YouTube

Stories 221 - 240 | << Prev   Next >>

Tumblr Post Spurs 8-Hour Race to Stop Teen's Suicide

Sets off nationwide search for unknown blogger

(Newser) - Tumblr: It isn't all animated GIFs and Ryan Gosling. USA Today recounts the incredible story of how one teen's cry for help in a May 6 Tumblr post set off a nationwide search to find the girl before she committed suicide. It started when 18-year-old Jackie Rosas from...

Coming Soon: Paid YouTube Subscriptions

But only for 'specialist' channels

(Newser) - Might you soon have to pay for the privilege of watching a cat ride around on a Roomba ? YouTube is introducing subscriptions, possibly as soon as this week, but don't worry: They're only for "specialist" channels, the Financial Times reports. As many as 50 channels will...

&#39;Cinnamon Challenge&#39; Damages Lungs: Study
 'Cinnamon 
 Challenge' 
 Damages 
 Lungs: Study 
in case you missed it
Apr 27, 2013 12:40 PM CDT

'Cinnamon Challenge' Damages Lungs: Study

Spice powder poses danger for asthmatics, researchers find

(Newser) - Attempting the "cinnamon challenge"—a long-running online fad in which people try to swallow a dry spoonful of cinnamon powder—is an even worse idea than it may first appear, a new study warns. Researchers using data from tests on animals found that lungs became inflamed after exposure...

7th-Graders Named 12 Girls to Kill in Video: Police

20-minute video allegedly spoke of classmates they wanted dead

(Newser) - Two seventh-grade girls in New Jersey are in trouble after allegedly making a YouTube video threatening to kill 10 to 12 girls from their school, reports WNBC News . In the 20-minute video, which has since been taken down, they boasted of being good assassins and wanting to stab several classmates,...

Video Spurs Mystery: Are These Women Twins?

Internet helps them find out

(Newser) - The Internet is best known as a giant repository of cat pictures and Downfall parodies, but occasionally it has other uses. Case in point: Two South Korea-born women who met thanks to a YouTube video and connected via Facebook believe they are twin sisters separated at birth and have now...

Google's April Fool: YouTube Closing Down

Also new on April 1: Google Nose, Treasure Maps

(Newser) - Google has gotten into the April Fool's Day spirit once again: After eight years of accepting entries, YouTube is going to shut down to "select a winner." A spoof announcement on the site claims that "YouTube has been nothing but a contest to find the best...

YouTube: We&#39;ve Reached 1B Hits Per Month
 YouTube Joins 1B-Users Club 
Mar 21, 2013 4:26 AM CDT

YouTube Joins 1B-Users Club

...5 months after Facebook arrived at mark

(Newser) - Five months ago, Facebook announced it had reached a billion users per month—now, you can add YouTube to that exclusive club, Mashable reports. The video-sharing site announced the unique-visitors milestone on its blog , which notes that "nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube,...

Teens Make Hit Hunger Games Film on $30 Budget

They've made 9 more since, racked up 4.5M views on YouTube

(Newser) - She gets stopped on the street sometimes, recognized for her portrayal of Katniss in a series of Hunger Games videos. No, she's not Jennifer Lawrence; her name is Maddie Moore and she's one of a group of teens in Charlotte, NC, that has been making videos based on...

Nielsen to Add iPads, Xbox, Streaming to TV Ratings

It hopes to have new software in place this year

(Newser) - With fewer people watching TV in the traditional manner and more turning to broadband, iPads, and even the Xbox or PlayStation, the Nielsen Co. plans to expand how it measures program ratings, reports the Hollywood Reporter . By September, Nielsen expects to have new hardware and software in its 23,000...

Egypt Court Bans YouTube for Month Over Islamic Video

But ruling might be impossible to enforce

(Newser) - An Egyptian judge has ordered the government to block YouTube for a month over the anti-Islamic video that showed up last year and caused deadly riots, reports AP . The judge called the Innocence of Muslims "offensive to Islam," but it's unclear whether the government would be able,...

