Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, March 16th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Meta has a new family center to keep kids monitored.

Zuck says NFTs are coming to Instagram soon.

Google's Stadia strategy is coming into focus

and it's kind of interesting.

Is Vimio threatening longtime users to pay up,

and a review of the latest iPad air iteration.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Meta has announced Family Center, a centralized hub of safety tools for parents to

supervise kids activity across all of Meta's apps, rolling out right now for Instagram, quoting Tech Crunch.

The new set of supervision features lends parents and guardians some crucial transparency into

young users' Instagram habits.

The tools will allow parents to monitor how much

time a kid spends on the app, be updated about accounts they've followed lately,

and who has followed them and received notifications about any accounts they've reported.

Those tools will roll out immediately on Instagram and are on the way to Meta's VR platform

in May and the rest of Meta's apps, remember Facebook, sometime in the coming months.

The company characterizes the tools as, quote,

the first step in a long-term journey,

though why it took so long to take these initial measures

to protect teens from the unsavory side of its software

is less clear.

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