Triple Eight Race Engineering’s new logo (left) alongside the old one (right)
Triple Eight Race Engineering has revealed a rebrand, specifically an update to its corporate identity.
The powerhouse Supercars team has unveiled a tweaked logo, featuring revised colors and a new typeface for the team name.
In addition to the more common stacked Triple Eight logo, or ‘brand mark’, the Banyo operation also has two horizontally oriented designs at its disposal, and a ‘secondary brand mark’ which omits the ‘Triple Eight Race Engineering’ text.
An 11-page brand guidelines document, distributed to media with the announcement of the rebrand which takes effect this month, specifies how its logo is to be displayed.
An alternate format for the new logo
Said guidelines also feature ‘The Triple Eight Way’, which encompasses six points:
We are engineering excellence
We are professional
We are ethical
We are committed
We are a family
We are world class
Triple Eight operates under multiple banners across competitions including the Repco Supercars Championship and Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia Powered by AWS, the latter of which it is fielding a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in this weekend at Queensland Raceway.
Triple Eight competes as Red Bull Ampol Racing in the Supercars Championship
In the Supercars Championship, the squad currently known commercially as Red Bull Ampol Racing began in 2003 with a buyout of Briggs Motor Sport, but traces its lineage back to the original Triple Eight Racing in the United Kingdom which former team principal Roland Dane co-founded in 1996.
It has competed as Team Betta Electrical, TeamVodafone, and Red Bull Racing Australia, before becoming the Lion’s official factory effort in 2017 and hence the Red Bull Holden Racing Team.
Triple Eight adopted its current commercial identity in the Supercars Championship after Holden was retired in 2020, but remains the General Motors homologation team and hence is charged with development of the Chevrolet Camaro for the impending Gen3 era.
So far, the now Jamie Whincup-led outfit has won the Bathurst 1000 eight times, on top of nine Supercars drivers’ championships and 10 teams’ titles.
A Maranello Motorsport Ferrari with significant Triple Eight support also took victory in the Bathurst 12 Hour of 2017.
Shane van Gisbergen currently leads the Supercars drivers’ championship by well over the equivalent of a full event, while Red Bull Ampol Racing has a slim advantage over Dick Johnson Racing in the teams’ standings.
Gundagai in southern New South Wales is bracing for major flooding, with local SES crews expecting up to 90,000 megalitres to start being released from Burrinjuck Dam this afternoon.
Key points:
SES crews responded to more than 70 calls for assistance and carried out 10 rescues across inland NSW overnight
The service is urging people not to make the “poor decision” to drive through floodwater
Farmers on the Murrumbidgee River are preparing for imminent flooding in the Gundagai area
The dam began spilling this morning as more than 100,000ML of water flowed in from tributaries, including the Yass and Queanbeyan rivers, following rain totals of more than 100 millimetres in the Burrinjuck catchment.
Farmers along the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai are moving their stock to higher ground in preparation, with the possibility of the river reaching 8.5 meters this evening and 9m by Saturday morning.
The SES is also deploying extra crews to Temora, which recorded 60mm of rain overnight.
Creeks north of the town are rising.
“We had a band of rain that passed through Idaho and out past Cootamundra that brought, give or take, 20 to 30mm yesterday evening,” incident controller Barry Griffiths said.
“That’s stabilized overnight, but it produced 71 calls for assistance.”
Many roads are closed across the Cootamundra-Gundagai Local Government Area, including Thompson Street.(Supplied: Gail Douglas)
Mr Griffiths said four rescues had been carried out.
“We have some low-lying water around the Temora area triggering some rescues for us — we had two overnight and two happening at the moment,” he said.
“It looks like people were driving and got cut off on the road.”
Mr Griffith said warnings were in place for drivers to avoid flooded roads.
“If the road that you drive on normally does get flooding, assume that it is and drive the long way around,” he said.
The BOM is warning that moderate flooding is also possible at Wagga Wagga tomorrow afternoon.
