May 24, 2020 12:41 PM IST Here are the biggest developments from the world of tech for the week ending May 23.
May 19, 2020 07:55 PM IST Te app has been downrated from 4.6 to 2.0 stars in less than a week.
May 18, 2020 06:04 PM IST YouTube will still offer the option to load videos in 720p.
May 14, 2020 12:50 PM IST Google Play Music Unlimited members will be automatically granted the equivalent tier of YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium based on the level of benefits with their current subscription, at the same price.
April 29, 2020 07:25 AM IST The information panels, launched in Brazil and India last year, will highlight third-party, fact-checked articles above search results for topics such as "covid and ibuprofen" or false claims like "COVID-19 is a bio-weapon," as well as specific searches such as "did a tornado hit Los Angeles."
April 17, 2020 08:00 PM IST The move comes as the coronavirus outbreak has forced educational institutions to shut down, and confined millions of students to their homes, compelling schools and colleges to tap virtual tools to keep the classes running.
April 15, 2020 01:28 PM IST The most popular good-news accounts are focused on delivering coronavirus-related stories with a positive, productive message
April 06, 2020 08:33 PM IST In the United Kingdom, these theories have led to people setting cell towers on fire.
March 25, 2020 01:03 PM IST Not just YouTube, other giants like Facebook, Amazon Prime, Netflix have also announced that they will lower the quality of streaming videos on their respective platforms to tackle internet congestion amidst the surge in the number of viewers due to COVID-19.
March 23, 2020 07:19 PM IST Netflix, Facebook, Disney, Amazon and YouTube have also committed to lowering bit rates in Europe.
March 17, 2020 10:30 AM IST In a blog post, Google said that to reduce the need for people to come into offices, YouTube and other business divisions are temporarily relying more on artificial intelligence and automated tools to find problematic content.
February 06, 2020 09:36 PM IST Additionally, YouTube TV has 2 million paid subscribers.
February 06, 2020 12:51 PM IST Minister for Law and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said the issue of fake news is a worry, and added that there are "serious parliamentary concerns" about internet being abused for child pornography. He also asserted that identification of originator of messages was still a problem with regard to WhatsApp.
February 03, 2020 07:25 PM IST Google and YouTube have been making changes to their platforms and moderating content as technology and social media companies come under fire for their role in spreading fake news, especially during elections.
January 23, 2020 09:08 AM IST If and when rolled out, authorities would need a court order before directing any social media platform to trace the media content to the source
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October 17, 2019 08:30 PM IST Over 95 per cent of the online video consumption is in Indian languages and Bengali content is growing more than 100 per cent year-on-year in watch time, he said.
September 26, 2019 02:45 PM IST Twitter won’t be banning politicians for contentious content either over the same concerns, they would label such posts as rule-breaking.
September 26, 2019 12:43 PM IST In an annual report on disinformation trends, the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Research Project said Facebook remained the most popular platform for social media manipulation due to its size and global reach.
September 04, 2019 07:35 PM IST "YouTube touted its popularity with children to prospective corporate clients," said FTC chairman Joe Simons.
September 04, 2019 05:45 PM IST Brownlee himself has retweeted the post, acknowledging the meme.
September 04, 2019 03:50 PM IST During April-June 2019, about 10.88 million videos were flagged by users globally, as per YouTube Community Guidelines enforcement report.
August 31, 2019 01:20 PM IST US regulators have long argued Google fails to protect children from harmful content and data collection on its YouTube platform.
August 14, 2019 10:20 AM IST The tech giant will digitise over two decades worth of content from Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) across 12 Indian languages
July 31, 2019 10:24 PM IST YouTube said in a tweet that he was a "gifted, passionate and endlessly curious creator."
