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Amazon's YouTube Workaround on Fire TV Works Just Fine (geekwire.com) 64

Last month, a notification that YouTube would no longer be available through Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices starting Jan. 1 popped up, threatening to leave a huge hole in Amazon's streaming lineup. But just last week, Amazon added the ability to surf the web and get to YouTube via a browser. But does it work? GeekWire thinks so: The result is a simple path to YouTube, circumventing Google's move to pull it from Fire TV. Web browsing probably wasn't a direct response to Amazon's issues with Google, which owns YouTube, but it provides a convenient alternative to keep the service accessible for Fire TV users. The first step is downloading one or both of the web browsers. Opening Firefox leads to this home screen with easy access tiles to both Google and YouTube. On Silk, the home screen defaults to Bing search. But as I poked around, I noticed that YouTube for TV showed up in my bookmarks even though this was the first time I opened the browser. A YouTube interface optimized for TV, the same one you would see on other streaming devices, pops up on both browsers. To sign in, YouTube prompted me to activate YouTube for TV through a phone or computer. Once that process was complete, YouTube showed the same personalized recommendations as my phone and computer.

Comment Chicken? Meet Egg (Score 1) 208

This sounds stupid, and also, even if it were true then this is something that gets solved the more autonomous cars you get on the road:

* You get more computer driven cars on the road, the roads will become more computer-car friendly. Think of signs or markings on the road that will tell the car where it is, or what kind of hazards are coming up via for example a QR code.
* Once you get more driver-less cars you get inter-car communication. Car up ahead does the full sensor sweeps and pass the results down the train, saving power for all the other cars.
* Once most cars are driverless, you'll get dedicated driverless car lanes which should be made easy to navigate for them
* And when human driven cars are totally extinct I expect cars to be able to navigate roads with something equal to a raspberry pi today.

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