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.
The results of Cryptopunks, Bored Ape and Beeple have shattered long precedents in the history of art auctions and suggest that we may be nearing some tectonic tipping point around digital culture and virtual currency. This is almost the equivalent of an astronomer getting to watch the birth of a new galaxy, according to an art historian.
Tesla has launched a new at-home wall charger that works with other electric vehicles, quietly added to the company’s online store on the same day it started allowing non-Tesla EVs to charge at Supercharger stations in the Netherlands. The new charger uses a standard J1772 connector, not Tesla’S proprietary one, meaning it should work fine with otherelectric vehicles in North America.
