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2 | These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Monday June 17, 2024. I'm Sarah Lane. | |||||
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6 | US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wants Congress to introduce warning labels for social media platforms, reminding users about the potential mental health harms associated with them, like anxiety and depression. Murthy outlined the labeles in an essay published by the New York Times, designed to increase awareness and encourage social media users to change their behavior. Murthy issued an advisory in May 2023 that, although the ramifications of social media weren't totally understood, still warned that social media poses a “profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.” Murthy is also calling for legislation to keep young people from experiencing online harassment, abuse, exploitation, and exposure to extreme violence and sexual content in social media algorithms. Murthy recommends better bans on collecting children’s data and restrictions on features like push notifications, autoplay, and infinite scroll, which he says “prey on developing brains and contribute to excessive use.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html | ||||
7 | Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page" on Chrome for Android. The text-to-speech (TTS) capability is available on most text-heavy web pages. Once the site loads, “Listen to this page” appears in the three-dot Chrome for Android overflow between “Translate” and “Add to Home screen” in the fourth section the menu. A miniplayer shows up at the bottom of the page with a progress indicator, play/pause, and close button. | https://9to5google.com/2024/06/16/chrome-listen-tts-android/ | ||||
8 | The Arc browser has a new feature getting some love from browser enthusiasts. Live Calendar, presents your next Google Calendar meeting in the sidebar shortly before the meeting starts. It has a countdown timer and button to join the meeting if it's on Google Meet. All without opening the calendar tab in your browser. All you need to do to activate it is open Calendar in a tab and log in, then drag it the favorites section under the URL. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178381/arc-live-calendar-google-meeting-join-button | ||||
9 | YouTube tells TechCrunch it has a new experimental feature for video viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos, sort of like how community notes currentlyl work on social network X. YouTube says this can be helpful for clarifying things like when a song is meant to be a parody, or letting viewers know when older footage is being portrayed as a current event. It's limited to mobile in the US in English for now, and users need to have an active YouTube channel in good standing. | https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/youtube-is-experimenting-with-notes-a-crowdsourced-feature-that-lets-users-add-context-to-videos/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACg54FUb-0-0x6DvCuizULndpX3SLQ2XIdOt4CE2OT2BGl-fF1Bl2UPSITuLT8TAxnU4Pc4YV6NG8C3c6LoA5viMQouKbVibvNbE8TuzNvK0WZLNRzO4RAaCfsaI8GASX9-WWflnmpDKBs1eztzL9gjUdIzfaQQmY-TyQYKagl1t | ||||
10 | Logitech announced the MX Ink, a spatially-tracked stylus that comes as Meta Quest’s first third-party motion peripheral. Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets and “future headsets" are all supported, although the Quest Pro is not. The MX Ink is designed to create, annotate, and navigate in XR environments. It pairs with a Quest and is also compatible with Quest controllers. The MX Ink ships in September for $130. | https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-first-third-party-input-logitech-stylus/ | ||||
11 | The US Department of Justice is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription, adding Adobe “has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms.” The lawsuit also says Adobe doesn't properly disclose the early termination fee incurred upon cancellation “that can amount to hundreds of dollars.” | https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe-us-ftc-doj-sues-subscriptions-cancel | ||||
12 | Repair technician and consumer privacy advocate Louis Rossmann notes that Sonos has changed its privacy policy in the United States, removing a sentence that previously stated “Sonos does not and will not sell personal information about our customers.” That pledge is still present in Sonos' privacy policy in other countries. | |||||
13 | TikTok is offering new generative AI tools for organizations and content creators to grow their global audiences using customizable digital avatars and language dubbing features, designed to break down language barriers in marketing and allow brands to “add a human touch to their content” where real models or presenters aren't needed. Stock avatars are based on paid actors from a variety of backgrounds, nationalities, and languages.. Custom avatars are created to resemble a specific creator or a brand spokesperson but also speak multiple languages. All videos that use the avatars will be marked with an “AI-generated” label. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24179971/tiktok-ads-ai-generated-avatars-creators-language-dubbing | ||||
14 | Nikon's new Z6 III camera is the first to have a 24.5-megapixel partially stacked CMOS sensor. For $2,500, the Z6 III’s circuit parts are stacked as bars on the top and bottom of the pixel area, allowing higher continuous shooting rates, faster autofocus, higher video frame rates, and less rolling shutter effect than the previous Z6 II, which has a BSI CMOS sensor in e-shutter mode. The Z6 III won't be as speedy as the more premium Z8 or Z9 with their fully stacked sensors. In other specs, the viewfinder can reach a peak brightness of 4,000 nits, and the camera can film 6K RAW video at up to 60fps and 4K RAW at up to 120fps. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24178637/nikon-z6-iii-stacked-sensor-cmos-price-performance | ||||
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