Near the end of 2021, YouTube made the controversial decision to make dislike counts private across the entire service. You can still dislike YouTube videos with the thumbs down button, but the only people who will ever see those dislikes are the channelās owners. At the time, YouTube explained that the goal was to protect…
Thereās a lot going on with TikTok lately, but who would have ever thought that a TikTok video would lead to a major carmaker having to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to people? Well, thatās exactly what has happened. Hyundai and Kia have agreed to pay out $200 million in damages to settle…
Thereās nothing I love more than kicking back at the end of a long day and watching an hours-long video on *checks notes* Twitter? Thatās apparently what Elon Musk is hoping I do, because the Chief Twit took to the social media platform today to announce that Twitter Blue subscribers (that are also verified) are…
Text-to-video is the next big thing in AI. We saw a couple of weeks ago how awesome (and a bit creepy) the AI-generated Pepperoni Hugspot commercial was. Pizza Later, the person who developed that video, told us that they used a tool called Runway Gen-2 (opens in new tab) to do the moving images in…
With all of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro design leaks dropping on a daily basis, it was only a matter of time before the phoneās exclusive features started leaking as well. As reported by 9to5Google, Google Photos is testing a new unblur feature for video. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro already…
If it hurts your eyes to watch old, lower-resolution videos on the web, Microsoft is looking to fix that. In a blog post, the company announced a new feature called video super resolution for Edge, its web browser. The feature, which is being tested with Edge Canary, āuses machine learning to enhance the quality of…
Instagram wants photographers to know that it hasnāt abandoned them. As reported by The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri was hosting a weekly Q&A with users this week when was pressured about the companyās recent focus on video. Between more videos in the feed to the launching of Reels, the app has made a big…
Popular chat app Telegram recently got a new update that introduced several interesting features. One is the ability to blur elements of an image or video when sharing it on Telegram. The feature will let people conceal sensitive details when sharing content on Telegram. You can even use it to hide away photobombers. Thereās also…
In a surprising twist, Intel’s future 14th Generation Meteor Lake CPU architecture will reportedly split video playback and encode functionality from the integrated graphics into a new area known as an SMU or Standalone Media Unit on the CPU, as reported by Phoronix. It is a significant change by Intel, which will allow media functionality…
Next Wednesday, Apple will reveal the iPhone 14. That is a bit earlier than we expected, but anyone looking to upgrade will be able to get their hands on the newest phone even sooner this year. If you are one of those prospective upgraders, then you might be wondering what the phone looks like. You…
