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To see proteins change in a quadrillionth of a second, use AI

To see proteins change in a quadrillionth of a second, use AI

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Have you ever had an otherwise perfect photo ruined by someone who moved too quickly and caused a blur? Scientists have the same issue while recording images of proteins that change their structure in response to light. This process is common in nature, so for years researchers have tried to capture its details. But they have long been thwarted by how incredibly fast it happens.

Now a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Germany have combined machine learning and quantum mechanical calculations to get the most precise record yet of structural changes in a photoactive yellow protein (PYP) that has been excited by light. Their study, published in November in Nature, showed that they were able to make movies of processes that occur in quadrillionths of a second.

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YouTube is a Powerful Marketing Platform To Make Money

YouTube is the best platform for marketing your business. Do you agree? Or are you still on the fence about using it?  Maybe you’re not sure about YouTube because: you’re more comfortable with Traditional marketing. Or, you use Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or another social platform to market your business. Or you think YouTube is mainly for entertainment not business. I do believe YouTube is the best platform and I’m going to show you why, with examples, in this post.

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What’s The Secret To Financial Success?

I want to share a secret that can lead to you not only gaining more financial success with your business, but cut your stress levels in half! It was the hardest part of launching my own business and being an Entrepreneur. It’s the part where you ask for money… the ‘sales’ part. Yes, I’m talking about SELLING. Because sales equal income. And enough income equals profit. And a lot of profit equals success. There’s no other way to become a financial success from scratch. You have to become good at SELLING. But, if you’re like me, SELLING didn’t come easy. The thought of making ‘sales’ was completely out of my comfort zone. And I didn’t think I could do it. Or ever get good at it. And certainly, I knew I’d never enjoy it. But I was wrong.

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Let’s Talk About Editing!

Let’s talk about editing. Love it? Hate it? Don’t do it? Scared of it? If you’re making YouTube videos, you’ve already encountered the need to edit. And yet, editing is one of the main struggles many of you tell me you have. And for some of you, it has stopped you from making videos altogether and worse, kept you from getting your YouTube channel going. So is there an editing program you’ll actually enjoy using. The answer is yes.

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Comcast now sells Xfinity Flex users internet cable TV from YouTube

Comcast is introducing YouTube TV to its Xfinity Flex devices, providing users another avenue for opting out of traditional cable.

YouTube was previously supported on Comcast’s Flex boxes, but the addition of YouTube TV gives users the ability to get some 85-plus live television channels for $65 per month. It’s not the first live TV streaming service to arrive on the platform — Sling and Hulu with Live TV were already supported. But it does diversify the streaming options for people who don’t want to pay Comcast for cable.

Colin Petrie-Norris, senior vice president of consumer entertainment at Xfinity, said in a statement that the addition of YouTube TV “is another example of how we surround our broadband service with value, giving our customers access to all their preferred content and subscriptions on one device.”

It’s a curious move from a cable provider, but it also makes sense if Comcast wants to stay competitive against other over-the-top boxes like Roku, Fire TV Stick, or Chromecast — all of which support YouTube TV. Currently, Comcast provides the boxes to its Xfinity Internet customers at no additional cost, but it does need people to use them. And that means supporting popular apps.

YouTube TV is available to Flex users beginning today.

Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.

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YouTube announces new year-end live event, Escape2021

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YouTube will host a 24-hour interactive live event featuring musicians and creators to look back on the platform’s biggest trends and videos of 2021, the company announced today. The event, called Escape2021, will have three chapters, the first of which begins on December 16th at midnight ET. The goal of Escape2021: liberate Lofi Girl from the confines of her bedroom and studies.

Escape2021 comes after the company pulled the plug on YouTube Rewind, the high-production recap videos the company published at the end of each year that had been derided by creators for sanitizing the platform to appeal to advertisers. YouTube said in October it would “refocus our energies” to create different kinds of productions instead. Escape2021 isn’t meant to replace Rewind but offer a new way to celebrate the year’s biggest trends, Lauren Verrusio, a YouTube spokesperson, tells The Verge.

