Amazon wants us to stop talking to its Alexa voice assistant so much and get on with living our lives, saying “it may surprise you” that Amazon wants you to talk to Alexa less. The tech giants are trying to improve their AI assistants so that they can anticipate what humans want and when they want it.
More than 40 world leaders will work together to turbo-charge the uptake of clean technologies by imposing worldwide standards and policies. Five high-carbon sectors will be targeted at first, including agriculture and electricity, to encourage global private investment in low-carbon technologies.
Tesla is recalling 11,704 of its Model S, X, 3 and Y vehicles sold in the United States since 2017 due to a software communication error that may cause a false forward-collision warning or an unexpected activation of the car's automatic emergency braking system. The company has released a software update to rectify the issue and re-enabled the FCW and AEB features for vehicles that installed it.
New research suggests that women and newer employees may be susceptible to Zoom fatigue. The degree of fatigue isn't affected by the amount of time spent in virtual meetings or the number of meetings attended. However, having one's camera on during meetings all day does make people feel tired.
Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave, the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered in 2010. The idea here was nothing short of trying to re-invent the nature of business documents and how developers build real time applications.
Yahoo is pulling its remaining services from China, following other major U.S. companies to also end certain operations from the country, including Microsoft and Epic Games, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China” as of the start of the month.
Hertz announced that it had placed an order for 100,000 Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet, but Elon Musk tweeted that the order is far from firm, saying that "no contract has been signed yet," according to Gizmodo. That release and a report from Bloomberg, combined with other good news about sales in Europe, may have motivated investors to push Tesla's value over $1 trillion mark.
Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will be ending its facial recognition system amid growing concern from users and regulators. The social network will delete over 1 billion people’s individual facial recognition templates as a result of this change, with over 600 million accounts opting into the use of the technology. The change will also impact the automatic alt text technology for people who are visually impaired.
Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, has so far provided no reason for the decision to close the online shooter game, which has been available in China as a "test" for two years, would come to an end on 15 November. The last-player-standing style combat game stopped new sign-ups on 1 November.
Instagram announced that it's introducing a new “Add Yours” sticker that creates public threads in Stories, allowing users to respond to other users’ Stories with their own following a prompt or a certain topic. The global launch comes as Instagram initially tested the feature in Indonesia and Japan last month.