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Live streaming comes to YouTube app

Streaming will start with a select few users, but will open up soon.

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Iyaz Akhtar works tenaciously to make technology work for him so he can live a life of leisure. He's been in the tech sector as a writer, an editor, a producer, and a presenter since 2006.
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Watch this: YouTube brings live streaming to its mobile apps

YouTube has streamed live video since 2011. However, you'd have to use your computer to broadcast. That's changing with the introduction of live streaming to YouTube's mobile apps. Not to be outdone by YouTube, Facebook announced some new features are headed to Facebook Live including Snapchat-like filters. Go forth and broadcast as a panda. (Yes, really)

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