It’s February 1st, so YouTube Shorts are now eligible for monetization, granting creators a 45 percent share of the revenue generated from viewership.
That financial incentive could make YouTube Shorts TikTok’s biggest competitor, with even large creators currently reporting extremely low earnings from TikTok’s own ad revenue-sharing program.
[FinancialTimes]
The last commercial Boeing 747 — aka, Queen of the Skies — is being delivered today, 54 years after its debut. The iconic jumbo jet was the world’s first twin-aisle passenger plane and helped to revolutionize affordable air travel for everyday people.
Boeing’s next act is to design the future of new, more fuel-efficient aircraft alongside NASA.
Developer @KMkota0 has released an accessible browser-based demo for their real-time hand tracker experiment, and I’m having a blast playing with it.
Sure, it still needs some fine-tuning, but the fact that something that only needs a webcam is already this good has me seriously excited about the future of VR gaming and virtual avatars.
There doesn’t seem to be any real significance to the date (beyond the bubble-tea emoji being announced on this day in 2020,) but it’s a cute 3-minute distraction to kick off the week.
Shout out to the cats who basically just order a cup full of boba, because honestly? Same.
Billboard reports that Rick Astley is suing the rapper for including an impersonation of Astley’s voice in his single “Betty (Get Money),” alleging that it had caused him “immense damage.”
According to Billboard, Gravy’s team allegedly secured rights to recreate sections of Astley’s meme-able “Never Gonna Give You Up” hit, but the suit claims the imitation was so accurate that it amounts to outright theft of Astley’s voice.
