YouTube confirms eyeing subscription 'channels'

SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its evolution as an Internet stage for video may include subscriptions to content that creators believe people will pay to see."We have long maintained that different content requires different types of payment models," a YouTube spokesman told AFP."There are a lot of our content creators that think they would benefit from subscriptions,...

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New Year's Day biggest ever for Instagram

Instagram users uploaded 600 million photos on New Year's Day, making it the biggest upload day for the photo-sharing network so far.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the figure today during the company's earnings call, highlighting Instagram's contribution to Facebook's mobile strategy.Instagram, purchased by Facebook last year, achieved this figure despite taking heat for a privacy debacle in...

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Storm system moves into Ga., blamed for 2 deaths

Updated 3:58 p.m. ETADAIRSVILLE, Ga. A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, spawning tornadoes and dangerous winds that overturned cars on a Georgia interstate and demolished homes and businesses, killing at least two people. The storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 in Georgia into the air, onto their roofs and into the grassy shoulder. The highway was closed for a time,...

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Phoenix Gunman Shoots Three at Office Complex

A gunman shot and wounded three people at an office building in Phoenix, Ariz., today and police are now searching for the shooter, authorities told ABC News.There are no reports of deaths at this time.Police are clearing the office complex in the in the 7310 block of 16th Street, near Glendale Avenue.Officials say there was only one gunman, who remains at large.A witness told ABC...

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Egypt curfew scaled back as Mursi seeks end to bloodshed

CAIRO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities scaled back a curfew imposed by President Mohamed Mursi, and the Islamist leader cut short a visit to Europe on Wednesday to deal with the deadliest violence in the seven months since he took power. Two more protesters were shot dead before dawn near Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Wednesday, a day after the army chief warned that the state...

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US Dollar falls on euro as Fed meets

NEW YORK: The US dollar fell against the euro Tuesday as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting keenly watched for signs that the US central bank could move up plans for tightening monetary policy.The euro hits its best level against the greenback since December 2011, at 2200 GMT, trading at US$1.3493 compared to US$1.3454 late Monday.No major new decisions were expected from the...

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How self-loathing and Photoshop can make you a very sad person

The Hornstein Tumblr post.(Credit:Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Fame is an insidious little thing.It seems like the only current currency. Get it and you're made. Keep it and you can get a maid, and a butler.That appears to have been part of the thinking of Shirley Hornstein, who not so long ago made much of Silicon Valley believe she was an It Woman.Sometime later, it transpired she was full...

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Arm transplant vet looking forward to swimming, diving

BALTIMORE A soldier who lost all four limbs in an Iraq roadside bombing says he looks forward to driving and swimming with his new arms. Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco spoke at a news conference Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was joined by the surgeons who performed the double-arm transplant there. Marrocco says he's happy and amazed to have new arms. He has prosthetic...

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Palin and Fox Part Ways, but Is She Really Over?

Sarah Palin's break up with Fox News should not have been, well, breaking news, as she had publicly complained in August on Facebook that the network had canceled her appearances at the Republican National Convention. And going back even further, Palin didn't give Fox the scoop in October 2011 when she announced she wasn't going to run for president. Still, the news of the...

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Army warns unrest pushing Egypt to the brink

CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's army chief said political unrest was pushing the state to the brink of collapse - a stark warning from the institution that ran the country until last year as Cairo's first freely elected leader struggles to curb bloody street violence. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a U.S.-trained general appointed by President Mohamed Mursi last year to head the armed forces,...

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