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What Was Your First Online Video Experience?

Today marked the 10-year anniversary of the first video ever uploaded to YouTube. Back then, it was hard to imagine YouTube as the behemoth it has become — a Google-acquired media entity so massive that some people make millions of dollars from the videos they produce. But video’s been on the internet much longer than…

The Gloriously Inane First YouTube Video Was Uploaded 10 Years Ago Today

On April 23rd, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a masterpiece of mundanity to YouTube, his newly launched video portal. Behold. 10 years of YouTube! Can you believe it? I’m not going to bore you with the blah, blah, blah about how YouTube changed the planet because it’s obvious that YouTube changed the planet. Just…

(Almost) All of CSI:Cyber’s Cringeworthy Tech Buzzwords in One Video

CSI:Cyber is Gizmodo’s new favorite terrible tech-tinged procedural that may or may not be written by people who have never actually seen a computer. It’s great! This compilation of buzzwords from the fourth and fifth episodes of this season is a nonsense cacophony. I’ve watched every single episode of this show so far, but seeing…

Get A Sneak Peek At YouTube’s New Design 

YouTube’s player design has seen us through some tough video times. It was probably sitting there on your first viewing of Friday; the inaugural playing of Gagnam Style, and countless dashcam videos since then. The player’s getting an update soon, but with a little browser trickery, you can take a look right now. The new…

Rand Paul’s Presidential Campaign Video Just Got Pulled From YouTube

Copyright law is a bitch. Just ask Rand Paul’s newly launched presidential campaign whose video “Stand With Rand: Kentucky”just got pulled from YouTubeon copyright grounds. YouTube’s Content ID systemflagged a song in the video by country singer John Rich. “Sorry about that,” says the YouTube page now. It’s hard to figure out who to blame…

Parents File Complaint Over “Hyper-Commercialized” YouTube Kids App

When the YouTube Kids app was announced six weeks ago, it seemed like a nice, safe way to ensconce your child in a fuzzy walled garden of Sesame Street and a certain friendly Tank Engine. But according to a complaint filed with the FTC today, it’s exposing kids to a “hyper-commercialized” environment with basically no…

YouTube’s Absurd 60FPS, 4K Videos Are Too Awesome for Your Computer

Google is working on an exciting new feature for YouTube: videos you can’t watch! Blame your shitty computer and internet connection. YouTube has been slowly preparing for the pixel-filled video streaming future. In August last year, the mobile app began supporting Quad HD content and YouTube got a buttery 60 frames-per-second upgrade a few months…

Facebook is gunning hard for YouTube with its new embeddable video feature, which lets people take videos posted to Facebook and put them on other sites. Before, if you decided to put a video on Facebook and wanted to share it elsewhere you basically had to re-upload it to another site or simply link back…

How Science Looks At Really Tiny Things – Using Tape And Pliers

For nanomaterials scientists, just getting a look at what they’re working with presents a serious challenge — you can’t see something a couple atoms wide with a normal microscope. And while they have all the fancy toys you’d probably expect in a hi-tech lab, office supplies also play a disturbingly prominent role. YouTuber Tom Scott…

YouTube’s Ready To Blow Your Mind With 360-Degree Videos

We told you that YouTube would support 360-degree videos. Now, they’re here: as of today, Google’s streaming video service now serves up videos that let you look in any direction—not just where the camera is pointing. Needless to say, this could be a Big. Freaking. Deal. Ever wanted to see from the perspective of a…

View and Edit Your YouTube History for Smarter Recommendations

There’s a lot of content on YouTube, which is why the site tries to shepherd you towards the most relevant videos via its recommendations. These hints are based on your search and viewing history, so they can be thrown off if someone borrows your laptop or you have a sudden binge on lengthy unboxing videos.…

Trim Your Videos Before You Upload With the New YouTube Android App

If your latest video masterpiece has some extraneous fluff at either end of the clip, the new YouTube app for Android lets you chop it off in seconds, no questions asked. Make sure you’re running the latest version from the Google Play Store and the option shows up as soon as you import or record…

This Fantastic Supercut Celebrates 10 Years Of YouTube’s Best Videos

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of cat videos and Downfall parodies this month, and to celebrate, The Daily Conversation put 101 of the site’s most important, funniest and worst viral videos into this supercut. It’s a great look back at the decade of one of the internet’s biggest sites; it’s also a 16-minute primer on…

This Magician Does Strange And Wonderful Things With An iPad

The original skeumorphic iOS was designed to make digital stuff more tangible and physical — but I’m not sure these amazing magic tricks were exactly what Jobs had in mind. We’ve seen illusionist Simon Pierro‘s iPad magic routive before, but he’s back on Ellen with a whole new set of tricks. If you look closely…

This DIY Solar-Powered Death Ray Can Even Melt Metal

Burning ants with a magnifying glass is a long-accepted childhood pastime and possible indicator of sociopathy. But when Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds at the Science Channel got the idea to more effectively harness the sun’s destructive heat, they decided to go big…like 1,5oo degrees Fahrenheit big. The materials needed are incredibly simple. The main…

Green Screens Were Way More Clever Before Computers

In the digital age, it’s pretty simple to understand how green screens work: anything of a certain color in the image is replaced with the background. But green screens were around for decades before digital photography, and the old technology was impressively crafty. As YouTube master-explainer Tom Scott explains in this video, there were two…

How Your Smartphone’s GPS Uses Quantum Mechanics To Locate You

I keep watching this video and it keeps blowing my mind. Every time you need to navigate from point A to point B, your GPS guide performs a little calculation involving a.) outer space, b.) atomic clocks, and c.) quantum mechanics. As a gadget blogger, I’m naturally interested in the inner workings of all the…

Use Ratings Preview For Smarter YouTube Browsing

There’s an awful lot of content out there on YouTube and sorting the wheat from the chaff can be a serious undertaking. One way of making your video browsing smarter is to install the unofficial Ratings Preview extension for Google Chrome; it rather handily shows the rating for a clip right alongside every thumbnail, making…

YouTube Stars Will Interview Obama After His State of the Union Address

Tweens! What are they thinking? What apps are they using? What drugs are they doing? Who are they voting for? Technically no one, because that’s illegal—but Obama doesn’t care. As with everything else in life, he just wants the tweens to like him. And to accomplish that, he’s going to be interviewed by three tween-approved…

I Wish This Doom Toaster Hack Was Real

Did you know that you can hack toasters to play Doom? Well, with this four-minute clip of hacker fiction you can! Posted via YouTube by Vexel, this astute programmer defies logic and logic boards to get all of his Oster and Hamilton Beach toasters hacked into a gaming rig for a quick session of Doom.…