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YouTube turns off comments on videos of children amid child safety fears | Society

March 1, 2019January 10, 2023 Senior Editorartificial intelligence, Epic Games, Filthy Frank, Matt Watson, Nestl, recommendation algorithm, social media contacts, YouTube Kids, YouTube Kids channel

YouTube will turn off comments on all videos that contain young children, the company says, as well as a number of other enforcement actions designed to stave off an advertiser boycott sparked by the discovery of an organised paedophile ring operating in plain sight on the video-sharing platform. The company will disable all comments on videos featuring younger children, and will also disable comments on those videos of older children that have some risk of attracting predatory behaviour, YouTube says. It has also prioritised the launch of an AI moderator…

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Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant

December 20, 2018September 10, 2019 Senior EditorActor, artificial intelligence, Assistant, Christmas, google, Macaulay Culkin, smart home technology, technology brand, voice assistant

The Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant Ad is Nostalgic Fans of the iconic Home Alone Christmas films are sure to get a kick out of the Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant commercial that has been unveiled by the technology brand as a nostalgic update to the franchise. Starring Macaulay Culkin, the commercial features the actor portraying his childhood character Kevin McCallister in a modern-day setting complete with the Google Assistant by his side. Throughout the ad, Culkin can be seen reenacting popular scenes from the original…

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Tech Roundup: A Busy Week to Come

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017 Senior Editoranalog life, annual developer conference, artificial intelligence, David Streitfeld write, Farhad Manjoo, favorite tech stories, Galaxy S8 smartphone, giant breakthrough, hotel industry, Jacqueline Williams, Katie Benner, new revelations, new technologies, New York Times, New Zealand, online collaboration, quarterly earnings reports, tech companies, Uber

Photo Visitors got a look at the new Samsung smartphones at an event in Moscow last week. Credit Maxim Malinovsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images It’s shaping up to be a busy week in tech. After something of a lull — there were not many new revelations about Uber and no giant breakthrough in artificial intelligence last week — there is a lot of activity on the horizon. That includes quarterly earnings reports from tech companies such as IBM, Qualcomm and Yahoo this week. Facebook is also holding its annual…