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YouTube Music and Premium announced today that it has hit a major milestone for the platform’s music streaming goals, surpassing 100 million members (including trial users). This number, which is accurate as of January 2024, represents a 20-million-member growth in just over a year, according to Lyor Cohen (Global Head of YouTube Music).In 2015, YouTube Music was launched with the goal of giving music lovers a one-stop-shop for all their music needs, including ad-free listening, offline capabilities, and access to music videos. As a result of feedback from the community and changes in the industry, the service underwent several changes…
A bipartisan Senate duo is pressing the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to help prepare state and local officials to ward off artificial intelligence-produced disinformation targeted at voters. In a new letter exclusively obtained by CBS News, Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins shared that they have “serious concerns” while urging for more steps to be taken to help officials around the country “combat these threats.” Tuesday’s letter comes after an incident involving New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Before the contest, a fake robocall impersonating President Biden encouraged voters not to vote in the Jan. 23 primary and instead…
The Chinese electric-vehicle maker has been particularly good at expanding into different, related businesses. Not only can it make high-performing and safe batteries for cars, but it also does almost everything in house, from designing car chips to mining lithium and other materials. The fact that it has subsidiaries in every step of the EV supply chain enables the company to keep its costs down and sell cars at more competitive prices. Now, to pull that off once again, BYD is starting a sea freight business. As I just wrote in a story published today, the company is assembling a…
Apple and Google both removed the Wizz app from their respective app storefronts this week. Wizz is a social media app popular among U.S. teens. According to NBC News, the alleged use of the app in sextortion scams led the National Center on Sexual Exploitation to send an email to Apple and the latter removed the app from the App Store. NBC News was able to review some emails and reported that one from an Apple representative to the center said, “We take App Store violations seriously and appreciate your outreach. The app has been removed from the Store and we…
Tech leaders to testify on social media safety for kids – CBS News Watch CBS News CEOs from five of the biggest tech companies are set to testify on what they’re doing to protect children who use their social media platforms. Jo Ling Kent speaks to a woman whose daughter died by suicide following sexual exploitation by online predators. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On #Tech #leaders #testify #social #media #safety #kids
Earlier this month, a massive ship picked up over 5,000 electric cars from two ports in northern and southern China. Five days later, it passed through Singapore, and it is now headed for India. However, its final destination is in Europe, where most of the cars will be sold. The ship’s name is BYD Explorer No.1. As the first of a massive fleet that BYD is building, it reflects the Chinese company’s ambition to establish a seafaring business that supports its new role in the global car trade. There’s rising appetite for BYD’s cars overseas. In 2023, BYD exported over…
Just in case you have been living under a rock — or just don’t follow what’s going on in American sports — next Sunday, February 11th, is the Super Bowl LVIII. Famous for being that event where sports and non-sports fanatics can gather to eat copious amounts of food and enjoy some entertainment — be it in the form of a football game or the halftime show — there is one other feature that the Super Bowl is known for: its ads.For this televised event, companies invest in and compete for that celebrated spot of the best Super Bowl commercial.…
For Tammy Rodriguez, online safety for kids is literally a matter of life and death. Her 11-year-old daughter, Selena, died by suicide after an extreme social media addiction led to sexual exploitation by online predators.”I had no idea that it could get to that. I would have never let her have it in the beginning,” Rodriguez told CBS News. “These are all things that are all hidden in the background. That, you know, it seems like these big tech companies, they know exactly how to make it work for them. And the parents don’t know what’s going on.”Rodriguez said her…
To develop the system, researchers from New York University and Meta tested Stretch, a commercially available robot made by Hello Robot that consists of a wheeled unit, a tall pole, and a retractable arm, in a total of 10 rooms in five homes. While in a room with the robot, a researcher would scan their surroundings using Record3D, an iPhone app that uses the phone’s lidar system to take a 3D video to share with the robot. The OK-Robot system then ran an open-source AI object detection model over the video’s frames. This, in combination with other open-source models, helped…
ESET researchers have published the names of recently discovered Android apps that primarily exist to keep tabs on users who download them.Six of the apps were available on Google Play, and the remaining were hosted on VirusTotal. Eleven of the apps look like legitimate messaging apps. One is disguised as a news app.The apps silently run remote access trojan (RAT) code known as VajraSpy and are part of a Patchwork APT campaign. Their primary functionality is to spy on people and their snooping capabilities are related to the permissions granted to them. The apps can steal your contacts, files, call records, and text messages. Some of…
Tech CEOs to testify about child online safety at Senate hearing – CBS News Watch CBS News The CEOs of Snap, TikTok, X, Meta and Discord are expected to testify at a Senate hearing Wednesday to discuss steps their companies are taking to protect children on their platforms. CBS News’ Jo Ling Kent sat down for an exclusive interview with two senators spearheading the effort to hold tech companies accountable for endangering kids. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On #Tech #CEOs #testify #child #online #safety #Senate…
Last October we told you about Canon’s nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology that stamps the circuitry design onto a silicon wafer instead of etching it like ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines do. The Financial Times (via Tom’sHardware) says that Canon has been working on this technology for 15 years and because it doesn’t use lasers to create the pattern on a wafer, the process uses as much as 90% less power than a traditional EUV machine.NIL technology can be used to build chips using a 5nm process node and eventually, it could be used to help produce 2nm chips. The lithography…