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YouTube testing new interface with larger buttons

San Francisco: With larger and easier-to-interact buttons, Google-owned content sharing platform YouTube is testing a revamped user interface (UI) for the “Up Next” videos on Android. This new interface is more straightforward with larger touch targets. In the top-left corner is a numeric countdown that specifies how many seconds are remaining before the next video […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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YouTube Accused Of Being Lenient With Content Rules On Stars

San Francisco: Content moderators have accused Google-owned YouTube of being lenient with its rules prohibiting nudity and other problematic content on stars who help the video-sharing platform generate huge sum of money through advertisements, the media reported. According to a report in the Washington Post, popular creators PewDiePie, Steven Crowder and Logan Paul are among […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Google's enterprise Gmail suffers outage, later restored in India

New Delhi: Google’s enterprise Gmail for businesses suffered an outage on Friday but services were restored soon after. Some users in India faced problems while refreshing, sending and receiving emails on the secure, private and ad-free email service. “Gmail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Op-Ed: Let Us Spread Love, Not Hate!

By Sandeep Sahu Like most controversies of our highly toxic times, this one too had its origins in social media. At the centre of the controversy was a video, first uploaded on YouTube and later shared on Facebook (both deleted now), showing the burning of ‘Madhu Barnabodha’, the grammar primer for Odia language. What lent […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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YouTube Originals Released Post Sep 24 To Be Free With Ads

San Francisco: Months after confirming that its Originals programming would soon be free with advertisements, YouTube has finally announced content released after September 24 will be available to non-YouTube Premium subscribers as well. “The new freemium model for YouTube’s original content begins after September 24, 2019. All YouTube Originals series, movies, and live events moving […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Airtel takes on JioGiga Fibre with Xstream STB, smart stick

New Delhi: Ahead of the commercial launch of Jio Fibre on Thursday, Bharti Airtel on Monday announced the launch of Airtel Xstream which will offer Live TV, video, music, news, and sports across an OTT smart stick, Internet-enabled set top box and hand-held devices. The Sunil Mittal company launched a set top box (STB) along […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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This Video Of Dog Trying To Rescue Her Puppies Is Soul-Stirring!

Upon hearing the frantic cry, members of Animal Aid Unlimited sensed something foul and immediately rushed to the spot to find a stray dog trying to dig her puppies out of the debris of a collapsed house. The video, which has gone viral on social media has garnered over 16 lakh views on YouTube. In the video, the stray dog […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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Google to pay USD 170 mn fine for sharing YouTube data from kids

Washington: Google agreed Wednesday to pay USD 170 million to settle charges that it illegally collected and shared data from children on its YouTube video service, a deal critics said was too soft on the internet giant. The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the New York state Attorney General is the largest amount […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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YouTube Changes Counts Views For Record-Breaking Music Videos

San Francisco: Online video giant YouTube is introducing a major change to its music chart system after discovering that artists and labels were using growth hacks to inflate how many people were watching their videos. YouTube is no longer counting “advertising views” when it comes to the company calculating its music charts. Instead, ranking for top-watched […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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YouTube to shut 'Leanback' TV web interface

San Francisco: YouTube has decided to pull the plug on its TV-friendly web interface, but has not specified any time. The web application is controlled with a remote and used with smart TVs and similar devices. “If you watch YouTube using the Leanback interface on a home theatre PC, you might have to scrounge for […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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YouTube creators hit by massive wave of account hijacks

New Delhi/San Francisco: YouTube creators, particularly in the auto-tuning and car review community, have become target of a massive wave of account hijacks, a media report said on Tuesday. The account hacks are the result of a coordinated campaign where hackers use phishing emails to lure victims on fake Google login pages from where they […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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How To Change YouTube Channel Name Without Editing Google Account

San Francisco: Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is now making it easier for users to change their channel’s name without needing to make any sort of alterations to the associated…

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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YouTube CEO Donates 200K Trees For #TeamTrees Initiative

San Francisco: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced that she is donating 200,000 trees for #TeamTrees initiative to YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson. “Incredible to see the momentum of #TeamTrees and the power of the YouTube creator community raising money for Arbor Day,” Wojcicki Tweeted, alongside a video of her planting a tree outside of YouTube’s […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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YouTube for desktop gets major overhaul: Report

San Francisco: After testing a host of new features for YouTube for desktop, the company has finally started to roll out a new design for its desktop and tablet homepage, which now features richer thumbnails and higher resolution video previews, media reports said. YouTube now feels confident enough to debut two of them to the […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
Google, YouTube Remove 300 Donald Trump Ads As US Prez Poll Nears

San Francisco: More than 300 Donald Trump ads have been pulled by Google and its video-sharing platform YouTube for violating the companies’ policies. The campaign videos, notably, ran over the summer. This comes at a time when handling political advertisements on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 US presidential election approaches […]

  • Thursday, 22 April 2021
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