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Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot has been deployed by the French army. As pointed out by The Verge, the quadruped robot known as “Spot” has been photographed alongside soldiers-in-training during military exercises. The images, which have surfaced on social media, were reportedly taken back in March during drills at the French army camp Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. French outlet Ouest-France reports the Boston […]
The architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed plans for the creation of the first sustainable city on Mars and they’re hoping to have it completed and ready for residents in 2100 with construction beginning in 2054. Located on Tempe Mensa, the city of Nüwa will feature a population of 250,000 people primarily located inside the rock of a steep […]
On Monday officials in Pinellas County, Florida held a press conference in which they made an announcement that an unidentified hacker had remotely gotten into a panel that controls the water treatment system for the city of Oldsmar, and then greatly bumped up the amount of sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) in the water supply. Pinellas County Sheriff […]
Countless Facebook users on Friday night found themselves logged out of the app, and the incident quickly became a top trending topic on Twitter in the U.S. Scores of users began tweeting with the hashtags #SoFacebook and #FacebookDown, USA Today reports. The tech company later said that the problem occurred due to a configuration change for […]
Tesla is being asked to recall about 158,000 cars over a touchscreen display issue that could cause an increased risk of crashes, BBC News reports. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent a letter to Tesla requesting that the company issue a recall on Model S cars made from 2012 through 2018, and Model X SUVs built between 2016 and 2018 over a defect with […]
Apple is looking to produce a passenger vehicle by 2024, Reuters reports. However, issues pertaining to the pandemic could push that target year back to 2025 or later. Apple first launched efforts to build a car from scratch under the Project Titan initiative in 2014. Their lofty car production goals were eventually put on the back burner as the […]
Amazon launched an investigation after its Alexa device was accused of spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. According to TMZ, the issue was recently brought to light by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. The political group penned a letter to UK Amazon executives, pointing to several instances in which the virtual assistant had shared bigoted conspiracies when asked about about Jewish […]
Twitter is apparently “exploring” the idea of adding a dislike/downvote button, at least according to its product lead. The subject came up when a user, who Mashable reports is a “cybersecurity expert” for the Biden campaign, pitched the following ideas for the company to focus on instead of adding the newly launched “fleets” (explained here). That person’s […]
It lasted for less than three hours, but it felt much, much longer. At around 7 p.m. ET, reports of issues with YouTube started to spike in many areas around the world, including northeast of the United States, the U.K., Australia, and South America, according to DownDetector. The monitoring site revealed that at its peak, the number of reports totaled nearly […]
YouTube Will Ask Users If They Want to Rethink Posting Offensive Comments
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December 4, 2020
YouTube will prompt users to reconsider whether offensive comments are “something [they] really want to share” before posting. The site made the announcement on Thursday, with the new update aiming to make the platform more inclusive. Android users will see the pop-up first, which will give the “commenter the option to reflect before posting,” the […]