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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Bloomberg
Roblox Rolls Out Safety Features Including Selfie-Based Age Test
Roblox Corp. is adding new safety features, including an age-estimation tool that relies on video selfies, in an effort to better protect its kid-heavy user base. The gaming platform is changing the name of its in-game communications system from 'Friends' to 'Connections,' to better reflect how users interact. The company is also introducing a new tier, called Trusted Connections that allows people to communicate via text chat and voice calls without the built-in filters that censor certain words and phrases.
The Verge
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Verge
TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters
TikTok will now let songwriters highlight tracks they've written or co-written directly on their profiles. The list of songs will live within the 'Music' tab on their profile, similar to the one TikTok already offers for artists on the platform. Users who register as songwriters will also get a 'Songwriter' label beneath their account name. These new features build upon some of TikTok's existing tools for songwriters, including the 'New' tag that appears on newly released music and the ability for users to save a song on a music streaming service. TikTok also rolled out a 'BehindTheSong' hub in 2023, where songwriters, artists, and producers can share more about the making of their music, in addition to the more recently launched 'Off the Record' series with artists like Shakira, Charli XCX, and Meghan Trainor. Music is a huge part of TikTok, with the platform helping boost the popularity of songs and even drive TikTokers to stardom. It has also worked with artists like Taylor Swift to build hubs to promote their music, and added the ability for users to save songs to their SoundCloud accounts in May. In 2023, it launched a standalone music streaming app, but shut it down in 2024. For now, TikTok is launching its new songwriter features in a closed beta with a 'limited number' of publisher partners. Songwriters and publishers can sign up for a waitlist to gain access to these features in the future.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Reddit down for thousands of US users, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Social media platform Reddit was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website There were more than 32,691 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 11:39 am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Reddit said it is investigating elevated site errors.
CNA
4 days ago
- General
- CNA
Reddit down for thousands of US users, Downdetector shows
Social media platform Reddit was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website There were more than 32,691 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 11:39 am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Reddit said it is investigating elevated site errors.
CNA
4 days ago
- CNA
Reddit looks into errors after Downdetector reports of vast global outage
Social media platform Reddit said it was looking into elevated error rates, after showed more than 100,000 users globally had reported issues with the social media platform. In the U.S. alone, there were more than 133,948 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 11:52 am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Reddit had also experienced an outage last month which affected nearly 31,000 users.
