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Too Many Videos: How to Organize Your YouTube Subscriptions

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November 24, 2022

Too Many Videos: How to Organize Your YouTube Subscriptions

With 2.1 billion(Opens in a brand new window) energetic subscribers, you’d suppose YouTube might make it simpler to arrange your subscriptions. The location helps manually created playlists, however if you wish to group channels by class, as an example, you could flip to a third-party plugin like PocketTube(Opens in a brand new window). Listed here are your choices in case your YouTube subs are turning into an awesome mess.

The way to Manage Your Subscriptions With PocketTube

PocketTube lets you arrange movies by customized tags or classes, filter outcomes by video size, and handle subscriptions by bulk, so you’ll be able to do away with channels you now not watch or have since been discontinued.

The app helps you to search inside a selected class or by key phrase, and you’ll conceal movies you’ve got already watched (whereas avoiding suggestion curveballs from the algorithm). You can even arrange notifications for a selected group (as a substitute of a singular subscription) and get pinged each time a brand new video that matches inside the class is launched.

Chrome customers can obtain PocketTube as a plugin(Opens in a brand new window) to make use of on the desktop, which integrates straight into YouTube’s interface. While you open the facet menu, a brand new class referred to as Subscription Teams is added, which takes you to a separate display with tabs for every class you’ve created. New controls are additionally current within the Subscriptions tab, the place you’ll be able to navigate and edit their folders.

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Subscription Teams
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In case you’re extra of an on-the-go watcher, the PocketTube cellular app works throughout a number of cellular platforms, together with iOS(Opens in a brand new window) and Android(Opens in a brand new window). It is separate from YouTube, although, so you need to log into the PocketTube app together with your YouTube credentials.

As soon as signed in, the service will work throughout all gadgets. You possibly can then make and handle class folders, add movies to your lists, and extra. When you choose a video to look at from the PocketTube app, the YouTube app will mechanically open to play it.

Be warned that the consumer expertise on cellular will not be nearly as good when in comparison with desktop, particularly for the iOS model(Opens in a brand new window). Nevertheless, the developer appears to be responding to suggestions and will enhance performance.

The way to Manage Your Movies With Playlists

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If third-party apps and plugins aren’t your factor, there may be one other technique to arrange YouTube movies by class: make playlists. It’s a extra tedious technique, as it’s important to create category-specific playlists, then manually add movies to them.

To make a brand new YouTube playlist, click on the three-dot menu subsequent to the video you’d like so as to add to that playlist, then click on Save to playlist. If the video is already open and taking part in, choose the Save button. You possibly can then choose the suitable playlist from the Save to window. When you have but to make the playlist, click on Create new playlist, then enter a reputation and select the privateness settings.

As soon as the playlist exists, you’ll be able to click on into it from the Library web page. Choose the three-dot menu on the left facet beneath the playlist’s featured picture and click on Add movies to go looking YouTube for extra movies. The playlist can even present up within the sidebar menu with the remainder of your playlists.

Will YouTube Ever Launch a Repair?

May YouTube someday launch its personal characteristic that permits you to arrange your subscriptions into classes? The corporate began testing a characteristic referred to as Collections in December 2021. Satirically, YouTube already had this characteristic as soon as earlier than, but it surely was eliminated in 2015(Opens in a brand new window).

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Based on Tubefilter(Opens in a brand new window), Collections permits customers to group channels they’ve subscribed to in a lot the identical means extensions like PocketTube allow you to do now. You can even create customized groupings, so if you wish to kind channels by area or by add frequency, you are able to do that.

Like cooking movies? This new characteristic would allow you to make a Cooking assortment and kind all of your favorites there. As soon as made, the brand new Assortment exhibits up within the subscriptions tab, and you’ll open it to look at all of the scrumptious cooking content material out of your subs record.

Sadly this characteristic nonetheless isn’t out there to the general public on the time of writing, and it’s unclear whether or not it ever shall be. Feedback on the official YouTube video(Opens in a brand new window) (proven above) detailing the check appear to point the characteristic was rolled out to testers however later axed.

Many individuals are nonetheless asking for it although, so hopefully YouTube will convey it again. Till (and except) that occurs, we’re left with apps like PocketTube to choose up the slack.

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Coding bootcamp Lambda School — now BloomTech — is finally getting punished

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April 17, 2024

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Coding bootcamp Lambda School — now BloomTech — is finally getting punished

Why? Among other deceptive practices, the “Bloom Institute of Technology” didn’t call them loans. It advertised a way for students to get high-paying tech jobs “risk free” with “no loans” by paying 17 percent of their future income for five years — rather than the $20,000 sticker price of tuition.

But those Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs) were definitely loans, the CFPB has decided, since Bloom was earning an average finance charge of $4,000 on each one, students could default and get sent to collections if they failed to make payments, and Bloom was turning around and selling those student debts to investors for $7,000 to $10,000 a pop.

