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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-23 00:17:11

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators. Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is rea

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Flickering lights could help fight misinformation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 05:58:29

A group of Cornell computer scientists has unveiled what they believe could be a new tool in the fight against AI‑generated video, deepfakes and doctored clips. The watermarking technique, called “noise‑coded illumination,” hides verification data in light itself to help investigators spot doctored videos. The approach, devised by Peter Michael, Zekun Hao, Serge Belongie and assistant professor Abe Davis, was published in the June 27 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented b

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YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-23 10:01:21

YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video. In November 2022, YouTube changed its rules so that creators who used swear words in the first 8-15 seconds would potentially be ineligible for any ad revenue. After much backlash, the company changed its rules again in March 2023 so that such videos would be eligible for limited ad revenue, unless they use profa

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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-23 20:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community Notes featu

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YouTube will no longer limit ads on videos that drop the f-bomb early

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 20:45:19

YouTube has changed its ad guideline policy surrounding swear words, allowing creators a bit more freedom than before. In a video announcement, YouTube's head of monetization, Conor Kavanagh, said that videos containing stronger profanity such as f-bombs in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full monetization. In 2022, YouTube introduced a policy that would flag videos using profane language in the first several seconds as ineligible for advertising. It relaxed that rule a bit in 2023.

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Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-26 00:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year, but they’re now available nationwide on the iOS app’s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed. Business operators can’t currently see the videos

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LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:47:37

Basketball star LeBron James' attorneys apparently sent a cease and desist letter to the developers of a popular AI service that created videos and images of famous NBA stars in bizarre situations — including one of James lying on a couch, clutching a pregnant belly. Jason Stacks, owner of AI platform FlickUp, confirmed to 404 Media that he'd received a letter from James' lawyers, prompting the company to tweak its tech so that people wouldn't be able to make silly slop videos of James in impro

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Playful Airline Safety Videos Could Be Making Passengers Less Safe

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-06 20:00:21

When you board a plane, chances are you want to stick your noise-canceling earphones in as soon as possible and pass out before the toddler in the row behind you starts screaming. Plus, if you’re a frequent traveler, you probably know the in-flight safety video by heart. Or do you? A survey published last month in the Journal of Travel Research reveals that not only did most participants fail an airline safety quiz immediately after watching the in-flight safety video, but that viewers of video

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Toy company may regret coming for “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker, experts say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-07 04:53:51

A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit after garnering millions of views on funny videos using adorable Calico Critter dolls made for preschoolers to act out dark, cringe-y adult storylines. While millions of followers mourn the so-called "Sylvanian Drama" account's demise, experts told Ars that the creator may have a decent chance at beating the lawsuit. The "Sylvanian Drama" account derived its name from "Sylvanian Familie

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Download your photos before AT&T shuts down its cloud storage service permanently

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-08 15:33:23

AT&T / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET AT&T has long offered certain subscribers a free online storage app and service designed to back up photos from their phones. That certainly sounds handy. Alas, in the tradition of "all good things must come to an end," the service is being retired. The bad news Powered by tech company Asurion, AT&T Photo Storage has been available as an app for iOS and Android users alike. Through the app, AT&T subscribers can back up their photos and videos at full resolu

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Is your Ring camera showing strange logins? Here's what's going on

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-13 15:17:24

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If a TikTok trend has you spooked about your Ring camera's security, there's good news -- everything is ,OK and nobody is watching your videos. Over the past 24 hours, videos of a strange problem with Ring cameras have flooded TikTok. The videos make some fairly unsettling claims and urgent warnings. If you check your device history, people say, you may notice a series of logins on May 28, 2025, from devices that aren't yours. This means that for the past two months, the video

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:40:18

VideoSDK AI Agents Open-source framework for developing real-time multimodal conversational AI agents. Overview The AI Agent SDK is a Python framework built on top of the VideoSDK Python SDK that enables AI-powered agents to join VideoSDK rooms as participants. This SDK serves as a real-time bridge between AI models (like OpenAI and Gemini) and your users, facilitating seamless voice and media interactions. # Feature Description 1 🎤 Real-time Communication (Audio/Video) Agents can listen, sp

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Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on ‘unoriginal’ Facebook content

