Check out all the places we’ve been on CNET’s Road Trip 2015. LOS ANGELES — Want to be a star? Aspiring entertainers still find themselves, suitcase in hand, heading to Hollywood. But the quest is no longer for that breakthrough audition in front of a big-name director. These fame-seekers are making bee-lines to studios tucked …
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Google’s YouTube Kids app is again under fire from child advocacy groups. But this time around, the charges are far more serious. The Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) issued a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying that the YouTube Kids app is “rife” with content that is not only …
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Scroll through the comments on Smosh’s first YouTube clip, posted nine years ago, and before long a post will ask how it’s possible that the comedy duo’s channel has 20 million subscribers when the planet has only 6 million people. Despite the problematic math about the world’s population, the question is a common one among those unfamiliar with Ian Hecox …
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Google on Monday unveiled its new kid-friendly YouTube app, the company’s first product built exclusively in-house with children in mind. As CNET first reported last week, the YouTube Kids app for Android devices is now available for free in the Google Play marketplace. At the same time, Google launched the app for iOS devices in Apple’s App Store. The app …
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On Monday Google pushed publish on its YouTube Kids app for iOS and Android devices. The free app eliminates the not-so-kid-friendly parts of the popular video-sharing site, and makes only educational shows, music and cartoons available for viewing. In other words, that tinge of dread or fear you used to experience as you’d hand over your smartphone with a cartoon …
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Facebook is making privacy settings easier to understand with its Privacy Basics guide. And it’s a good time to get a grip on your privacy, considering Facebook also launched a Yelp-like service called Places. It shows you what friends — and strangers — have posted publicly about restaurants and other venues. Get the details in this CNET Update: Now playing: …
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If you have multiple Gmail accounts, chances are you also have multiple YouTube accounts as well. This isn’t very convenient when you’re making favorite playlists, or uploading videos and have to keep paying attention to which account you’re logged into. Now that you’ve moved the majority of your favorites, playlists and content to your other account, you might want to …
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