The 2012 London Olympics will pack an impressive 302 medal events into a little more than two weeks. In past years, catching all of the action meant hours and hours spent parked in front of the boob tube. Not anymore.
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NBC’s Olympic Livestreaming Is a Step Forward. But Is It a Permanent One?
Right now, NBC believes that it’s in its business interest to let you watch every Olympic event live online. But will it still feel that way when live streaming becomes more mainstream?
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All Olympic Events Will Be Streamed Online – But There’s a Catch
All rounds of all 32 sports in the London 2012 Olympics, medal ceremonies included, will be streamed live at NBCOlympics.com, the website set up by NBC Universal, which has exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast the Games. There’s just one caveat, though.
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YouTube Wants You to Comment Using Your Real Name
Most of the time reading comments on the Internet is like attending a slightly dysfunctional family dinner, full of passionately argued, half-baked political theories and tasteless jokes. Wandering into a YouTube comments …
YouTube Launches Face-Blurring Feature to Protect Protesters
During the Arab Spring, a lot of the footage coming out of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya wasn’t taken by the major news networks but rather ordinary citizens armed with cellphone cameras. The footage spread on sites like YouTube and …
Online Blockbuster?: Tom Hanks’ ‘Electric City’ Debuts on Yahoo Today
Hanks’ 90-minute, 20-episode series is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind, 360-degree online interaction of digital, social, mobile and gaming media.”
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Video: Equiso’s Android-on-a-Stick Turns TVs into Smart TVs for $70
Boston-based Equiso is looking to be an early Smart-TV-on-a-Stick contender with its $70 thumbdrive-sized device that plugs directly into your TVs HDMI port, turning your set into a big-screen version of Android.
Our Nominations for the Internet Cat Video Film Festival
We thought that the Internet Cat Video Film Festival, on Aug. 30 in Minneapolis, would be the purr-fect excuse to round up our favorite cat videos on the web. Here are our 10 nominations.
Issa Rae of ‘Awkward Black Girl’ on the Future of the Web Series
The writer and producer spoke to TIME at the Essence Music Festival about role models, representation, race—and why being awkward is the worst.
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Netflix’s Biggest Fans: Kids (and Moms)
For decades, television has been used as a babysitter by parents desperate to get dinner on the table or for a few minutes of calm amidst the drama of child rearing. But instead of channel surfing, kids today are increasingly surfing the digital library of Netflix to get their cartoon fix.
Peel’s AllPlay: A More All-Encompassing Guide to What’s on TV
Last year, I reviewed Peel, an intriguing smartphone application–it’s free, although it also works with a gizmo that turns it into a universal remote control–designed to make it easier to find the handful of TV shows you’ll …
WATCH: Skydivers Stream Live Video from Google’s Connected Glasses
In case you missed the Twitteruption caused by most of the tech press earlier this afternoon, Google demonstrated its wearable, connected glasses (Project Glass) by having a bunch of skydivers jump out of a blimp and land atop …
