Vimeo’s Massive Layoffs Are a Sign of Something Much Darker for the Internet

Vimeo’s layoffs raise dire concerns about what happens to the vast archive of videos the platform has hosted for two decades.
9to5Google

Google Vids now supports social-friendly animated captions in your videos

With the web now dominated by short-form videos, captions have stopped just being an accessibility tool, becoming essential ...
IEEE

BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-Form Video Understanding

Abstract: Large video-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising progress in various video understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in long-form video analysis is constrained by ...
IEEE

Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding

Abstract: Efficiently understanding long-form videos remains a significant challenge in computer vision. In this work, we revisit temporal search paradigms for long-form video understanding and ...
The Verge

YouTube will now let you filter Shorts out of search results

The company is making a few changes to search filters, including adding a new ‘Popularity’ one. The company is making a few changes to search filters, including adding a new ‘Popularity’ one. is a ...
TechCrunch

Disney+ is launching short-form videos this year

Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Disney announced that it’s bringing short-form video content to Disney+ in the U.S. this year in a bid to boost daily engagement. Disney made the ...
SiliconANGLE

CraftStory adds image-to-video generation to power long-form AI videos with human ‘actors’

CraftStory, a company pioneering artificial intelligence generated human-centric video, announced the release of its first image-to-video model today, which allows users to generate up to five-minute ...
Yahoo

Study: Short-Form Video Isn't Rotting Your Brain

If you or your kids have spent too much time scrolling short-form videos during your holiday breaks, don't fret—you probably haven't suffered too much brain damage. Wait, was that even a question? the ...
Hosted on MSN

Watch pilots perform daring formation aerobatics at 500 mph

At 500 MPH, every fraction of a second matters. These pilots fly side by side in perfect formation, performing aerobatic maneuvers so precise that one wrong move could mean disaster - and yet, they ...
AOL

YouTube’s cofounder and former tech boss doesn’t want his kids to watch short videos, warning short-form content ‘equates to shorter attention spans’

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen is one of the latest tech trailblazers to warn about social media’s impact on kids. Chen noted in a talk that short-form video “equates to shorter attention spans” and ...
PBS

The Constitution & The Formation of A More Perfect Union

The American Revolution is over, and delegates convene to create a new system of government. The American Revolution has ended, but the newly United States teeters on the brink of fracturing.