The Morning After: Tesla’s $25,000 EV, and its 200 MPH-capable Model S

The Morning After: Tesla’s $25,000 EV, and its 200 MPH-capable Model S

Judging by the standard of last week’s NVIDIA 3080 and PS5 rollouts, the start of Xbox Series X and S pre-orders was only a slight disaster. Not all of the sale pages went live exactly as scheduled (I’m looking at you, Best Buy and Amazon), and Microsoft’s servers were crashing at the same time CEO…

Report highlights blindspots in Facebook’s fight against voting misinformation

Report highlights blindspots in Facebook’s fight against voting misinformation

The report notes that Eric Covey, chief of staff for Vermont’s secretary of state, reached out to Facebook asking why CrowdTangle couldn’t monitor public posts from individual users, since they are the main source of voter misinformation. Khalid Pagan, a Facebook government and politics outreach manager, responded that such monitoring wasn’t possible because of “privacy…

YouTube’s AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos

YouTube’s AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos

YouTube already uses machine learning to flag inappropriate content for its Trust and Safety team to review, but moving forward, the company plans to expand the use of the technology. Starting later this year, YouTube will use machine learning to add age restrictions to inappropriate videos automatically. As part of the same initiative, YouTube plans…