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YouTube notes that AI likeness detection will roll out to all users 18 and above “gradually over the next few weeks.” Once it is available, you’ll be able to use it by following these steps in YouTube Studio from your computer: From the left menu, select Content detection > Likeness > Start now. Give YouTube permission to use likeness detection technology. Take a few minutes to complete a one-time verification process.

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Of all places, I was pretty surprised when YouTube Shorts was the answer to my rose-growing wishes. After inheriting the rose bush I have in my garden when we moved into our new home last fall, I've been eager to make sure I'm doing it (and the garden) justice. And as our first summer with roses looms, I've been on the lookout for affordable gardening tips to help the cause. And then @EdenMakers video came across my feed. In it, she explains to her over 100k followers that roses love tea. She says: "I have a job for my tea bag," as she proceeds to toss it into the soil under her rose bush and

Adding Google Shorts to your homescreen is part of Google's wider mission to keep you inside its ecosystem and watching its ads. At the moment, the homescreen recommendations are for movies and shows, often sending you other services; by adding YouTube Shorts to the mix, you might potentially watch lots of videos from Google's own services, each with ads. Vertical video isn't the only addition coming to Google TV. As of today, if you're a US owner of a TCL TV with Gemini (such as the TCL QM8K) you can access more generative AI tools in the form of the Nano Banana and Veo apps, for generating i