YouTube, Gmail go down in wide-spread outage; all services back online
If you have tried to access your Gmail account or YouTube this morning, good luck. Google’s global services were hit by a near-global outage Monday morning.
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Kid influencers on YouTube are pushing junk food, sugary beverages to other kids, study says
Kid influencers on YouTube are marketing junk food and sugary beverages to their fellow kids, and they’re racking up billions of page views, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
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Can YouTube help wolves survive? NCSU study says positive videos help
A new study from North Carolina State University suggests that people have more tolerance for wolves after seeing positive videos about them, which could make YouTube an important wolf conservation tool.
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YouTube: Face recognition firm must stop harvesting videos
The Google-owned video service said Wednesday that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to New York-based Clearview AI. The small firm has drawn scrutiny following investigative reports in January by the New York Times and Buzzfeed detailing its work with law enforcement agencies and its practice of scraping social media and other internet platforms for images.
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Eight-year-old is top earner on YouTube – $26M
An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys on YouTube has been named by Forbes as the platform’s highest earner in 2019.
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Google beefs up privacy for Maps, YouTube, makes Assistant easier to erase – here’s how
Google is rolling out more tools for users to control their privacy settings. Here’s how they work.
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Feds fine YouTube $170M for collecting kids’ data without parents’ consent
Google’s video site YouTube has been fined $170 million to settle allegations it collected children’s personal data without their parents’ consent.
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Federal regulators, lawmakers turning attention to YouTube – here’s why
YouTube is under scrutiny from several different directions. One big issue: How children interact with videos. Given YouTube’s dominance, and the allure of the smartphone screen for kids, this is one of the most important issues in media and tech right now.
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Unraveling YouTube’s ‘rabbit hole’ recommendation algorithm – how a reporter did it
New York Times journalist Kevin Roose’s investigation into YouTube’s artificial intelligence started because it was the platform mentioned most frequently when he asked online extremists questions about how they were radicalized. He re’s how he unraveled the “rabbit hole” algorithm.
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