TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reddit has raised a new funding round, totalling $250 million. Reddit also ran a 5-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of. This is Reddit’s 16th year of operation, and the company has raised around $800 million to date, including a Tencent-led $300 million Series D in February, 2019. Reddit acquires Dubsmash.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Photo by Reddit. Reddit will shut down its short-form video platform, Dubsmash, on February 22nd, 2022. A competitor to TikTok, Dubsmash was acquired by Reddit late last year with the purpose of embedding its video creation tools into the larger platform. Photo by Reddit.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Image: Reddit. Reddit has acquired “short-form video social platform” Dubsmash, the company announced today. Under the terms of the deal, the TikTok rival will continue to exist as a separate platform and brand, but its “innovative video creation tools” will be integrated into Reddit.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site, blocking communities that engaged in hate speech and harassment. While I would love that number to be 100 percent, I’m encouraged by the progress,” writes Reddit user u/worstnerd , a member of the company’s Safety team. Image: Reddit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit raises more funding, Shopify expands payments to Facebook and a study suggests that the Apple Watch might be able to predict COVID diagnoses. The big story: Reddit raises $250M. This is your Daily Crunch for February 9, 2021. The company also ran a five-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of a single static image.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Over the past several days, comments about Jesus Christ have surfaced among the top comments on a wide range of unrelated videos. I was just browsing TikTok in bed this morning before waking up and like you said it’s nearly EVERY video that has 10 or so of these comments, one Reddit user wrote in the r/Christianity subreddit.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Over on Reddit (and as highlighted by Android Police and 9to5Google ) , someone has posted a simple way of watching YouTube videos in a web browser without any ads. In the URL for whatever video you want to view, you just need to add an extra period after the dot com in the YouTube link. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

TikTok is trying to remove graphic videos circulating the app that show a man shooting himself with a gun, and banning accounts from people who are re-uploading the clip. Other creators spoke about the most disturbing part of the video being hidden inside more innocuous looking TikToks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Look for the “Videos” listing on the left-hand menu.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev, and Keith Gill (aka Roaring Kitty) are all on the witness list for an upcoming hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, according to a release from Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Social hub Reddit filed to go public , TechCrunch reports. When it comes to Reddit, however, we have bona fides. Most recently, Reddit raised a huge venture round at a roughly $10 billion valuation. A key element of the Reddit platform is independently-run communities that self-police. Little did we know what was coming.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit will double the number of employees it has over the course of this year to around 1,400 after raising $250 million in a new funding round, the company has announced. Reddit currently has around 700 employees globally. Reddit recently acquired Dubsmash. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Someone had to do it: there’s now a bot that turns Reddit arguments into scenes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , complete with music and the iconic “OBJECTION!” objection-bot” under a thread that would work as an Ace Attorney courtroom scene, and the bot will generate a video based on the posts. but on Reddit.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As reported by MacRumors, users on Reddit and YouTube have been posting screenshots of the 2160p/4K resolution option for YouTube videos showing as a feature available only to YouTube Premium subscribers, seemingly adding another benefit alongside the lack of ads to its $12 pm/$120 per year service.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A single donor donated $56 million worth of Bitcoin to 60 nonprofits at the start of 2018 – on Reddit! If you can embed a YouTube video, add a page or link to the menu on your website, then you have the technical skills required to fundraise with crypto. Almost 60,000,000 people use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies globally.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 24, 2021

Video game retailer GameStop's stock rose by nearly 70 percent on Friday causing a halt in trading. The price spike in the company’s market value was attributed in part to a group of day traders on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, which led to a scramble by investment firms to capitalize on.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Researchers were caught by surprise after a short video sent a flood of new users to a survey platform Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager. The July 23rd video is short and simple. That video got 4.1 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance camera maker, has fixed a bug that users say mistakenly allowed them access to the accounts and private live video streams of other customers.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

Those broadcasts come from Reddit’s own live-streaming service, the Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN) , which just celebrated its first anniversary last week. And as the service enters year two, Reddit is teasing an expansion to more subreddits at some point in the future. Many streams seem to be from people’s phones.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Instagram is offering massive sums of money to creators to post videos on its TikTok competitor Reels, as highlighted in a pair of reports from TechCrunch and Business Insider. On the high end, TechCrunch points to one Reddit post where someone has been offered as much as $35,000 if their Reels get 58.31 million views in a month.