The female driver of this car was found safe after it was submerged near Mudgee.(Supplied)
Woman found safe in Mudgee
Further north, a woman has been found safe after her vehicle was swept into flood waters in the New South Wales Central West overnight, as other parts of the state brace for major flooding.
At 6.30pm yesterday emergency services were called to Macdonalds Creek at Erudgere, about 15 kilometers north-west of Mudgee, following reports that a vehicle had been swept into a causeway by flash floodwater.
A search and rescue operation led to the discovery of a vehicle submerged in the waterway.
Police were later notified a 59-year-old woman sought assistance at a nearby property in Piambong.
She has been taken to Mudgee Hospital for assessment.
Bathurst’s Hereford Street has been rendered impassable.(Supplied: Simon Fraser)
The rescue was one of seven local SES crews responded to across the region.
Others occurred at Wellington, Gulgong, Ballimore, Coonabarabran and Coolah.
The SES helped with sandbagging overnight.(Supplied: SES)
“Unfortunately, for the most part they were people who made the pretty poor decision to drive through flooded causeways and they’ve been stranded as a result,” SES spokesperson David Rankin said.
“We have seen falls of between 50 and 60mm right across areas of the Central West,” he said.
“That’s resulted in a number of rivers around here in some degree of flood over last night and into this morning.”
The BOM has numerous severe weather and flood warnings in place for much of the state, including Wellington. (ABC NewsHugh Hogan)
Mr Rankin said SES crews received more than 45 calls for assistance, many of which were related to strong winds.
Crew members spent the night removing branches and trees from roofs and tarping them.
“It’s been a really busy night, thankfully the worst of the rain in the Central West has passed,” Mr Rankin said.
“But we’ve still got flooding on the Castlereagh, Bell, upper and lower Macquarie rivers, the Bogan, the Darling, the Belubula.”
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, “Declarations,” has run since 2000.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.
Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She lives in New York City. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city’s Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
Customers have had issues getting their money back after using POLi to pay for flights. Photo: Edwina Pickles
A couple who used a popular online payment service to pay for more than $10,000 worth of Qantas flights are warning others of the risks after their money ended up “lost in a void”, with no flights to show for it.
On July 10, Giacomo and Nikki Lichtner booked flights to the UK for Nikki and their two children through the Qantas website. Giacomo had booked his flights separately, as he was traveling for work.
The Wellington-based couple made the $NZ10,894 ($A9853) payment using POLi – a service which enables customers to transfer money directly from their bank account to the merchant.
While the money left their bank account, the flights were not issued. The couple contacted their bank, which advised the transfer would likely go through the next working day. But as they had used a third party – POLi – the bank was unable to use its usual tracking process.
In the meantime, the couple contacted Qantas, which said it would hold the flights.
When the Lichtners contacted POLi through an online form, they received a response confirming there had been an error with the payment, and the status of the transaction was “receipt unverified”.
POLi sent through a screenshot, and advised the couple to share it with Qantas so the airline could confirm receipt of the payment, and either process the transaction or provide a refund.
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On July 14, the couple again phoned Qantas, and were this time told their flights would be cancelled, with a refund to be issued within 14 working days.
Assuming a refund was on the way, the couple went ahead and booked new flights, this time through a travel agent, at a cost of $NZ9871.
However, in a subsequent call, Qantas told the couple they had no record of a refund being actioned, and they would need to contact POLi.
But POLi insisted Qantas had the money, and said they had no involvement in the refund process.
Nikki Lichtner said they were left feeling “frustratingly helpless”, and couldn’t understand how their money could just be “lost in a void”.
Following inquiries from Stuff Travel, a Qantas spokesperson said the refund had been approved and the funds had been expedited to be returned to the Lichtners.
“We are looking into what’s happened with these payments and will work with POLi to avoid this happening again.”
But the couple believed others should be aware of the risks when using POLi to book flights.
“If an error occurs during the transaction, both parties can point the finger at each other, leaving the responsibility for finding the money with the customer,” Nikki Lichtner said.
Giacomo Lichtner added it had been next to impossible to get answers, with Qantas being particularly difficult to engage with.
