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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Life Electric Vehicles is buying Rad Power Bikes for $13.2 million. 

    Florida-based Life EV won the auction to buy the struggling e-bike brand last week, as reported by TechCrunch. The sale comes just a month after Rad Power Bikes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing “significant financial challenges” and “the sudden drop in consumer demand” post-Covid in a letter to employees.

    Stevie Bonifield
    Stevie Bonifield
    A new Gemini feature in Google Calendar will help find meeting times that work for everyone.

    When creating a new event in Google Calendar, Gemini will now find “suggested times” based on invitees’ calendar availability, similar to a Gmail feature announced in October. The Gemini-powered meeting time suggestions are rolling out now, but currently only available for Google Business, Enterprise, and AI Pro for Education users.

    A screenshot of Google Gemini suggesting meeting times in Google Calendar
    Image: Google
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    Stevie Bonifield
    TikTok is taking a closer look at European users’ accounts with a new wave of age checks.

    TikTok will roll out new age detection technology in Europe that uses profile information, posts, and “behavioral signals” to guess if a user is under 13, then flags suspected accounts for moderators to review, reports Reuters.

    Google/YouTube announced similar age-estimating tech last year, amid lawsuits and an expanding push to “age-gate” the internet.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    YouTube is easing up its ad policy for videos covering ‘controversial issues.’

    Videos that include topics like reproductive rights, self-harm, suicide, and abuse will be able to earn more revenue now as long as they don’t include graphic scenes or descriptions, as spotted by Tubefilter.

    Previously, videos that even mentioned potentially controversial topics would often be demonetized.