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YouTube study shows children ‘three clicks away from explicit material’

Children who view clips of Sesame Street and Peppa Pig on YouTube are on average just three clicks away from explicit adult material on the site, including nudity and violence, according to research. A study released to mark Safer Internet Day on Tuesday found that graphic footage was available to…

JPop star shaves her head and issues tearful YouTube apology because she spent night with a man

A Japanese starlet who shaved her head and issued a tearful YouTube apology after spending the night with a man was scrambling Friday to redeem the girl next door image of all-female group AKB48. Pictures of the roughly-shorn head of Minami Minegishi, 20, were emblazoned on national newspapers and Japan’s…

California police look for ‘idiots’ who shut down busy highway by driving in circles

The California Highway Patrol hopes to locate a group of drivers who briefly shut down the I-880 near Oakland by doing donuts in the middle of the highway. A YouTube video entitled “Idiots start drifting in the middle of the highway” showed about half a dozen tuned cars driving in…

Connecticut cops kicked and stomped on man downed by stun gun: video

The police chief in Bridgeport, Conn., the state’s largest city, moved three officers to desk duty after a video appeared on YouTube in which they stomped on and repeatedly kicked a man after a stun gun had already rendered him inert, reported the Associated Press. The video is from May…

YouTube screens Sundance shorts

YouTube on Friday began online screenings of a selection of short films being showcased at the Sundance Film Festival underway in an enclave in the mountains of Utah. A Screening Room channel hosted by the Sundance Institute features 12 of the 64 short films slated to debut at the festival,…

CEO who said he would ‘start killing people’ over gun control appears with lawyer in new video

James Yeager, the CEO of a weapons and tactical training business who said in a recent training video published and then removed from YouTube that he would “start killing people” if President Obama continued to push forward on gun control, has released another follow-up video on the incident. In it,…

Unhinged Tactical Response CEO threatens to ‘start killing people’ over Obama’s gun control

The CEO of a Tennessee company that specializes weapons and tactical training is threatening to “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moves forward with gun control measures. In a video posted to YouTube and Facebook on Wednesday, Tactical Response CEO James Yeager went ballistic over reports that the president…

Just because: Puppies frolic in the snow

It’s New Year’s Day. Do you really need an excuse to watch puppies frolic in the snow? Of course you don’t. The video below was published to YouTube on December 31, 2012.…

Lighter side: Happy football fan tackles Christmas tree

That’s one way to take down the Christmas tree. Saying, “We do a lot of dumb things when we’re happy,” WRC-TV posted video of a jubilant Washington Redskins fan on Monday, celebrating his team’s win over the rival Dallas Cowboys by jumping headlong into the tree Sunday night. According to…

Researchers lay out a map of the brain’s everyday categorizations

A team of scientists at the University of California-Berkley have put together a map detailing how the human brain organizes objects on actions every day, The Verge reported earlier this week. The team, based out of the Gallant Lab at the university, also posted a video abstract of its findings…