“The thing that really left us stranded was the lack of acknowledgment and any responsibility.”
Other Qantas customers have reported issues with receiving refunds from the airline after paying using the POLi system.
Nelson couple Simon Rutherford and Lisa Keenan waited more than 12 weeks for a refund after the airline canceled their flights. The couple was told POLi was holding their payment, however, POLi denied this.
The couple were eventually refunded after the New Zealand sales manager for Qantas stepped in following the publication of Stuff Travel’s story.
POLi has yet to respond to requests for comment.
What is POLi?
POLi offers a way of making online payments that uses your internet banking information, instead of a credit or debit card.
The Australian company is owned by a fully-owned subsidiary of Australia Post.
Using POLi’s portal, a customer logs in to their internet banking. It is free, with no further registration needed.
However, most banks advise against customers sharing passwords and login details with any third party, and doing so may breach their terms and conditions.
Banking Ombudsman Scheme policy & systemic issues manager Erica Penney said POLi did not fall within their jurisdiction, as they only looked into the actions of the banks.
However, if funds went missing during a payment – whether it be a credit card payment, an internet banking payment, or a payment initiated by a third party like POLi – their expectation would be that the bank would assist the customer to try to trace and recover the funds to the extent they were able.
“At the end of the day if there is a dispute between the person who sent the funds and the agency that received them, the resolution of that issue falls outside of the banking relationship, and the customer might want to seek some legal advice about what Options are available to them if a merchant they have paid funds to denies receiving their funds, or hasn’t provided the service they’ve paid for,” Penney said.
“The more parties you have involved, the murkier the waters get. If a third party like POLi and the merchant are pointing the finger at each other, that can be really confusing for consumers.”
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Those waiting eagerly for a ‘Nintendo Switch Pro’ or any other new hardware from the Japanese gaming giant are set to wait longer, as it seems that Nintendo won’t be releasing new hardware until March 2023.
According to a Nikkei report, Nintendo won’t be focusing on the release of a new device, but rather concentrate on just making enough of the current Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite and Switch OLED.
The global chip shortage and supply chain issues have been causing issues for Nintendo, whose sales have dropped 23% this quarter compared to the same time last year. “Hardware production was impacted by factors such as the global shortage of semiconductor components, resulting in a decrease of hardware shipments,” said the company in their earnings report.
Typically, the end of the year period is a time where companies like Nintendo begin to stock up on hardware to prepare for a busy sales period at Christmas. However, as Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa told Nikkeithis isn’t possible.
“Normally, we stockpile inventory in the summer to prepare for the year-end sales season, which is at its peak. This summer, we are not able to produce as many as usual.”
The Nintendo Switch was first released in 2017 and has sold over 100 million units over its lifetime. Despite the current issues, Nintendo is set on selling 21 million units this year.
A new, more powerful, 4K compatible Switch has been on the minds of Nintendo fans for some time, however it seems we won’t be hearing about that until March next year at the earliest.
Iconic Aussie children’s cartoon Bluey has been bombarded with negative reviews in a targeted attack to bring down the beloved program’s online ratings, Reddit users have speculated.
Online sleuths have identified what they say is a secret war raging between anime fans and the children’s series on movie and TV website IMDb.
At the end of last month, bluey‘s executive director, Daley Pearson, tweeted a screenshot of an IMDb page that showed a bluey episode — titled “Sleepytime”, for all you fans — ranked second on the list of best TV shows of all time with a star rating of 10 out of 10.
I don’t even have kids and I love blueyso I find no fault here — however, a Reddit theory suggests that anime fans did.
A mere three days after Pearson sent out the tweet, the bluey episode dropped down the list to 17th place. The number of people rating the show increased by 700 during this time, and the star rating stats show that there was a sudden uptake in one-star ratings, making it the second most popular rating for the show. Seeing as the most popular rating is 10 stars, it’s looking pretty suspect.
At the same time, a popular anime series rose up from nowhere to the top spots. why? It seems the trolls got to it.
