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Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone. This was a really big deal: it meant anyone could sign up for the service, start uploading videos, and immediately begin making money. This model helped YouTube grow into the web’s biggest video platform, but it has also led to some problems. People were creating accounts that uploaded content owned by other people, sometimes big record labels or movie studios, sometimes other popular YouTube creators. In an effort to combat these bad actors, YouTube has announced a change to its partner program today. From now on, creators won’t be able to turn on monetization until they hit 10,000 lifetime views on their channel. YouTube believes that this threshold will give them a chance to gather enough information on a channel to know if it’s legit. And it won’t be so high as to discourage new independent creators from signing up for the service. “In a few weeks, we’ll also be adding a review process for ...

When YouTube Go was announced last September, the focus was on India and users were asked to sign up to be notified. But then last month YouTube Go made it onto the Play Store unofficially and users around the world were able to download it from APK Mirror and try it out. Some could register their phone numbers and use it fully with the ability to download videos, others couldn't and were limited to streaming. But still, Go wasn't yet officially announced. Now it is, well at least in beta, and the first official country Go is available in is India. Users can download it if they want to consume content on YouTube in a data-conscious way. That includes the ability to preview videos before watching or downloading them to make sure they're worth your bandwidth as well as the option to choose the resolution when streaming or downloading a video to limit how much data it'll consume. YouTube Go also has popular videos in your area on the app's mai...

Lenovo is set to launch Moto G5 in India today at an event in New Delhi. The launch event will be live streamed on the Moto India YouTube channel. You can watch the live stream here. The smartphone will go sale from today midnight on Amazon. To recall, Moto G5 was previously announced at Mobile World Congress 2017 event, alongside the Moto G5 Plus. Last month, Lenovo unveiled the Moto G5 Plus in India. The smartphone was launched in two storage versions - 32GB with 4GB RAM and 16GB with 3GB RAM. Wherein the first variant comes with a price tag of Rs 16,999, while the later one is priced at Rs 14,999. As per the price of the Moto G5, we are still not sure about it, however, is expected to be available at a much lower price when compared to its counterpart Moto G5 Plus.

State-run telecom operator BSNL has now announced a new broadband plan – ‘Unlimited Broadband at Rs 249’ – which will offer almost 300GB of data per month, at the cost of Rs 249. This translates to 10GB of data, per day. Additionally, the plan also offers unlimited night calling (9PM – 7AM) and unlimited calls on Sunday. For the price, you will get a speed of 2 Mbps speed up till 1GB and beyond that limit; the speed will drop down to 1 Mbps. You will also get an unlimited upload and download limit per month. “BSNL is the only operator that is offering cheapest 10 GB per day data download plan under Wireline Broadband services in the country,” the company said in a statement. New Broadband connections can be subscribed by visiting nearest BSNL customer service center or by calling toll free number- 1800 345 1500. Few days ago, BSNL stated that it will offer 1 GB of free data to smartphone users who have a BSNL connection but are not using the company'...