Nilay Patel
Here I am on Marketplace Tech talking about YouTube, AI, and copyright law.
My three loves, all in one place. More from me about all of it in this piece!
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Jacob Kastrenakes
How does Helen Mirren pronounce Helen Mirren?
Are we all saying Rihanna wrong? It’s “Louie” not “Lewis” in Julia Louis-Dreyfus, right?
I’m deeply grateful for this single-purpose YouTube channel, which is filled with hundreds of roughly four-second-long clips of celebrities saying their own names.
You will not be surprised to learn that the channel’s number one video, with 3.9 million views, is a clip of Cillian Murphy saying “Cillian.”
Jay Peters
Google is rolling out live lyrics in YouTube Music.
The live lyrics in Apple Music are pretty handy, so it’s nice to see them come to people using YouTube Music. Seems like a big improvement over the previous lyrics feature, too.
Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way. Except maybe Frank Sinatra.
Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
Jacob Kastrenakes
(I guess you can skip this ad, if you really want to?)
YouTube is testing a new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to see that you’re able to skip ahead. A spokesperson confirmed the test to Search Engine Land.
Wes Davis
There’s beauty in the impractical.
YouTuber Nick Zetta decided to try to power a gaming PC with a miniature V8 engine — which I just found out is something you can buy.
It wasn’t as simple as shoving some wires in. He used pulleys, a pair of golf cart motors, a power regulator, rubber belts, an accelerator pedal, and a DIY motor mount. For his computer.