A Reddit thread of bluey fans (yes, that is a thing that exists) suggests anime fans saw the tweet and started to review the show badly, while at the same time rating their favorite shows well, for the sole purpose of getting their own favorites higher in the rankings.
Reddit was quick to point out that trolling is really the sincerest form of flattery the internet can provide.
“It’s a badge of honor really,” wrote one user. “Anything starts to get haters once it gets enough elevation. The fact that it’s getting review bombed, the silly recent attacking articles – all just testament to how good this show is that’s it’s hit that level. And that it’s a kids show makes this all more amazing.”
Others have suggested that this could be the start of an all-out war between fans of a kids’ show and of anime.
“If it HAS to come to this, then I HOPE us in the bluey fandom can make a rebellion over the anime fans,” said one bluey supporter.
“This might be one of the worse things we’ve done, but we shall bring upon war. If you want to contribute to attacking the Anime fandom than comment on this post and leave poor reviews on Attack on Titan!”
“Welcome to why so many anime fandoms are so toxic,” said another.
Yet no one summed up the situation so neatly as this Reddit user and bluey fan: “The internet is such a weird place.”
It shapes as one of the biggest, most complex deals of the trade period. But unfortunately for the Gold Coast Suns, it involves another one of their budding stars departing.
Foxfooty.com.au confirmed a report from the Herald Sun that Suns young gun Izak Rankine has been offered a five-year, $4 million deal from the Adelaide Crows as he considers a move back to South Australia.
Originally thought to be close to re-signing with Gold Coast, who are reportedly offering around a $650,000-a-season deal and won’t match Adelaide’s offer, the report states the 22-year old is highly likely to be playing at West Lakes in 2023 given the size of the offer.
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However as Rankine isn’t a free agent, he’d need to be acquired via trade, setting the stage for one of the most fascinating negotiations between the Suns and Crows in some time.
Pick No. 3 in the 2018 draft, Rankine showed promising signs early in his career before really elevating his game in 2022 into the competition’s elite bracket.
Rankine has booted a career-best 27 goals from 16 games this season while averaging 13.6 disposals per game (both ranked above average as a general forward by Champion Data), and his 1.5 goal assists ranks fifth in the league (ranked elite).
What’s more, his 2.9 forward 50 ball gets rank first in the competition and his 10.6 AFL Player Rating ranks ninth (both elite). His 6.4 score involvements per game (elite) come in fifth in the league including three games in 2022 with 11 score involvements.
And from Rounds 8-15 Rankine was the No. 1 ranked overall forward in the competition during a stretch where he ranked second in score assists.
“They signed probably six of their top eight players over the last six months and you just expected Izak will sign … then this comes in as a bit of a wildcard, so incredibly tough for the Gold Coast,” Roos legend David King said on SEN.
“Rankine is going to be a top liner. The ball’s not even kicked to him and his ability to hit the scoreboard is second to none.
What would Rankine cost in a trade? (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images
A potential future face of the Suns and just 46 games into his AFL career, Rankine’s upside is scary, and he’s clearly only going to keep getting better, thus complicating his trade value given he’s not yet the final product.
So what’s he worth in a deal right now and how might it look?
Adelaide currently holds Pick 4 in the draft — a pick that could yet get moved back also pending on where potential Pick 1 and father-son draftee Will Ashcroft lands.
You’d think Adelaide’s first pick would be the starting point to any trade, but surely the Suns would want more.
A second first-round pick from the Crows feels like overs, especially considering it’d likely again be a top five selection or thereabouts. Would the Suns accept a first and second rounder?
Looking at recent history, the Adam Cerra trade from last year is a fair comparison given he was also aged 22, an early draft pick (No. 5) and still coming into his prime but didn’t yet qualify for free agency.
The Dockers ultimately received Carlton’s Pick 6 as well as a future third rounder despite originally putting a bigger price on Cerra’s head — although Fremantle had other deals to get done including acquiring Jordan Clark.
Prior to that, Jaeger O’Meara moved from the Suns to Hawthorn at the end of 2016 when he was also aged 22 and rated as one of the best young talents in the game.
