On Friday, a pediatrician and parenting blogger named Free N. Hess published a post about a series of disturbing videos she found on YouTube Kids, a stand-alone app that is supposed to make it “safer and simpler” for those under 13 to browse videos online. A number of news outlets quickly picked up on the […]
A creepy online myth known as the Momo Challenge has resurged, sparking panic, and showing just how urban legends spread in the digital age.Image: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images On the night of July 11, 2018, YouTuber AL3XEITOR uploaded a creepy new video for his audience of nearly 1 million subscribers. In the video, the creator holds […]
Instagram is ready to compete head-on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced it will begin allowing users to upload videos up to one hour in length, up from the previous one-minute limit. And to house the new longer-form videos from content creators and the general public, Instagram is […]
Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. Google goes all in on artificial intelligence, […]
In a somber video uploaded on Monday, Simone Giertz, a YouTuber who has made many, many “shitty robots,” announced that she has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Giertz has been experiencing swelling behind her right eye for a year that she initially thought was allergies. But recently, she found it was actually a golf […]
Female suspect dies of self-inflicted wound, police chief says Local hospitals report ready to receive patients from incident
TV networks are running out of excuses for the dwindling popularity of the Walt Disney Co. set to report earnings in the next few days, analysts are bound to raise questions. These companies have used the popularity of the games to extract additional fees from cable operators, promote other shows on their networks and sell lots […]
Midway through the second season of Silicon Valley, the HBO series that so skillfully spoofs the Bay Area tech scene, the plot turns to porn. Inside the offices of Pied Piper, the fictional startup at the heart of the show, a shaggy-haired coder hacks into a rival company. The rival, he discovers, has landed a […]
Poll of 14- to 24-year-olds shows Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter increased feelings of inadequacy and anxiety Four of the five most popular forms of social media harm young peoples mental health, with Instagram the most damaging, according to research by two health organisations. Instagram has the most deepening young peoples feelings of inadequacy and […]
YouTube Live is making impressive strides in catching up to incumbent Twitch, but it has a long way to go yet. On the bright side, it doesnt look like theyll run out of road: Streaming looks to be a fairly sustainable business, suggest stats from Streamlabs latest report. According to data gleaned through Streamlabs streaming […]