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1 day ago | 
dailydot.com | Laura Holliday
Videos of kids setting fire to Chromebooks are going viral in a supposed TikTok “trend,” causing outrage and debate over whether there’s a new wave of classroom vandalism spreading, or if we’re seeing another round of internet-fueled moral panic. Though some are cracking jokes, footage of Chromebooks smoking and going up in flames has teachers seriously concerned that the trend is spreading and encouraging vandalism in schools.
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3 days ago | 
dailydot.com | Laura Holliday
An image of a quintessential English terraced house led to a deeper discussion on X recently, regarding differences between European and American lifestyles. It’s part of an ongoing trend best summarized as ‘The American Mind Can’t Comprehend This’ meme—that, while often fun and lighthearted, hints at a growing gulf between the two regions online.
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1 week ago | 
dailydot.com | Laura Holliday
The internet has a new AI-image generation trend, and as usual, it’s proving highly divisive. The craze began with a now-viral video where a user inputted a picture of his friend into ChatGPT—instructing it to “create the exact replica of this image, don’t change a thing,” over 70 times. The results were strange and unexpected, but also led to renewed questions about the ethics of AI, on both an environmental and broader cultural level.
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1 week ago | 
technewstube.com | Laura Holliday
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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1 week ago | 
wired.com | Laura Holliday
Somewhere in an animated New York, a minion slips and tumbles down a sewer. As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Laura Holliday
9 hours agoAmerican-made drone smashes performance metrics at Chinese pricesA new drone company has exploded out of stealth mode in the USA with incredible claims about its first product, saying it'll fly 4X longer, 10X …14 hours agoThe US's largest virtual power plant now runs on 75,000 home batteriesSunrun just turned thousands of homes into the US’s largest virtual power plant to help keep the lights on in California this summer.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Nazli Selin Ozkan |Brittanie Price |Natasha Randhawa |Laura Holliday
It wasn’t long ago that nearly all the publications in the world declared print to be dead, and in many ways the medium has been in decline for the past two decades. Instead, the giant space left by this decline is becoming home to an increasing number of niche, independent publications, born out of passion, focusing on a single area of interest. BSKT is one of those publications. Launched in 2022 in Montreal, Canada, the publication is a love poem for basketball culture.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Joel Stein |Laura Holliday |Gary Carruthers |Chris West
‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.’— Rudyard KiplingThe last decade has seen an explosion in D2C businesses globally. In the US alone, the number of D2C brands jumped from around 400 in 2016 to more than 22,000 in 2021. Meanwhile, advertising is getting more expensive for these companies every year, pushing customer-acquisition costs ever upwards. In this competitive climate, young and ambitious D2C brands must do whatever they can to stand out.
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May 28, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Laura Holliday |Sam Collenette |Becks Collins |Will Williams
Speaking the language of internet culture is crucial for any brand — something we’re all, hopefully, well aware of in today’s late-stage social media era. But something you might not know is that in 2020, the global meme industry was valued at an inconceivable $2.3 billion dollars, and this figure is projected to almost triple by 2025. Or, that businesses who use memes in their marketing are 60% more likely to land sales than those who opt for traditional graphics.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Laura Holliday |Mike Piggott |Thomas Le Thierry |Sean Hargrave
Despite being an online publication we’re still publishers, and fly the flag for physical media. But, in this case, it’s not about what we think as a magazine, but what the industry thinks will happen. So we asked them. In the digital ad realm where ad blockers run rampant, viewability remains a perennial challenge. In contrast, OOH advertising boasts an impressive 80% visibility rate, which underscores the medium’s efficacy in capturing audience attention and driving message recall.
