YouTube is a web-based video streaming and sharing service, and social network. It launched in 2005 and quickly gained immense popularity, being bought by Google shortly after in 20006. Services have since been expanded to include live streaming.
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Trump gets suspended from YouTube for another week
Last week, YouTube suspended President Trump from its platform for seven days following the riot at the Capitol, saying a recent video on his channel had incited violence. At the time, YouTube said it would revisit the move at the end of the suspension, and today the video platform ...
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Sort your favorite YouTube channels into into folders with this free app
I spend a lot of hours watching a range of videos on YouTube, and I end up subscribing to a ton of channels. But there's a problem in my perfect world: I often end up missing videos from new channels I've subscribed to, because of a huge influx of videos from older ones. Thankfully, ...
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Watch: This AI is playing an infinite bass solo on YouTube
Music-hackers Dadabots produced the output with a recurrent neural network trained on a two-hour bass solo by Adam Neely. ...
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YouTube is now streaming James Bond movies for FREE (in the US)
Looking for something to do for the rest of December? Well, how about watching a load of James Bond movies YouTube is streaming ...
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YouTube is testing AI-generated video chapters
The feature could save YouTube creators from having to manually add chapters to the descriptions of their videos.
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YouTube’s greedy new ad policy will hurt vulnerable creators the most
Thanks to a new change, YouTube will now roll ads on small channels. The bad news? These creators won't get a single slice ...
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YouTube wants to steal Spotify's lunch with new audio ads
It seems YouTube wants a slice of Spotify's metaphorical pie: the company has announced it's introducing audio-only ads on ...
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GitHub restores popular YouTube downloader three weeks after its takedown
Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new information about the tool indicated that it didn't violate technical protection measures put ...
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It's official: YouTube has canceled Rewind 2020
For the first time in 10 year, YouTube has decided to cancel its annual edition of Rewind — the series celebrating the ...
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GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool "YouTube-dl" after the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), the organization that represents record labels, issued a DCMA takedown notice. As a result, the code hosting site took down multiple ...
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YouTube's mobile app gets several small tweaks to enhance the viewing experience
YouTube today announced a series of updates meant to make its mobile app more useful, including a streamlined player experience and new gestures. A few months ago, YouTube introduced the ability to easily create video chapters by simply typing some timestamps in your video's description. ...
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Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle
Recent decisions by Facebook and YouTube to crack down on the far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon will disrupt ...