TikTok has become a melting pot for content creators from any background or profession to be able to share original content. And some companies have used it to their advantage.
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Imagine you sit down to a meal, open up YouTube for dinner entertainment as you always do, and travel to the profile of your favorite creator. Instead of the neat rows of videos organized by upload date, you see season tabs like that of a network TV show. You click on one of the seasons and see all the videos labeled as episodes.
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2024 was the year of livestreamers.
Twitch, launched in 2011 to livestream video games and eSports, maintained its industry reign with 5.14 billion total hours viewed in Q3 of 2024. Meanwhile, YouTube Gaming accumulated 1.94 billion hours, and KICK recorded 580 million hours.
On top of its statistical success, Twitch has legitimized itself in mainstream media from the breakthrough work of its partners. This year, popular streamer Kai Cenat partnered with Nike and McDonald’s. Читать дальше...
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls.
Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.
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The Traitors star Theo Mayne opened up about behind-the-scenes secrets fans would never know, including two staple segments that take hours to film
Scotty Kilmer, one of the most popular mechanics on YouTube, has warned that drivers should avoid buying any vehicle that is missing a specific feature
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Craft a memorable, trademarkable name that reflects your values and sets your business apart.
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Lizzie McGuire you are an outfit repeater! Except in this case, rather than repeating an outfit for one’s junior high graduation, the faux pas in question is accidentally showing up to the same...
With Chicago's arts scene back in full force post-COVID, we're seeing big ideas, fresh collaborations and sizzling new releases from all corners.
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The Cubs are hoping 2025 will be a much better year for them.
They went into 2024 with high hopes as well, but an 83-79 record for the second consecutive season left them comfortably out of the playoffs, looking up at a steep climb to catch up with the Brewers, who won the division by 10 games.
“Last year, the shape of the season was disappointing,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer reiterated last month. “We felt like we were a little better team than our record. But the... Читать дальше...
Few Americans know the names Benjamin J. Cheeks and Serena R. Murillo. But they recently became part of President Joe Biden's most lasting legacy.
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WHO Boston Metal, LKAB, Midrex, Stegra WHEN 1 year A method for using hydrogen made with renewable power to produce steel could help clean up the industry, which accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions. Most steel is still made in coal-based blast furnaces that churn out about two tons of carbon dioxide…
WHO Baidu, Pony AI, Waymo, Wayve, Zoox WHEN Now If you live in certain cities in America or China, you’ve probably spotted driverless cars dropping off passengers. Perhaps you’ve even ridden in one yourself. That’s a radical change from even three years ago, when these services were still learning the rules of the road. And…
WHO California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN 5 years A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able to morph into any tissue in the human body, promised a medical revolution. Think: replacement parts for whatever ails you. But stem-cell science…
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WHO Gevo, LanzaJet, Montana Renewables, Neste, World Energy WHEN Now All the world’s planes consumed roughly 100 billion gallons of jet fuel as they crisscrossed the planet in 2024. Only about 0.5% of it was something other than fossil fuel. That could soon change. Alternative jet fuels could slash aviation emissions—which have caused about 4%…
WHO Blue Ocean Barns, DSM-Firmenich, Rumin8, Symbrosia WHEN Now Companies are finally making real progress on one of the trickiest problems for climate change: cow burps. The world’s herds of cattle belch out methane as a by-product of digestion, as do sheep and goats. That powerful greenhouse gas makes up the single biggest source of…
WHO Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity WHEN Now Google’s introduction of AI Overviews, powered by its Gemini language model, will alter how billions of people search the internet. And generative search may be the first step toward an AI agent that handles any question you have or task you need done. Rather than returning…
WHO Gilead Sciences, GSK, ViiV Healthcare WHEN 1 to 3 years In June 2024, results from a trial of a new medicine to prevent HIV were announced—and they were jaw-dropping. Lenacapavir, a treatment injected once every six months, protected over 5,000 girls and women in Uganda and South Africa from getting HIV. And it was…
WHO US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, US National Science Foundation WHEN 6 months The next time you glance up at the night sky, consider: The particles inside everything you can see make up only about 5% of what’s out there in the universe. Dark energy and dark matter constitute the rest, astronomers…
WHO Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI WHEN Now Make no mistake: Size matters in the AI world. When OpenAI launched GPT-3 back in 2020, it was the largest language model ever built. The firm showed that supersizing this type of model was enough to send performance through the roof. That…
