Android users spot a TikTok-style swipe on YouTube’s horizontal videos

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A smartphone screen displays the YouTube app logo, with the Google logo in the background, on November 6, 2024 in Chongqing, China. YouTube, owned by Google, remains a dominant video-sharing platform worldwide, continuously expanding its features and services to enhance user engagement and content discovery.

TikTok has revolutionized the way we watch videos, and it's a detail that other short-form video creation platforms can't ignore: the swipe up.

When Instagram launched its TikTok clone Reels, it included a swipe up design detail, an important aspect that makes the copycat so popular — and same thing with YouTube Shorts. Famously, all of those platforms are primarily used to vertical video. Now, it

Why professional colored pencils are so expensive

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Student-grade colored pencils and professional-grade ones vary drastically not only in their price but how they're made. A set of 120 Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils costs $350, 14 times as much as a similar box of Crayola colored pencils. And some brands price their sets at over $550. That's because of the time and attention put into creating pencils whose colors are rich, blendable, and last

I made Ina Garten's shepherd's pie, and the easy recipe fed a whole family with leftovers to spare

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Ina Garten's recipe for shepherd's pie was easy to prepare and a hearty, filling meal for the fall and winter.

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  • I tried Ina Garten's recipe for shepherd's pie.
  • The meal was easy to make and took less than an hour to prepare.
  • The pie's filling was flavorful and savory, while the mashed potatoes were perfectly creamy.

I'm an Irish-American, but

A TV show about EA Sports' Madden games hits Prime Video on November 26

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Madden NFL has been around for almost 40 years (really) so it’s high time the gaming franchise got the documentary treatment. Prime Video has got you covered. The platform just announced that It’s in the Game: Madden NFL will stream on November 26, which is just ahead of Thanksgiving.

The four-part docuseries will explore “one of the biggest video games of all time” that “became a worldwide

I'm a professional baker. I tried chocolate-chip cookies from Costco, Walmart, Kroger, and Safeway to find the best.

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I compared chocolate-chip cookies from popular chain's bakery sections.

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  • I tried chocolate-chip cookies from the bakery section of Kroger, Safeway, Walmart, and Costco.
  • As a pro baker, I had high expectations — but Safeway and Walmart didn't impress me much. 
  • Costco's cookies were soft and not too sweet with lots of chocolate chunks. 

As a professional baker, I've probably made

Tom Cruise hangs upside down from a plane in the first trailer for 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.' Here's what we know about the sequel.

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Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning."

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  • The first look at "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" shows Tom Cruise on the run, again.
  • The ominous narration suggests "The Final Reckoning" could be the end for Cruise's character.
  • Here's what we know about the eighth "Mission: Impossible" movie.

"Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" is