Author: Greg Kumparak

Back in February YouTube announced YouTube TV, a $35 TV streaming service it hopes might kill your cable box. At the time, they didn’t say exactly when it’d launch — just that it’d be “soon”. “Soon”, it seems, means today. YouTube is rolling out the service in five major US cities this morning. YouTube TV takes a bunch of the more popular US cable channels — ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC, CW, Disney, SyFy, ESPN, and 40+ more — and crams them into one app. It’ll cost $35 a month, and you’ll be able to stream to six devices simultaneously...

We’ve got a whole roundup of 2017’s tech April Fools’ pranks, but this one from Snapchat deserves a little highlight all its own. Back in August of last year, Instagram copied Snapchat’s Stories feature. There’s no arguing it. Instagram’s CEO even says Snapchat deserves credit for “this format”. They didn’t even bother changing the name — Instagram’s version of Snapchat Stories is just called “Instagram Stories”. So for April Fools’ day, Snapchat ripped them off in return — albeit in a less obvious way. They’ve turned Instagram’s interface into a Snapchat filter for the day and just swapped out...

April Fools’ Day falls on a Saturday this year. Seemingly worried that the Internet goes away on weekends, a bunch of companies rolled out their April Fools’ jokes a few days early. Some of them are really, really good. Some of them… are not. Here’s our round-up of the ones worth a laugh, chuckle, or, at the very least, a mildly-amused puff of air through your nose. We’ll update this gallery throughout the weekend, as more are bound to roll out on… you know, actual April Fools’...

Trying to figure out this whole live video broadcasting thing? Good news! Periscope, the Twitter-owned live broadcasting app, picked up a new trick this morning: a shiny new analytics dashboard. It’s not the most groundbreaking thing in the world, but it makes sense. Making successful live video on the Internet — particularly one that doesn’t involve video games or naked people — is hard. It’s the reason why company after company in this space has failed: most people just aren’t that interesting all the time. Perhaps a bit of data on what works and what doesn’t is the key...

The Office is one of two shows that we have on near-constant rotation in our house — at this point, our Netflix subscription is more of a subscription to The Office that happens to come with some other stuff. It won’t sound too weird, then, when I say that trying to mentally recreate the layout of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is something I’ve found myself doing more than once. You too? Good news! Now someone has done in it fully explorable, browser-friendly 3D. You can check it out here. Built as a demo of Archilogic’s web-based architecture viewing platform,...