So maybe you’re not too keen on the idea of falling in love with a completely artificial computer personality. Who could blame you? That’s pretty weird. Maybe instead, the future will be a place where you can learn to love yourself. Wait, actually scratch that; that’s super weird too.
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
There’s a good chance that you, like us, enjoyed a certain Saturday Night Live sketch recently in which Weekend Update’s newly branded tech correspondent Randall Meeks gave his raw impressions of Google Glass — using a prop made of plastic and attached to a pair of sunglasses. There was a lot of shouting, twitching and, for us at least, laughing. Meeks is played by the incredibly talented Fred Armisen, also well-known for IFC’s surreally hilarious Portlandia. In reality, we learned, Armisen had never used Google Glass. That was a situation we were happy to fix.
Gallery: SNL’s Fred Armisen with Google Glass
Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it’s snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live. The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, “select” musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix — update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!’s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We’ll see if there’s more to learn about Yahoo’s ever-evolving media strategy then.
Update: The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL “clips” archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you’ll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services — just not clips.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Yahoo! Yodel, Marissa Mayer (Twitter)
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Are you confused by the ethical grey area, constitutional ambiguity, and general scariness of robots that kill people? Don’t sweat it, man. Hang out with these Cool Drones, and watch this Edu-Fun video, right here on Gizmodo. More »
Self-proclaimed “web artists” are in a huff Rihanna’s weekend Saturday Night Live performance, which featured green-screen graphics clearly influenced by the often tacky aesthetics of the internet. Sorry, whiners. You don’t own the screensaver. More »
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