TL;DR: YouTube now uses AI to automatically upscale videos below 1080p to HD, improving viewing on high-resolution displays. Creators can opt out, and viewers can disable upscaling, which is labeled ...

Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology ...

AI-generated videos for kids are popping up everywhere, and many include confusing or inaccurate information. These videos can look fun and harmless but may teach your child things that aren’t true or ...

Short-form video isn't new. Before TikTok, there was Vine—a platform that popularized 6-second video clips and helped redefine what it meant to go viral. The "Only a spoonful" of ice cream skit lives ...

Artificial intelligence tools have taken another leap forward. A new wave of generators can create lifelike video along with realistic audio, including dialogue. These tools, including Google’s Veo 3, ...

Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned. The company confirmed to CNBC that it relies ...

Through the looking glass: Pixelation and blur filters are often used used for censoring sensitive or explicit content. However, tools capable of reversing these effects have recently become widely ...

YouTube is cracking down on content related to gambling as sports betting and other online prediction markets have taken off in the United States. The platform announced Tuesday it will no longer ...

Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. The stripped-back video (below) dropped ...

Hundreds have sued Pornhub, saying videos of their abuse remained online despite their protests. Age-verification requirements for Pornhub users in 19 states will be weighed by SCOTUS this fall. The ...

The days of needing extensive editing experience and a hefty budget just to make a professional-quality video are over. A new wave of AI-powered video generators has arrived, empowering anyone with a ...

Escape the single-threaded event loop in browsers and on the server. Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. The JavaScript language is one of the ...