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• The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated

  It's hard to remember a world without social media, but it existed – as did a lot of other networks. We tracked their evolution. ...

  • Callum Booth

• ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm

  Google is notoriously cryptic about how YouTube's recommendations work, that's why Guillaume Chaslot is fighting for increased ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• YouTube is failing the LGBTQ community by allowing Steven Crowder’s homophobic slurs

  Vox host Carlos Maza tweeted a thread exposing the times where Steven Crowder made homophobic and racist comments — the ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Here's the real tea: A primer on YouTube drama channels

  YouTube channels devoted specifically to gossip about other YouTubers. Here's a quick primer on what they do and why it's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How this music YouTube series succeeds at ‘dancing about architecture’

  When "writing about music is like dancing about architecture," how do you make video exploring the sounds behind songs? Earworm ...

  • Callum Booth

• What your favorite YouTubers did before they got famous, according to that viral Twitter meme

  A Twitter meme has people revealing their job history -- YouTubers included. So what did famous 'Tubers do before they hit ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Listen to this AI spit out brutal death metal non-stop

  CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski turn to AI and neural network models for music creation, and have launched a YouTube channel that ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google/Amazon deal sends YouTube to FireTV and Prime Video to Chromecast (finally)

  Google and Amazon appear to have buried the hatchet, and are now offering their video streaming apps on each other's devices. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Samsung's Galaxy Fold is glitching out and breaking days after reviewers got them (Update: Samsung is investigating)

  Samsung Galaxy Fold is already breaking down for some reviewers just days after they got their hand on the unit. The company ...

  • Bryan Clark

• YouTube's plan to reward 'quality' content has some problems

  After a turbulent year, YouTube is allegedly doing some damage control with its advertisers. According to a report from Bloomberg, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• YouTube TV's looking more like a cable package every day

  As the price and channel count on YouTube TV increases, Google's streaming service looks more and more like that which it ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• PewDiePie to give $50K via blockchain app that deplatformed Alex Jones

  PewDiePie will donate up to $50K in cryptocurrency during a live broadcast on DLive, but the app is likely not the streaming ...

  • David Canellis

• Bollywood pushes T-Series ahead of PewDiePie in the race for YouTube’s #1 spot

  PewDiePie v T-series seems to be coming to an end as the Indian music label has built a significant lead of ther swedish ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Bloomberg report explains why YouTube hosts so much toxic content

  It's the metrics, stupid.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google accidentally promoted a malicious Bitcoin wallet on YouTube

  Google-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• YouTube has set the stage for its own death, but can any app rise to challenge it?

  Since its creation in 2005, YouTube has been the go-to website (and app) for watching videos. Today, with more than a billion ...

  • Anna Johansson

• This app collects wallpapers designed to hide Samsung Galaxy S10's camera

  The Hidey Hole app for Samsung's Galaxy S10 collects hole-punch wallpapers from Reddit – so you can easily hide that hole. ...

  • Mix

• YouTube's 'child safe' app is crawling with videos advocating suicide, murder, and sexual exploitation

  For nearly five minutes, the cartoon is predictable. Colorful characters with child-like voices act out the types of scenarios ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Reddit operates exactly as it was designed -- and that’s a problem

  After carefully selecting a semi-automatic weapon from the trunk of his car, one of at least three, a 28-year-old gunman ...

  • Bryan Clark

• We reviewed this $35K Sony projector with old internet videos

  Ever wondered what a $35,000 projector is like? And how it'd handle old internet videos? We answered the two questions no ...

  • Callum Booth

• Tech companies need to do more to fight child abuse content

  YouTube has, yet again, failed to protect children online. Recent investigations by Wired and video blogger Matt Watson have ...

  • The Conversation

• YouTube Music launches in India to battle it out with Spotify et al

  At long last, YouTube Music has launched in India with a free ad-supported option, as well as its Premium plan at Rs. 99 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• PSA: Look out for YouTube's info panels on controversial topics before watching videos

  YouTube announced last night that it'll show information panels in Hindi and English, powered by fact-checkers on controversial ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here's how to make GIFs from a YouTube video

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Rise of foreign stars in Chinese social media marks the beginning of a new trend

  China’s internet celebrity economy has expanded exponentially in recent years. According to a report released by iResearch, ...

