Ancestry makes Chinese Exclusion Era records available

As part of a philanthropic initiative to make culturally significant records available to everyone for free, Ancestry® – the global leader in family history – today announced it has digitized and made searchable more than half a million records related to the Chinese Exclusion Era. During this 60-year period in the U.S. and Canada, laws were enacted to restrict immigration and rights of people of Chinese descent. Many of these Exclusion Era records contain photos and rich details about family relationships that can help descendants learn more about their ancestors’ experiences.  

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Swedish House Mafia creates custom sound pack for Nothing Phone (2)

Nothing is gearing up for the launch of its Phone (2) on July 11, and it's keeping the hype alive with daily teasers and announcements. The latest one involves a collaboration with Swedish House Mafia, the famous house music group. They have created an exclusive Glyph Sound Pack for the new device.

The Phone (2) will also come with a new Glyph Composer app, which lets you customize and remix the sounds from Swedish House Mafia. You can tap on different pads to create your unique Glyph Ringtone with light and sound effects.

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Meta launches new parental supervision hub on Messenger

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Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, has announced new parental control tools for its platforms. These tools are designed to create a safer and healthier online environment for young users and their guardians. One of the new features is a parental supervision hub in Messenger, which lets guardians monitor their teens’ privacy and safety settings, contact list changes, app usage time, and report history. This hub is rolling out in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. 

The hub is part of the Meta Family Center, a central place where parents and guardians can find resources and tools to help manage their teens’ experiences across Meta technologies. The hub will also allow guardians to see who can message their teens—only their friends, friends of friends or no one—and who can view their stories. The guardians will also get notifications if the child changes any of these settings or reports someone.

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Google rumoured to resurrect Stadia through a new YouTube product

Google shut down its game streaming service Stadia, but it hasn't completely given up on the idea. The Wall Street Journal claims YouTube is testing out a new gaming product called Playables that could leverage the tech behind Stadia so it could bring more revenue to the platform. YouTube may already be a popular destination for video game streaming and user-generated content. But its CEO Neal Mohan wants to expand into the gaming space further as advertising revenue has slowed down. 

Playables will supposedly have simple arcade-style games you can play on the site or app. One of the games is called Stack Bounce, where you use a ball to break a brick wall. YouTube is testing the game out with its employees now. But there is no word on how it will be monetized or when it will be available. A YouTube spokesperson told WSJ that gaming is an area of interest for the company, but it has nothing to announce for now.

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