The current YouTube thumbnail meta requires people to pose extravagant claims or make dramatic declarations alongside exaggerated facial expressions of shock or skepticism. It’s curiosity gap farming ...

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

Faces are common in thumbnails, but they are not a universal advantage. The impact looks different across niches and formats. YouTube’s native testing is built around watch time outcomes, not CTR ...

YouTube is preparing to support higher-quality content, including larger video upload sizes and higher file size limits for thumbnails. Alongside the announcement of AI-upscaled “Super Resolution” and ...

The overlooked thumbs of rodents are key to understanding the lives of mice, rats and more. Thumbnails, claws and other structures reveal new ways of understanding how rodents feed, move and evolve.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While humans are Earth’s most dominant animal species, it’s ...

In the ’90s cartoon “Pinky and the Brain,” the titular Brain — a scheming lab mouse with an outsize noggin — fantasized about taking over the world. A study published Thursday in Science posits that ...

MrBeast removed his AI thumbnail generator from Viewstats after facing criticism from YouTubers who claimed it stole their work. The tool, intended to help smaller creators, allowed users to recreate ...

YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson—aka MrBeast—is the face of the online video-sharing platform. He tops the platform’s most-subscribed list, with more than 400 million people following his exploits. Online ...

YouTube is testing a new desktop layout with much larger video thumbnails. Users report seeing as few as two videos per row, though it depends on screen and zoom ...

YouTube, the internet’s primary video host for nearly two decades now, says it’s ready to start cracking down on “egregious clickbait,” with plans to “increase our enforcement against videos where the ...

Roblox said it is launching thumbnail personalization to help creators attract more users by showing the most relevant thumbnail to each user on the Roblox home page. While thumbnails are the tiny ...