YouTube is testing the ability to make short clips, between five and 60 seconds, of live streams or videos, starting today on desktop and Android devices (Bijan Stephen/The Verge)

Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web  —  WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.