Google Unveils ‘YouTube Kids’ for iPhone and iPad

Google Unveils ‘YouTube Kids’ for iPhone and iPad

The search giant Google has announced its dedicated YouTube for kids. Dubbed YouTube Kids , the app is a available for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The company says that this is "the first Google product built from the ground up with little ones in mind,” the app is designed with a filtered, "safe," environment for kids to enjoy video content on YouTube. Since it\'s built with children in mind, the app has tons of parental control options for parents. Curated content includes favorites from DreamWorks TV, Jim Henson TV, Mother Goose Club, Talking Tom and Friends, National Geographic Kids, Reading Rainbow, Thomas the Tank Engine and more. Some of the parental control options include:

• Timer: Let the app be the bad guy with a built-in timer that lets you limit kids’ screen time. The app alerts your child when the session is over, so you don’t have to.


• Sound settings: Sometimes you need a little peace and quiet! You have an option to turn off background music and sound effects, so your kids can keep watching while you catch a breather.


• Search settings: If you’d rather limit your children to just the pre-selected videos available on the home screen, you can turn off search.


• Product feedback: Our goal is to improve YouTube Kids all the time, so we’ve included a space for you to give us your feedback.

The app requires an iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 7.0 or later and is currently US only with no word on worldwide expansion.

Google’s Niantic Labs Adds News Recruiter Medal to Their Hit iOS Game ‘Ingress’

Google’s Niantic Labs Adds News Recruiter Medal to Their Hit iOS Game ‘Ingress’

Not too long ago, Google\'s Niantic Labs introduced the Recruiter Medal to their hit iOS game Ingress. Thanks to this new medal, it\'s a way to reward Ingress Agents for successfully recruiting new Agents to the global fight. Ingress players both on Android and iOS now have the opportunity to invite and enlist friends and family to their faction by accessing the "Recruit" tab under the Ops menu. The Recruiter Medal will have five tiers, rewarding players based on the amount of new Agents they successfully enlist. Here\'s the list of tiers players can aim for:

• Bronze - Recruiter enlisted two Agents who have reached Level 3 or higher.


• SIlver - Recruiter enlisted ten Agents who have reached Level 3 or higher.


• Gold - Recruiter enlisted twenty-five Agents who have reached Level 3 or higher.


• Platinum - Recruiter enlisted fifty Agents who have reached Level 3 or higher.


• Black - Recruiter enlisted one hundred Agents who have reached Level 3 or higher.

Following the upcoming anomaly season where thousands of Ingress Agents will take to streets of their cities to take control of key real-world locations. While we don\'t have any details right now, we were told that the dates and cities of the next anomaly player tour will be announced shortly. Lastly, Niantic Labs will also reveal the Top 100 Recruiter leaderboard, highlighting how many recruits joined each faction and rewarding the winning team with points in the overall event series.

Google Celebrates Two Year Anniversary of ‘Ingress’ with 120 City Event Series

Google Celebrates Two Year Anniversary of ‘Ingress’ with 120 City Event Series

Ingress , the real-world adventure game from Google\'s Niantic Labs, is celebrating its second birthday this November with a special series of live player-driven events along with in-game rewards and medals to be unlocked during play. Come November 1st, Niantic Labs will kick off an all-new monthly event series called "First Saturdays" to celebrate and initiate new Ingress agents. "First Saturdays" will run simultaneously in more than 120 cities across the world including, Irvine, California to Bangkok, Thailand to Chennai, India to Perth, Australia, and more. Each meetup will be led by Ingress agents who will help new players learn the basics of the game while getting them up to speed. During these events, players from Ingress\' competing factions -- the Enlightened and the Resistance -- gather together for group meetups before starting a friendly game. For the full list of information, you can see the official post on the Google+ page for Ingress. The team behing Ingress also provided us with a full list of what special rewards players can get leading up to November 1st.

1. Agents will earn double AP points on all actions for the next two weeks.


2. Ingress agents will earn triple the rewards for portal hacks for the next two weeks. These rewards will include:
   
   
   
   • 3X more Rare Heat Sinks and Multi-hacks to help agents replenish inventory and stock up.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • 3X Resonators to help agents capture more portals.
   
   
   • 3X more XMPs from enemy Portals to help agents in stagnant areas turn the tide for their faction.
   
   
   
   


3. Agents that reach a certain level before Saturday, November 15th, 2014 will get a special Ingress "Innovator" medal, an exclusive in-game badge available for a limited time. The "Innovator" medal will be awarded to players based on the following levels:
   
   
   
   • Bronze "Innovator" medal: all agents that reach L3 and above.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • Silver "Innovator" medal: all agents that reach L9 and above.
   
   
   
   

As of now this is all the information we have available, however, you can download Ingress on the App Store by clicking here.

Google’s Niantic Labs Brings ‘Ingress’ to iOS!

Google’s Niantic Labs Brings ‘Ingress’ to iOS!

Just yesterday, Google\'s Niantic Labs launched their hit Android real-world adventure game -- Ingress -- onto the iOS App Store for the first time ever at no cost. Downloaded more than 4 million times on Android, iOS gamers can now join forces with a massive global community of Ingress agents for seamless cross-platform play. What makes the game unique is that it uses geo-location technology in mobile devices to make the world into a virtual game. Real world locations ranging from historical sites, landmarks, parks and artwork become different "Portals" for Agents to capture and control, encouraging players to get active and moving. Players can either side with the Enlightened or the Resistance factions, then both iOS and Android players can engage through cross-platform action. From what we were t0ld, in the first half of 2014 players have also achieved some pretty impressive milestones in the real world. For a quick rundown, be sure to check the list below.

• During Ingress live events coordinated by Niantic Labs in 2014, more than 12,300 Agents have gathered in 65 cities across the globe - from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Amsterdam, Netherlands; Auckland, New Zealand to Ishinomaki, Japan.


• More than 74,000 miles (more than three times the circumference of Earth) have been walked, ran and biked during the 65 live events hosted around the world.


• Agents around the world in 2014 have made more than 22,400,000 in-game actions (hacking) while visiting "Portals" disguised as real-world art, architecture and landmarks.

Interested? Ingress is available to download on the App Store for free by clicking here.