KANE'S TECH TIPS:
SUNDAY 5TH JANUARY 2025
Welcome to another low down on all the latest Tech news, Tips and Tricks to help you keep up to date with the latest from the Tech world!
You can hear the feature On Air on a Sunday with Mark, and throughout the week.
TikTok Content Creator Continues With Day Job
A TikTok content creator whose videos of him cleaning pools have been watched by millions of viewers said continuing with his day job kept him "grounded".
Miles Laflin, known as The Pool Guy online, from Bedfordshire, has encouraged others to create online content about their job too.
Mr Laflin won the high-quality content creator of the year title at the first UK and Ireland TikTok awards.
The 34-year-old travels around the world cleaning pools and sharing videos of the process online.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr56e3vr3vno
Source: BBC News
TikTok Faces A Ban In The US
Social media company TikTok faces a ban in the US unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance by 19 January.
US officials and lawmakers have accused TikTok's owner ByteDance of being linked to the Chinese government.
Many have cited national security concerns over the app, claiming that it could be forced by Beijing to hand over data about its 170 million US users.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53476117
Source: BBC News
UK Goverment Urged Video platforms To Feature "high-quality" Children's Content
The government has urged video platforms like YouTube to feature "high-quality" children's content more prominently on their websites.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy warned young people are less likely to see programmes which are educational or provide "emotional and mental wellbeing" development as they increasingly watch via online platforms rather than traditional television.
Nandy said she had written to YouTube and similar platforms, as well as the regulator Ofcom, urging them to increase the visibility of suitable children's material.
A YouTube spokesperson said it "provides kids and teens with safe, age appropriate online experiences that allow them to learn, grow and explore".
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrwpvp9z4wo
Source: BBC News
App Of The Week
This week's App of the week is called vidlQ for Youtube
This app allows content creators to help build and plan out Content around the hottest and highest volume keywords that are being searched at this moment.
It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner with Zero Subscribers.
This app is free to download on IOS and Android Devices.
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vidiq.app
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/app/vidiq-for-youtube/id1458235345
🛡️ Security Corner 🛡️
Many people love playing games online. In fact, an estimated 1.2 billion of us are regularly logging on, signing up and playing online.
Unfortunately, whenever money or personal data is changing hands online, criminals can be watching, looking for some way to turn the situation to their advantage.
The majority of cyber attacks exploit publicly known weaknesses in devices and software. Keeping your software up to date will help to prevent these attacks from being successful.
Keep operating systems, and other software up to date. The easiest way to do this is to turn on automatic updates.
