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YouTube Shorts is set to shake things up (for better or worse) with the upcoming integration of Google's advanced AI video and audio generator, Veo 3—for free, no less. Announced by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at the Cannes Lions advertising and creative communications event, this new Shorts feature democratizes access to...
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MrBeast, a.k.a. Jimmy Donaldson, is taking former employee Leroy Nabors to court claiming that prior to being fired, Nabors had downloaded company secrets, employee and financial information, and intellectual property content, which totals up to a breach of contract. Donaldson even alleges that Nabors installed hidden...
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More than ten-thousand users have complained to YouTube about an irritating problem where YouTube videos play in poor quality. Perhaps you're an iPhone user and are facing this issue yourself. Maybe you've adjusted your internet settings repeatedly or tried other troubleshooting methods, but the issue remains...
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For tech-savvy users (and everyone, really), it goes without saying that you should never click on links in emails willy-nilly. In light of a recent account hijacking campaign, however, YouTube has taken to X/Twitter with a warning to "be cautious" of phishing tomfoolery as it investigates bogus emails making the...
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Within the last 10 years, Google has paid over $200 million to settle privacy lawsuit allegations, including a $170 million settlement in 2019 for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). These incidents have made child privacy and parental consent a top priority for Google in more recent years...
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A former NASA engineer turned YouTuber has found a round-a-bout way to give people the opportunity to snap a selfie of themselves from space. The satellite will also send an alert to a person when it is above their location on Earth, making it possible to photobomb themselves in their own selfie from space.
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Who doesn’t associate the roaring, and crackling sound of rocket engines with Christmas these days? For those who may, or may not, NASA wants to kick off the Christmas season with a warm and cozy 8 hour 4K fireplace video. The space agency does point out that technically the fireplace packs the heat of the SLS...
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YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober is betting on his robot being able to beat anyone, every time, in Rock-Paper-Scissors. He is so confident about his robot, affectionately named Rocky, beating any competitor he has offered $10,000 to anyone who can win against the googly-eyed robot. Don't worry, it should...
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In a surprising move, YouTube is now testing YouTube Premium Lite subscriptions in select territories, after retiring the plan a year ago and focusing on improving YouTube Premium. Users in Australia, Germany, and Thailand are currently able to sign up for the plan for a few months now, although Google declined to...
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YouTube Shorts is getting some upgrades for both creators and fans, as the company looks to better compete with the short form video sharing juggernaut that is TikTok. The updated features are meant to “empower you to express yourself, get inspired, engage more deeply, and keep up with the latest trends.”
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Popular YouTube tech reviewer MKBHD (Marques Brownlee) has responded to the backlash that his new Panels app is receiving. User complaints have ranged from the $50 per year subscription plan to permissions the app requires.
MKBHD has made a name for himself in the world of tech, with reviews that date as far back...
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A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report accuses social media and video streaming sites of engaging in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize personal information, while failing to adequately protect children and teens.
The government’s battle with social media is nothing new. The US Senate...
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YouTube unveiled new creation tools at its annual Made on YouTube event aimed at helping creators build communities by enhancing viewer interaction and creator monetization. From YouTube Veo to the new Community Hub, there were plenty of announcements to help creators big and small.
Just What Is Veo
Dream Screen...
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Have you ever waded in a hot tub for a long while before realizing that your smartphone was in the pocket of your swimming trunks the whole time? Just me, then? That's cool, but I'm certainly not alone in having subjected a smartphone to water damage. One of the prevailing tips for such incidents is to plop a wet...
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YouTube has announced that its Premium subscribers are getting more perks, along with a tease about more plan options coming soon that could shake up the value proposition (depending on what the new plans offer and how much they cost).
YouTube Premium members already get an ad-free experience while viewing videos...
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YouTube is looking to combat misinformation on its platform by allowing notes to be added to videos that will add context, similar to the feature found on the X social media platform. Some examples the company provides are, “notes that clarify when a song is meant to be a parody, point out when a new version of a...
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You go to YouTube to watch videos, but Google hopes you might want to play some games while you're there, too. A raft of online games within YouTube is being rolled out widely after being tested with YouTube Premium subscribers over the last few months. The "Playables" collection includes some 75 games, including...
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A new scathing report suggests that Google and other AI companies have been training AI models on YouTube videos, calling into question whether the companies have been violating the content creators' copyrights. The report dives into the depths companies like OpenAI and Meta have gone to in order to scrape the barrel...
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It's not always easy to discern between real and staged videos on the web. That's probably never going to change, whether TikTok ends up banned in the US or not. However, a potentially bigger issue is the ongoing rise and sophistication of deepfakes, which use AI-generated tricks to create realistic scenes and...
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Researchers and tourists on board two vessels captured a rare event of a single killer whale, also known as an orca whale, attacking a juvenile white shark and killing it in under 2 minutes. The video footage highlighted the predatory proficiency of the killer whale, which took out the great white and ultimately ate...
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Mark Gurman and Ashley Carman of Bloomberg are reporting that YouTube and Spotify won’t be making apps tailored for the Apple Vision Pro. It marks another big loss of app support for the upcoming headset after Netflix made a similar announcement. It only adds to all the uncertainty surrounding the launch of the Vision...
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Google is testing a new feature on YouTube and, stop us if you've heard this one before, it's based on generative AI. Advanced machine learning algorithms and large language models are popping up in numerous products from Google, Microsoft, and almost every other tech company under the sun. This time, Google is...
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