VLC, the hugely popular media playing service, is filing one of its gaps with the addition of AirPlay support as its just crossed an incredible three billion users. The new feature was revealed by Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the service’s lead developers, in an interview with Variety at CES and it will give users a chance to beam […]
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Netflix has nothing on this polar bear webcam livestream
What better way is there to cope with the cold weather than to watch polar bears canoodling in the snow?
Folks, Explore.org’s polar bear cam is back and they’re giving us a close-up livestream of the adorable animals as they play around in the Tu…
A bear cam mom showed up at the river with 4 cubs. How many will survive?
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One of the most watched bears in the world — Bear 402 — has returned to Alaska’s brown bear cam this summer with a litter of four small cubs.
Bear 402 typically spends much of July standing atop the Brooks River waterfall waiting for salmon to leap into the air on their journey upriver. Here, explore.org has positioned cameras in Katmai National Park to watch wild brown bears, like 402, catch fish, tussle, and grow fat during the long days of the Alaskan summer.
This summer, Bear 402 will attempt to keep four mostly helpless cubs alive. And this is a mighty task. Litters of two and sometimes three are common, but rarely four. And in the past, 402 has had trouble keeping just one young cub alive. Read more…
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Cannibalism, infanticide: The dark side of Alaska’s bear cam
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On a sunny May morning in 2014, as the Alaskan subarctic was beginning to warm up, park rangers watched a young female bear, Tundra, explore the marshland around the famous Brooks River.
Two months later, she was dead.
Tundra, also known as Bear 130, had been partially eaten by another bear.
Her grim death, like many harsh bear realities, happened beyond the view of the bear cams — the live streaming webcams set up along the mile and a half Brooks River by explore.org.
One of the peaks of the bear-viewing summer season has now arrived, as the legendary Alaskan salmon run entices brown bears to congregate around the Brooks River waterfall, in remote Katmai National Park. In this wild, far-off realm, people globally tune in to watch bears snatching salmon out of the air, and once full of fish, dozing beside the river. Read more…
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View More Cannibalism, infanticide: The dark side of Alaska’s bear camThe brown bears of Alaska’s bear cam are already fighting for dominance
The salmon run has yet to begin, but the big bruisers are already vying for dominance in Alaska.
One of the five webcams along Katmai National Park’s Brooks River captured an early-season confrontation between two of the rivers largest and most domin…
A dominant brown bear has returned to the Alaska bear cam, seeking fish and females
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Bear 747, one of the largest and most dominant Brooks River bears, has returned to his fishing grounds.
The brown bear is one of the first spotted this year on the five webcams positioned along the salmon-rich river in Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Former Katmai ranger Mike Fitz, who has returned to the park to report on the bears for explore.org — the philanthropic organization that sets up and supports bear cam — said he spied 747 recently, and has seen other dominant bears beginning to roam the verdant area.
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It’s rare to watch a bear trying to awaken from a six-month slumber. But it’s happening right now at Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana.
From over 350 feet away, rangers have positioned a live webcam upon a lofty black bear den — a sizeable hole some 50 feet up in a cottonwood tree. The bear was first spotted poking its head out of the winter den on March 23, and has been seen there every day since.
According to the park, vigilant cam watchers have seen the bear scampering around the tree’s branches or even traversing down the trunk. But the bear, whose sex is still unknown, returns back to the confines of its winter den. Although it’s early spring, the time that black bears begin awakening from hibernation, the live feed shows that it’s still snowing quite a bit, so perhaps the bear has little incentive to go searching for vegetation. Read more…
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Computer webcams are a hot topic for those worried about internet privacy — and we’re not just talking about that Season 3 episode of Black Mirror that we all hate. The most devious of hackers can hijack your computer view, invade your privacy, and catch you in some pretty compromising positions.
2016 was the year that proved that webcam danger is totally real. In August that year, a mother woke up to discover that a hacker had taken pictures of her daughter’s room with the security cameras. Former FBI director James Comey even suggested that covering your webcam was tantamount to locking your house or your door. That probably explains why even Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg covers his own webcam. Read more…
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View More Get a webcam cover and ease your anxieties about internet privacy and creepy online hackersHow to check if your Airbnb host is secretly filming you
It’s straight out of a nightmare. You’re staying in an Airbnb with your partner on a romantic getaway, and discover as you’re packing up to leave that a hidden camera placed in the bedroom captured your every move.
What to do? Well, immediately…