CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. The Chill is also available in black. Ten bucks! HMDX This has been a rough week for Amazon-based …
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AT&T doesn’t want its name showing up next to videos promoting intolerance and hate. As a result, the carrier on Wednesday said it’s pulling ads from YouTube and other Google “non-search platforms.” “We are deeply concerned that our ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate,” the company said in an email. “Until Google can ensure this …
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We’re so close to the official unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S8, and Samsung won’t stop teasing us with quick ads. Samsung Mobile Korea posted the latest teaser trailer on YouTube yesterday for Korean audiences; check out the video below. The video is only 15 seconds long and doesn’t reveal too much, just the number 8 branding and that Samsung …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple Clips makes it simple to craft viral videos 1:41 The first thing you’d think looking at Clips, Apple‘s newly announced video-editing app, is that it’s trying to be Snapchat. Or Instagram. Or Vine. But Clips, which I got a chance to try my hands on in New York, doesn’t have its own social platform. It’s …
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Google is taking steps to prevent ads from appearing next to hateful content. In a blog post Tuesday, Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, vowed to improve the controls and policies that keep ads from appearing alongside potentially offensive YouTube videos and other content. “Starting today, we’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content,” he said. “This …
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British retailer Marks and Spencer over the weekend became the latest company to remove its ads from Google for fear they’ll be snuggled up against extremist content. M&S joins the British government and banks RBS, Lloyds and HSBC in suspending its adverts from all of Google’s platforms in the wake of an investigation by The Times that uncovered advertisements for …
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YouTube apologized on Monday for upsetting its community by blocking and filtering videos made by its LGBTQ+ community. But the apology was met with a lukewarm response. The problem occurred with YouTube’s “Restricted Mode”, a feature designed to “use community flagging, age-restrictions, and other signals to identify and filter out potentially inappropriate content.” Restricted mode is supposed to protect users …
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Google is rethinking some of its advertising policies after coming under fire in the UK. Some advertising customers in the UK have pulled ads from Google-owned YouTube after some of them reportedly appeared alongside inappropriate and extremist content. The list of clients includes the British government and big brands in the UK, such as the Guardian newspaper. For example, one …
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Google’s making a change to YouTube that’s already been underway: YouTube annotations are being discontinued. The reason is all mobile. Annotations use has dropped 70 percent on Google’s massive video site, according to a blog post Friday announcing the change. Instead, Google’s recommending everyone use Cards and End Screens to handle anything interactive. Annotations began back in 2008, before the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Your social apps are crushing your data plan 1:20 Curtailing your phone use as you near your data cap at the end of each month is no way to live. A better way is to stop data-hungry apps from using too much data in the first place. The apps that use the most data typically are …
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