The event seems to be an attempt by YouTube to offer more immersive online experiences, like when fans watched butter melt ahead of a new BTS song. YouTube says there will be trivia questions, trend-based challenges, and “real-time live experiences,” all leading up to musical performances. One example of a challenge, echoing the BTS livestream, will require viewers to identify what butter sculptures the band has melted.

YouTube says the event will include performances and appearances from BTS, Doja Cat, and Mark Rober, among others.

Update December 9th, 4:15PM ET: This story has been updated with a comment from a YouTube spokesperson.

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Roku settles YouTube dispute and locks down apps in ‘multi-year’ deal

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Roku has reached a deal with Google to continue distributing the YouTube and YouTube TV apps on its platform. The two had been at odds over a contract extension, sparring over what Roku described as onerous demands by Google for more data and more prominent placement on its devices.

If they hadn’t reached an agreement by tomorrow, Google planned to pull the YouTube app from Roku — a loss for basically everyone involved, but especially Roku users who would have no longer been able to download a key video service.

“This agreement represents a positive development for our shared customers, making both YouTube and YouTube TV available for all streamers on the Roku platform,” Dallas Lawrence, a Roku spokesperson, wrote in an email to The Verge. Google confirmed the deal to The Verge and said both apps will be available through the Roku store.

Roku described the deal as a “multi-year extension” for YouTube and YouTube TV. YouTube TV was pulled by Roku from its channel store in April as tensions between the two parties escalated. After months of stalled negotiations, Google said in late October that it would pull the YouTube app on December 9th if a deal hadn’t been reached.

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Roku could lose YouTube this week — so now’s a good time to download the app

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An escalating feud that has pitted YouTube, one of the most popular streaming apps in the world, against Roku, a leader in TV streaming devices, could be about to boil over. Both companies have said that unless they can reach a new distribution agreement in the coming days, the YouTube app will be removed from Roku’s channel store for new users on December 9th.

The major development would follow months of stalled negotiations, and there have already been consequences for consumers caught in the middle: the YouTube TV app was pulled from Roku’s channel store earlier this year, though it can still be accessed by customers who already downloaded it. Now the much more popular YouTube app, a portal to the world’s largest video sharing platform, faces the same cutoff and store removal.

With the deadline for a new YouTube deal looming, Google and Roku have continued publicly bickering and expressing frustration with each other over the last several months. Roku has accused Google of anticompetitive behavior and says the company’s terms and requests go beyond the asks of other major streaming services, while Google has maintained Roku’s claims are baseless and criticized the company for trying to negotiate new deals for YouTube TV and YouTube simultaneously instead of handling them separately. Google also added a YouTube TV backdoor directly to the regular YouTube app to preserve live TV access for subscribers of the $65-per-month service; Roku responded by calling this the behavior of an “unchecked monopolist.”

Losing YouTube would be a significant blow for Roku’s platform, though it’s one that others have faced. Amazon’s Fire TV devices went without an official YouTube app for more than a year before the two sides came to a deal in that case and the app returned. Apple has managed to keep YouTube on its Apple TV set-top boxes from the start, though its own differences with Google have sometimes delayed features like 4K playback.

Still, one of the core appeals of Roku is its simplicity and vast app selection. Having a hole the size of YouTube in its app catalog would throw a wrench into that reputation. This type of situation always comes down to the wire — just as it recently did when YouTube TV and NBCUniversal managed to settle tense carriage talks without any channels being lost. So stay tuned, and it’d be a good idea to download YouTube to your Roku devices now just in case things go sideways.

Update December 8th, 9:45AM ET: Roku and Google have reached a new multi-year deal to keep YouTube on the platform and bring back YouTube TV. You can read more about the resolution here.

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