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- Gun deaths could become easier to study thanks to the new spending bill
- Uber suffered from self-driving car problems before Sunday’s fatal crash
- These two indie platforms are partnering to help authors produce audiobooks at affordable prices
- Apple proposes 13 new emoji to represent people with disabilities
- Instagram on desktop is better than mobile, change my mind
- Congress is giving NASA more money than it requested to build a second launch platform
- Dropbox shares soared today in biggest tech IPO since Snapchat
- Disney is already setting up its Star Wars expansion land in a new Grand Admiral Thrawn novel
- Baidu gets the green light to test self-driving cars in China
- China bans video spoofs and parodies
| Gun deaths could become easier to study thanks to the new spending bill Posted: 23 Mar 2018 04:54 PM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now have the government's permission to resume gun violence research, in writing: the massive omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed today clarifies that a 22-year-old ban on using federal funds to advocate or promote gun control doesn't actually ban research. While the bill is a step in the right direction, researchers will only believe that the landscape of gun violence research is actually changing when they see money for it in the CDC's budget. "It's not bad news — it's good news," says Jeffrey Swanson, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University. "But I'm skeptical that it's going to really turn things around without some money being made... |
| Uber suffered from self-driving car problems before Sunday’s fatal crash Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PDT  All was not well with Uber's self-driving car project before the fatal crash this past Sunday in Arizona, which has prompted widespread criticism of the ride-hailing giant's approach to autonomous vehicle development and forced the company to pause much of its operations surrounding the technology. The goal of offering driverless ride-hailing services to the general public by the end of the year was quickly falling apart, and Uber's self-driving cars had a record of failing to operate correctly under a number of standard road conditions, according to internal company notes obtained by The New York Times. This included issues that involved operators of the fleet of Volvo XC90s — like the one that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in... |
| These two indie platforms are partnering to help authors produce audiobooks at affordable prices Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:19 PM PDT  Indie authors who publish through platforms like Amazon or CreateSpace usually don't have the resources to publish an audiobook, which can be an expensive endeavor with production costs that self-published or first-time authors cannot afford. Now, self-publishing platform and ebook distributor Smashwords has teamed up with production platform and audiobook distributor Findaway Voices to give these indie authors a cheaper way to make audiobooks. In an announcement, Smashwords CEO Mark Coker said today the deal would give "greater control over pricing and distribution" to authors and publishers, making it more "economically feasible" to get into audiobook production even with short or cheaper books. By using Findaway, Smashwords' authors... |
| Apple proposes 13 new emoji to represent people with disabilities Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:00 PM PDT  Apple proposed new emoji today that would better represent hearing aids, guides, and people with disabilities, in a submission to the Unicode Consortium, as noted by Emojipedia. Apple wrote in its submission, "Apple is requesting the addition of emoji to better represent individuals with disabilities. Currently, emoji provide a wide range of options, but may not represent the experiences of those with disabilities." The new suite of emoji include a hearing aid, people using canes or wheelchairs, a guide dog, and prosthetic limbs. There are 13 new emoji suggested in total, with 45 if you count skin tone options. Apple says the emoji are just a starting point, hinting that there might be more accessibility emoji to come. The Unicode... |
| Instagram on desktop is better than mobile, change my mind Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:44 PM PDT  Instagram launched in 2010 as a photo-sharing app designed to capture picturesque moments of our otherwise mundane lives. Since then, it's evolved into a full social network, a messaging tool, and an ad platform, which exists in both mobile and desktop spaces. Now, most Instagram users opt for the mobile experience, replete with its familiar motions — scroll, double tap to like, scroll, scroll. But it's come to our attention that there's a population of Instagram users who actually prefer the web browser version. Which one is superior? We invited our colleagues from Racked, Eliza Brooke and Alanna Okun, to settle the debate. Eliza: It's Friday afternoon, so I would like to pick a fight. Alanna: Say more. Eliza: I really love Instagram... |
| Congress is giving NASA more money than it requested to build a second launch platform Posted: 23 Mar 2018 01:55 PM PDT  Today, Trump signed into law a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill that will fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal year 2018, and the deal is quite generous to NASA. Practically all of NASA's programs get a funding boost, and the space agency even gets money that it didn't ask for — notably, the funds needed to build a second launch platform for its next big rocket. The spending bill gives NASA an extra $350 million in 2018 to make the structure, which will be used for future launches of the Space Launch System. That's the deep space vehicle the agency has been developing for the last decade. A mobile launch platform is key for the SLS since the structure will transport the rocket to its launch site at Kennedy Space... |
| Dropbox shares soared today in biggest tech IPO since Snapchat Posted: 23 Mar 2018 01:44 PM PDT  Cloud storage and collaboration company Dropbox — which started 10 years ago as a small startup in the San Francisco-based Y Combinator incubator program — went public today, and its shares were up nearly 36 percent as of market close this afternoon. The successful performance makes Dropbox the biggest tech IPO since Snapchat's in March 2017. Dropbox ended the day of trading, under the ticker symbol "DBX," with a market valuation of around $10 billion. We knew Dropbox was likely expecting a favorable outcome, considering it priced its shares at $21, above its initial projected $18 to $20 range. But the surge in share price, which helped Dropbox match its last private funding valuation, is a welcomed vote of market confidence for a... |
| Disney is already setting up its Star Wars expansion land in a new Grand Admiral Thrawn novel Posted: 23 Mar 2018 01:41 PM PDT  We're still far away from the 2019 opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, the twin expansion lands that will be opening at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but the narrative groundwork for the new parks is already being quietly set up. Specifically, the new novel Thrawn: Alliances from Timothy Zahn will send Darth Vader and the Grand Admiral together on a mission to Batuu, which io9 notes is the same planet that will serve as the setting for Galaxy's Edge. Disney hasn't revealed too much about the planet — only that it's a remote trading port, and "one of the last stops before Wild Space" — but taking the chance to build out the lore before the park opens is a smart way to get fans interested ahead of time. Thrawn is already a... |
| Baidu gets the green light to test self-driving cars in China Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:22 PM PDT  Chinese search giant Baidu has received approval to begin testing its self-driving cars in Beijing, Reuters reports. It is a sign of China's strong support for the industry in the wake of the first pedestrian death from an autonomous Uber vehicle in the US. Baidu, which is known as China's version of Google, received a permit to test its vehicles on 33 roads spanning around 65 miles (105 kilometers) in the city's less-populated suburbs, the firm said in a statement. Baidu is seen as the nation's leader in autonomous driving, having launched a new platform last year aimed at helping car manufacturers produce self-driving vehicles faster. Earlier this month China issued licenses to Shanghai-based SAIC Motor Corp and electric vehicle... |
| China bans video spoofs and parodies Posted: 23 Mar 2018 11:55 AM PDT  China's media regulator has cracked down on online video spoofs and parodies, according to state-run media outlet Xinhua. Video sites now must ban any videos that "distort, mock, or defame classical literary and art works," the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television stated in a directive yesterday. Reuters noted that the directive was marked "extra urgent," which is uncommon and means that citizens must comply immediately or risk being shut down by authorities. The directive only applies to online videos, but since China largely has control of its film and television industries, one wouldn't expect to see mocking parodies there to begin with. The directive also said that videos must promote the "fine... |
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