YouTube will now let parents limit the amount of time their teens can spend scrolling through its short-form video feature, Shorts, or block them all together. The option is part of a group of new ...

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As tools like OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo make AI video creation more accessible than ever, "AI slop" is also invading YouTube, according to a report by video-editing firm Kapwing. The company ...

YouTube has launched its first-ever personalized end-of-year summary called YouTube Recap. The feature shows users their top videos, genres, and music, and assigns a personality type based on viewing ...

A YouTube tool that uses creators' biometrics to help them remove AI-generated videos that exploit their likeness also allows Google to train its AI models on that sensitive data, experts told CNBC.

YouTube is testing a new tool that could solve one of the platform’s biggest user headaches: getting spammed with recommendations after watching a single video you didn’t actually care about. If ...

YouTube is arguably the most popular and most visited platform for entertainment, education and tutorials. There's a video for everything on YouTube, whether you want to learn how to cook, ride a bike ...

YouTube has a new feature that will automatically upscale videos. Upscaling will start on videos that are less than HD quality. Creators can opt out, and viewers can choose to view the original. That ...

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on ...

The state of Utah and the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with two of the world's largest porn sites — both of which have blocked viewers in Utah from seeing their content. The Utah ...

Something strange has been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks. After being uploaded, some videos have been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything.

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