NBC Universal expects turn a profit on the Winter Olympics, partly by relying more on video distribution via Twitter and Facebook designed to draw viewers to their TV sets.In London two years ago, NBC found that sharing on Twitter and Facebook generated interest in broadcasts that aired hours later in prime-time.
Pussy Riot has become an internationally known name in the past couple of years, with millions of people urging President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders to grant them amnesty after three members of the punk band were arrested for “hooliganism” following a concert they held at a cathedral in Moscow. Now, two of those women–Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova–have become the famous faces of the band, and the other members are none too happy.
Rumors of Google’s Nexus tablet line have been swirling for a few weeks now, with only a few details about future devices leaking out. HTC is said to be the next partner Google has for the Nexus line, with the manufacturer developing the next Nexus 10 tablet. For its smaller Nexus tablets, however, it seems that Google is sticking with Asus.
Through a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television, Amazon Prime Instant Video is now the exclusive streaming home of the hit FX drama The Americans.
If you’re unfamiliar with FX’s drama, it stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as married KGB spies posing as Americans. It’s set in the early 80s.
If Instagram had been invented in the 1980s, your digital photos would have already been pixelated messes stored on cassettes or floppy disks. To see them, you would have had to snail-mail your camera roll to Instagram, so they could send the files back to you with awful filters applied. You could have taken pictures of your salad, and your cat and your thigh gap. In other words, it'd be just like Instagram now.
Since June of last year, the Obama administration has been on damage control in regards to the leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In various speeches since then, the president has defended the surveillance programs while also promising to reform some of its most controversial elements. Of course, any reform has to be approved by the FISA court and it finally did just that.
Google has a doodle up on its homepage throughout the world today celebrating the Olympic Games, but also making a statement in favor of gay rights.
Michelle Rodriguez has made a name for herself in the film industry by playing badasses, so it’s not really a surprise that she’d want to take on one of the biggest feminist-hero movies of all time for a remake.
Jimmy Kimmel continues to have one of the best bits on late night, and he just graced us with part 6.
Weary of the Super Bowl commercials? So are we. For this week's Ads of the Week collection, we move on to other spots released since the game ended—with the exception of Jamie Casino's epic local Super Bowl ad, which we couldn't help but include. Watch our picks for the week's five best spots below, and vote for your favorite. If your pick isn't shown here, tell us in the comments.