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- Uber laid off its self-driving car safety drivers in Pittsburgh
- Study claims Airbnb is great for your neighborhood’s economy, if it’s predominantly white
- 26 arguments for and against opening Egypt’s new mystery sarcophagus
- Murda Beatz’s song Fortnite is a #1 Victory Royale
- YouTube will now notify some creators when their videos are stolen
- India just approved net neutrality rules that ban ‘any form’ of data discrimination
- Federal court rules that TSA agents can’t be sued for false arrests, abuse, or assault
- Facebook’s first wave of ‘trustworthy’ news shows sure includes a lot of Fox News
- Mercedes-Benz self-driving taxi pilot coming to Silicon Valley in 2019
| Uber laid off its self-driving car safety drivers in Pittsburgh Posted: 11 Jul 2018 04:09 PM PDT  Uber has laid off its self-driving car safety operators in Pittsburgh as the company reevaluates its autonomous vehicle strategy following a fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona, in March, Quartz reports and the company confirms. The company convened a meeting on July 11th to inform around 100 safety drivers — employees who ride in Uber's self-driving vehicles and monitor their operation — that their positions would be terminated, according to the report. The drivers had been kept on the payroll even though Uber suspended its self-driving tests in North America following the deadly March 19th crash in Arizona. Uber plans to create 55 new positions called "mission specialists"... |
| Study claims Airbnb is great for your neighborhood’s economy, if it’s predominantly white Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:46 PM PDT  Airbnb guests staying in predominantly white neighborhoods are more likely to shop around at local businesses like restaurants than guests staying in neighborhoods that are mostly black or Hispanic, according to a new study from researchers at Purdue University. People who use the home-renting platform to stay in a big city, like New York, for example, tend to eat at local neighborhood restaurants close to where they're staying. But this effect doesn't hold true when more than half of a neighborhood's residents were black or Hispanic, according to the study's authors. "Airbnb has made repeated claims that it helps the local economy in black... |
| 26 arguments for and against opening Egypt’s new mystery sarcophagus Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:26 PM PDT  Today in news that sounds like the premise of a new action movie, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced that an archeological dig unearthed an ancient tomb in Alexandria. The black granite sarcophagus contained in the tomb dates back to the Ptolemaic period (sometime between 323 and 30 BC), and it's the largest discovery of its kind in the area. We don't know who or what is in it, and nobody has opened it before, which means humanity is facing a conundrum: do we open this thing or what? I, for one, think it's a terrible idea. Who knows what's in there? Why gamble our fates with a thing that screams "I am cursed"? We know what happened with Pandora. But a part of me, the always-online part that's already being slowly murdered by the... |
| Murda Beatz’s song Fortnite is a #1 Victory Royale Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:02 PM PDT  Fortnite: Battle Royale is indisputably the biggest game on the planet. Players in the World Cup are using its dances to celebrate goals; Drake and Marshmello, two of music's biggest names, are both avid players; and Epic Games, the company that created Fortnite, is raking in somewhere between $200 and $300 million per month. While plenty of musicians love the game, most aren't writing songs about playing it. Today, Pitchfork highlighted Murda Beatz, a Canadian rap producer who "has become fearless in his use of samples." Beatz's latest sample is ripped directly from Fortnite's main menu theme song. Featuring Yung Bans, Ski Mask The Slump God, and Lil Yachty over cavernous bass hits, "Fortnite" is a weirdly upbeat jam. The rappers... |
| YouTube will now notify some creators when their videos are stolen Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:00 PM PDT  YouTube is releasing a tool for creators that checks to see if their videos are being stolen. Now, every time a video is uploaded to YouTube, the service will scan and check if the content already exists or is very similar to other videos on the site. It will only identify complete videos, not clips. The tool, which YouTube is calling the Copyright Match tool, will roll out to creators with more than 100,000 subscribers starting next week. It will roll out to more users over the next few months. Creators who use the tool will be notified if copies of their videos surface on YouTube. If the tool finds matches, creators can then decide what action to take. They can either do nothing, contact the person who made the copy, or ask YouTube to... |
| India just approved net neutrality rules that ban ‘any form’ of data discrimination Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:25 PM PDT  India's Department of Telecommunications has approved net neutrality rules that ban blocking, throttling, and zero-rating internet data, with some exceptions. The framework, published last year as a recommendation from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), is the culmination of a years-long campaign for net neutrality in India. As The Wire reports, the new rules prevent "any form of discrimination or interference" with data, including "blocking, degrading, slowing down, or granting preferential speeds or treatment to any content." But they don't apply to "critical IoT services" or "specialized services," including autonomous vehicles and remote surgery operations — which The Wire says TRAI head R.S. Sharma compares to... |
| Federal court rules that TSA agents can’t be sued for false arrests, abuse, or assault Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:24 PM PDT  TSA agents and security screeners can't be sued for false arrests, abuse, or assault, according to a ruling from a federal appeals court in Pellegrino v. the United States of America Transportation Security Administration, reports travel news and advice site The Points Guy. According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act. While that law ordinarily doesn't cover law enforcement officers, the court ruled in a 2-1 decision that TSA agents aren't considered law enforcement and therefore are covered under the law. Per the court's decision, TSA searches are considered "administrative... |
| Facebook’s first wave of ‘trustworthy’ news shows sure includes a lot of Fox News Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:17 PM PDT  Back in January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a vow to increase the "time well-spent" on the social media network, in part by increasing the quality of the news that appears on users' feeds. Today, Facebook announced the first slate of news shows it will fund as part of its improvement effort, some of which debut on July 16th. In an effort to deliver "trustworthy, informative and local" news, Facebook will air daily briefings and deep coverage by outlets such as ABC News and Attn. The formats and subjects align with the outlets: Mic, for instance, aims to provide "complicated" and "diverse" coverage that highlights the "underrepresented." Well-known news personalities, such as Anderson Cooper and Jorge Ramos, will also lead their... |
| Mercedes-Benz self-driving taxi pilot coming to Silicon Valley in 2019 Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:01 PM PDT  Daimler and automotive parts supplier Bosch will pilot a free self-driving ride-share service in the San Francisco Bay area starting in the second half of 2019, the companies announced this week. Using a custom version of NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle technology, the two companies will offer rides in modified Mercedes-Benz cars along preselected routes. No further details were given about the location or size of the trial, as the companies said contracts are still being worked out. Daimler is still determining whether it will offer rides in Mercedes S-class cars, V-Class vans, or both. There will be a safety driver present in each vehicle, and Daimler is sticking with a steering wheel and pedals for now (unlike GM's plans for its... |
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