Twitter’s ‘manipulated media’ tag on Trump tweet suffers glitch
Twitter Inc. marked a video posted by President Donald Trump’s team as manipulated content under its new media policy. But the tag doesn’t show up for all users. Read More Views: 0
Edited Biden video portends social media challenges in 2020
As former Vice President Joe Biden’s drive for the White House gains momentum, the 77-year-old’s political opponents on both the right and left have launched an internet campaign suggesting he’s not mentally or physically equipped to serve—sometimes using altered content and other disinformation to make their case. Read More Views: 0
Facebook, Twitter place warning labels on altered Biden video
Facebook and Twitter both added tags denoting false or manipulated content to a video reposted by US President Donald Trump of his Democrat rival Joe Biden. Read More Views: 0
Flipboard adding monthly subscription to watch ad-free video news clips from smartphones
Flipboard, the social media platform that’s best known as a place for catching up on daily news on smartphones and tablets, is adding curated, ad-free video news clips, and hoping people will pay $2.99 monthly to watch. Read More Views: 0
Game designers have new tool to evaluate player experience
A free tool that will enable game developers to accurately evaluate the experience of video game players has been launched by researchers at the University of Waterloo. Read More Views: 0
Before Nintendo and Atari: The black engineer who changed video gaming forever
Atari. Magnavox. Intellivision. Read More Views: 0
AT&T launches new online TV service as video customers fall
AT&T is launching a new internet-delivered TV service Monday as it struggles with a shrinking DirecTV satellite business. Read More Views: 0
Teens love the video app TikTok. Do they love it too much?
From the perspective of teens, TikTok is a major new outlet for self-expression, one proudly home to the silly, the loud and the weird. Read More Views: 1
Online training as a weapon to fight the new coronavirus
More than 25 000 people across the globe have accessed real-time knowledge from WHO experts on how to detect, prevent, respond to and control the new coronavirus in the 10 days since the launch of an open online training. The learning team of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme worked with technical experts to quickly develop…
How long should children play video games?
A new study indicates that playing video games for a limited amount of time each week may provide benefits to children, but too much can be detrimental. The findings are published in the Annals of Neurology. There’s much debate over the potential benefits and risks of video gaming in children and teens. To provide some…