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Xfinity Tech Support (0:01)
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Julie Chang (0:08)
Yep.
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Julie Chang (0:31)
Here's your afternoon TNB Tech minute for Thursday, February 26th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Instagram will alert parents if their teens repeatedly search for terms related to self harm or suicide. The meta owned social media app is stepping up efforts to protect minors as several governments wave social media bans for younger users. In a blog post today, Instagram said parents who have adopted the app's supervision tools to monitor their children's profile activity would start receiving alerts next week. The service will initially be available through emails, texts, WhatsApp messages and in app notifications for parents and guardians in the us, Canada, the UK and Australia. It'll expand to other countries later this year. Nvidia's blockbuster quarter wasn't enough to reassure the market. Shares fell about 5% Thursday afternoon. Despite record sales, the chip giant's earnings failed to cool investor concerns of an AI bubble. European semiconductor stocks joined US tech stocks in remaining subdued. Dutch chip machine ASML, Amsterdam listed ASM International and BE Semiconductors all fell more than 4%. The tech heavy Nasdaq is down over 1% and Sam Altman's human verification startup is leaning on household names to sell its far out concept. Tools for Humanity was co founded by the OpenAI CEO and it's partnering with brands like Gap, Visa and Tinder to market its product. The company's World ID system uses volleyball sized orb devices to take images of users faces and eyes. Orbs then translate those images into anonymized numbers stored in a user's device. The company says the orbs immediately delete that data. A Gap store in San Francisco has installed an orb device there. A Gap spokesman said the company will not earn any revenue from Tools for Humanity, won't have access to any consumer data gathered by the orb, and does not currently use World ID in its business. Nearly 18 million people globally are now verified, but World ID has faced regulatory hurdles in some countries over concerns about data security. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Friday's tech news briefing podcast.