Caution: today's episode of 90 Seconds on The Verge may very well be our most concentrated yet. The news-to-second ratio is very high today. So is the antagonism: Apple and Samsung, EA and Zynga, Microsoft and a mysterious-yet-important European partner. At least NASA is spreading the love —...
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While the internet can be a distraction for some athletes, others are able to use it as an important motivational tool — and that's especially true for young runners, as Wired reports. These athletes use sites like Milesplit, Dyestat, and even...
Every so often Google rifles through its old and outdated products and puts a few out to pasture — just last month the company shuffled the last vestiges of Google Video over to YouTube and performed the last rites for iGoogle. Now Google Apps for Teams has been put on the chopping block. It gave small teams and schools access to Google's enterprise services without requiring a larger,...
YouTube has made a few subtle changes to how video feeds appear in subscription lists in an effort to clarify and highlight various content. Most recognizable are the larger, higher-quality thumbnails that include a bit more information, like uploader comments or the playlists a video is included in. Videos that have already been watched have whited-out thumbnails that draw less attention, but still contain the same relevant information.
If you hover over the far right of a video's entry, a small, downward facing arrow appears that will let you hide the video, bring up the uploader's recent submissions, or unsubscribe completely. YouTube is also making it easier for users to turn the content firehose back on. While the "Highlights view" will still present an automatically curated list of subscribed content, there's now a drop-down...
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YouTube has become the go-to place to enjoy concerts without leaving your house, and that trend continues this weekend as the site will be streaming the Lollapalooza music festival. This year's iteration includes performances from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Jack White, The Shins,...
4Chan today announced an impressive new milestone — to date the site has seen a total of one billion posts. The achievement was reached yesterday, though 4Chan points out that it's not quite sure which post was actually the billionth. The news...
Two days ago, developer and startup founder Dalton Caldwell published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg accusing Facebook of at first supporting his startup, then essentially threatening to crush it because it was competitive with a Facebook product. The story got a lot of...
