Category: YouTube
Unboxing videos reach their inevitable conclusion with the unboxing of a hibernating tortoise
For a few years now "Unboxing" videos have been a bewilderingly successful thing on the tech scene. For any new gadget, it is de rigueur to post videos to YouTube of them being unboxed - with some companies even making their own rather than relying on tech vloggers to do it. With this video though,…
Cat purring flagged by YouTube as copyright infringement
First they came for the cats, and I did not speak out, because I was not a cat. Fresh questions are being raised about YouTube's content ID system for identifying copyrighted material after the website reportedly flagged an hour long loop of a cat purring as belonging to EMI. According to Torrent Freak that cat,…
Fantastic Four: first-look trailer
Will it be third time lucky for the classic Marvel Comics superhero team? The first two Fantastic Four outings didn't exactly set the world on fire back in 2005 and 2007, so 20th Century Fox is pinning its hopes on this 2015 reboot. From the Fox press release: "Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s…
Interstellar trailer remade for just $20
Christopher Nolan spent $165 million to make his sci-fi epic Interstellar. But maybe he didn't need to spend that much, as YouTuber Chandler Perry has shown with his $20 three-minute retelling of the almost-three-hour-long space drama. Perry gives a breakdown of the cost in his video description: Prop List (before tax) Tin Pans $2.00 Duct…
The Digest: Console sales rise… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Console sales up dramatically in 2014 as Xbox One finishes strongly | Engadget "Console fanboys, get ready to gloat - or mope. Actually, (nearly) everybody can be cheered by the latest data from NPD, which showed console sales up a cool 20 percent from last year to to over $5 billion. Leading the…
The Digest: New details on Sony hack… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] FBI Director Comey reveals new details on the Sony hack | The Verge "Speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Manhattan, FBI director James Comey went into more detail about how the FBI determined North Korea was behind the recent digital attacks on Sony Pictures, which culminated in the partially canceled release of The…
YouTube adds automatic GIF creation tool to share options
Ever feel like the internet has gone full circle? After living through the 90s and early 2000s when high quality videos on the internet were just a distant dream, even though we can now stream in 4K, the whole world has gone GIF crazy again. Pandering to this trend, YouTube has added an intriguing new…
YouTube adds offline viewing on Android… for some people, anyway.
Google has announced that it is adding the ability to view videos offline on the Android YouTube app - but currently only for users in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. The new functionality will apparently let users download and cache videos for up to 48 hours without needing an internet connection. The reason for the…
The Digest: ‘Spiderdog’ tops YouTube… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] 'Mutant giant spider dog' tops YouTube chart | BBC News "A Polish film maker's short horror film featuring his pet dog in a tarantula costume was the biggest trending video on YouTube in 2014, parent company Google has announced. With over 113m views since it was posted in September, Mutant Giant Spider Dog…
The Digest: Apple names top apps… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Apple names its top apps of 2014; Uber makes the cut | Mashable "Apple compiled its annual list of what it considers to be the year's most standout apps, with categories ranging from 'best apps' to 'best games'. Some notable inclusions are Yahoo News Digest, Facebook's Paper and the SwiftKey Keyboard app. With…
