New child safety features for Google, YouTube
WASHINGTON: Google on Tuesday unveiled a series of online safety measures for children including a private setting for videos uploaded by teens and safeguard for ads shown to users under…
WASHINGTON: Google on Tuesday unveiled a series of online safety measures for children including a private setting for videos uploaded by teens and safeguard for ads shown to users under…
NEW YORK: A massive blackout on Monday temporarily disrupted popular Google services such as Gmail and YouTube, derailing the remote learning, work and entertainment that people have come to rely…
WASHINGTON: Social media firms remained on high alert Tuesday against Election Day misinformation and manipulation efforts as polling places began closing in the US and focus turned to tallying ballots.…
SEOUL: The wildly infectious and relentlessly repetitive children's song "Baby Shark" became the most-watched YouTube video on Monday, with more than seven billion plays. The bane of parents and teachers…
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube on Thursday began adding information panels to videos about voting by mail to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US presidential election in November.…
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said it will produce an 8K movie shot on Galaxy smartphones. The South Korean movie titled "Untact" will be filmed on its Galaxy S20…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Saturday said that even the family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif knew that he was healthy. Talking to the…
SYDNEY: Google has urged YouTubers around the world to complain to Australian authorities as it ratchets up its campaign against a plan to force digital giants to pay for news…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took notice of objectionable content on YouTube and issued notices to the Attorney General and the foreign ministry over the matter. A three-member bench…
NEW DELHI: When India banned TikTok, it closed a window to the wider world for legions of women outside the big cities that provided fun, fame and even fortune. The…
ISLAMABAD: Former wicket keeper-batsman Rashid Latif has come down hard on Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and national cricketers for what he said not observing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Rashid's criticism…
KARACHI: Pakistani actress Iqra Aziz has announced that she was launching her official YouTube channel to upload her videos for her fans. The star posted her first video where she…
WASHINGTON: Google, which is owned by Alphabet, and its YouTube video service will pay $170 million (£138 million) to settle allegations that it broke federal law by collecting personal information…
CALIFORNIA: Google will pay $150-200 million to settle allegations YouTube violated a children’s privacy law while gathering data to better target its adverts, US media reports said Friday. The US…
SEJONG: Google Inc. has corrected some of its terms of service, South Korea's antitrust regulator said Thursday, in a move to carry out the world's first corrective recommendation for the…
SINGAPORE: A YouTube fact-check feature which is meant to tackle misinformation accidentally tagged live broadcasts of a fire engulfing Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris with details about the 9/11 terror attacks.…
LAHORE: Highly revered Islamic scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel got a big reward from YouTube for reaching one million subscribers on his channel. Maulana Jameel’s channel has become the first Islamic…
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube on Tuesday clarified rules against posting videos of dangerous pranks, as risky "challenges" prompt people to video themselves doing things like biting into laundry soap or driving…
SEOUL: LG Uplus Corp., South Korea's smallest mobile carrier, said Friday that it will set up a fund with US tech giant Google Inc. to invest in virtual reality (VR)…
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to ban all type of social media websites and the video streaming site YouTube in the office premises across the country,…
CALIFORNIA: Google could lose up to $750 million from the advertiser boycott related to ads appearing next to extremist content, according to a report. YouTube, which relies extensively on big brands, would take…
CALIFORNIA: PepsiCo, Wal-Mart Stores and Starbucks have suspended their advertising on YouTube after the Wall Street Journal found Google’s automated programs placed their brands on five videos containing racist content,…
CALIFORNIA: Social media giant Facebook is doubling its bereavement leave for employees and also introducing paid family sick time, company's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg shared the new leave policy…
ANKARA: Turkey on Friday restricted access to social media websites after the Islamic State group released a video purportedly showing two Turkish soldiers being burned alive, a monitoring organisation said.…