  • Ashley Dudarenok

• Traditional media's handling of Momo is far scarier than the story itself

  It starts with a single message. Hours later, if at all, the WhatsApp, Messenger, or YouTube account gets a disturbing reply, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• YouTube's need to disable comments highlights how shitty the internet is

  YouTube has disabled comments on millions of videos featuring minors, in an effort to prevent predatory behavior in the comments ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against online misinformation

  The battle against misinformation just signed up a powerful, albeit unlikely ally: Pinterest. Earlier this week, the social ...

  • Bryan Clark

• How to cancel your Twitch/YouTube/Mixer subscriptions

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• EU’s proposed upload filters suck and YouTube’s ‘child pornography’ snafu shows why

  YouTube just backtracked its inexplicable decision to delete three popular Pokémon Go channels -- Trainer Tips, Mystic7, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• YouTube is cracking down on dangerous pranks and stunts like the Bird Box challenge

  YouTube has published new policies for its platform that state it won't allow content depicting dangerous pranks and stunts ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• South Korean women protest against growing epidemic of spycam porn

  South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul and protested against the issue of spycam porn. The hidden filming devices ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Spotify just inked a deal with the world's second biggest YouTube channel’s label

  Spotify has inked a deal with Indian music label T-series to make all 160,000 songs available to the listeners on spotify ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube now lets you swipe through videos like Instagram Stories

  We've all wasted hours watching recommended videos on YouTube, but now the company is making it even easier to procrastinate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook and YouTube aren't even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban

  After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 5 of the best podcasts to get you into cryptocurrency and blockchain

  Getting into blockchain and cryptocurrency can be pretty threatening to newbies – especially because the space is so flush ...

  • Mix

• Blue’s new XLR mic will help podcasters and YouTubers step up their set-up

  If you've ever created a podcast – or looked into doing so – I bet you'll know Blue. Whether it's the Yeti or its Nano ...

  • Callum Booth

• 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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How a group of students discovered the sounds of solar storms

  The students discovered a loud crunching noise followed by a series of whistling sounds whose pitch decreased. This event ...

  • The Conversation

• How apps like Fitbit, Waze, and Duolingo use gamification in their design

  Here's how designers can enhance their products the right way using a gamification system like Fitbit, Waze, and Duolingo. ...

  • David Teodorescu

• The best new social media features of 2018

  Social media sites and apps have changed a lot since the beginning of the year. Here are a few of our favorite changes from ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• YouTube Rewind 2018 hit with most dislikes ever thanks to its too-clean imagery

  This year's YouTube Rewind just surpassed a Justin Bieber song to become the most-disliked video ever made on the platform. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• We watched about 60 billion hours of gaming footage in 2018

  YouTube's head of gaming said we watched 50 billion hours of games this year. Combined with Twitch, Mixer, and other sites, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• YouTube's creators hit meme bingo in Rewind 2018

  YouTube today released the 2018 edition of Rewind, its Year-in-Review performance art piece, in which it acknowledged the ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How to mess with the PlayStation Classic's hidden settings using only a USB keyboard

  We need to update the infinite monkey theorem. This states that a monkey hitting keys on a typewriter will eventually type ...

  • Callum Booth

• Streamlabs CEO describes building monetization tools for Twitch & YouTube

  As streamers have grown from being scrappy amateurs to professionals, the tools that facilitate their careers have undergone ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Nintendo to ease its draconian rules for YouTubers and livestreamers

  Nintendo today announced it'd be winding down its Creators Program, which had long been a headache for YouTubers and streamers ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Nintendo is out for blood after the Smash Bros Ultimate leak

  We're all eager to get our hands on the new Super Smash Bros. It looks like it's going to be an amazing trip down memory ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google’s underrated Discover feature can change how we surf the web

  In October, Google made an important change to its mobile homepage. In place of the traditional page, with a search bar and ...

  • Manish Dudharejia

• Google shares which Thanksgiving food tutorials are most popular by state

  For all the Americans out there, food-heavy holiday Thanksgiving hits tomorrow. To commemorate the occasion (and perhaps ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Prima Games to cease publishing its strategy guides after 28 years

  Reports today revealed that Prima Games, the company behind those strategy guides you see at every game store, was shutting ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Killing a suffragette in Red Dead Redemption 2 says more about you than Rockstar

  Players are being harsh to a certain female character in Red Dead Redemption 2 -- but she's not the only representation of ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• ASMR videos are the absolute opposite of relaxing

  ASMR videos are supposed to be the new form of digital therapy helping viewers to unwind and feel relaxed. But I felt the ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Why trying to regulate social media is a political mess

  Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become obvious that people push the freedom to extremes. But regulating ...

