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Google Introduces Parental Control Tools for Web Browsing

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 28, 2012 / REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 28, 2012 / REUTERS/Stephen Lam
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Google Introduces Parental Control Tools for Web Browsing

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 28, 2012 / REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 28, 2012 / REUTERS/Stephen Lam

Google announced its plans to introduce a new set of tools that allow parents to observe their children's internet browsing on Google's "Chrome" browser.

This comes at a time when Google, the giant Internet service company suspended the current parental control tools in the Chrome engine, known as “censorship of Chrome users”, according to the German news agency (DPA).

Chrome Supervised Users was first launched into beta back in 2013.

The feature allowed parents to lock down the Chrome browser on a device, by blocking access to certain websites, enabling SafeSearch for filtering Google Search results and keeping a history of websites visited.

In an e-mail message to Chrome users, Google said it would stop using these tools and then introduce a new set of alternative tools that give better results in light of the information the company has collected about users’ preferences over the past four years.

Google said it will introduce the new tools to meet the needs of families later this year.

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Peru Gas Workers Find Thousand-year-old Mummy

Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP
Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP
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Peru Gas Workers Find Thousand-year-old Mummy

Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP
Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.

The workers found the trunk of a huarango tree (a species native to coastal Peru), "which served as a tomb marker in the past," at a depth of 50 centimeters (20 inches), archaeologist Jesus Bahamonde, scientific coordinator of Calidda gas company, told reporters.

The mummy of a boy aged between 10 and 15, was found at a depth of 1.2 meters, he added, said AFP.

"The burial and the objects correspond to a style that developed between 1000 and 1200," he said.

The remains discovered on Monday were found "in a sitting position, with the arms and legs bent," according to Bahamonde.

They were found in a shroud which also contained calabash gourds.

Ceramic objects, including plates, bottles and jugs decorated with geometric figures and figures of fishermen, were found next to the mummy.

The tomb and artifacts belong to the pre-Inca Chancay culture, which lived in the Lima area between the 11th and 15th centuries.

They were discovered while gas workers were removing earth from an avenue in the Puente Piedra district of northern Lima.

In Peru, utility companies must hire archaeologists when drilling the earth, because of the possibility of hitting upon heritage sites.

Calidda has made more than 2,200 archaeological finds since 2004.

Lima is home to over 500 archaeological sites, including dozens of "huacas" as ancient cemeteries are known in the Indigenous Quechua language.