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Disney Repacks Original Star Wars Trilogy into Animated Shorts
Introducing Star Wars to Younger Audiences Although revered by a hardcore fanbase, the only way to truly keep the Star Wars franchise alive is to reach new audiences. In Disney‘s perspective, this means reaching out to children and the next generation. Especially those who have not and will not have…
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Nintendo Issues YouTube Guidelines To Help Content Creators
Nintendo Issues YouTube Guidelines To Help Content Creators There have been very long-standing difficulties between YouTube content creators and Nintendo. In a nutshell, Nintendo is exceptionally protective of their IP’s on the video hosting site. As such they regularly issue DMCA notifications to people who sometimes simply want to play and/or…
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Improvements Underway To Make eTeknix Better For You!
Making eTeknix Better For You Earlier this year, eTeknix celebrated its 10th birthday. Yes, it barely seemed like yesterday when we were launching the website hoping to take the tech world by storm (we still do incidentally), but somehow all those years have passed in the blink of an eye.…
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Playable Lego Piano Is Created And Yes It Works… Sort Of!
Playable Lego Piano Over the years, it’s been pretty incredible to see what people can do with Lego. Of recent memory, certainly one of the most impressive achievements was certainly the lifesize Bugatti Chiron. A model that not only was an excellent replica but was also fully capable of being driven.…
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YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts
YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts I don’t know whether it’s just my imagination or not, but there seem to be considerably more adverts on and around YouTube these days. While you generally tend to accept these as the ‘price’ you pay for the vast amount of…
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YouTube is Now Showing Full-Length Ad-Supported Films
Watch Movies Without Paying YouTube Taking a cue from Hulu and other streaming platforms, YouTube has now opened up to streaming full-length ad-supported films. While YouTube already streams full-length movies, this is the first time it does not require payment up front. Understandably, the free library itself is not as…
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Diablo Immortal Trailer Receives Huge Down Votes On YouTube
Diablo Immortal Trailer Receives Huge Down Votes On YouTube When Diablo Immortal was announced at Blizzcon, many people, including myself were very unhappy. I’m not quite as ardently hateful of it as some people, but I think we can all agree that in terms of a ‘big announcement’ Blizzard screwed…
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YouTube To Invest $20m In ‘How To’ And Educational Videos
YouTube To Invest $20m In ‘How To’ And Educational Videos Since YouTube changed it’s algorithm earlier this year, it has been met by a lot of criticism from its content creators. Many feel that under the new terms in which a video might get ‘recommended’ they either need to rely…
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Google Offers Free Week Credit for YouTube TV Outage
Minimizing Outrage from the Outage YouTube, the world’s largest video streaming platform went down last week for only a little over an hour. However, that was enough for those affected to be annoyed and did not held back expressing those feelings on social media. So you can only imagine how…
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Fortnite YouTube Streamers Sued By Epic For Promoting Cheats
Fortnite YouTube Streamers Sued By Epic For Promoting Cheats Given the huge success and popularity that Fortnite has seen, it’s no surprise that it’s one of the biggest games in the streaming community at the moment. While I daresay, the development is rather happy about this, there is an aspect…
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Google’s YouTube Goes Down For Over An Hour
YouTube Down Globally Since it started back in 2005, YouTube has been a staple part of the internet. As the largest video sharing website, it holds a special place in the minds of internet denizens. Forming one of the pillars of the massive Google presence, it may be the most notable service…
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Netflix Gobbles Up A Huge Amount Of The Internets Bandwidth
Netflix Gobbles Up A Huge Amount Of The Internets Bandwidth’ When you consider the internet as a whole, you might have often considered exactly how much of it is used for what. There is the obvious thought towards adult entertainment. We certainly hear fairly regularly just how much of that…
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Lego Worlds Used To Recreate Metal Gear Solid
Lego Worlds Used To Recreate Metal Gear Solid It’s been around 18 months since Lego Worlds was released. Despite having a decent amount of hype when it launched, since then, I must confess, I’d completely forgotten about the game which is sad really because the concept was excellent. For those…
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IBM Launches Tool To Detect Bias In AI Programs
IBM Launches Tool To Detect AI Bias The amount of AI or algorithm programs around at the moment is probably a lot higher than you realise. When you consider that nearly every search engine, social media or video hosting site employs a form of this (even on a basic level)…
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Youtube Begins Beta Testing New AVI Codec
AV1 Offers Cheaper Alternative to HEVC H.265 With every new codec generation, the codec wars heat up again. This generation, the battle is an extension of the war between VP9 and HEVC (H.265). Kicking things off again, Google is trying to champion the new AV1 codec. Supplementing VP9, the new…
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