Category: users

A third of TikTok’s US users may be 14 years old or younger

Post author By Randall
Post date August 14, 2020
Categories In Children, coppa, data, gear, News, Privacy, protection, Tech, teens, Tiktok, underage, us, users

[ad_1] TikTok asks users to self-report their birthdays, and it uses tools like facial recognition to estimate users’ ages. Users under 13 only have access to a walled-off mode within the app, and they can’t share personal info or videos. But it wouldn’t be hard to lie to get around age restrictions. The app doesn’t […]

Twitter doesn’t want to call its users ‘users’ anymore

Post author By Randall
Post date February 6, 2020
Categories In earnings, financials, fy 2019, gear, Internet, q4, q4 2019, Tech, Twitter, users

[ad_1] It’s part of an initiative to make Twitter a happier, cuddlier place to be, with the usual boast that it’s shrunk the number of “unhealthy” tweets on the service. That includes a 27 percent decline in “bystander reports,” on Tweets that violate the company’s code of conduct. Much of that is down to machine-learning […]

Windows 10 is used on over 900 million devices

Post author By Randall
Post date September 24, 2019
Categories In 900 million, business, devices, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Microsoft, milestone, personal computing, personalcomputing, Tech, users, windows 10

[ad_1] #Windows10 is on more than 900M devices! Thanks to our customers, we added more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than ever before. From PCs to HoloLens to Xbox to Surface Hub, Windows continues to power innovation—with more to come next week! https://t.co/G3CRdkFoPT pic.twitter.com/38fKk50IEH — Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi) September 24, 2019 […]

DoJ pushes Google and Apple to ID 10,000 users of a gun scope app

Post author By Randall
Post date September 6, 2019
Categories In american technologies network, app, Apple, business, data, data requests, feds, gear, Google, gun, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, investigation, ip address, Mobile, names, obsidian 4, phone numbers, Politics, Privacy, request, rifle, Security, Tech, users

[ad_1] The app in question is Obsidian 4, which controls rifle scopes by American Technologies Network (ATN) Corp. It has more than 10,000 downloads on Google Play, and it’s unknown how many times it’s been downloaded through the App Store. As Forbes explains, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department is investigating illegal ATN scope […]

Apple fires hundreds of contractors hired to listened to Siri recordings

Post author By Randall
Post date August 28, 2019
Categories In Apple, audio, business, contractors, cork, fired, gear, grading, Internet, ireland, listened, Privacy, recordings, Security, sensitive information, services, siri, Tech, terminated, users

[ad_1] More contractors throughout Europe may have been let go. As The Guardian reports, many are upset that Apple fired so many people with just one week’s notice. Even those who were concerned with the program’s ethical implications expressed their frustration. Apple previously promised that “as part of a future software update, users will have […]

Apple Music now has 60 million paid subscribers

Post author By Randall
Post date June 27, 2019
Categories In 60 million, Apple, apple music, av, beats 1, business, paying, spotify, subscribers, Tech, tomorrow, users, worldwide

[ad_1] Apple Music now has 60 million paying subscribers. The company’s Eddy Cue, a senior vice president of services, confirmed the milestone with French business publication Numerama today. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple also noted that Beats 1 has “tens of millions of listeners.” [ad_2] Source link