  • The Conversation

• EU’s new copyright law will cement the dominance of tech giants

  The new European Union Copyright Directive, passed recently by the European parliament after a vociferous campaign both for ...

  • The Conversation

• Crafty kids are finding ingenious ways to thwart Apple's 'Screen Time' feature

  Apple first introduced Screen Time this summer as one of the key feature additions on iOS 12. By adding limits to specific ...

  • Bryan Clark

• YouTube won't delete the channel of an accused child molester

  A YouTuber's channel of kid-targeted content remains viewable on YouTube -- even after he's been accused of something horrible ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This week’s best Android games to play while avoiding your colleagues at lunch

  Welcome to our weekly column, in which YouTuber NimbleThor brings you a short list of the best new mobile games for your ...

  • NimbleThor

• YouTube merges Gaming with main site after standalone app fails to impress

  YouTube is transforming Gaming from a standalone site to a page on its main site. It's also admitted sticking games into ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• EU’s decision on Copyright Reform tomorrow could be a turning point for the web

  The EU Parliament is having a final vote on Copyright Reform on September 12. The decision will greatly affect the final ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Apple's move to shake up the newspaper industry offers little upside

  Apple is making a play at the publishing business. In March, the company acquired Texture, a subscription-based magazine ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Twitter CEO's comments will ignite the right, context be damned

  Stripped of context, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's comments sound a bit like an admission. Speaking to members of congress, Dorsey ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Here’s the tech that fuels your YouTube binges

  I doubt many viewers are aware of what technology is working behind the scenes of their YouTube binge-watching. It's more ...

  • Aleksei Antonov

• YouTube's new tools help creators give back

  YouTube recently introduced Giving, a set of tools, including fundraisers, through which content creators can help raise ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Now is the perfect time for foreign developers to focus on the Chinese app market

  Although there are issues with China's tech scene — like its harsh censorship. Now is the perfect time for us developers ...

  • Matej Michalko

• Over 50k people have blocked Twitter's biggest advertisers over the Alex Jones debacle (and you can too)

  Alex Jones can't win these days. As the unofficial mascot of conspiracy theorists everywhere, Jones -- the man who answers ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple runs into another embarrassing issue with the new MacBook Pro

  A series of embarrassing gaffes in Cupertino are leading many to question whether Apple has lost its eye for detail. Just ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Internal Facebook note reveals clever 'psychological trick' to attract teenage users

  Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell ...

  • Bryan Clark

• And then there was Twitter

  Having been banned by Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube -- and having a significant amount of his content removed on ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook is developing a singing contest feature to rival musical.ly

  Facebook is reportedly developing a new feature called 'Talent Show' which will allow users to record themselves singing ...

  • Cara Curtis

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Data shows people want serious long-form content — and brands need to take note

  You probably noticed the recent video that asked people whether they heard “Yanny” or “Laurel.” It would have been ...

  • Brandon Geary

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• A 100-rapper Fortnite Rap Battle Royale now exists -- and it's glorious

  It's about Fortnite, it's got a fun beat, and it stars 100 rappers from across the site. And yeah, it's as much of a treat ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Tech savvy drug users are relying on Apple Watch and Fitbit to keep them safe during cocaine binges

  Apple and Fitbit both like to tout the potential health benefits of their wearable devices. For a few hundred bucks, users ...

  • Bryan Clark

• How to be successful on YouTube: The 3 steps

  Become successful on YouTube. Brendan Gahan explains why brands are failing on YouTube and provides tips on how to build ...

  • Brendan Gahan

• You can now watch vertical videos in full screen on YouTube's Android app

  The latest version of YouTube for Android displays portrait mode videos in all their full-screen glory, making it easier ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This Chrome extension makes it easy to record your desktop, tabs or webcam for YouTube

  Recording your screen

  • Ben Woods

• 9 tips to make a video go viral on YouTube

  Every so often, a YouTube video goes viral. Try as you might, you cannot force virality. It takes time to stand out but with ...

  • Mackensie Graham