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-24 00:30:01

Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook, meaning those that repeatedly reuse someone else’s text, photos, or videos. This year, Meta has already taken down around 10 million profiles that were impersonating large content producers, it said. Plus, it has taken action against 500,000 accounts that were engaged in “spammy behavior or fake engagement.” Those actions have included things like demoting the accou

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I used Google Veo to bring my selfies and photos to life - and things got hilariously weird

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-01-25 10:26:00

Tiernan Ray / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google this week made available the latest iteration of its Veo video-generation tool to users of its Gemini artificial intelligence program who have a "Pro" or "Ultra" account. Also: I used Google's Flow AI to create my own videos with sound and dialogue - Here's how it went Veo has been available in preview for some time now. What's new with the latest implementation is the ability to begin your video by uploading a still image to serve as the init

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YouTube’s Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-25 11:00:46

Remember “Baby Shark Dance?” How about “Gangnam Style?” Those videos were among the most inescapable offerings of the YouTube canon, pumped into our lives by the last vestige of the internet monoculture: the Trending page. Now, a full decade since it was first introduced, YouTube announced it is ending its effort to inject top videos into everyone’s feeds, opting instead to highlight popular content in specific niches. In a blog post, the company admits that the internet ecosystem has changed c

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How to Easily Watch YouTube Videos Offline

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 10:00:03

There's a good chance you've used YouTube to watch a video at least once in the past month. Over 2.7 billion people use the online video platform every month, according to research from the digital marketing firm Global Media Insight. If you're going somewhere with limited internet or just trying to conserve data on your phone plan, you might want to download some YouTube videos to entertain yourself. Luckily, there are a few ways you can download YouTube videos to watch offline. Subscribing to

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YouTube’s ‘Trending’ section is about to disappear

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-29 20:00:00

YouTube is preparing to sunset the Trending section that shows users which videos are currently going viral on the platform. The Trending page and Trending Now list will be removed within the “next couple of weeks,” according to YouTube, with the platform shifting its attention toward expanding YouTube Charts, which rank top-performing content. YouTube is directing users to lean on personalized recommendations and YouTube Charts to explore new videos ahead of the Trending page’s removal. YouTub

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YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-29 20:00:00

YouTube is removing its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, YouTube is moving away from the single, all-encompassing list for trending content to now just displaying the most popular content in specific categories on YouTube Charts. The platform says the update better aligns with the way trending content is discovered today, noting that when the Trending page launched in 2015, it was a lot simpler to capt

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Gemini can now transform your boring stills into lifelike videos

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-30 05:00:44

TL;DR Gemini will now let you generate videos from existing images using its Veo3 model. Google says you can also use actual photos to transform them into videos. Veo3 will limit the output to eight-second clips in 720p resolution. If you’ve recently come across any realistic-looking videos with bizarre tropes, chances are they were generated using Google’s Veo3 AI video generation in Gemini. Its outstanding continuity of video frames, the ability to automatically generate audio, and seamless

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Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 05:02:08

wGoogle's Veo 3 videos have propagated across the Internet since the model's debut in May, blurring the line between truth and fiction. Now, it's getting even easier to create these AI videos. The Gemini app is gaining photo-to-video generation, allowing you to upload a photo and turn it into a video. You don't have to pay anything extra for these Veo 3 videos, but the feature is only available to subscribers of Google's Pro and Ultra AI plans. When Veo 3 launched, it could conjure up a video b

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These Are the Easiest Ways to Watch YouTube Videos Without Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 00:00:03

There's a good chance you've used YouTube to watch a video at least once in the past month. Over 2.7 billion people use the online video platform every month, according to research from the digital marketing firm Global Media Insight. But if you're going somewhere with limited internet or trying to conserve data on your phone plan, you might want to download some YouTube videos to entertain yourself. Luckily, there are ways to download YouTube videos to watch offline. Subscribing to YouTube Pre

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iOS 26 can freeze your FaceTime video if it detects nudity

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-13 05:53:35

The developer beta for iOS 26 has been out for a few weeks, and as always,tech sleuths are uncovering features and details that weren't explained during WWDC . Among the latest discoveries stirring up conversation online is a safety and privacy feature for FaceTime that blurs your feed when it detects you in a state of undress. Should FaceTime detect nudity, it will display a message reading "Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive. If you feel uncomfortable, yo

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AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2026-02-15 15:22:11

One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he isn't a human — he's a fully virtual personality powered by artificial intelligence. "I'm here to keep my millions of viewers worldwide entertained and coming back for more," Bloo said in an interview with CNBC. "I'm all about good vibes and engaging content. I'm built by humans, but boosted by AI." Bloo is a virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who has built a massive following of 2.5 million

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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s new CapCut rival for short-form video editing

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-02-15 15:59:44

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators. Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is rea

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AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2026-02-16 05:00:01

One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he isn't a human — he's a fully virtual personality powered by artificial intelligence. "I'm here to keep my millions of viewers worldwide entertained and coming back for more," said Bloo in an interview with CNBC. "I'm all about good vibes and engaging content. I'm built by humans, but boosted by AI." Bloo is a virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who has built a massive following of 2.5 millio

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AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-02-18 00:31:30

An AI-generated “bigfoot baddie,” with acrylic nails and a pink wig, speaks directly to her imaginary audience using an iPhone. “We might have to go on the run,” she says. “I’m wanted for a false report on my baby daddy.” This AI video, generated by Google’s Veo 3, has racked up over a million views on Instagram. It’s just one of many viral posts on Instagram and TikTok viewed by WIRED that depict Black women as primates and perpetuate racist tropes using AI video tools. Google’s Veo 3 was a hi

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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 02:08:53

how we accidentally solved robotics by watching 1 million hours of YouTube 29 Jun, 2025 the existential crisis we all share imagine this: you've just spent $640 billion training the chonkiest language model known to humanity (lol) and decide to call it "Behemoth". it can annoy you on whatsapp, try to solve calculus, and argue with you about anything with a sophistication of a philosophy PhD. but ask it to grab a coffee mug from your kitchen counter? ngmi turns out scaling LLMs forever still

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What Are AI Video Generators? What to Know About Google's Veo 3, Sora and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 18:00:04

First came the rise of AI chatbots, then image generators blew up. Now, tech companies are rushing to release AI video generators. During the past year, nearly every major tech company has announced some kind of AI video model they've been cooking. Each company has its own timeline, which can make it hard to keep up with who's done what. To save you from searching, I've run down every major AI video program and compiled my early insights on the testing I've done on the programs available now. T

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You Can Still Watch YouTube Videos Offline. These Are the Easiest Ways

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-24 15:00:02

There's a good chance you've used -- and uploaded content to -- YouTube. According to research from the digital marketing firm Global Media Insight, over 2.7 billion people use the online video platform every month. YouTube says over 20 billion total videos have been uploaded to its platform, with over 20 million videos uploaded every day. If you're going somewhere with limited internet or trying to conserve data -- like hopping on a plane -- you might want to download some YouTube videos to en

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This Gemini feature in the YouTube app convinced me to finally ditch the Google Assistant

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-02 06:00:47

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Ever since Google announced that it would begin phasing out its Assistant for Gemini as the default voice assistant, I have found myself struggling to pick between the two. On one hand, I like the familiarity and reliability of the Assistant but on the other, Gemini is the only one still getting new features. The latter is exactly what finally pushed me to start using Gemini more seriously — despite the occasional hiccup and hallucination. In particular, I’ve

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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

Flickering lights could help fight misinformation

YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos

TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

YouTube will no longer limit ads on videos that drop the f-bomb early

Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant

Playful Airline Safety Videos Could Be Making Passengers Less Safe

Toy company may regret coming for “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker, experts say

Download your photos before AT&T shuts down its cloud storage service permanently

Is your Ring camera showing strange logins? Here's what's going on

Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

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I used Google Veo to bring my selfies and photos to life - and things got hilariously weird

YouTube’s Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead

How to Easily Watch YouTube Videos Offline

YouTube’s ‘Trending’ section is about to disappear

YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list

Gemini can now transform your boring stills into lifelike videos

Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

These Are the Easiest Ways to Watch YouTube Videos Without Internet

iOS 26 can freeze your FaceTime video if it detects nudity

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

A guide to using Edits, Meta’s new CapCut rival for short-form video editing

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions

AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

What Are AI Video Generators? What to Know About Google's Veo 3, Sora and More

You Can Still Watch YouTube Videos Offline. These Are the Easiest Ways

This Gemini feature in the YouTube app convinced me to finally ditch the Google Assistant

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