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Digital lifestyles company Refinery29 pushes deeper into video content focused on millennials
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Refinery29, the digital lifestyles company focused on millennial women, is pushing deeper into video content with a harder news edge.
VIDEO: Five days at YLW in under five minutes
KELOWNA - Five days worth of activity at Kelowna International Airport can be viewed in under five minutes, thanks to a recently-released time lapse video of an apron expansion project. The 4-minute, 30-second video shows activity on the airport apron over five days and nights. Each second represents around 30 minutes of real time. Airport...
Pong, Minecraft among World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees; Winners to be inducted June 4
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Fifteen video games that have engrossed gamers for untold hours were named finalists Tuesday for the new World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Terrifying video of Mt. Everest avalanche triggered by Nepal quake
The devastating Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mt. Everest. Jost Kobusch managed to take this terrifying video at a base camp as he and the other mountaineers ran for their lives. The survivors describe the avalanche as a cloud of snow and ice. Several of the mountaineers caught in the avalanche are missing. Also...
B.C. terror trial sees video of accused allegedly planting pressure-cooker bombs
VANCOUVER – A jury sat riveted in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday watching a series of videos that show a pair of accused terrorists hiding two packages on the grounds of the provincial legislature in the early hours of July 1, 2013.
Drop the video game controller and head to Exit Kelowna
KELOWNA - I’m not sure if this counts as a spoiler but if you think playing a round of Exit, the real-time escape game trending large in Japan and the U.S, means you need the skills of a ninja or a Navy Seal, you would be dead wrong. In fact, Exit is a game of...
Okanagan video company teaming up with Academy Award winning effects studio
KELOWNA – Immersive Media of Kelowna and Hollywood’s Digital Domain Holdings have struck a joint venture called IM360 to create ground breaking immersive entertainment. The “immersive entertainment” will be for multiple platforms, including virtual reality systems, and playback on tablets, smart phones and televisions, according to a media release. Immersive Media, with its head office...
Happy 10th birthday YouTube; local viral videos
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – The very first YouTube video was uploaded ten years ago today so InfoNews has put together some of our regions most watched clips of the last decade. The first Okanagan classic is about a focused skater singing the national anthem at a Penticton Vees game in October 2014. It has more than 3-million...
Video of erupting Chilean volcano apocalyptic
Twin blasts from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile sent vast clouds of ash into the sky Wednesday afternoon for the first time in more than four decades. The eruptions sent a towering plume of ash more than 10 kilometres into the air. The time lapse video of the eruption at sunset looks apocalypitc. Also today...
Montreal cabbie found not guilty of running down man in incident caught on video
MONTREAL – A Montreal cab driver says he’s more than relieved at being acquitted after running over an aggressive client in an altercation that was caught on video and widely shared on social media, including YouTube.
Vancouver-based UrtheCast to help NASA stream space station videos
VANCOUVER – A Vancouver-based company has announced that it’s teaming up with NASA to help send out live, high definition video of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.
VIDEO: Car on fire halts highway traffic near Armstrong
ARMSTRONG - A vehicle on fire in the middle of Highway 97 A near Armstrong tied up traffic for about an hour Wednesday afternoon. The Armstrong Spallumcheen Fire Department was dispatched to the scene, just north of Eagle Rock Road, about 1:30 p.m. April 22. Fire chief Ian Cummings says a Volkswagen was completely engulfed...
Court allows Kim Kardashian, Kanye West lawsuit over marriage proposal video leak to proceed
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A California appeals court is allowing Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s lawsuit over leaked footage of their marriage proposal to move forward.
Enraged Sicamous father’s video of public urination brawl leads to police investigation
SICAMOUS - A video making the rounds on Facebook has people downright pissed. It all started when a group of men were reportedly relieving themselves on Main Street in Sicamous, across the road from a high school. Brent Graf, the man who shot the video, says he was picking up his daughters at the time....
Terrifying video of gorilla smashing barrier at zoo
A silverback gorilla rushes at the plexiglass barrier at this zoo, scarying the you-know-what out of a family out for a day at the zoo. The gorilla hit the barrier so hard he left a big crack. Also today on Trending Now, Madmen actor Kiernan Shipka got her start on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Amy Sedaris sings...
Video shows Bobby Brown telling concert goers that his ailing daughter Bobbi Kristina is awake
ATLANTA – Bobby Brown told concert goers Saturday night that his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown is awake nearly three months after she was found face down and unresponsive in a tub at her Georgia home.
Video purports to show Islamic State militants killing captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya
CAIRO – Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed Sunday. The attack widens the circle of nations affected by the group's atrocities while showing its growth beyond a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Video purports to show Islamic State militants killing captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya
CAIRO – Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed Sunday. The attack widens the circle of nations affected by the group’s atrocities while showing its growth beyond a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
‘Star Wars: Battlefront’ video game unleashed at fan convention
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Force isn't merely awakening on the big screen. It's also returning to the video game realm.
Court releases video of ‘Suge’ Knight running over 2 men, other evidence in case
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Video of Marion “Suge” Knight plowing into two men with his pickup truck and other key evidence in the former rap music mogul’s murder case was released Friday by a Los Angeles court.
‘Star Wars: Battlefront’ video game unleashed at fan convention
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Force isn’t merely awakening on the big screen. It’s also returning to the video game realm.
As Verizon FiOS introduces more choice for TV customers, a look at options for Internet video
How other providers stack up against Verizon’s new FiOS Custom TV
In idea from movie ’50 First Dates,’ families make videos to calm, reassure dementia patients
NEW YORK, N.Y. – For 94-year-old Louise Irving, who suffers from dementia, waking up every day to a video with a familiar face and a familiar voice seems to spark a flicker of recognition.
Prosecutors in ‘Suge’ Knight murder trial face hurdles including hesitant witness, fuzzy video
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On paper, the evidence in the murder case against Marion “Suge” Knight looks strong: Prosecutors have a surviving witness, video of the former rap music mogul running over two men and Knight’s history of violence and intimidation.