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- University of Washington researchers created and tested a prototype browser extension called Viblio, which lets viewers and creators add Wikipedia-like citations to YouTube videos https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/09/wikipedia-citations-youtube-misinformation-viblio/ 5 comments technology
- [Awful Announcing] Packers-49ers viewers universally hated that Zoom commercial https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/zoom-commercial-andres-cantor-packers-49ers-playoffs.html 493 comments nfl
- Shinsuke Nakamura sent a pre-recorded message for a Saki Akai on her retirement but it was not shown to the viewers on Wrestle Universe https://twitter.com/Himanshu_Doi/status/1723612480599932956?s=20 2 comments squaredcircle
- Ocasio-Cortez Holds 'Biggest Get Out the Vote Rally of 2020' as Nearly Half a Million People Watch Gaming Stream | In addition to urging viewers to support Joe Biden, the congresswoman wove comments about universal healthcare and renewable energy into the livestream. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/21/ocasio-cortez-holds-biggest-get-out-vote-rally-2020-nearly-half-million-people-watch 87 comments politics
- Next generation social media will give the user complete control of its publishing. Instead of having dozens of walled gardens like Twitter and FB, users will broadcast posts from one universal identity. Competing clients will source posts based on algorithms to viewers (Freedom Project App 6 of 26) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lo9wem2FX93n31btT9wUtNODfKr3ZYiK/view 11 comments btc
- Viewing distant galaxies through a progam called the Sky Viewer tool. The software was released in May 2015; and the new January 2016 doubles the size of the “searchable universe.” Some 370 million stars and galaxies are now available to view. http://www.thelatestnews.com/viewing-distant-galaxies-on-your-computer/ 251 comments space
- Clinton Back On Top In Iowa Democratic Caucus, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Debate Viewers Say 2-1 Clinton Topped Sanders http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?releaseid=2292 5 comments politics
- Recent study from Farleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind shows that Fox News viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/174826/survey-nprs-listeners-best-informed-fox-news-viewers-worst-informed/ 12 comments politics
- Last week, astronomers based in the Atacama desert in Chile released the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. The image reveals more than 200,000 galaxies and offers viewers a chance to look back in time to the early years of the universe http://www.pri.org/stories/science/deep-space-photos-offer-a-panoramic-view-of-the-young-universe-9089.html 5 comments science
- Shocker alert: Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 10 comments politics
- Female contestants on UK's University Challenge are being targeted by viewers conducting online hate campaigns http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/starter-for-10-why-do-university-challenge-elite-face-cyberhate-2350256.html 6 comments worldnews
- University of Maryland Study: Fox News Viewers “Most Misinformed” Of All News Consumers http://www.mediaite.com/tv/study-fox-news-viewers-most-misinformed-of-all-news-consumers/ 65 comments politics
- The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=231_1261118765 5 comments science