YouTube TV hikes streaming price by $10 to $82.99 per month

If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, your monthly bill is about to get bigger — again.   Alphabet-owned YouTube is hiking the price of its popular TV streaming service, which has more than 8 million subscribers. Beginning in January, the cost of the platform will jump to $82.99 per month, up from $72.99.  The latest … Read more

AI company says its chatbots will change interactions with teen users after lawsuits

Character.AI, the artificial intelligence company that has been the subject of two lawsuits alleging its chatbots inappropriately interacted with underage users, said teenagers will now have a different experience than adults when using the platform. Character.AI users can create original chatbots or interact with existing bots. The bots, powered by large language models (LLMs), can … Read more

Is Facebook down? Users report problems accessing Meta platforms, including Instagram, Threads.

Facial recognition to soon be used by Meta to help users restore hacked accounts Facial recognition to soon be used by Meta to help users restore hacked accounts 02:27 Users on Wednesday reported problems accessing a number of Meta’s social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger, according to outage tracking service Downdetector.  Reports … Read more

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online after ‘technical issue’, Meta says | Science, Climate & Tech News

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after experiencing a “technical issue”, their owner Meta has said. In a post on X it apologised “to those who’ve been affected” and said it was “99% of the way there” and “just doing some last checks”. “Thanks for bearing with us!” it added, According to Downdetector, which … Read more

New test uses AI to detect breast cancer at earliest stage yet | Science, Climate & Tech News

A new test can detect breast cancer at its earliest stage, using laser screening and artificial intelligence. The fast, non-invasive test looks for subtle changes in the bloodstream that occur during the initial phases of breast cancer, known as stage 1a, according to the University of Edinburgh team behind the breakthrough. These changes aren’t detectable … Read more