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YouTube has made it much harder for smaller YouTube creators to earn money from their videos through advertising. New rules say channels need at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watchtime over the last year to keep qualifying for YouTube's partner program, which lets creators monetise their videos. Smaller creators have already expressed their frustration, but the impact could be much greater on black and minority creators who already have a harder time getting subscribers. Logan was criticised for joking about a dead body he had found in  a Japanese forest  known for suicides. It took 10 days for YouTube to admit the video shouldn't have been published.Although the platform had earlier said it "prohibits violent or gory content posted in a shocking, sensational or disrespectful manner."Logan removed the video two days after it had been put up, but by then it had been viewed more than five million times.  YouTube was heavily criticised f...

A recent update to Google's art and culture platform added a new feature, "an experiment that matches user selfie with art from the collections of museums available on the platform". Initially this feature available in US ,but now it is  available for Indian users. Hey this one ain’t so bad. pic.twitter.com/er0FxZNVO8 — Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) January 13, 2018 When you download the app, you are prompted with a dialogue box that assures you “Google won’t use data from your photo for any other purpose” than to “find artworks that look like you.” It also won’t store your photo any longer than “the time it takes to search for matches.” Patrick Lenihan, a company spokesperson, reiterated in a statement that “Google is not using these selfies for anything other than art matches.”Even if Google wasn’t acting in good faith, technically, it can’t use your selfie to train its algorithms.   Computers learn to recognize patterns by being shown a data ...

WhatsApp  could go live with its much-awaited payments feature as early as next month, according to people aware of the developments, providing the biggest boost yet for  digital payments  in the country. Thanks to a government-backed platform called UPI (Unified Payment Interface), developers are able to more easily integrate digital payments for India into their apps. Google's  Tez  uses UPI for bill payments, and social app Truecaller added the functionality in a  recent update . The country's most used messaging app shouldn't be too far behind as Facebook-owned WhatsApp could be ready to offer a payment solution based on UPI as early as next month. According to a  report by ETtech , the service is currently being tested in conjunction with one of its partner banks. Apparently, there are several already signed up to support payments on WhatsApp, including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank. If all g...

Apple Inc will release a software update that will allow users to turn off a feature that slows down iPhones when batteries are low on charge, Chief Executive Tim Cook told ABC News. Apple will release a test version of its iOS  software next month that shows users the health of their batteries and will let them turn off a phone-slowing feature meant to prevent sudden shutdowns in iPhones with older batteries, Cook said in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday. “We will tell somebody we are reducing your performance by some amount in order to not have an unexpected restart, and if you don’t want it, you can turn it off,” Cook said. “We don’t recommend it because we think that people’s iPhones are really important to them and you can never tell when something is so urgent. Our actions were all in service of the user.” An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment beyond Cook’s remarks or say when the update would be available to consumers. Apple confirmed on December 20 t...

Google has paid a Chinese security researcher more than $110,000 for discovering two bugs that could be used to hijack its Pixel devices. Guang Gong, a researcher with Qihoo 360 Technology, reported the bugs to Google through its  Android Security Rewards  programme last August, and the issues were fixed in the  December 2017 security update  (patch 2017-12-05). The exploit chain includes two bugs: CVE-2017-5116 and CVE-2017-14904. The former is a V8 engine type confusion bug, which can be used for remote code execution in sandboxed Chrome render process environments. The latter, CVE-2017-14904, is a bug in Chrome's libgralloc module that can be used to escape from Chrome's sandbox. It is caused by a mismatch between map and unmap functions, causing a Use-After-Unmap issue. Together, these bugs can be leveraged to inject code into the system_server process by opening a malicious URL in Chrome. Pixel users clicking on such a link in Chrome could h...

After years of waiting and limited trials,The company today launched the simply-named   WhatsApp Business , available on   Android   devices as a   free download .The app provides some of the basic functionality you’d want from a business app. You can create a Business profile with additional information like a description, address, and contact information, and enable quick replies for answers to common questions. You can create greeting messages and view some simple analytics so you can see which messages are most effective. WhatsApp Business App According a WhatsApp spokesperson, the current feature set will remain free in the long term, but WhatsApp plans on charging for additional capabilities in the future. Basically it’ll eventually take on a freemium model, but at least the company doesn’t plan on taking away any existing features, and you are getting a fair bit of functionality to start. The app is already up and running from th...

Whatsapp is reportedly testing a new feature designed to warn user against sending hoax measssages The feature, which was spotted by Whatsappen.nl and WABetaInfo, warns users that certain messages have been “forwarded many times”. This warning, which is displayed to both senders and recipients, makes no claim to the messages authenticity, but serves as a tell-tale clue that the message perhaps isn’t exactly kosher. FORWARDED MESSAGES A spammer never sends spam messages to a single contact, but he is used to send them to multiple users, selecting them in his contacts list, picking these data from the Internet or from some registration services. These messages may content unwanted advertising and fake news, and they often invite you to forward the message to your contacts.So, he is used to forward one or multiple spam messages to multiple contacts using the Forward option in WhatsApp: for this reason WhatsApp is going to do something about messages that ...

Google’s next major version of Android could be called Pi (or perhaps Pie), reports on Wednesday suggested. An eagle-eyed XDA Developers editor has spotted a reference to Android Pi within the Android Open Source Project. At least that appears to be the internal name for the operating system right now. Mishaal Rahman posted the links on Twitter and speculated Pi might be shorthand for Pie (via  Phandroid ). Amusing: new commits in AOSP refer to the next version of Android as "Android Pi" which is clearly not a dessert, though maybe shorthand for Android Pie. https://t.co/LXxv4MUYhn https://t.co/DH0TlgxiBR Let the speculation begin! #AndroidP #Android9 — Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 17, 2018 Google has named every major version of its mobile operating system after candies or desserts.The company often teases the name ahead of time and it’s become a fun annual guessing game among the Android community.