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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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Callum Booth

• 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.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

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