TikTok is taking steps to make its platform a kinder place on March 10, 2021, 11:54 8 comments
What just happened? TikTok is no different than other social networks in that bullying has become the skunk at the garden party. To help combat negative behavior and foster kindness, ByteDance is implementing two new features to give creators and commenters more control over what is said in comments.
The first new feature builds on TikTok’s existing comment filtering tool. When enabled, comments remain hidden from public view until a video’s creator approves them. Up to this point, content creators have been able to filter comments for spam, offensive material and specific keywords but this new feature goes much further.
Per the terms of the deal, Square will pay $297 million in cash and stock in exchange for a "significant" majority ownership stake. Existing artist shareholders will.
Google wasn t funding games to sell games. it was funding games to sell Stadia on February 28, 2021, 7:20 25 comments
In context: Part of what led to Stadia Games and Entertainment division s early demise is the underwhelming number of subscribers the platform managed to garner since November 2019. Although Google has not posted official numbers, Bloomberg quotes insiders stating Stadia missed controller sales and monthly active user count goals by hundreds of thousands. The low adoption rates may be attributed to how the platform was marketed and released. This is arguably the biggest waste of money and resources in Google s history.
Stadia broke from Google s typical start small and build philosophy of product development. Unlike other Google products with long beta cycles, like Gmail, it was marketed and hyped as a full service that was ready to kill off consoles. Stadia head Phil Harrison said it was the future of gaming. Speaking