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- Tesla Model Y SUV will be unveiled March 14th
- Google won’t pull controversial Saudi Arabian app from Play store
- A report describes high turnover and toxic workplace culture at finance startup Revolut
- The attention economy is dead
- Can you tell the difference between a real face and an AI-generated fake?
- Michael Moreci on writing a Star Wars-but-not-Star Wars adventure
- Facebook is now rolling out a dark mode to Messenger users
- Bird of Passage is like the Taxicab Confessions of an urban legend
- Watch how a studio created The Wandering Earth’s fantastic world in this VFX reel
- This chat room charges you a penny for every character you type
| Tesla Model Y SUV will be unveiled March 14th Posted: 03 Mar 2019 02:28 PM PST  Tesla will unveil its Model Y crossover SUV on March 14th during an event at the company's design studio in Los Angeles, CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday. The new electric car will be Tesla's fifth since the company was founded in 2003. The Model Y will share about 75 percent of its parts with the Model 3, which is currently Tesla's most affordable car. Musk said the Model Y will be about 10 percent bigger, cost about 10 percent more, and will have slightly less range than the Model 3. The Model Y won't have the "Falcon Wing" doors that are found on Tesla's bigger SUV, the Model X. (Musk had previously hinted that it might.) More details on specs and... |
| Google won’t pull controversial Saudi Arabian app from Play store Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:50 PM PST  Google says that it won't pull Absher, a controversial government app from Saudi Arabia, from its app store, telling California representative Jackie Speier that it did not violate its policies, and that it would remain up, according to Business Insider. The app allows Saudi users to access government services, letting them apply for jobs or permits, pay fines, renew licenses, or to report crimes. However, it also allows Saudi men to track female dependents and control their movement. A recent report from Insider outlined how Saudi men could use the app to control female dependents, as it can be used to revoke travel privileges, keep tabs on their location, and send SMS messages with updates about their whereabouts. Following the... |
| A report describes high turnover and toxic workplace culture at finance startup Revolut Posted: 03 Mar 2019 11:08 AM PST  A pair of reports last week painted a negative picture of UK-based finance startup Revolut. Wired described a workplace where turnover and toxic behavior is rife, while The Telegraph says that the company had turned off a system designed to prevent money laundering for three months in 2018, something that Revolut denies. Revolut is the company behind a finance app that allows users to transfer money to one another, exchange different types of currencies and cryptocurrencies, and issues a debit card. Founded in 2015 in London, it describes itself as an alternative to traditional banking by doing away with fees, and says that it has more than 4 million customers who have transferred more than £25 billion across 250 million transactions.... |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 10:00 AM PST  The attention economy is dying, and it's not pretty; there is only so much time in the day to pay attention to things, and we as a society have reached the limit. (By things I mean ads.) Fortnite, though, has managed to stay culturally relevant and even grow since its 2017 launch — which is unusual. And that's because its creator, Epic Games, has figured out how to get people to keep paying attention. "Paying attention" was a phrase before it became a literalization, before canny people realized just how much money time is worth. The advertising industry — and therefore the industries it supports, like the media — is predicated on the idea that if you've heard of something and have a positive association with it, you're more likely to... |
| Can you tell the difference between a real face and an AI-generated fake? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 09:00 AM PST  Earlier this month you may have seen a website named ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com doing the rounds, which uses AI to generate startlingly realistic fake faces. Well, here's the sequel: WhichFaceIsReal.com, which lets you test your ability to distinguish AI-generated fakes from the genuine article. Just head to the site and click on who you think is the real person! WhichFaceIsReal.com also has a higher purpose though. It was set up by two academics from the University of Washington, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, both of whom study how information spreads through society. They think the rise of AI-generated fakes could be trouble, undermining society's trust in evidence, and want to educate the masses. "When a new technology like this... |
| Michael Moreci on writing a Star Wars-but-not-Star Wars adventure Posted: 03 Mar 2019 08:00 AM PST  Last year, author Michael Moreci released his debut novel, Black Star Renegades, about a young man named Cade Sura who finds himself chased by agents of an extremist galactic empire when he comes into possession of a powerful weapon. If that sounds a bit like the plot of a Star Wars film, that's by design: the book is an admitted homage to George Lucas' franchise. Black Star Renegades is a fun, pulpy, familiar read: a dash across space with a lovable band of misfits trying to stay one step ahead of Queen Ga Halle of the Praxis, an evil empire with plans on total galactic domination. Cade and his brother Tristan are brought into a group of spiritual warriors known as the Rai, and after Tristan is killed, Cade discovers that he can wield... |
| Facebook is now rolling out a dark mode to Messenger users Posted: 03 Mar 2019 07:13 AM PST  Facebook has been overhauling its Messenger app recently, slimming it down to focus more on chat, and promised that it would eventually roll out a dark mode for users. That mode is now rolling out, but there's a tongue-in-cheek trick you need to do in order to activate it: you have to moon someone. The trick, spotted by Android Police, 9to5Mac, and others, is simple: send someone (or yourself) a crescent moon emoji ( ). Once you do so, a shower of moons appears in the chat window, and you'll get a prompt to activate the mode in settings. Go to your profile page in the app, and it'll present you with an option to turn the mode on. Android Police notes that the mode has apparently not rolled out... |
| Bird of Passage is like the Taxicab Confessions of an urban legend Posted: 03 Mar 2019 07:00 AM PST  It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Cities at night can be magical. There's a turning point, after all the late night people have gone home, before the early morning risers head to work, when things start to feel weird. Familiar places don't become unfamiliar, exactly. But they do feel off. You'll walk through someplace like Times Square, lit up like it's trying to artificially appear as though its still daytime, but with no one around to see it. Bird of Passage doesn't so much exist in this setting, but mine it for everything it's worth. The game follows... |
| Watch how a studio created The Wandering Earth’s fantastic world in this VFX reel Posted: 03 Mar 2019 06:52 AM PST  In The Wandering Earth, the sun will soon expand and destroy the Earth, so engineers concoct an ambitious plan — move the planet to another solar system, using giant engines. China's first big science fiction film is a goofy disaster movie, with some outstanding special effects that bring the world to life. One of the studios behind the special effects, Pixomondo, has released a VFX breakdown that shows how one of the special effects studios created the futuristic, frozen Earth and its massive Earth engines. Since its release last month, the film has gone on to earn a staggering $641 million, and has become the second-largest Chinese film to date. That's a good sign for China's domestic film market, which has been growing in recent... |
| This chat room charges you a penny for every character you type Posted: 03 Mar 2019 06:00 AM PST  Entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge has launched Expensive Chat, a web-based chat service where every character typed costs a penny. As spotted by Motherboard, Köhlbrugge announced the site in a tweet, calling it "a social experiment to see what happens to a chatroom when it's not a free-for-all, but every message cost you cold, hard cash." And where does all that cash go? Directly to Köhlbrugge. The site shows a leaderboard, with those who have spent the most at the top, and then the chat room itself. There are a few friendly messages, but in the short time Expensive Chat has been operational, it's become mostly littered with ads for companies and services. There's a box at the bottom of the page if you want to compose your own message to... |
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