TikTok is making tweaks to how it recommends videos on the app in attempt to make sure it doesn’t inadvertently reinforcing negative experiences. On Thursday, the popular social video app said it’s testing changes to avoid showing people too much of one type of content that when viewed as a single video might be fine …

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo plans to launch its first flagship foldable phone, the Oppo Find N, next week. In a press release on Thursday, CEO Pete Lau said the phone is the result of fours years of “intense” research and development.  Oppo showed off a brief look at the phone in a teaser video posted to Twitter, though it didn’t …

Apple is adding a new “iPhone parts and service history” section to the Settings app to give you more information about your device as the tech giant prepares to launch a new do-it-yourself repair program. In a support document published Tuesday, spotted earlier by MacRumors, Apple said iPhones running iOS 15.2 or later will show whether some parts of the …

A day before Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is scheduled to testify before Congress, the photo-sharing app on Tuesday unveiled new parental controls and other features aimed a keeping teens safe.  Among the new features, Instagram will let parents and guardians set limits on how much time teens are spending on the app. There will also be an option to notify parents …

Facebook has lifted restrictions on people praising Kyle Rittenhouse or searching for his name on the social network. The change, which was earlier reported by the BBC, comes after Rittenhouse was acquitted last month of all charges related to his fatally shooting two people during unrest over police violence in Wisconsin.  Facebook, now under parent company Meta, removed Rittenhouse’s accounts in …

Calling the company “notorious hackers” and “amoral 21st Century mercenaries,” Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against NSO Group, the Israel-based firm behind the Pegasus spyware that was uncovered on the phones of activists, journalists and executives earlier this year.  Apple is seeking a permanent injunction to stop NSO from developing, distributing, using, or allowing others to use malware or spyware for any …

The US Justice Department on Wednesday accused Uber of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by charging wait time fees to passengers who need more time to enter a car because of a disability.  In a complaint filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, the DOJ alleges that Uber violates the ADA by “failing to reasonably …

Google News will soon be available again in Spain after the country amended a law that imposed fees on news aggregators for using local publishers’ content. “We made this decision as a result of a new Royal Decree implementing the European Copyright Directive, introduced today by the Spanish government,” Fuencisla Clemares, head of Google Iberia, said Wednesday in a blog …

People using Zoom’s free basic service to video chat with family or co-workers may start seeing ads once their meeting has ended.  Zoom is launching a pilot advertising program that will show ads on “the browser page users see once they end their meeting,” Janine Pelosi, the company’s chief marketing officer, said Monday in a blog post. People using the …

Apple TV Plus, the tech giant’s subscription video service, is headed to Comcast devices. The companies have struck a deal to bring Apple TV Plus to Comcast devices and the Xfinity Stream and Sky Go apps to Apple TV devices, said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts during the company’s earnings call Thursday. The Apple TV app (which lets you access Apple …