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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These DIY lasers scare the crap out of YouTube
A chemist YouTuber has apparently had several of his videos flagged for being a bit too close to dangerous -- odd, considering ...
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YouTube is flush with 'prank' videos involving laxatives
YouTube recently removed a mean-spirited video involving a YouTuber poisoning a loved one with laxatives. That's nice, YouTube. Now get started on the thousands of other videos just like it. Recently, the website Babe ran an expose on the channel "CJ SO COOL," which stars a ...
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YouTube's Android app is finally getting a dark theme
Although YouTube has offered a dark theme on its web and iOS apps for months, it's been taking its own sweet time bringing ...
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Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It's about damn time. Just this week, Jones ran afoul of YouTube guidelines, getting himself a slap on the wrist and finding four of his more egregious videos deleted. We wondered why ...
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YouTube offers an imperfect solution to Facebook's Alex Jones problem
Facebook gives Alex Jones a voice, YouTube understands the damage he might do with it. Its solution to the Jones problem ...
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YouTube tests Explore feature for more personalized video recommendations
YouTube is testing a new "Explore" feature where users will see more videos catered to their interests and creators will ...
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An Uncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion just dropped on YouTube
Nathan Fillion just released an Uncharted fan film to YouTube, and hot diggity this Monday just got a whole lot better. The fifteen-minute slice of fun was directed by Allan Ungar -- a huge fan of the series, according to IGN -- and stars Fillion as the wisecracking treasure ...
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This YouTube channel is nothing but a guy eating everything
A series of YouTube videos showing a man eating food hit the internet today. No that's not a joke. It's short clips of a man eating every kind of food you can imagine, and it's the most harmlessly bizarre things I've seen on YouTube for a while. Wanna see him eating mayonnaise? ...
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YouTube's Android app is rolling out an incognito mode
Every once in a while, I find something really weird on YouTube that I want to watch but would rather not have in my history, messing with my recommendations. Thankfully, Google finally has a solution on mobile devices, borrowed from Chrome: Incognito mode. The feature began testing ...
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YouTube will fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles
While blame for the spreading fake news has often fallen on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, they're hardly alone. YouTube in particular is hugely influential, with five billion videos watched every day. Earlier this year, Chief Product Office Neal Mohan said the ...
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YouTube makes picture-in-picture video (mostly) free for Android users in the US
Quite possibly the best thing about being a YouTube Red/Premium/Google Play Music subscriber is the ability to watch videos in a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) window on my phone. That allows me to continue watching a video while chatting, browsing the web, or doing pretty much ...
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YouTube adds new monetization options for creators
YouTube announced today it would be adding new options for creators to make money from their content. Most of the options ...
