49 h. ago A robot learned to lip sync after watching hours of YouTube videos

The robot learned the ability to use its 26 facial motors by practicing to imitate human lip motions in front of the mirror

Technology

6 d. ago Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean ‘end of traffic era’

Media bosses expect web referrals to plunge and want journalists to emulate content creators, report findsMedia companies expect web traffic to their sites from online searches to plummet over the next three years, as AI summaries and chatbots change the way consumers use the internet.An overwhelming majority are also planning to encourage their journalists to behave more like YouTube and TikTok content creators this year, as short-form video and audio content continues to boom. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Katie Price's cryptic comments as she breaks silence after split from JJ Slater

Katie Price has further fuelled rumours of a split with JJ Slater after posting a video on YouTube about her goals for 2026 - but fails to mention him at all in her upcoming plans for the new year

Politics

8 d. ago Katie Price makes heartbreaking admission about 'frail' mum Amy's health

Katie Price has shared a candid health update about her mum, Amy, who has been battling a terminal lung condition for years, in a new YouTube video, prompting an outpouring of support from fans

Events

9 d. ago MrBeast's real name and staggering net worth as Beast Games returns

MrBeast has returned with a brand new series of Beast Games on Prime Video - but who is the YouTuber and what is his net worth?

Sport

1 week ago Teen influencer Piper Rockelle says OnlyFans changed her life after eye

Rockelle first rose to fame as a child, making videos on YouTube under the management of her mother, Tiffany Smith

Politics

3 w. ago Harry Styles sends fans into a frenzy with cryptic surprise video years after last album and tour

The singer last released an album, ‘Harry’s House,’ in 2022

Culture

3 w. ago More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data showsMore than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’The two men chop peppers, slice aubergines and giggle into the camera as they delve into the art of vegan cooking. Both are wearing ski masks and T-shirts bearing Nazi symbols.The German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Farage criticised for £400,000 job promoting physical gold as pension investment

Exclusive: Reform leader promotes Direct Bullion – but experts say commodity is not for everyday investorsNigel Farage has been criticised over his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea that people should buy physical gold and put it into their pension pots.Farage is paid more than four times his MPs’ salary for the four-hour-a-month job at Direct Bullion, where he has featured in Facebook and YouTube videos. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Russell Brand jokes about upcoming court case as he attacks government bid to axe jury trials hours after he was charged with two new counts of rape and sexual assault

The comedian and actor took to YouTube with a 16-minute video railing against UK Government plans to limit the use of jury trials.

Events

3 w. ago ‘Haunted and cursed’: Lake Lanier has a deadly reputation. A darker tale hides beneath the surface

After years of fatalities and bizarre incidents, the Georgia reservoir has spawned countless ghost stories. Are they merely legend or the aftereffects of a history steeped in racial trauma?Kile Glover was the entertainer in the family, the pride of his stepfather, the R&B superstar Usher. He sang, he danced – he burned CDs of his own music, styled the covers with self-made art and was otherwise expressing his creativity in internet videos before it was trendy. “He would’ve been a YouTube sensation by now,” says his mother, the celebrity stylist Tameka Foster. But that future was thwarted on a family trip to Lake Lanier, just outside his Atlanta home town, in July 2012.Kile was only 11 when he was struck by a speeding jetski while tubing and knocked unconscious. Foster, on the island of Saint Martin at the time, managed to get to Kile’s hospital bedside within hours thanks to Usher sending a private plane – an olive branch that came amid a bitterly public custody battle over thei...

Events