Youtube Shorts

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  YouTube for Android Testing ‘Play Something’ Floating Action Button: Report

  YouTube is testing a new button in its mobile app for the Android platform, according to a report. It is said to play a random video when the user doesn’t know what to watch. The feature, dubbed 'Play something' appears as a floating action button (FAB) with white text on a black background on the YouTube mobile app.

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  YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen AI Feature Upgraded With Video Background Generation Capability

  YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature earlier could generate AI-generated image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds all...

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  Google Wins Trademark Lawsuit Over YouTube Shorts, Court Rules No Confusion

  Google on Thursday defeated a trademark lawsuit brought by a British short film company over YouTube's short video platform Shorts, with London's High Court ruling there was no risk of confusion for consumers.

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  YouTube Update Brings Sleep Timer, Resizable Miniplayer And More Features

  YouTube is being updated with a sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and the ability to fine-tune playback speed. These updates will arrive on the web interface, the YouTube mobile and TV apps, and YouTube Music. Other features expected to arrive later this year include the ability to vote on videos in playlists, creator badges, and an updated in...

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  YouTube Announces Longer 3-Minute Duration for Shorts, Templates and More Features

  Creators will now be able to create YouTube Shorts with a duration of up to three minutes, the company announced on Thursday. This change is part of a wider feature rollout which includes templates, the ability to mix YouTube videos to Shorts directly, a video-generation model powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and new ways to discover trendin...

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  "Will Resume Shortly": Supreme Court YouTube Channel Taken Down

  The Supreme Court's YouTube channel has been taken down after hackers posted a message promoting a US-based firm's cryptocurrency.

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  YouTube Reportedly Rolling Out 'Pause Ads' Widely After Strong Advertiser Response

  YouTube is reportedly rolling out pause ads widely to users and advertisers. The video streaming giant first announced its plans to show these ads that appear when a video is paused last year. Many netizens have reported seeing these ads, expressing concerns over this move. These appear as a pop-up ad and can either be a static image or a short loo...

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  YouTube Brings AI-Powered Video Generation Capabilities to Shorts, AI Reply Suggestions in Comments

  YouTube is introducing several new features to its video streaming platform, and a few of them will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). On Wednesday, the platform held its Made on YouTube event and the biggest announcement was the integration of a new AI Video model to let creators generate backgrounds and six-second-long videos. The AI mod...

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  YouTube Shorts Gets New Feature That Lets Creators Add Text, Filters to Thumbnails

  YouTube has introduced new creator tools for Shorts on Android and iOS platforms. With this feature, creators can now customise the thumbnails of their short videos by tweaking them with text, filters and emojis. Additionally, it is now giving them more choices when choosing thumbnails, even after YouTube Shorts are uploaded.

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  YouTube Shorts Hit A Trillion Views, CEO Lauds Indian Creators

  YouTube Shorts, a 60-second video format which made its global debut in India in 2020, has surpassed a trillion views, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced on Wednesday as he highlighted the global impact of Indian content creators.

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  YouTube Music Spotted Testing AI-Generated Custom Radio Station Feature

  YouTube Music is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to generate unique radios with the help of a tool. The new feature works with textual prompts, meaning users can write what they want to listen to, and the AI generates a radio with similar songs in it. Earlier users could only create a radio based on a song o...

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  YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels for Deal to Train AI Song Generator

  YouTube is reportedly in talks with multiple record labels to strike a deal that will let it use copyrighted songs to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Google-owned platform is said to be working on several new AI features that it plans to release by the end of this year. Last year, the video streaming platform announced testing an ...

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  YouTube Tests AI-Powered Comment Topics Summariser Feature for Shorts on Mobile

  YouTube is testing its AI-based comment topic summariser feature for Shorts. The experimental feature will only show up on the video streaming giant’s iOS and Android apps for now and will be available on a limited number of Shorts with large comment sections from select creators. The feature sorts the comment section into popular topics based on...

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  YouTube Testing a Dream Screen Feature for Shorts That Will Generate Images for Green Screens

  YouTube is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its minute-long vertical video format, Shorts. Dubbed Dream Screen, this feature will add a custom green screen image generated by AI to the videos. This feature is likely aimed at users who prefer to use creative backgrounds to stand out in the videos or be thematically aligned with...

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  Google I/O 2024: Google Unveils AI Video Generator Veo, Takes on OpenAI’s Sora

  Google I/O 2024’s keynote session was a 112-minute-long affair where the company made several major announcements focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The announcements ranged from new AI models to integration of AI into Google products, but perhaps one of the most interesting introductions was Veo, an AI-powered video generation model, that ...