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Facebook allows posts with violent speech toward Russian soldiers in specific countries

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 06:50 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Facebook and Instagram have instituted a temporary change in policy that allows users in some countries to post content that's usually forbidden, including calls for harm or even the death of Russian soldiers or politicians. The change first surfaced in a report by Reuters, citing internal emails to moderators. In them, the outlet reports mods are told that calls for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be allowed, as long as they don't contain threats toward others or "indicators of credibility" like saying where or how the act will take place.

In a statement sent to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said, "As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily...

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Google’s CTO of Android tablets sees tablet sales passing laptops ‘in the not too distant future’

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 04:56 PM PST

Image: Google, The Android Show

After seemingly forgetting that Android tablets existed for a while, Google is suddenly very invested in the market. Android 12L is in development to support larger-screened devices, and one of the platform's co-founders, Rich Miner, has rejoined the team with the title "CTO of Android tablets." Now, speaking to developers during an episode of Google's The Android Show, Miner explained the opportunity the company is seeing (via 9to5Google).

Miner references the introduction of Android tablets in 2011 and how apps like media players scaled to fit them easily without much investment, but then growth "kind of stagnated." Now, he cites data showing growth took off pre-COVID in late 2019 and has continued to rise, with more keyboard...

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Aerospace startup reveals new modular lunar rover for carrying people and cargo on the Moon

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 03:30 PM PST

The FLEX rover prototype | Image: Venturi Astrolab

Today, aerospace startup Venturi Astrolab revealed its new interplanetary rover designed to transport cargo and people across the surface of the Moon — and eventually Mars. The company says it plans to build a fleet of these rovers over the coming decade to help NASA and commercial companies establish a long-term presence on the Moon.

Called FLEX, for Flexible Logistics and Exploration, the rover can crouch down and lift payloads up from the surface of the Moon, carrying them under its belly before depositing them at their intended location. With its "modular payload concept," it can carry many different types of objects, so long as they are built to an agreed-upon standard of size and shape. In keeping with its name FLEX, the rover can...

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T-Mobile introduces a credit check-free version of its 5G home internet

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 03:02 PM PST

Image of T-Mobile's 5G gateway displaying the carrier's logo on its screen.
Prepaid customers will have to shell out $100 for the 5G gateway. | Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge

T-Mobile has announced a new plan for its 5G home internet service, which won't require applicants to undergo a credit check. The prepaid service will carry T-Mobile's Metro branding, and customers will be able to sign up for it at Metro retail locations. This brings a prepaid option to T-Mobile's $50 a month service, which doesn't have any data caps or contracts, which could be appealing to users who don't have great internet options available from traditional ISPs.

It's good to see that T-Mobile is offering an option that doesn't require credit approval (especially given the state of credit reporting in the US). However, there are a few significant gotchas worth noting if you're looking into the service. With the postpaid non-Metro...

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Activision is bringing Call of Duty: Warzone to mobile

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 02:53 PM PST

Warzone is coming to mobile phones. | Image: Activision

Activision is bringing its hit battle royale shooter Call of Duty: Warzone to mobile phones, the company announced Thursday. "We are creating an all-new, AAA mobile experience that will bring the thrilling, fluid and large-scale action of Call of Duty: Warzone to players on the go," Activision said in a post on its website.

According to the post, this mobile Warzone will be a "large-scale, battle royale experience" that's built "natively for mobile with cutting-edge technology designed to entertain gamers around the world for many years to come." However, it seems as if the game is still early in development, as the post advertises several job openings and doesn't include screenshots, video, or even an estimated release timeframe....

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Go read this Vanity Fair piece about Grimes and her secret baby with Elon Musk

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 02:45 PM PST

Grimes and Elon in 2018 | Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Huffington Post

Sometimes journalists get lucky and discover information while reporting a story that they did not expect to find — a document or report, maybe even evidence of prior misdeeds. But I can't recall ever reading a feature where the reporter discovers a previously undisclosed baby, as Devin Gordon did in his Vanity Fair profile of the singer Grimes, the former partner (she says they have split again but remain friends) of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The two welcomed their first child — a son who they gave an unusual name — in May 2020.

But as far as the general public was aware, the couple only had the one child. Gordon soon discovers otherwise. As he's interviewing Grimes in her new home, he thinks he hears crying but brushes it off....

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Why blackouts are dangerous to Ukraine’s nuclear sites

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 02:40 PM PST

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
The sun sets over the horizon highlighting the electricity pylons of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeastern Ukraine, July 9, 2019.  | Photo credit should read Dmytro Smolyenko/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is increasingly threatening the vital connections between Ukraine's nuclear power plants and the electric grid. The nuclear sites rely on outside electricity to keep critical safety systems running — but those links are fraying as reports come in about power lines damaged during the conflict.

Fuel at nuclear sites generates tremendous heat. Without cooling systems, which typically rely on an external power source to run, that fuel could melt down and catastrophically release radioactive materials. There are several layers of backup systems that would need to fail for such a worst-case scenario to go down. But fighting and power losses in Ukraine have experts increasingly worried about the country's nuclear...

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Rivian says it delivered nearly 1,000 electric trucks in 2021

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 01:46 PM PST

Image: Rivian

Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle company backed by Ford and Amazon, delivered 909 vehicles to customers in the fourth quarter of 2021, the company said in its second earnings report since its historic IPO last year. The company says it has delivered a total of 920 vehicles in 2021.

Rivian said it brought in $55 million in revenue over the course of the year, almost all of which in the last three months. It recorded a net loss of $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter and a net loss of $4.5 billion for the year.

With supply chains constrained and the global chip shortage continuing to batter the auto industry, Rivian is maintaining a modest production schedule for 2022. In a shareholder letter, the company said it expects to produce only...

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Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 01:36 PM PST

Twitter's blue bird silhouette logo on a black background.
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitter is rolling out a change that, frustratingly, makes it a bit more difficult to see your chronological feed.

The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you'll see the option to pin your "Latest timeline," and if you select that, you'll see both "Home" and "Latest Tweets" tabs at the top of the iOS app. If you use pinned lists on the iOS app, the layout might look familiar. The feature is available first on iOS, and it's coming "soon" to Android and the web, Twitter says. (The company began testing the feature in October.)

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This update just made your Roomba i3 smarter

Posted: 10 Mar 2022 01:05 PM PST

The Roomba i3 now has smart mapping capabilities. | Image: iRobot

iRobot's excellent, more affordable Roomba i3 robot vacuum received a firmware update this week that gives it new powers. Existing users and anyone who picks up the $349.99 Roomba i3 can now use smart maps to tell their robot exactly where to clean.

This feature, which lets you send the bot just to vacuum a specific room or rooms rather than everywhere it can reach, was previously only available on the more expensive s9, j7, and i7 Roombas in iRobot's top-of-the-line range.

The update follows through on iRobot's promise that its iRobot Genius software will make your robot smarter at no extra cost to you. Smart mapping, which is done without a camera, lets the vacuum learn your home's floor plan, so you can direct it specifically where...

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