O’Meara while playing for the Suns (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)Source: FOX SPORTS
O’Meara, who joined Gold Coast with the No. 1 pick of a special ‘mini draft’ as part of its early concessions, only cost the Hawks Pick 10 and a future second rounder.
Then there was the original Adam Treloar (who was also 22) trade back in 2015 that saw the star midfielder along with Pick 28 move from GWS to Collingwood for Picks 7, 65 and a future first rounder.
Similar to O’Meara, Treloar was drafted by the Giants as an under-age selection.
But making Rankine’s situation slightly more unique is that he was a bona fide top three pick (and taken ahead of the likes of the King brothers, Connor Rozee and Bailey Smith in the highly-rated 2018 draft), and factoring in that the Suns have already lost so much young talent over the years to add a potential extra tax of sorts.
And losing too many young stars to rival clubs has seen Gold Coast already top up with a stack of early picks in recent years.
It held selections 5 (Mac Andrew) and 7 (Elijah Hollands) respectively over the last two drafts, 1 and 2 in the 2019 draft (Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson) and 2 and 3 the year prior (Jack Lukosius and Rankine).
So would the Suns really want or need more picks? Finals should be firmly on the agenda next year after the club has finally made inroads in 2022, currently sitting 11th on the ladder with nine wins and on track for its best ever season.
Port Adelaide legend Kane Cornes wasn’t yet convinced Rankine is going to be a “top liner,” but emphasized the Crows would have to give up something given he’s not a free agent — proposing a swap for Riley Thilthorpe or a package of Josh Rachele and Darcy Fogarty if draft picks don’t appease the Suns.
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“Adelaide would hope that (Pick 4) gets it done, but Rankine was a Pick 3 four years ago and is probably better than what you’re going to take a put on with Pick 4 in this year’s draft, which probably goes to ( Pick) 5 or 6, so that won’t get it done,” he said on SEN.
“They (the Suns) don’t want or need draft picks… is it Rachele and Fogarty or something like that for Rankine?
Of course, the Crows could dig their heels in if they can’t meet Gold Coast’s demands and try and walk Rankine to the pre-season draft (and hope other clubs don’t pounce on him).
This happened most recently in 2019 when Jack Martin joined Carlton via the pre-season draft after the Blues and Suns failed to reach a deal during the trade period.
King believes the Suns should take a stand and be willing to let Rankine walk for nothing if it comes to it.
“I just wonder if they would say, ‘you know what, we’re not going to do this deal, we’re going to take a stand. We’ve got enough first-round picks, future picks coming in, trade commodities to be able to shift if we want to go down that path. Let’s dig our heels in and say if you want to leave you can go to the draft’,” he said.
“Why not? Does it really rock their boat (losing him for nothing)? Do they say, ‘do we just draw a line in the sand?’ Because this is going to continue to happen if they allow it to happen.
“I think they’ll take a stance. I don’t think they’ll say, ‘oh yeah, no worries, what do you (Adelaide) want to discard? You don’t think Rachele is going to be a top-liner? OK, give us Rachele.’ That’s of no value to them.”
A man has been sentenced to five years’ jail for killing a man by stabbing him in the heart during a drug-fueled wrestle in Adelaide.
Key points:
Matthew Bristow’s body was found on a footpath in Prospect in 2020
Abdi Abdullah Ali was found guilty of his manslaughter
The court was told Mr Bristow’s death had caused untold grief to his family
Matthew Scott Bristow’s body was found by a passer-by on a footpath at Prospect in February 2020.
He died from a single stab wound to the heart.
Abdi Abdullah Ali was found guilty of manslaughter by an unlawful and dangerous act, but was acquitted of a murder charge.
The Supreme Court heard both men had been affected by drugs and the circumstances of the offending were unclear — but it was likely the men had wrestled with a knife while inside a car.
Matthew Scott Bristow was found dead in Prospect.(Supplied: Facebook)
Justice Anne Bampton said she accepted Ali had no intention of killing Mr Bristow or grievously injuring him, but said Mr Bristow’s death had caused “untold grief” to his family.
