Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the company is planning to make "serving young adults" its top priority, making significant changes to its Facebook and Instagram apps, and spending billions of dollars building out its vision for a “metaverse”. The company will do more to win over “young adult” users between the ages of 18 to 29, even if it came at the expense of older users.
Twitter is sharing research findings that show that its algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians, content from left-leaning news outlets, and content from the political left, but the research does not identify whether the algorithms are biased toward conservative political content as the conclusions only show bias in amplification.
The Age of AI is changing the way we live and the global balance of military power as the U.S. has already lost out to China in military applications, even 98-year-old Henry Kissinger weighs in on AI as co-author of a new book due next month, "The Age ofAI: And Our Human Future"
NASA is planning to launch the Artemis I flight test in February 2022, with the Orion capsule stacked on top of the Space Launch System rocket, and blastoff is now mainly contingent on testing. The space agency plans tests for interfaces, engineering, communications and the countdown system.
Jane Iredale took its first step to combine augmented reality technology with its advertising to engage mobile viewers on YouTube, letting people immediately try on shades of the brand's Matte Lip Fixation Lip Stain by swiping through a carousel of virtual samples. The campaign saw an 11% click-through rate, exceeding an industry standard by five times.
Tesla quietly raised prices of four of its electric vehicles this weekend, with the base Model 3 and Model Y priced $2,000 higher, at $43,990 and $56,990 respectively. The company CFO Zach Kirkhorn said that the increased demand for electric vehicles “caught us a little bit off guard”
Facebook Oversight Board member and PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel emphasized that the platform must do a better job with transparency. The Oversight Board's first report revealed that the group of independent content moderators prompted Facebook to restore more than 30 pieces of content covering major issues. It also found users are often in the dark when content is removed by Facebook and don't know why they've been banned or had their content taken down.
Facebook Inc. is struggling to detect and deal with users’ creating multiple accounts on its flagship platform, raising new questions about how the social-media giant measures its audience. An internal Facebook presentation called the phenomenon of single users with multiple accounts “very prevalent” among new accounts.
South Korea's first domestically built space rocket blasted off on Thursday, but failed to fully place a dummy satellite into orbit, delivering mixed results for a test launch that represents a major leap for the country's ambitious space plans. The three-stage KSLV-II Nuri rocket rose on a column of flame from its launch pad at Naro Space Center at 5 p.m.
Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout.
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