Month: February 2020
Amazon’s first Tales from the Loop trailer brings Simon Stålenhag’s sci-fi suburbs to life
The first trailer for Amazon’s upcoming retro-futurstic sci-fi show Tales from the Loop has arrived, giving the first look at how Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag’s fantastical worlds have come to life. The show is based on the art book by Stålenhag, which imagined an alternate version of our world filled…
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8chan’s founder is facing arrest for ‘cyberlibel’ in the Philippines
Fredrick Brennan, founder of widely loathed forum 8chan, reportedly faces arrest in the Phillippines over a “cyberlibel” claim. Brennan has become a strident critic of 8chan and its current operator Jim Watkins, whom Brennan transferred ownership to in 2015. Last year, Watkins struck back with a legal complaint, disputing a…
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Tinder’s video series ‘Swipe Night’ gets a second season
Following a successful debut for Tinder’s first foray into original content, the company is giving its interactive video series “Swipe Night” another run. The company confirmed today it’s renewing “Swipe Night” for a second season that will launch this summer, again as an in-app experience within Tinder’s dating app. Variety…
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This Timex GPS watch lasts 25 days and costs a third of the Apple Watch 5 price
Timex has a new smartwatch that tracks fitness and GPS for a maximum 25-day battery life – and all at a third the cost of a new Apple Watch 5. The Timex Ironman R300 GPS is now available to buy on Timex’s website for $120 (around 93 / AU$182), tracks…
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YouTube is experimenting with letting creators sell ads directly to brands
One of the most thrown around terms within the YouTube community is “demonetization.” Now, YouTube is piloting a new program that will let creators sell ad space directly to brands they work with regularly. The pilot program is extremely limited and only works for deals between creators and brands that…
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LinkedIn is testing Snapchat-like stories because that’s the world we live in now
LinkedIn is a website that’s effectively a mixture between an interactive resume and a college job fair, but that hasn’t stopped it from aspiring to be a cooler, more social part of the internet. Its latest attempt? Snapchat-style stories, which the company announced it was testing internally to try out…
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