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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
YouTube TV’s multiview feature is now live.

The feature for watching up to four feeds at once has been in testing, and now it’s officially available well ahead of this fall’s NFL Sunday Ticket streams for WNBA League Pass subscribers.

It’s no longer a sports-only affair, but YouTube TV’s FAQ notes it’s still limited to “multiple pre-selected live games simultaneously within a Primetime Channel,” and only on streaming devices or smart TVs where you can use your remote to click around to select which feed has audio.

An animation demonstrating the new multiview feature of YouTube TV.
GIF: Google
NFL Sunday Ticket now free for some Verizon customers — beware the fine printNFL Sunday Ticket now free for some Verizon customers — beware the fine print
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
This year’s Wimbledon men’s final is free on YouTube.

The Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic was an epic battle that cemented Alcaraz’s place as world number one. You can now watch the five-set match free on YouTube, where you can see Alcaraz secure his first Wimbledon title against seven-time champion Djokovic.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
I’m a sucker for re-engineering bikes.

And I’ll be keeping an eye on this newer YouTube channel, Works By Design, after a video showcasing an attempt at a more efficient bike, using CAD, a 3D object-scanning app, and pricey industrial tools. Perfect!

The goal was to get more torque throughout a pedal stroke, and maybe ironically, the maker replaced an old Biopace chainring that purported to do just that.

Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Deliver me from Cocomelon.

I have a vehicle-obsessed toddler, and just when I thought I couldn’t handle another viewing of Cocomelon’s Wheels on the Bus we stumbled across Twenty Trucks.

It’s a YouTube channel with songs dedicated to construction trucks and all manner of working vehicles. They’re delightfully homegrown, catchy, and feature plenty of that sweet truck footage. Check them out with the tiny vehicle-loving human in your life and thank me later — the car carrier is a big favorite in our house.

YouTube Premium now costs an extra $2 each monthYouTube Premium now costs an extra $2 each month
YouTube is testing a new way to let you easily watch videos at 2x speedYouTube is testing a new way to let you easily watch videos at 2x speed
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
YouTube Music Podcasts are now rolling out in Canada and Brazil.

Podcasts started showing up for YouTube Music users in the US back in April, with YouTube promising more countries to follow. Now that process has begun.

Last week, some Canadian and Brazilian users reported they were able to access podcasts in YouTube Music, according to 9to5Google. In an email to The Verge, YouTube Music communications manager Paul Pennington confirmed the rollout to both countries.

YouTube Music podcasts support starts rolling out internationally

[9to5Google]

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
YouTuber Allen Pan “armed” himself with an arm-wrestling exoskeleton and challenged a bunch of people at muscle beach.

After lingering too long in arm wrestling YouTube, so now the site’s algorithm now thinks it’s all I care about. As an unironic fan of Over the Top, a sweaty Sylvester Stallone film about a truck driver who joins an arm-wrestling tournament to win the love of his son, I’m not sure it’s wrong.

Anyway, Pan made a janky exoskeleton with an electric winch and some other junk, and it... worked?

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google lists “additional facts” to prove it’s not misleading video advertisers.

The findings from Adalytics published last month suggested that Google broke its own rules on video ads by placing ads in small, muted video players on sites and letting them play on repeat.

Now Google claims Adalytics used faulty methodology, citing third-party data showing video ads mostly run on YouTube, as promised, and not outside sites. It also claims the report “ignores or is unaware” that even if an ad is shown on another site, that doesn’t mean the advertiser was charged for it.

Google is in hot water over video ads

Emma Roth
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
I want a retro-futuristic robot with a TV for a mouth, too.

Last week, Will Cogley published a video showing how he fused a vintage TV with animatronics and Alexa to create something infinitely more charming than Amazon’s Astro.

It looks so cool, but I’m not sure I want Alexa making eye contact with me as it continues with, “by the way...” For what it’s worth, Cogley says at the end he wants to change that, too:

The big change that I would like to see — you guys have probably been yelling at the screen this whole time — is that we need to dump the Alexa platform and adopt a GPT AI platform because as far as interactivity goes, it would be so much more powerful.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
YouTuber Ryan Trahan is trying to survive on a penny... again.

Last year, he did a daily vlog series and fundraiser where he started with a penny and had 30 days to travel coast-to-coast across the US (and eventually deliver a giant penny to MrBeast). He’s doing the series again this month, but this time, he has seven days to get from Paris back to the US.

So far, the series is proving to be extremely popular — Day 2 is currently the top-trending video on YouTube, and even though he just posted Day 3 a couple hours ago, it already has more than half a million views.

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