Why your Netflix thumbnails don't look like mine

Netflix has thousands of videos to choose from for a night (or day) of marathon watching. The problem is: how do you pick what to watch? It can be daunting searching through various titles, so much so that you may end up skipping to watch anything altogether. Netflix tries to make it easier to pick titles through personalization of their site—including the thumbnails you’ll see for every piece of content in their catalog.

China Bans Videos That Are "Unofficial"

In its never ending quest to feed the Communist parties paranoia and finding new a better ways to restrict its citizens freedoms which they claim are "so important" to them.  The government in Beijing has issued a directive  banning all unauthorised video from being published online.


New regulations block public accounts from posting ‘user-generated audio or video’, often one of the few sources of information outside state media

China has banned the vast majority of internet users from sharing videos not from official sources on social media, tightening censorship in what was already one of the most oppressive internet regime’s in the world.

The new regulations barred public accounts from posting “user-generated audio or video”, often one of the few sources of information outside state media articles relaying the government’s version of events.

China has some of the most pervasive censorship in the world. Activists have been jailed for as little as a single tweet, editors at outspoken newspapers are sacked and news articles deemed inappropriate by officials are swiftly deleted.

Remember nothing says freedom like censorship

Amateur filmmaker’s videos are a time capsule of Tokyo in the year 1990

Take a trip back to the metropolis at the peak of the Bubble Era with this fascinating series of candid video montages.

1990 Japan. After 17 years of continuous growth and rapid development, the country emerged from post-war ruin to attain the status of global economic behemoth.

26 years later, Japan’s economic status has diminished somewhat, and though the country remains a cultural and culinary juggernaut on the global stage, the time in which its growth and conquest of the business world appeared inevitable belongs several decades in the past.