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Board Members Representing TikTok, Resy, NBCUniversal, Hulu, Accenture, Snap Inc, BrandYourself.com, True Influence, Tumblr, TheAlist., SAP, E! Entertainment, and more bolster Nonprofit's Advisory Board NEW YORK – August 17, 2021 – (Newswire.com) America On Tech (AOT) is proud to announce the launch of its Regional Advisory Boards in New York City and Los Angeles. Board members represent a diverse collection of technology executives and leaders from some of the world’s most recognized corporations and fastest growing companies. New regional advisory board appointments, by region: New York City: ● Patrick Ambron, Co-Founder and CEO at BrandYourself.com ● Ray Estevez, Chief Information Officer at True Influence ● Sofia Hernandez, Head of Business Marketing, North America at TikTok ● Tony Jackson, Chief Technology Officer at Resy ● Sallie Jian, Head of SAP.iO New York ● Gary Johnson, Head of Community Partnerships at Cash App, Square Inc. ● Cavel Khan, Chief Revenue Officer at Tumblr Los Angeles: ● Erica Marie Dionne, Vice President, Product Development & Strategy at NBCUniversal ● Tatiana Holifield, Head of Brand Social at Hulu ● Harry Leshner, Managing Director at Accenture ● Gabe Lupin, Product Lead at Snap Inc. ● Trinh Nguyen, Sr. Director of Technology for E! Entertainment at…

YouTube announced two feature updates today to make it easier for people to find the content they’re looking for on the platform. This includes visual search features and easier discovery of foreign language videos that have captions in the user’s local language. On desktop, YouTube users can hover over a video’s thumbnail and watch a brief clip play. This functionality will now extend to mobile with the added ability to browse the chapters within a video. From the search page, users can jump directly to the chapter they’re most interested in. “Let’s say you’re looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique. With these new search results, you can see all the steps in the video, from feeding the starter to pulling the bread out of the oven — and skip right to the chapter on kneading,” wrote Pablo Paniagua, director of Product Management, in a blog post. The other product update recommends videos in other languages to the user, so long as the video has captioning available in their language. So, to extend YouTube’s sourdough example, if you speak Icelandic and can’t find a good sourdough tutorial in your language, YouTube might recommend…

By Brian Fung, CNN Business After years of accusations that it’s helped spread misinformation, Twitter is finally giving users an easy way to report misleading tweets. But don’t expect anything to happen right away because of it. Twitter users in some countries, including the United States, will now be able to report tweets to the social media platform that contain misinformation, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature became available Tuesday to small groups of users in the US, South Korea and Australia, Twitter said. The explanation “it’s misleading” will now appear as an option for those users to select when they seek to report a problematic tweet. But the limited test may not lead to any direct action on the tweets flagged by users, according to the company. “We may not take action on and cannot respond to each report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so that we can improve the speed and scale of our broader misinformation work,” Twitter said. The initiative is the latest attempt by a social media platform to stem a wave of digital misinformation. Social media companies have increasingly come under criticism for facilitating the spread of…

The Real Deal‘s YouTube channel shares the same goal as our newsroom: To bring you the most interesting, newsy and insightful content on all things real estate. Here’s a sample of what you can expect if you subscribe: — A look at what lies ahead for coworking firms as the corporate world renegotiates its relationship with the office. — Origin stories of real estate billionaires like Jay Paul and the gilded game of musical chairs that is celebrity real estate. — Our “TRD Explains” series where we demystify the more technical sectors of the industry, such as the process of demolishing a building (and believe us, it is a process) and how digital assets known as NFTs are changing the game for both residential and commercial real estate. — Some fast facts on San Francisco’s iconic TransAmerica Building, an icon of the skyline that is on the cusp of a major transformationThat, and so much more. Smash that Subscribe button, as the youths say, and click the notification bell so you can stay posted on new uploads throughout the week. We’ll see you in the comments section!

Messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers, with India among the top three countries experiencing the attacksVigilance combined with anti-phishing technologies form a reliable tool in the fight against phishing in messenger apps,” says Tatyana Shcherbakova, senior web content analyst at Kaspersky.Anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers. The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 was sent via WhatsApp (89.6%), followed by Telegram (5.6%). Viber is in third place with a share of 4.7% and Hangouts has less than 1%. Countries experiencing the highest number of phishing attacks were Russia (46%), Brazil (15%) and India (7%). Globally, 480 detections were recorded per day.According to the research, messenger apps outstripped social networks by 20% in 2020, in terms of popularity among users, and became the most popular tool for communication. Survey results also show that in 2020, the global audience for messengers amounted to 2.7 billion people, and by 2023 it is expected to grow to 3.1 billion. That is almost 40% of the world’s population.Kaspersky Internet Security for Android has added a new feature, Safe Messaging,…

