YouTube on Wednesday said it’s launching 11 free new original shows as people spend more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. They include a dance special called Move With Me featuring dancer and producer Matt Steffanina, and a show about people being creative together during the pandemic called Create Together With Me, hosted by …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. YouTube, the most popular video platform in the world, has only become more popular during the coronavirus pandemic. As people around the world shelter in place, the Google-owned site has attracted parents on the hunt for children’s content, consumers looking for news, and …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As children stay home from school amid the coronavirus pandemic, parents have been on the lookout for apps and other content that’s safe for their kids. Google on Wednesday said it wants to make it easier for parents to find that content with …
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YouTube has a new free video-building tool to help businesses keep their customers connected during shutdowns and restrictions amid the spread of COVID-19. YouTube’s beta Video Builder can animate static images, text and logos with music from its library, Google announced Tuesday. YouTube says it made the tool available faster than planned “because businesses of all sizes are strapped for …
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With no March Madness, can I interest you in a bit of April Absurdity? The NCAA basketball tournament is canceled and the NBA season is on hold, but hoop fans can fill the roundball void with a virtual NBA 2K20 tournament. And not just any NBA 2K tournament you might find on Twitch. For one thing, 16 current NBA players, …
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During quarantine, my wife and I are rewatching Community on Netflix as our kids watch it for the first time, and we cannot recommend Letterkenny on Hulu highly enough. (We would advise kid-free viewing for the latter.) We picked up Community in part to replace our weekly dose of Saturday Night Live, a family favorite, which is why there was …
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Once upon a time, everyone wanted us to use our phones as VR headsets. Do you remember this? There was the folding, giveaway Google Cardboard, that ended up in magazines and promo giveaways. There was Samsung’s Gear VR, sold alongside every Samsung phone. There was Google Daydream View. I wrote a eulogy for phone VR last year, because for the …
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For a lot of people, Blu-ray’s day has come and gone. It’s not hard to see why — streaming services have made the concept of inserting a plastic disc in a machine to watch Birds of Prey seem as archaic as my old 400-disc audio CD carousel (and if you’re too young to remember such things, yes, they were real …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. YouTube has banned videos that falsely claim 5G next-generation mobile networks cause the symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory illness actually caused by the new coronavirus, Google’s massive video service said Tuesday. That’s a lightning-quick change from its policy less than a day earlier, when it …
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For unconventional streaming-video service Quibi, there’s at least one optimistic glimmer as it launches in the middle of a life-altering pandemic: Even if its $1.75 billion bet on mobile video is exactly wrong for this moment, CEO Meg Whitman says that Quibi is willing to change. Want to watch on your TV? Tell the company so, and it might happen. …
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