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• YouTube cleans up its comments with help from Google+

  YouTube is overhauling comments on videos to highlight the ones that actually mean something to viewers, the site said Wednesday.

• The Nexus 5 probably doesn't deserve all this hype

  This was starting to get a bit silly. Google had been teasing its new Nexus 5 for so long that it hardly even qualified as teasing any more. It was more like cruel mockery.

• More than 40 percent of YouTube traffic is now from mobile

  YouTube's presence on mobile devices has exploded in the past couple of years, Google said on Thursday.

• Tech Gives Rise to the Digital Marketer

  That sound you hear is the buzz around marketing using social media and mobile apps. Not only can marketers now reach a larger audience, data analytics measure the effectiveness of digital campaigns in quantifiable terms. But can marketing pros become technically literate without losing their creativity?

• Microsoft tosses in YouTube towel, returns to Web UI for Windows Phone

  Microsoft yesterday threw in the towel on its attempt to build its own YouTube app for Windows Phone, revising that app to shunt users instead to the browser for accessing Google's video service via the Web.

• Google buys Flutter, a gesture recognition startup

  Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition company whose technology lets people control music and movies on their desktop by waving their hands.

• iPad 5 rumour roll-up for the week ending September 26

  With the iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 widely expected next month, the iOSphere still isn't willing to admit that it doesn't know anything about what will be in them, apart from iOS 7. Perhaps that's why colours and pseudo-analysis loomed large in the past week.

• Memo to Pinterest: Go ahead with those ads, but be careful

  Pinterest already makes nice with outside businesses to better connect them with its site, but the social network is now thinking about consummating that relationship with promotional content.

• Mockumentary skewers ISPs as Verizon-FCC net neutrality case goes to court

  A new mockumentary posted on YouTube and backed by a group of net neutrality advocates makes the case that the FCC is right and Verizon is wrong in a fight that today goes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

• Hello from space! Kirobo takes huge step for robotics

  A small robot says, "Good morning," and with that one phrase, takes a huge step forward in robot-human cooperation in space, as well as robotic companions.

• YouTube gets an update on mobile, with Chromecast in mind

  YouTube is adding some new video-playing functions to its mobile app on both iOS and Android devices. Some of the tools are aimed at giving users more control over how they stream video to their television sets using Chromecast, Google's new video streaming device.

• Google-Microsoft feud over YouTube app escalates to 'death blow'

  Microsoft condemned Google's decision to block the new Windows Phone YouTube app, accusing its rival of making excuses to keep the app from connecting to the popular social video service.

• YouTube founders take on Vine, Instagram with leap back into video

  YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, launched the Mixbit.com website andapp, that together enable users to shoot, edit and stitch together videos that can be uploaded to the site and remixed.

• Music industry changes its tune in copyright lawsuit against YouTube channel Fullscreen

  The music industry's lawsuit against a popular YouTube channel this week could indicate that publishers are looking for savvier ways to attack piracy besides going after YouTube itself, a legal expert said.

• 3D-printed rifle fires three shots, designer claims up to 14

  The competition for most successful 3D-printed firearm has moved to Canada, where a man known only as "Matthew" claims to have designed a 3D-printed rifle that withstood 14 shots. In a YouTube video published last Friday, the rifle is fired successfully three times before a text screen claims it developed a crack in the barrel after firing 14 total shots.