File photo of a man in handcuffs. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CW44 News At 10)–  Hialeah man arrested by Polk County Sheriff’s Office Special Vicitms Unit for traveling to Polk County in order to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. Erick Rabelo. 27, was arrested on Monday, August 16, 2021, as he entered Polk County, after arriving at Orlando International Airport a short time prior.He was charged with Lewd Battery (F2), Travel to Meet a Minor (F2), and Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3).READ MORE: Lakeland Man Arrested For Child AbusePhoto Credits: Polk County Sheriff’s Office “The victim’s mom did the right thing by immediately calling us. The detectives working this case were thorough and swift, getting a dangerously twisted man behind bars. This guy is so messed-up that he actually got a tattoo on his forearm with the victim’s name and the date they met on Snapchat,”  said Grady Judd, Sheriff Detectives first became involved with this investigation Monday morning after the mother of the victim received a text message at 7:16 AM from Rabelo, introducing himself as the person who was “dating” the victim for a year and three months and claiming that…

It is a crime in the UK to say anything ‘grossly offensive’ on the internet. Under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 this offence carries up to six months in prison. As has been previously argued on spiked, the words ‘grossly offensive’ essentially give carte blanche to judges to criminalise anything they think is unpleasant or hurtful. In the past, people have been sentenced for posting a video on YouTube of a pug doing a Nazi salute and for an Instagram post referring to a rap lyric containing the n-word. More recently, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has turned the screw further and has started to use Section 127 to police private communications between friends. We got a taste of this a couple of weeks ago, when the High Court cleared the way for the prosecution of a man who had put a tasteless video about the Grenfell disaster on a private WhatsApp group. It is now clear that this was not a one-off. Two people have since been given prison sentences for sharing an offensive video in private groups on Snapchat. A man called Jake Henderson recorded a 50-second rant on a mobile phone in January. In it,…

Today, Vimeo Inc Inc’s (NASDAQ: VMEO) stock fell $2.01, accounting for a 6.16% decrease. Vimeo opened at $32.06 before trading between $32.30 and $30.14 throughout Monday’s session. The activity saw Vimeo’s market cap fall to $4,749,970,405 on 3,028,499 shares -above their 30-day average of 1,256,096. Visit Vimeo Inc's profile for more information. About The Nasdaq Stock Market The Nasdaq Stock Market is a global leader in trading data and services, and equities and options listing. Nasdaq is the world's leading exchange for options volume and is home to the five largest US companies - Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook. To get more information on Vimeo Inc and to follow the company's latest updates, you can visit the company's profile page here: Vimeo Inc's Profile. For more news on the financial markets be sure to visit Equities News. Also, don't forget to sign-up for the Daily Fix to receive the best stories to your inbox 5 days a week. Sources: Chart is provided by TradingView based on 15-minute-delayed prices. All other data is provided by IEX Cloud as of 8:05 pm ET on the day of publication. DISCLOSURE: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the…

Channa Silva on his music-centric podcast  Channa Silva, a Sri Lankan living in the Philippines, is an important figure in the podcast community. He started the music podcast Channa Channa Channa, where he interviews bands, artists, fans, and people of the music industry from around the world.  So far, he has recorded over 145 episodes and interviewed many bands from around the world. Silva grew up in Negombo, Sri Lanka, moved to Manila for a work assignment 15 years ago, and fell in love with the place and people and met his wife. He is also a dad to his son, his two Beagles, and five cats.  Talking to Brunch about his love for music, he told us that he had been a music fan from the age of four or five when his dad gave him his first Top 1,000 cassette tape. Since then, he has been an avid listener, fan, and collector of music, especially metal/rock.  As a metalhead,  » Read More

The claim: A video shows the Taliban taking over the presidential palace in Kabul, AfghanistanHours after former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country Aug. 15, Taliban fighters moved into Kabul and seized control of the presidential palace.Footage of a Taliban commander shaking hands with the head of the Presidential Protection Service went viral online. Now, social media users are sharing another video that purportedly shows the Taliban's takeover of Kabul.The video shows armed men tearing and burning down a flag as they repeatedly shout the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar.” Smoke is in the air, and vehicles are seen driving away and honking.“#Big; #breaking; With the Taliban in control of the Presidential Palace in Kabul and the US Ambassador fleeing to the airport, Taliban have won the war,” reads the caption of an Aug. 15 Facebook video, which gained more than 63,00 shares before it was deleted. More: 'Heartbroken and shattered' Afghan-Americans worry about loved ones in AfghanistanOther Facebook have shared the same caption and video.  » Read More