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YouTube wants to babysit your kids I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update YouTube is launching a kid-friendly mobile app called YouTube kids its first coming to Android app stores on Monday USA Today was first to report about the upcoming app it'll feature videos appropriate for youngsters like Thomas the Tank Engine and it's going to filter out any credit comments parents can also set how long a child can use the app right now on YouTube there's no category that rounds up family-friendly content and whatever you do don't search for the term family-friendly those search results cannot be unseen YouTube good use of portal parents can trust Netflix has a children's portal and amazon also has been pushing kids programming the next level is having apps just for kids earlier this month vine launched an app for kid-friendly vine videos although I'm not sure if it's so friendly to kids brains to be bombarded with six second looping videos in other news it looks like pebble has a new SmartWatch on the way pebbles website now features a countdown clock to reveal something at ten a.m. tuesday it could be new hardware maybe a software update the website 9to5 mac is hearing that pebbles working on a color e-ink display on that SmartWatch and it will include a microphone for voice commands pebble recently pushed out a software update that gives Android users more options if you use pebble with an android phone you can now respond to text messages from your wrist with five custom pre-written short messages right now and seen it we have details on how to set that up in the world of apps Google's inbox app is expanding to more screens the email app is now available on ipad and android tablets before it was just on smartphones it still requires an invitation to try out google's new format to organizing email to get on the waiting list for invites send a message to inbox at google com microsoft also rolled out some updates to its outlook apps for iOS and Android which improves security for exchange users and the Android version opens up new ways to customize swipe gestures just like iOS users can already it's just one of the Microsoft's latest moves to be a stronger player in the mobile world and finally a little update on the superfish adware Lenovo pre-installed on its own computers lenovo has changed its tone and has apologized to customers for installing harmful adware that left customers vulnerable to hackers the computer maker posted instructions on how to remove it and microsoft also took some action it updated windows defender antivirus to remove the adware and bad security certificate windows defender is the default antivirus program in windows 8 that's your tech news update and there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey