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Close Google's Hangouts on Air heading to YouTube Drag Hangouts on Air is a pretty good live-streaming app within Google's social network, Google Plus. However, Google is pulling the feature from Google Plus and a new version will head to YouTube Live. In mid-September, Hangouts on Air will no longer function on Google Plus. ...

If the number of people watching the Republican and Democratic national conventions on YouTube can shed any insight, this could be a close presidential race.The Young Turks were among the shows live streaming on YouTube during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Terry Collins/CNET More 9 million people saw YouTube's live steam of the conventions, the Google-owned site said Friday. YouTube staples, The Young Turks and Complex magazine, each had live broadcasts on their chaels originating from Google's spaces on media row in both Cleveland and Philadelphia. Viewership for each convention was practi...

YouTuber PewDiePie made almost as much as "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt in 2015. Getty A clamoring mob is a clamoring mob, regardless of who's at the center of the throng.That's the lesson companies like Facebook are leaing about inteet celebrities. Is Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie on par with Brad Pitt? In a sense, it doesn't matter. In June, The Wall Street Joual found that Facebook is paying celebrities and media outlets to use its new live streaming service, Facebook Live. Among those celebrities are recognizable names -- names that come from television and sports, like comedian and a...

[embedded content] Fresh off being named 2015's highest paid actor in Hollywood by Forbes last week, The Rock launched his own YouTube chael on Monday and he's called in a few ringers to show him the ropes.Chief among them is vlogger and comedian Lilly Singh, who gives Johnson the guided tour of YouTube's secret volcano lair recording studio. The online venture comes from a partnership between Johnson's 7 Bucks Productions, which he runs with ex-wife Dany Garcia, and Studio 71, Variety reports.Capitalizing on his 100-million-follower-strong social media presence, The Rock is now tackling the land of cat videos, beauty tips, couples yoga and doubl...

If you love "Ghostbusters," chances are you already know all too well the controversy ping-ponging between diehard fans over whether the mostly all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKion and Leslie Jones will be fuy or is just a gimmick to sell tickets. Some people can't wait to see what "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig does with the well-known humor tropes from the original '80s "Ghostbusters," but due to the vocal critics who absolutely hated the trailer -- currently at 914,452 dislikes out of 35 million views -- Feig asked his cast to ad lib a scene where their characters respond to negative comments on a video they just up...

Hang out on social media chaels long enough and you're bound to run into a hater or two. YouTuber Simone Giertz decided to respond to killjoys by creating a "deal with it" meme droid. The "deal with it" meme is a popular online response to those who criticize your actions or comments, basically meaning "accept it" and accompanying that with an animated GIF of someone putting on a pair of dark sunglasses.Giertz posted a video on Wednesday showing off a rather unique robotic arm that can be maneuvered via remote control. The device was constructed by Stuart McCoel, one of her fans. But in her typical wit, Giertz uses the remote control to move a robotic arm to recreate the "deal ...

The music video was inspired by a painting by Vincent Desiderio. Screenshot by Xiomara Blanco/CNET Kanye West's infamous music video for "Famous" is now available to on YouTube. After its world premiere, live-streamed on Tidal, it was available exclusively on the streaming-music service for a week. Of course, that didn't stop it from being the talk of the inteet.The NSFW video features Kanye buck-naked in a big bed with life-like nude, prosthetic bodies of celebrities, including Donald Trump, Rihaa, Bill Cosby, Taylor Swift and, of course, Kim Kardashian-West. They all silently lie still in bed, seemingly bre...

YouTube YouTube A video pirate going by the YouTube useame Thuy Pham surreptitiously embedded a copy of the 1995 teen movie "Clueless" in a 360-degree video uploaded to YouTube this week. The video (now removed) starts by showing a slightly sped-up version of the film in a normal YouTube screen dimension, but clicking the 360-degree arrows rotates the plane to reveal a larger viewing environment, essentially a video within a video. Inteet sleuths on Twitter were able to identify the background source as this 360-degree music video for the South Korean pop group Bambino. The pirate took advantage of a loophol...

