Protecting Your Children Online Early
Many apps feature certain monitoring or blocking features to prevent kids from finding inappropriate and explicit content, but certain apps allow kids to get around parental filters and blocking features. One of the most common apps used is for monitoring or blocking explicit content but web browsers within certain social media apps can easily navigate around the explicit content. The popular social media app, Snapchat, is one of the apps that has its own private web browser within the app that can bypass filtering and blocking parental control apps. Snapchat is rated 12+ in the AppStore but this is...
Yelp Users Can Now Personalize The App Based On Their Lifestyle
Bella Breakdown Yelp is changing the way they do things and it will make a lot of people happy. The business reviewing company is introducing a new personalization feature that produces custom search results based on each user’s general preferences. What this means is that users can now set up profiles with their dietary restrictions, lifestyle interests, and accessibility preferences, and places that meet those requirements will be elevated in the app. The function marks the first time that Yelp has offered personalization options, as the company has been expanding its focus beyond food. Customers won’t just have dietary,...
Amazon Is The Only One Not To Launch New Disney+ Streaming Platform
Bella Breakdown If you were hoping to enjoy the entertainment being offered by Disney+ on Amazon platform you will be severely disappointed. On Monday, the entertainment giant announced that its upcoming streaming app will launch on every major streaming platform, except for Amazon. The service is set to launch in November and will be available on popular platforms and devices such as Apple TV and iOS, Google Chromecast, Android, Android TV, Sony PlayStation 4, Roku and Microsoft’s Xbox One. Users will be available to subscribe to Disney+ directly or via in-app purchases. While Amazon’s Fire TV isn’t on the...
FAA Bans Some Apple MacBooks Models From Airplanes After Recall
Bella Breakdown The days of getting work done even while you are traveling in the air could be over. U.S. airline safety regulators have decided to ban select MacBook Pro laptops on flights after Apple Inc. recently said that some units had batteries that posed a fire risk. In a recent statement, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was “aware of the recalled batteries that are used in some Apple MacBook Pro laptops.” They then confirmed that the major U.S. airlines had been alerted about the recall. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency previously issued a warning...
More Than Half Of Americans Now Own A Digital Assistant According To New Study
Bella Breakdown Since the rise of technology, people’s dependence on new tech has already increased. So news of digital assistants being owned by more than half of Americans should not come as a surprise. According to a new survey by Clutch, 48% of the survey takers in the united states owned a digital assistant, and 33% planned to buy one within the next three years. Clutch also found that 69% of voice assistant owners used their devices every day. Based on Juniper research, the number of voice assistants used worldwide could rise from 2.5 billion in 2018 to 8...