His mother had told the court through a victim impact statement that her life had been “consumed by agony.”
“She poignantly said that her son died alone and that the blood that spilled on the lonely street of Prospect was her blood,” Justice Bampton said.
The court heard Ali, who was born in Somalia, turned to alcohol and drugs as a teenager and woke up in a car in Adelaide one day after attending a party in Melbourne.
“It seemed you had been stuck here, treading water, drinking, taking drugs and living a much less productive lifestyle,” Justice Bampton said.
She sentenced Ali to five years and three months’ jail with a non-parole period of four years and two months.
Senate Democratic leaders say they have reached an agreement on the party’s major climate and economic bill with Kyrsten Sinema – the centrist Democrat whose opposition remained a major hurdle to passing the most ambitious US climate legislation yet.
The support of Sinema, a former member of the Green Party who has evolved into one of Congress’ most conservative Democrats, was crucial to the passage of the bill, which tackles energy, environment, health and tax measures. Its success is seen as the Democratic party’s most substantive chance to deliver domestic policy progress before the midterm elections.
Backing from all 50 Democratic senators will be needed to pass any legislation in the evenly-divided Senate given the party’s narrow majority and Republican resistance to acting on the climate crisis.
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, said lawmakers had achieved a compromise “that I believe will receive the support” of all Democrats in the chamber. His party needs unanimity to move the measure through the 50-50 Senate, along with vice-president Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
Sinema, the Arizona senator seen as the pivotal vote, said in a statement that she had agreed to eleventh-hour changes in the measure’s tax and energy provisions and was ready to “move forward” on the bill.
She said Democrats had agreed to remove a provision raising taxes on “carried interest,” or profits that go to executives of private equity firms. That’s been a proposal she has long opposed, though it is a favorite of other Democrats, including the conservative West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin, an architect of the overall bill.
The carried interest provision was estimated to produce $13bn for the government over the coming decade, a small portion of the measure’s $739bn in total revenue.
Securing Sinema’s support was the next challenge for Democrats after Manchin, the centrist Democrat famed for thwarting his own party’s climate goals, surprised Washington last week by backing the plan.
Manchin, who has made millions of dollars from his ownership of a coal-trading firm, made an abrupt U-turn last week and announced support for $369bn in spending to support renewable energy and reduce emissions.
Schumer has said he hopes the Senate can begin voting on the bill – known as the Inflation Reduction Act – on Saturday. Passage by the House, which Democrats control narrowly, could come next week.
Final congressional approval of the election-year measure would be a marquee achievement for Joe Biden and his party, noting an accomplishment they could tout to voters as November approaches.
YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren’t quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called “pinch to zoom” for viewers that allows you to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode.
YouTube Premium subscribers get a lot of little extra features like background play and downloaded videos built into the YouTube experience. With the ability to try different new experimental features, Premium users can discover new tools before anyone else.
Prior experimental features have since made their way into the full YouTube experience. Being able to voice search in a browser found its way to YouTube through the experiments page. Another experiment brought to Premium users was easier playlist management, allowing users to easily drag and reorder upcoming videos around.
Today, YouTube added its new pinch to zoom feature to the experimental features page. This is a little different than the long feature available to everyone that allows you to fill your screen in landscape mode. Rather than filling your screen, pinch to zoom allows you to use two fingers to zoom into the video player. Once zoomed in, you can move around and look at parts of the video closer. This feature looks to be made specifically for portrait mode viewing.
If you’re a Premium member, you can find the new feature in the YouTube app on Android; just tap your profile photo and then hit Your Premium benefits. From there, you can find the Try new features page and turn on YouTube’s pinch to zoom. It may take a while to kick in until you can give this new tool a shot.
Pinch to zoom will only be available until September 1, giving YouTube Premium users enough time to try the new feature out and leave feedback. We’ll likely see this feature in full down the road, though we’re not sure exactly when and if the tool will come to unpaid members.
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