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 [...]

Billie Eilish convincing Conan OBrien to play Slender Man is hilariously brutal

Billie Eilish appeared on the "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast and tried to convince the host to play Slender Man. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Security firm signs up Conan O'Brien for corporate training videos — will celebrity firepower be enough to keep us focused on safety?

Adaptive Security recruited Conan O'Brien for cybersecurity training videos aimed at helping employees recognize phishing deepfakes and AI-enabled fraud. [...]

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 [...]