Weekly Bytes | Microsoft Edge Kids Mode, Epic Games’ $1 billion funding round, and more
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Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.
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Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.
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Microsoft Edge gets Kids Mode
Microsoft has introduced Kids Mode in its Chromium-based browser – Edge, to help parents, by offering a safe online environment for children when they browse the internet on shared devices. Users can access Kids Mode by clicking on the profile icon in the upper right corner of the browser and selecting “Browse in Kids Mode.” Next, they will have to select the child’s suitable age range: 5-8 or 9-12 years. After this, parents can let their children browse the web. Both age groups are defaulted to the strictest tracking prevention level, blocking the majority of trackers for maximum privacy and minimum personalized ads, ensuring that adult text, images and videos are blocked from kids’ online searches, Microsoft noted in a blog post. Besides, children will require authentication from their parents to exit Kids Mode. In another update, Microsoft agreed to buy Nuance Communications, a cloud and artificial intelligence software firm, in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion, including debt.