Thousands of Microsoft customers reported difficulty Thursday accessing the technology company’s suite of Microsoft 365 services, including email platform Outlook, Teams and other tools.  Users started reporting problems accessing Microsoft applications on Thursday afternoon, according to Downdetector, a site tracking website outages. Complaints spiked at around 3 p.m. ET, when 16,000 people said they were having trouble…

On average, young people between the ages of 8 and 18 spend about 7.5 hours a day on their screens, not including school work. A growing nonprofit is trying to change that alarming trend. The Balance Project focuses on delaying the use of smartphones for kids and encouraging more time with friends and independent play…

The Chinese mobile app “Are You Dead?” which sounds an alarm if a user doesn’t check in every 48 hours, has announced it will drop its catchy name, after it drew international media attention. It rose to the top of paid app rankings on Apple’s App Store in China, prompting widespread media coverage among Chinese…

YouTube is introducing new parental controls on youth accounts that it says could limit how long kinds spend scrolling. The latest parental controls will focus on YouTube Shorts, which utilizes a continuous scrolling video feed featuring videos three minutes and shorter. Parents of kid and teen account users are now able to enact time restrictions…