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How to Drastically Improve Your YouTube Recommendations

Are your YouTube recommendations often irrelevant? Learn how to improve your YouTube recommendations via multiple methods.

By Crystal Crowder – Feb 1, 2025

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7 YouTube Features You’re Probably Not Using Yet

Want to get even more from YouTube? Check out these YouTube features you’ve probably never even heard of, but you’ll love.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 25, 2025

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7 Practical Ways to Use ChatGPT for YouTube Content Creation

Use ChatGPT to boost your YouTube content creation efficiency. Automate tasks and get creative ideas for a successful YouTube channel.

By Karrar Haider – Dec 27, 2024

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YouTube Still Battling NSFW Ads

Seeing explicit ads on YouTube? You’re not alone. See how the YouTube NSFW ads are still plaguing the platform a year after they started.

By Crystal Crowder – Dec 18, 2024

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Can You Bypass YouTube TV’s Price Hike Temporarily?

Hate the new YouTube TV price hike? Find out whether you’re eligible to get a temporary halt on the increase for six months.

By Crystal Crowder – Dec 16, 2024

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How to Automatically Skip Sponsored Sections in a YouTube Video

Tired of watching sponsored segments on YouTube? Here’s how you can use SponsorBlock to automatically skip YouTube sponsored sections.

By Sumukh Rao – Nov 19, 2024

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How to Play YouTube Videos in the Background on Android

If you want to play YouTube in background on Android, check our post which walks you through several viable methods.

By Alexandra Arici – Nov 4, 2024

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Why You Only Need These 3 Streaming Services In Your Life

Not sure what the best streaming combo is for variety and savings? Learn about the only three premium streaming services you need.

By Crystal Crowder – Oct 5, 2024

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6 Firefox Add-Ons that Provide a Better YouTube Experience

YouTube’s user interface is not really designed for Firefox, but there are some useful add-ons you can use to improve your YouTube experience.

By Sayak Boral – Sep 30, 2024

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Why YouTube Premium is the Only Streaming Service I Will Pay For

Will you pay for using YouTube? Find out why YouTube Premium is the best streaming service, and the only one worth paying for.

By Sayak Boral – Sep 24, 2024

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How to Create QR Code for Video

Learn how to easily create QR code for video and share them instantly. Make your videos more accessible and engaging today!

By Yash Patel – Sep 17, 2024

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Apple Podcasts Losing Ground as They Expand on the Web

With Apple Podcasts on the Web, a study shows that Apple lost ground with their podcasts, with fewer listeners now than Spotify and YouTube.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 23, 2024

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YouTube No Longer Allows You to Skip Ads with an Ad Blocker

YouTube has found a way to prevent users from skipping ads, if they are using an ad blocker extension. They’ll just see a black screen.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 29, 2024

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10 YouTube Alternatives for Something a Little Different

Not loving YouTube anymore or just want different content? Try these YouTube alternatives for a wider variety of content.

By Crystal Crowder – Jul 21, 2024

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Investigation Shows Tech Companies Trained AI on YouTube Transcripts

An investigation showed that some of the big names in tech, including Apple, trained their AI technology on transcripts from YouTube videos.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 17, 2024

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5 Easy Ways to Watch Deleted YouTube Videos

Has your favorite YouTube video been deleted? This guide shows multiple easy ways to watch deleted YouTube videos.

By Zainab Falak – Jun 25, 2024

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8 of the Best Third-Party YouTube Apps for Mobile You Should Try

The default YouTube app is just not good enough for us.

By Alexandra Arici – Dec 20, 2023

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Is YouTube a Social Media Site?

YouTube is part of our lives, just like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. But is YouTube a social media site? Read this explainer to decide.

By Tanveer Singh – Aug 28, 2023

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13 Apps to Watch Videos with Online Friends

It’s always great to get together with friends or family to watch a movie together.

By Megan Glosson – Aug 4, 2023

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How to Edit Your Videos Using YouTube Studio

YouTube has its own video editor, which is good for simple edits. Here we show you how to use the YouTube Studio to edit your videos.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 27, 2023

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When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his samples kept coming back contaminated, and the seven-year detour he took to find the source ended with him almost single-handedly forcing leaded gasoline out of American cars by 1986.

Jun 5, 2026

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The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty spinning platters, and still drew customers because the alternative was a room full of punched cards

Jun 4, 2026

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In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

Jun 4, 2026

Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a Raytheon factory outside Boston, where women threaded copper wire through tiny magnetic cores to encode each bit as either a one or a zero, a process the engineers nicknamed LOL memory for Little Old Lady.

Jun 4, 2026

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When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976, American engineers tearing it down expected to find titanium and microchips, and instead they found vacuum tubes, rivets popped by hand, and a stainless steel airframe so heavy it could only fly fast in a straight line.

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When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had fallen out of the trees, and 1,746 of their neighbours were lying where they had stood the night before, with no fire, no flood, and no wound to explain it.

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