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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died
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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died

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Susan Wojcicki, who served as YouTube’s CEO for almost a decade until she stepped down last year, has died. She was 56 years old. Her husband Dennis Troper has shared the news on Facebookrevealing that Wojcicki lived two years with non-small cell lung cancer. “Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many,” he wrote in his post. “Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable.”

Google operated out of Wojcicki’s garage when the company was just starting out, with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin using it as their office. She became the company’s first marketing manager, co-created Google Image Search and was the first product manager of AdSense. Wojcicki also headed Google’s video efforts and was the one who encouraged the company to purchase YouTube in 2006, a year after the video-sharing platform debuted.

In 2014, she was appointed as the CEO of YouTube, which became a key part of Google under her leadership. For the fiscal year of 2022, the year before she stepped down, YouTube ads brought in $29.24 billion in revenue, which made up over 10 percent of the company’s total earnings. Outside of her work with Google, Wojcicki brought attention to the gender gap issue in tech and to the plight of refugees. She was also a proponent of lengthy parental leaves and talked about they’re actually good for business. In a post on XAlphabet’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, said Wojcicki was “as core to the history of Google as anyone” and described her someone who’s “had a tremendous impact on the world.”

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How a YouTube Prankster Is Causing a Stir in the U.K. General Election
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How a YouTube Prankster Is Causing a Stir in the U.K. General Election

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YouTube star Niko Omilana’s name has been registered in 11 different constituencies in the U.K. as an MP (Member of Parliament) candidate—in an apparent violation of the U.K. Electoral Commission’s rules. The famous prankster said in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday that he is planning to “completely remove” the U.K.’s current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from politics. “Rishi Sunak wants to send young people to war,” he said, referring to the Prime Minister’s idea to implement a national service program for youths in the U.K., which would include military service for some people. “So I have decided to declare war on the system.”

Omilana has over seven million subscribers on YouTube, and is known for engaging in dramatic and risky stunts online. In one of his most popular videoshe attempted to sneak into the KSI v. Logan Paul boxing re-match and enter the ring.

In 2021, he also ran for mayor London’s municipal elections, receiving nearly 50,000 votes as an independent candidate. A video he made about the experience titled “How I Won the London Mayor Election” is one of his most popular videoswith over 16 million views on YouTube.

The U.K. Electoral Commission says it is aware of the current situation, and that should any action be taken, it would be in the hands of the police.

“We are aware that the same person has been nominated as a candidate in a number of constituencies at the general election. Candidates must confirm in their nomination papers that they are not standing in any other constituency. It is an offence for an individual to provide false information on nomination papers when applying to stand as a candidate, including to falsely confirm that they are not standing in another constituency. If that has occurred, it would be a matter for the police to consider,” the Electoral Commission said in an emailed statement to TIME.

They also added that under electoral law, officers must take the details provided in candidate nomination forms at “face value.” This means that so long as the nomination meets the requirements for nomination, the Electoral Commission will not investigate or research the information provided by the candidate.

If an individual is found to have given a false statement on a nomination form, that person could face a prison term of up to six months or a fine.

Per the BBCWest Midlands Police has received information about the YouTube star’s name appearing multiple times on ballot papers in the area and is “liaising with the relevant authorities.”

TIME has reached out to the relevant police authorities for comment and further information.

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YouTube is bringing NFL-sort multiview to Coachella 2024’s livestream
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YouTube is bringing NFL-sort multiview to Coachella 2024’s livestream

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YouTube’s legit livestream of this year’s Coachella song festival will characteristic a expertise many football fans are familiar with. Multiview, which permits viewers to glance a few livestreams on the equivalent display camouflage camouflage whereas tuning into one audio feed, will be accessible to viewers of the festival’s crawl on any YouTube TV app — no want to subscribe to YouTube TV, the platform announced on Thursday.

Factual as multiview on NFL Sunday Ticket enables audiences to glance four various games straight away, the characteristic for Coachella will allow for as a lot as four various phases straight away. Viewers can swap between audio feeds and soar inside and exterior of fullscreen behold. There’ll be a crammed with six feeds — or six phases — to make a decision on out from. The festival this year will rob plight across two weekends: April 12th by device of 14th and April Nineteenth by device of twenty first.

YouTube and Goldenvoice, the producer in the attend of the Coachella Valley Tune and Arts Competition, possess had an uncommon allege partnership for 12 years now, enabling fans to crawl every weekends of the iconic song festival on its legit YouTube channel for free. YouTube can pay a licensing charge to characteristic the uncommon livestream of the festival nonetheless then benefits from the advert earnings the type of buzzworthy event generates. Performances equivalent to Beyonce’s 2018 two-hour Beychella plight or Blackpink’s performance of “Typa Lady” excellent year can rack up thousands and thousands of views and drift into on social media for weeks.

Provided that gross sales for 2024’s Coachella possess been the slowest in extra than a decade, Vulture famed that the festival is certainly reckoning on generating any sort of extra attention this year. With regards to four months after gross sales opened, tickets for Weekend 2 are soundless accessible on Coachella’s legit web plight, and each traditional admission and VIP tickets for every weekends are soundless readily accessible on third-social gathering resale websites. Right here is highly uncommon for the high-quantity festival in Indio, California; tickets for every weekends in most cases sell out in mere hours or days.

Some theories for why this year’s slack model gross sales embody the high prices, the usual of this year’s lineup, and traditional festival fatigue. In any case, a substantial chunk of Coachella’s popular harmful is skipping the festivities this year, whether it’s as a consequence of lack of enthusiasm or an absence of cash. Whether or no longer it’ll translate to more eyeballs from YouTube audiences soundless outlandish ample to crawl Coachella — is left to be seen.