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If rumours making the rounds online are anything to go by, YouTube employees are worried about Shorts' impact on the platform's long-form videos. YouTube launched Shorts in 2020, but TikTok was one of the first platforms to popularise short video content. Just two years after its launch, YouTube Shorts had…

In recent years, YouTube has repeatedly said and shown that short-form video is a big priority. A new report reveals that there are internal concerns about YouTube Shorts cannibalizing the core long-form video business.   According to the Financial Times, senior YouTube staff at recent strategy meetings have “discussed the risk…

Back in May, Google introduced a new Ultra HDR format with the release of Android 14 Beta 2, which aims to bring support for 10-bit HDR images, which will be fully compatible with standard JPEG images. This way, the system will display SDR images on non-HDR screens, but colors and…

I’m a longtime iPhone user, but I still have Google Maps installed on my phone. Apple Maps has come a long way since it launched and is a great navigation option. Yet, I still find myself turning to Google Maps more often than Apple Maps. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…

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The iPhone 14 was the first iPhone in the world to ship without a SIM slot. But Apple restricted the design change to the US market. The future is eSIM, and the switch to eSIM-only iPhones has been rather frictionless. There are cases where some users might worry about the…

Yushau Shuaib, CEO, IMPR Limited Impressively Scary, Testing AI Tool for Public Relations When I wake up this morning, I got an email notification whose subject reads “Yushau, try Bard, an AI experiment by Google” I am yet to be comfortable with developments in Artificial Intelligence. While I was reluctant…

Earlier this year Google announced that Search would start, by default, enabling a SafeSearch setting that blurs sexually explicit images and content that appears in search results. Now, the company is confirming that the change has been rolled out. In a blog post today regarding parental controls and keeping kids…

Google has been working to marry its new-found focus on generative AI with its existing expertise in search since mid-May, as part of Search Lab's Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) project. On Wednesday, the company announced that the SGE program is expanding beyond America's digital borders and into both the…