What’s big and scary and orange and glows in the dark? If you said a jack-o-lantern, close, but not quite: Try Google’s latest, greatest doodle, a time-lapse video of a quirky pumpkin-carving jamboree.
An anti-piracy bill currently in Congress could, if passed, put Justin Bieber in jail for five years, according to a new online campaign against the bill. Clearly, this campaign has not considered that the idea may cause all manner of conflict for those who are pro-electronic freedom but anti-Bieber.
The Steve Jobs tributes keep coming, from temporary Apple Store closings to Jobs’ official biography, due out next Monday. Add Apple’s new, presumably long-term and maybe even permanent Steve Jobs tribute page to the list.
Not content going head-to-head with Netflix and iTunes by offering streaming video-on-demand movie rentals, YouTube is rumored to be close to announcing a $150-million plan to unveil multiple new channels of all-original content in the hopes of becoming a rival to major television networks
If your dream for the next year is to spend as much of it as possible watching political campaign ads and the parodies thereof, then YouTube has just made your life a lot easier (Also, you might want to think up a more fulfilling dream). The site launched YouTube Politics yesterday, a new channel dedicated [...]
“Maybe we should have gone with the line from Wet Seal instead.” Alright, so that’s not really what Target said after its website crashed and burned yesterday as fashion-crazed shoppers swarmed the company’s servers and wrestled Target.com to its knees, but it might be close.
Hello Wednesday and welcome to a new Internet, where domain names with a proper top-level dot-XXX suffix will take you by the hand and lead you, well, somewhere they used to lead you with dot-nets and coms. No, I don’t mean a bunch of websites dedicated to the “kiss” half of “hugs and kisses,” or [...]
Hulu has one more suitor in its upcoming selloff… but this one is already playing hard-to-get.
Streaming movies online is public performance, no matter how you do it. At least, that seems to be the takeaway in the preliminary injunction granted against Zediva by a federal judge presiding over the Motion Picture Association of America’s current suit against the video-on-demand provider.
Finally, it’s been officially proven: Animals doing human things are better than humans pretending to be animals doing human things. To promote its travel search site, Hipmunk has released the viral video to end all viral videos, “Internet Memes Better with Cute Animals,” in which humans re-enact some (in)famous YouTube clips to prove said theory.
Most of the robots we’re vaguely familiar with are good at menial tasks, like welding car parts or assembling microchips. But that isn’t to say that what they do isn’t difficult: Those tasks require ultra-precise data to be programmed beforehand. And though there are practical applications for spatially aware technology–like the Roomba–the algorithmic decision-making process [...]
