Instagram Launches Youtube Competitor Video Application

Instagram today announced the launch of IGTV, a standalone app for uploading old vertical videos. This app is touted to be a competitor Youtube. IGTV is now available for android and ios devices.

Reported by The Verge, this application is designed to facilitate the owner watch video through smart phones. CEO Kevin Systrom says, in most video apps, one should search for the desired video first before setting it. Instead, IGTV easily sets the video immediately after the application is opened, like when someone turns on the television.

IGTV also allows owners to upload videos directly to Instagram. Uploaded videos are 10 minutes long and can be up to an hour. "For the long term, users can upload unlimited videos," says Systrom.

Efforts to bring video features to the app also made parent company Instagram, Facebook Inc. Previously, Facebook announced the latest features of the game as a part to revive the almost dead live video feature. Facebook also amendanai news program for its own video tab called Watch.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2 Bring Power 32 Core

AMD This week promises to ship Ryzen Threadripper 2 processors in the third quarter of 2018. Ryzen Threadripper 2 competes with Intel that brings the power of 28 cores.

Reported by Theregister on Thursday (7/6/2018), on Monday, Intel, manufacturer of desktop processors and server systems unveil the 28-core Core X-series chip intended for workstations, gamers and other high-end desktop.

Introduced at the Computex event in Taiwan, the processor has a power of 5GHz with a rather large liquid cooling system and is considered less practical. The processor is reportedly going on sale this year.

On Tuesday, at Computex, AMD announces the 12nm second generation Ryzen Threadripper based on Zen + x64 architecture that offers 32 core advantages and 64 hardware threads.

Before the Ryzen chip family entered the market in 2017, Intel released a processor with six, eight or 10 cores for high-end computers. Then, AMD launched the first generation Threadripper with 16 core power for high-performance PC and Intel raise their cores back to 18, now 28 cores for desktop.

Instagram Intend To Extend Video Duration Up To One Hour

Restricted video duration on Instragram may be for some people considered a gig. Because not infrequently users have to cut up the video in order to post the video.

However, to overcome this, Instagram is considering to extend the duration of videos that can be uploaded.

Quoted from The Verge, Wednesday (6/6), Instagram is reportedly developing a new feature, which allows users to post videos up to one hour. With the new features, Instagram is considered to be able to match YouTube and its own parent company, Facebook. However, the plan Instagram is still tentative, aka not necessarily done.

If it is done, the new feature is rumored to be focused on vertical video, like Instagram Stories. It's just not clear whether longer videos will be allowed only in that part of the app or are also allowed in the main feed.

Currently, Instagram Stories are limited to 15 seconds, videos in the main feed can run a little longer in 60 seconds.