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If you watch a lot of YouTube, you may have noticed some of its new features. These were previously in a kind of soft launch, so not everyone could access them. But TeamYouTube has officially launched three of its new features.

It seems every other social media platform wants to be a streaming platform these days. Instagram started allowing users to broadcast live back in 2016, but the company has just expanded on that feature. That's right, you can now go live with multiple users!

One thing that came from the last few months of having to stay indoors is the increase in people going online everywhere. But it seems that wasn't enough to save the streaming platform Mixer. The company has announced that it will be shutting down and allowing its partners to move on to Facebook Gaming.

Yesterday, we talked about Facebook releasing their own mobile gaming app releasing today and it is now live. However, it's only available on the Google Play Store now and has yet to appear in the Apple App Store. Promptly named Facebook Gaming, it functions the same way as the desktop version allowing you to stream your games or play with your friends and family together.

The coronavirus pandemic in China has caused most of its citizens to be confined at home. This is the same for students as well, who now have to take lessons online. However, this makes it even more likely for students to skip lessons. To prevent this, a professor decided to make digital avatars to teach his classes.