Citizen Sleeper 2 asks how we stay human in a hopeless future

Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape donâ [...]

YouTube now lets you hide Shorts

You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you don’t want to see them. YouTube has rolled out the capability to set your Shorts feed limit to zero minutes, which co [...]

YouTube Shorts will integrate Adobe Premiere's video editing tools

Adobe Max kicked off today with a slew of announcements — mostly in the world of AI. But the company also used its creative conference to share that Adobe Premiere's video editing tools are bei [...]

Conan O'Brien May Have Convinced Me to Get a Flip Phone

Commentary: On his podcast Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, the comedian describes how getting a "dumb" phone was life changing. I'm enticed. [...]

Google is adding the Veo 3 video generator to YouTube to slopify Shorts

Google will integrate the Veo 3 video generation tool into YouTube Shorts later this summer. This was revealed by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at a keynote during the Cannes Lions film festival that was tra [...]

YouTube is updating the Shorts video editor to make it a better alternative to TikTok

YouTube is updating the video editor for Shorts to better compete with the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels, and teasing some AI-powered features that are coming later this year that might make it [...]

YouTube is adding a timer to Shorts so you don't scroll the day away

YouTube is adding a timer to Shorts to help curb all of that incessant doomscrolling, according to a report by TechCrunch. This feature is rolling out to all users after being spotted in an Android AP [...]

Nintendo's Pikmin shorts were about showing off its animation studio's chops

Nintendo has cleared up the biggest mystery since Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story by revealing what the two animated shorts it released this week were all about. The company says the [...]

OpenAI suspends Sora depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. following a request from his family

OpenAI has paused video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sora at the request of King Inc., the estate that manages his legacy. The company said in an announcement on X that it worked with the [...]