, The New York Times dropped subscription fees for unlimited article access, while live-streaming video app Periscope added profile creation options for users who lack Twitter accounts.
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iOS-exclusive Periscope torpedoed Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV sales, promoter says 0
May 5th at 7:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsEven after shattering pay-per-view records, at least one person involved in the "fight of the century" believes it could have been even bigger without the availability of illegal video streams through Twitter's iOS-exclusive Periscope app.
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Periscope's new follower-only mode keeps strangers from trolling you 1
April 8th at 6:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsOne of the beauties of Twitter's Periscope live video streaming service is how easy it is to start a broadcast and instantly have a bunch of strangers not only watching it, but interacting with you too. Yet the very same features that make it so easy to engage with others also ended up turning Periscope into a potential troll den. Anyone watching your public stream could come in and leave comments seen by you and everyone else. There was also a record of it for a potentially embarrassing 24 hours...
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Twitter's Periscope tackles interface and bug issues, Waze gets speed boosts, traffic bar 0
April 2nd at 8:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwitter today released its first update to Periscope, solving a variety of early glitches and interface issues, while Google upgraded its Waze navigation app to be faster and offer several new features, such as a traffic bar.
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Periscope's first update tackles boring feeds and notification overload 0
April 2nd at 4:35am / The Verge / 0 opinionsLast week, live-streaming app Periscope burst onto the scene in a flurry of notifications and videos of strangers' fridges. Now, the Twitter-owned app has released its first update aimed at fixing these (and other) problems....
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‘Scope Meets World 1
March 26th at 11:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMovies, financial markets and fashion trends all fall into frenzies, dips and lulls. Consumer apps are much the same. Whether it’s photo-sharing, anonymity or live streaming, it seems that a confluence of apps all doing similar things at the same time is a natural occurrence.
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Twitter launches Periscope, a Meerkat-like live video streaming app 1
March 26th at 6:49am / Macworld / 0 opinionsiPhone users got another app on Thursday to help them share live video streams after Meerkat launched several weeks ago. This time Twitter is getting into the game with Periscope.
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Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live-streaming, is now available 0
March 26th at 3:53am / The Verge / 0 opinionsLive-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response. But for sheer drop-everything, look-at-me arrogance, nothing beats the push notification that says "LIVE NOW." Iâm doing literally anything, the notification says. Watch now, or youâll miss out forever....