North Korea Posts Video Fantasy of US in Flames

Set to Michael Jackson's 'We Are the World'

(Newser) - If you think North Korea harbors a not-so-secret desire to obliterate the US—while backed by a Michael Jackson song—you'd be sort of correct. The country's official website uploaded a truly bizarre YouTube video on Saturday in which a slumbering man dreams of a rocket blasting a...

Iran Executes Muggers Who Took Man's Coat

Video of crime was posted to YouTube

(Newser) - After pledging to get tough on growing street crime, Iran has publicly hanged two muggers who took a man's coat, bag, and cash in November, in a crime that was videotaped and posted to YouTube. The convicts were hanged by crane, whose operators lifted the men from the ground...

Google+ Looking to Suck You in

CEO Larry Page pushes effort to build social network

(Newser) - Signing up for a YouTube or Gmail account? Get ready for a publicly viewable Google+ page, too. While Facebook users are clocking 400 minutes per month on that site, Google+ users spend just three minutes—and Google is trying to change that by making its own social network a little...

Another Huge YouTube Feat for 'Gangnam Style'

Video has racked up 1B views

(Newser) - Korean rapper PSY has accomplished what even Justin Bieber could not: His "Gangnam Style" video is the first to hit one billion views on YouTube , Mashable reports. Now that the milestone has been achieved, a dancing animated version of the rapper appears next to the view counter on the...

Woman Boasts About Bank Robbery on YouTube

 Woman on 
 YouTube: 
 I Robbed 
 a Bank! 
CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS
Dec 4, 2012 1:47 PM CST

Woman on YouTube: I Robbed a Bank!

Police somehow caught on to Hannah Sabata's video

(Newser) - Let's face it: These days, bragging about your crimes on Facebook has gotten old. If you really want to grab the limelight, do what 19-year-old Hannah Sabata of Nebraska appears to have done: Post a video on YouTube in which you dangle what you claim are the keys to...

'Gangnam Style' Tops YouTube's Most-Watched List

Psy's incredibly viral video is officially No.1

(Newser) - Move over, Justin Bieber: Psy has just ended your reign on YouTube. The Korean singing star's quirky "Gangnam Style" video became YouTube's most-watched ever today with 805 million views, passing Bieber's "Baby" by about a million, Mashable reports. "Gangnam Style" also had an average...

60% of YouTube Channels May Lose Funding

Google readies overhaul based on viewership

(Newser) - YouTube channels are facing a reckoning: As it seeks to make the site more television-like, Google is launching a second round of investments in YouTube channels—but only 30% to 40% are likely to get a new installment of cash, an exec tells Advertising Age . At the moment, YouTube has...

'Bronco Bama' Girl Happy Again

Abigael Evans doesn't have to hear election coverage anymore

(Newser) - Sure, Florida is still counting ballots, but this feels like a pretty good end to the election cycle. Little Abigael Evans, the 4-year-old who cried because she was sick of coverage about "Bronco Bama" and Mitt Romney, is smiling again. Her mom released a short clip of her being...

Campaign Makes 4-Year-Old Cry

It's almost over, Abby

(Newser) - An election-related video looks to be going viral today, and it's one that both Republicans and Democrats can relate to. The YouTube caption, as noted by Slate , is self-explanatory: "This is my four year old daughter, Abigael, after hearing one too many mentions of the election." Less...

Man Molested Subway Rider as She Slept: Cops

She reported the attack after seeing it on YouTube

(Newser) - A young woman who was allegedly molested while sleeping on a New York subway later reported the attack—after seeing it posted on YouTube, the Daily News reports. In the video, the 21-year-old is asleep in her seat while a man gropes her for several seconds between her legs. Jasheem...

Stories 221 - 240 | << Prev   Next >>
Most Read on Newser