Bloom handed out more than 11,000 of these loans between 2017 and 2023, according to the CFPB consent order you can read at the bottom of this story. But it doesn’t offer them as of 2024, so the ban on future loans may be too little, too late.

That said, the agency’s also ordering Bloom to cancel all loans for students who haven’t made a payment in the last 12 months, let current students immediately quit the program with no debt, and return a small amount of money to graduates who paid Bloom a premium and yet didn’t manage to land a job making $70,000 or more. That last group of students will still have loans, but retroactively capped at the sticker price of tuition.

BloomTech has already agreed to the order; company CEO Austin Allred signed his consent last Friday. He’ll personally be paying $100,000 out of the $164K penalty, and is banned from student lending activities for 10 years.

None of this puts BloomTech out of business, by the way — it can keep operating with third-party loans instead.

In 2020, Lambda students told us their fears weren’t just about the worrying financial terms of the loan, but also how the company didn’t seem to be hiring professional instructors to provide students with the skills to actually land jobs despite promising “world class” industry experts. The CFPB’s report backs this up:

BloomTech’s curricula frequently changed and relied in part on teaching assistants paid $15 per hour with limited programming backgrounds. As a result, many students complained that they had to teach themselves the course content.

Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job placement rate in one of BloomTech’s cohorts. In a private message, he later acknowledged that the sample size was just one student.

From 2019 forward, BloomTech touted job placement rates of at least 71 percent. But BloomTech’s non-public reporting to investors, which relied on more accurate methodologies, has consistently shown placement rates closer to 50 percent.

There’s more in the full consent order, which you can read below.

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Fox News AI Newsletter: Doctor's groundbreaking surgery

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April 17, 2024

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Rodriguez detailed that the MARS system gives surgeons “two extra arms” for instrument control, as well as camera stability. (Levita Magnetics)

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– First-ever augmented reality abdominal surgery performed in Chile: ‘A revolution’
– High school students, parents warned about deepfake nude photo threat
– Adobe releases Acrobat AI assistant starting at $4.99 a month

SURGICAL ‘REVOLUTION’: Surgeon and CEO Dr. Alberto Rodriguez conducted the first-ever augmented reality (AR) abdominal surgery March 11 in Santiago, Chile. That’s according to Rodriguez’s company, Levita Magnetics, a medical equipment manufacturer in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Alberto Rodriguez (Levita Magnetics)

‘SCARY’ SCHOOL TREND: Multiple Los Angeles-area school districts have investigated instances of “inappropriate,” artificial intelligence-generated images of students circulating online and in text messages in recent months.

Beverly Vista Middle School on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

AI IN PDF: Adobe announced that its new Acrobat artificial intelligence assistant will be available to Acrobat and Reader users starting on Tuesday.

POTHOLE HEALER: Tech firm Robotiz3d is developing three technologies as part of its Autonomous Road Repair System.

Pothole-preventing robot. (Hertfordshire)

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Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare

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April 17, 2024

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Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare

Boston Dynamics wanted the new version to show that Atlas can keep a humanoid form without limiting “how a bipedal robot can move.” The new version has been redesigned with swiveling joints that the company claims make it “uniquely capable of tackling dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks.”

“We designed the electric version of Atlas to be stronger, more dexterous, and more agile,” the company said in its press release. “Atlas may resemble a human form factor, but we are equipping the robot to move in the most efficient way possible to complete a task, rather than being constrained by a human range of motion. Atlas will move in ways that exceed human capabilities.”

The teaser showcasing the new robot’s capabilities is as unnerving as it is theatrical. The video starts with Atlas lying in a cadaver-like fashion on the floor before it swiftly folds its legs backward over its body and rises to a standing position in a manner befitting some kind of Cronenberg body-horror flick. Its curved, illuminated head does add some Pixar lamp-like charm, but the way Atlas then spins at the waist and marches toward the camera really feels rather jarring.

The design itself is also a little more humanoid. Similar to bipedal robots like Tesla’s Optimus, the new Atlas now has longer limbs, a straighter back, and a distinct “head” that can swivel around as needed. There are no cables in sight, and its “face” includes a built-in ring light. It is a marked improvement on its predecessor and now features a bunch of Boston Dynamics’ new AI and machine learning tools.

The company also said it’s continuing to build on capabilities already achieved with the last generation hydraulic Atlas model, such as lifting and maneuvering objects, alongside exploring “several new gripper variations” to ready the robot for a range of different industry environments.

Boston Dynamics said the new Atlas will be tested with a small group of customers “over the next few years,” starting with Hyundai. Other humanoid robots from rival providers like Figure and Apptronik are similarly being tested on production lines for BMW and Mercedes, respectively.