Spotify has ended a test that required its family plan subscribers to verify their location, or risk losing accessing to its music streaming service. According to recent reports, the company sent out emails to its “Premium for Family” customers that asked them to confirm their locations using GPS. The idea here is that some customers […]
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YouTube Kids adds a whitelisting parental control feature, plus a new experience for tweens
YouTube Kids’ latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch. Following a change earlier this year that allowed parents to limit viewing options to human-reviewed channels, YouTube today is adding another feature that will give parents the ability to explicitly whitelist every channel or video they want to be available to […]
View More YouTube Kids adds a whitelisting parental control feature, plus a new experience for tweensMore Alexa ‘blueprints’ arrive, offering customizable voice apps for families and roommates
Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out a new feature that allowed Alexa device owners to create their own custom skills using preconfigured templates. Today, Amazon is expanding Alexa Blueprints, as the service is called, to include a handful of new templates designed for families and roommates. These include a chore chart template, a house rules […]
View More More Alexa ‘blueprints’ arrive, offering customizable voice apps for families and roommatesAmazon’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the U.S.
Amazon today publicly launched a new perk for Prime members with young children, with the broad release of the new subscription-based “Prime Book Box” service. The $22.99 per box offering ships Prime members in the U.S. a curated selection of kids’ books every 1, 2 or 3 months, at up to 35% off the list […]
View More Amazon’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the U.S.Moving video shows a mother’s reunion with her son after they were separated at the border
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A mother and son, who were separated from each other more than a month ago at the border, recently reunited at Baltimore Washington International Airport.
On Friday, CNN reported that 38-year-old Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia finally got to see her 7-year-old son, Darwin, for the first time since he was taken from her at an immigration holding facility in Arizona in May.
The reunion comes after the mother sued several government agencies and members of the Trump administration to have her son released from custodyAn agreement was reached in federal court on Thursday.
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View More Moving video shows a mother’s reunion with her son after they were separated at the borderHow to stop feeling helpless when you hear about immigrant children taken from their parents
I held my tears back upon reading about Marco Antonio Muñoz, a Honduran father who killed himself after being separated from his 3-year-old son. I choked on them again when I learned of Elsa Johana Ortiz Enriquez’s plight: She brought her 8-year…
View More How to stop feeling helpless when you hear about immigrant children taken from their parents7 activist groups supporting families at the border that need your help right now
Over the course of six weeks, the United States government has separated nearly 2,000 children from their parents.
The heartbreaking increase in separations stems from the Trump administration’s decision to double down on its immigration polici…
Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses
Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code. The idea is to allow Alexa owners to create their own voice apps, like a trivia game or bedtime stories, or teach Alexa to respond […]
View More Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responsesTammy Duckworth, an Iraq war vet, will be first senator to give birth while in office
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Tammy Duckworth, the freshman senator and Iraq war vet who lost both her legs in combat, announced she’s pregnant with her second child in a Chicago Sun-Times exclusive Tuesday.
Her pregnancy is a milestone. She will be the first sitting senator to give birth. She’s due later this spring. She has a daughter, Abigail, who was born in 2014 while Duckworth was a U.S. representativeNine other women serving in the House of Representatives have given birth while in office.
Maybe Abigail could get a job helping Senate Republicans write their #GOPTaxScam, but thousands of dollars in tax hikes for middle class is no laughing matterpic.twitter.com/gs3DakTPkC
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View More Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war vet, will be first senator to give birth while in office18-year-old daughter asks stepdad to adopt her in the best Christmas gift ever
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Some gifts are totally priceless.
Makayla Dabney, an 18-year-old from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, gave her dad the best Christmas present anyone could hope to receive.
She wraps it really, REALLY well. (In the video, it takes him about five minutes to get through all the boxes and wrapping paper! If you’re really impatient, skip ahead to about 5:30.)
There’s a lot going on as she gives an emotional speech — the other kids playing around, with the excitement of Christmas.
But when her dad, Stephen Dabney, opens it, he’s moved to tears. It’s adoption papers — an amazing thank you to the man who has helped raise her since she was 5. Her mother said he “stepped up when he didn’t have to.” Read more…
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Jellies is a kid-friendly, parent-approved alternative to YouTube Kids
As YouTube reels from a series of scandals related to its lack of policing around inappropriate content aimed at children, obscene comments on videos of children, horrifying search suggestions, and more, a new app called Jellies has arrived to offer parents a safer way to let their kids watch videos on mobile devices. Jellies was built by Ken Yarmosh, founder of Savvy Apps, which has been… Read More
Jellies is a kid-friendly, parent-approved alternative to YouTube Kids
As YouTube reels from a series of scandals related to its lack of policing around inappropriate content aimed at children, obscene comments on videos of children, horrifying search suggestions, and more, a new app called Jellies has arrived to offer parents a safer way to let their kids watch videos on mobile devices. Jellies was built by Ken Yarmosh, founder of Savvy Apps, which has been… Read More