YouTube is experimenting with a new machine learning technology that reformats video shot in landscape mode into square or vertical formats, based on how the viewer is watching YouTube. The Google-owned video platform said its ML model detects key elements in the video–faces, key objects, logos, motion, text–and breaks that video into scenes, ensuring that…

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