There’s flying a drone and then there’s flying a drone. While the former invariably involves gentle climbs and careful descents, the latter can include breathtaking speeds, sudden turns, and, if you’re still learning the ropes, lots of crashes. These faster, more sophisticated flights are often performed by FPV (first person view) drones. For those not […]
Getty Images One in eight porn videos promoted to first-time users of the UK’s leading adult sites are labelled with text describing sexually violent acts, according to a study. It analysed titles and descriptions of 131,738 videos on Pornhub, XVideos and XHamster’s launch pages. One researcher said the prevalence of descriptions of rape, physical abuse […]
The new clip button. Ron Amadeo The clip button brings up this timeline interface on the right. Pick 60 seconds of footage, give it a name, and share! Ron Amadeo The URL works just like YouTube’s normal share window, and it’s embeddable. Ron Amadeo This is watching a clip. Clips aren’t new videos. Like linking […]
While two videos have been taken down, this stacksmashing video on loading Doom onto the Game & Watch unit remains up. Nintendo is using copyright strikes to take down YouTube videos that detail how to hack the recently released Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. color handheld. A hacker going by the handle stacksmashing managed […]
If you’ve recently taken delivery of a brand new iPhone 12 and are keen to shoot some experimental video shots, Apple has you covered. The tech giant has just released its latest “Shot on iPhone” video (above) offering some inspiration on how you can put your new Apple handset to work. In partnership with creatives […]
Instagram Stories allows you to add your favorite tunes to a video or photo from directly within the app, but you can also use third-party apps to add music to Stories and feed posts. We’ve found several that get the job done. From Drake to Billie Eilish, you can now turn your Instagram account into […]
[embedded content] Converting a 16:9 video to a vertical or square shot and back again is about to get simpler, thanks to artificial intelligence. On Friday, September 13, Adobe teased a new Auto Reframe tool headed to Premiere Pro before the end of the year. Powered by artificial intelligence, the upcoming tool analyzes the footage […]
Flixel When a mere photo just isn’t enough, a video seems like too much, and nothing seems quite right, it’s time to contemplate creating a cinemagraph. This medium combines still photos and video in a particular way that isolates and animates certain parts of the scene while the rest of the tableau remains static. Cinemagraphs […]
Oleg Dudko/123RF Long ago, when people wanted to capture the ephemeral television broadcasts of their favorite shows, they had to use a blank tape and a VCR to record it. Today, the process is a bit easier. If you want to download and archive a Vimeo video for personal use, you can do so with online […]
Pixabay.com/Pexels When it comes to YouTube and the rankings of its most popular videos, you’ll most likely think of it in terms of how many views or likes a given video receives. But just because a YouTube video happens to have a ton of views or millions of likes, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s protected […]
Apple/YouTubeApple/YouTube Apple posted four “ASMR” videos to its YouTube channel without any explanation. ASMR audio and videos are hyper-focused on gentle, quiet, sometimes repetitive motions or audio that’s designed to mesmerize, entrance, and relax. Perhaps Apple wants everyone to chill out, or it’s advertising that its iPhones can produce great ASMR videos. You can check […]
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday strongly rebuked Facebook, saying the company’s refusal to take down altered videos of her demonstrated how the social network contributed to misinformation and enabled Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “We have said all along, poor Facebook, they were unwittingly exploited by the Russians,” Ms. Pelosi said […]
Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence May 23 at 10:32 PM Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation that clouds public understanding can now grow at the speed of the […]
As Apple’s first macOS 10.15 beta is now only months away from its WWDC 2019 debut, the company has continued to warn users that certain old apps won’t work going forward — a compatibility break due to dropping support for 32-bit apps. Now the company is releasing updates to its video editing apps Final Cut Pro […]
In the aftermath of New Zealand’s deadly mosque shootings, Facebook removed more than 1.5 million videos worldwide of the massacre that live-streamed on its platform. In an update released Saturday, company spokesperson Mia Garlick said 1.2 million of those clips were blocked before they could be posted. That means 300,000 made it online. Reached for […]