For the past three years, Lance Walker has been locked in a cat-and-mouse game with his 11-year-old daughter for control over her iPhone and iPad. Initially he considered TikTok a harmless distraction, which Peyton used for watching dance videos. When he discovered she was receiving messages from adult men she didn’t know after posting public videos of herself doing silly poses, he quickly went into Apple Inc.’s parental-control settings to block access to the app. Peyton countered by using a different Apple ID to download new apps including TikTok.

YouTube TV customers will regain access to Disney channels after a two-day blackout. The Disney-owned channels went dark Friday night after YouTube said it couldn't reach an agreement with Disney. The two companies announced Sunday they had reached a new carriage agreement. YouTube had said it would drop the monthly price of its TV-streaming service by $15 while programming was unavailable.

Latitude, the startup behind text game AI Dungeon, is expanding into a new artificial intelligence-powered game platform called Voyage. The company announced the closed beta on Friday, opening a waitlist for current AI Dungeon users. Latitude hopes to help other people create their own games using trained AI models.

Vintage video games, vinyl records, and film cameras have all seen a surge in popularity. Some say it's because we're fed up with looking at our computer screens. Others say it is because technology is deeply embedded in our recent memories of the past. Sellers say they're confident that the tech of our past is here to stay.

Adidas' first NFT effort has raked in more than $23 million in sales. The limited-run digital release minted nearly 30,000 NFTs. Adidas managed the equivalent of $538.4 million in profit during its latest quarter. More sales like this could pad Adidas' bottom line while giving N FTs the hype levels previously reserved for sneakers.

TikTok is partnering with Virtual Dining Concepts and Grubhub to launch "TikTok Kitchen" restaurants. The restaurants will be delivery-only and will feature TikTok viral food videos. TikTok will launch 300 locations in March and plans to open 1,000 by the end of next year.

Apple told corporate staff this week that it is delaying a planned return to U.S. offices until an undetermined date. The delay comes amid concerns about rising Covid cases and the public health impact of the heavily mutated omicron variant. Apple first sent corporate employees to work from home in March 2020 at the outset of the pandemic in the U.s.

Google pledged in October to stop running ads on sites that promote climate misinformation. But in November and December, the company ran ads on at least 50 posts undermining climate science. The ads remained on the pages as of Wednesday morning, and 37 of them have been removed.

The Biden administration added dozens of Chinese companies and research institutes to blacklists restricting access to U.S. investment and technology. The Commerce and Treasury departments targeted an array of Chinese businesses, from a company that lays undersea fiber-optic cables to developers of facial-recognition technology.

Biden administration's nominee to be top auto safety regulator says he hopes agency will soon finish investigations into Tesla crashes. The probes involve automated driving systems used in electric vehicles made by

There are many things you shouldn't do online that could put your privacy and security at risk. Downloading movies for free from a torrenting site is a no-go. Sharing passwords for streaming services or other subscription services could be illegal. Search terms can put you at risk for search terms that could lead you to the wrong sites.

Meta is adding sign language interpreters to its Portal video calling devices. The service is free for users who qualify and is federally funded under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Users will need to apply for a ZP account to confirm they’re eligible for the service.