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YouTube has unveiled a gorgeous experimental new design which it’s called Cosmic Panda. As you can see in the screenshot below, it looks gorgeous. To get yourself switched over to the new designclick here. Although it hasn’t been officially announced, the experiment has been tweeted about by a couple of YouTubers (hereandhere).UPDATE:Official announcementhere. Billed as “A New Experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels,” Cosmic Panda offers features like comments that update without you needing to refresh the page, and a gorgeous, slick design that gives YouTube a much-needed refresh in the style department....

After gaining much attention at Sundance, Berlin andSXSWfilm festivals this past January,YouTube’s Life in a Daypremiered last night in theaters in major cities in the U.K. and the U.S. The film was directed by Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald, who took over 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries and created a feature-length documentary reflecting people’s lives on the 24th of July, 2010. While over 70,000 hours of uploaded video was user-submitted, the team sent 400 cameras out to the developing world to capture 20-30% of the final film....

I don’t know how this monstrosity was birthed, but YouTube’s new video resolution selector on mobile has got to go. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, YouTube now has a revamped menu that pops up when you tap the quality button that eschews the standard resolution options of 480p, 720p, 1080p, and so on, for ‘friendlier’ phrasing: Was this user feedback? Newfangled UX thinking? All I know is it must’ve been unhinged....

We’ve written about Blippar few times in the past, first covering it prior to launch way back in June. Blippar is anaugmented reality appaimed at brands, and it’s starting to make some pretty big inroads in the UK with a number of partnerships with companies such as Cadbury’s and Tesco. And it’s even gaining traction outside the UK, helping to launch what it called ‘the first AR newspaper’ inIrelandlast month....

Update (February 17, 2022):Twitter’s nowallowing all automated accounts to apply alabel on their profiles, so you can identify them as bots. The company began experimenting with this feature last September, and making it available to a wider audience starting today. Get your bots in here! Remember when we chatted about all things,#GoodBots? Well now we are celebrating the bots who make a positive contribution to Twitter, all over the world.pic.twitter.com/e1OqJjRZiG...