Facebook is among a group of companies reportedly using automated technology to identify and remove terrorist propaganda. CNET Facebook and YouTube are among a group of popular web sites that have quietly begun using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, Reuters reported Saturday. Originally developed to identify and remove copyright-protected material, the technology is looking for unique hashes, or digital fingerprints, to remove Islamic State videos and other similar material, two sources familiar with the process told the news agency. Such technology could be used to prevent reposts of ...

YouTube Red, the online video giant's paid subscription service, scores its first big TV drama series. Sarah Mitroff/CNET YouTube Red is reportedly shelling out the green for its first big-budget, Hollywood-produced television drama.The online video giant's paid subscription service has snagged a scripted series based on "Step Up," a 2006 dance movie that kickstarted actor Chaing Tatum's career, the New York Times reported Thursday. Under the deal, Lionsgate will produce 10 episodes of the show, ruing about 45 minutes each.It wasn't clear how much YouTube paid for the series. Representatives for Google, its p...

YouTube is about to push live streaming from the web to your mobile device. The video-sharing site will soon offer support for live streaming on its YouTube app, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday at the VidCon conference in Anaheim, Califoia.YouTube will soon offer live streaming baked into its mobile app. YouTube The Google-owned company also promises that live streaming will have all the regular features as regular videos, including search, recommendations and playlists. "YouTube mobile live streaming will be baked right into the core YouTube mobile app," Kurt Wilms, product lead of immersive exp...

[embedded content] Much like hit records ea awards, YouTube chaels get special commemorative trophies for reaching subscriber milestones. The first of these is the Silver Play Button for racking up 100,000 subscribers. It's silver-plated and personalized with the chael name. The Hydraulic Press Chael, a goofy chael dedicated to crushing things in a hydraulic press, recently received its Silver Play Button and naturally attempted to smoosh it into oblivion. The Silver Play Button is surprisingly resilient. It doesn't shatter. It doesn't squish out from the sides of the press, though it does have to be pried off the platform. It definitely fared mu...

The lonelygirl15 YouTube series is getting a reboot. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET In 2006, Twitter was just a few months old, your MySpace Top 8 was prime real estate and lonelygirl15 captivated the inteet with her first vlog. What started as a series of webcam videos, filmed by a 16-year-old girl in her bedroom, lonelygirl15 soon tued into a massive sensation, pulling in millions of views. But after just a few months, 16-year-old Bree was revealed to be actress Jessica Lee Rose and the whole series was exposed as a scripted hoax.Sure, the action started to get weird when small-town Bree started talking a...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageSo very clever. Licor Beirão; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You don't like soccer? OK, you can go. But wait. You like liquor, don't you? Please stay then and consider the clever maneuverings of Portuguese liquor brand Licor Beirão. It placed an ad alongside the field at a recent soccer match between England and Portugal. During the game, a Portuguese player accidentally kicked England star Harry Kane in the head. This happened right in front of the Licor Beirão ad. Given that the Euro 2016 E...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePlease don't ask me what this is all about. Old Spice; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET If you're selling vaguely masculine smells to recently pubescent boys, it's best to move them in unexpected ways.These boys, after all, aren't consistent creatures. They sleep until noon. They have mood swings. They need constant excitement.Old Spice has long been known to cast ads to the Web that veer from the bizarre to the plain insane. Who could forget the moms who stalk their sons because they just can'...

[embedded content] From photography to racing, drones are becoming increasingly useful as people explore the evolving technology. On Tuesday, Simone Giertz, a YouTube blogger known for making humorously dodgy robots, tried to take drones to their next logical frontier of glory: hair cuts.She paired up with computer Samy Kamkar to make the above video, which sees the duo attempt to give a maequin a stylish new 'do.As you'll see, this isn't something you'd want to try at home.Let's block ads! بخوانید...