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TechSpot

JULY 18, 2023

Back in early 2021, Amazon added to the public criticism of how it treats employees when it started using AI-equipped cameras to warn drivers if they're breaking road rules or engaging in unsafe practices. The footage is also used by Amazon for evaluation purposes, and the cameras may take photographs. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to a message from the poster on Reddit, most of the content was borrowed from vintage video game magazine archive Retromags. Missing issues were sourced from the Data Hoarder's Exchange on Reddit.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A Reddit post titled "MSI HQ in China apparently just went up in flames There goes my 3080" shows a six-second clip of what looks like a major fire at the plant in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province—MSI's actual headquarters are located in Taiwan

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s hard to pull the wool over Reddit users’ eyes : If you have an out-of-warranty Apple iPhone, iPad or MacBook, you might want to join Reddit. Daily Crunch: Reddit users discover Apple is raising its battery replacement service fees by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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The Verge

JULY 25, 2020

In the latest instance of iOS 14’s beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior, some users reported that they were seeing the green “camera on” indicator while using Instagram when they were just scrolling through their feeds, not taking a photo or video. Then control panel ratted out the app behind it. This is going to change things.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a video posted on its website , Samsung shows four separate tests. Samsung has shown off its stress tests in the past — one video from 2012 showed a robot butt sitting on phones, for example. A user on Reddit posted about a similar issue after less than three days of owning the phone.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. Its 200+ customers include Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, and Databricks. launched Compass Vision, a new AI-based tool for identifying AI deepfake images and videos. billion valuation.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. This video is what we believe to be the first part of a multi-pronged approach for their 2012 campaign to lobby the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. It usually involves lots of Twitch streams, lots of digging around Reddit threads and lots of poring over patch notes. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Roaring Kitty,” also known as u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit and Keith Patrick Gill in real life, is now the target of a lawsuit (which you can view below) that claims he manipulated the market to increase GameStop’s stock price. He would also post hours-long videos on YouTube discussing the stock and why he thought it was undervalued.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

For the past two days, photographers have been posting in a panic across Twitter, Reddit, and the Photoshop feedback forums. Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. They’d downloaded Adobe’s latest update for Lightroom’s iOS app, and suddenly, their photos and presets were gone.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Within hours, someone had inevitably opened a Reddit forum to locate the monolith. And the evidence for its location, put forward by Reddit user Tim Slane, is strong. All that paired with an abundance of curiosity about the world led me to spend a lot of time on Google Earth,” he told The Verge over Reddit chat.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And Runway again made its case for the state-of-the-art with its new Gen-3 Alpha video generation models. Instead, its actively building platforms for everything from drug discovery (Clara for Biopharma) to autonomous vehicles (Drive AGX) to video production (Holoscan) to digital twins (Omniverse). Gemini 2.0

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TechSpot

MARCH 1, 2022

On Tuesday, at least two Reddit users demonstrated drift in the Steam Deck's right joystick. Both posted videos showing the system's controller input testing screen registering input while the thumbstick isn't moving. Drifting starts after the stick is moved and reset to the neutral position. It ceases when it is.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Earlier this month, users on Reddit and YouTube started posting screenshots of the 2160p/4K resolution option for YouTube videos showing as a feature available only to YouTube Premium subscribers. It was theorized that Google was looking to make 4K content another benefit of its $12 pm/$120 per year service, which.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

According to users on Reddit and Twitter, the recent 3.12.8 One Reddit user took a time-lapse of their Roomba with the update, as it struggled and finally failed to make it home to its base station. The video shows the behavior described by many other posters on the Roomba Reddit and on Twitter as well. Image: iRobot.

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The Verge

APRIL 17, 2022

Custom LEGO builder JK Brickworks walks us through the build in a video on YouTube , which was actually inspired by the old-school Bear Mobill toy made by Bandai in 1987. As shown in JK Brickworks’ video, the toy’s unique flipping motion lets it climb up small steps and even go up a slight incline.

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