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  • Less political content on Facebook

    Less political content on Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg’s company is changing the algorithm that defines the service, influencing what goes before the user’s eyes when it opens up to Facebook.

    According to Facebook, the audience was so positive about its attempts at political content that it decided to change the algorithm that largely defines the service’s news feed in other areas.

    According to Axios, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has reduced the amount of political content spilling into News Feed in some markets based on user feedback, with far fewer appearing before Facebook users. The system was launched as an experiment and was only available in a few places, including the United States, but is now being rolled out elsewhere:

    according to the paper, this time they are trying out the novelty in Costa Rica, Sweden, Spain and Ireland.

    According to Axios, Facebook accounts for about 6 percent of political posts, but even that is considered too much by some user bases. Facebook has begun experimenting in response while also making it easier for them to do their own thing: the company has been criticized for giving way to political lies because they are not deleted.

    Facebook also changes how content is displayed to the user. The shares and comments also helped the latter, but the company decided that they would now matter less and that the nature of the post would matter in the first place.

  • WhatsApp tests an option to set a 24-hour timer for messages to disappear

    WhatsApp tests an option to set a 24-hour timer for messages to disappear

    Last year, WhatsApp introduced a new feature disappearing news. It’s an extension of the missing text and media that Snapchat first introduced. According to reports, WhatsApp is adding a new option to the Disappear Messages feature, allowing users to set a timer for the feature.

    The feature was discovered in the latest WhatsApp beta version WABetaInfo. According to reports, WhatsApp is testing a new 24-hour message disappearing option. If this option is enabled, messages will be deleted within 24 hours. That’s how WhatsApp status, Instagram/Facebook stories, and even Snapchat stories work.

    The new option serves as an additional setting for this feature. Currently, there is only one 7-day option that deletes messages from a specific chat after seven days.

    Currently, there is only a 7-day timer that users can set to disappear messages. The new feature is expected to reach Android, iOS, and WhatsApp web users soon. However, we do not yet know when exactly this will happen.

    For those who don’t know, the option to disappear messages can be found in the chat settings. All you have to do is enter a chat window, tap the person’s name, scroll down slightly to see the option and turn it on if you want to send messages that won’t stay long.

    Currently, there is only a 7-day timer that users can set to disappear messages.

    In related messages, WhatsApp is also expected to show the possibility of sending disappearing photos and videos for private conversation, similar to Snapchat. The feature is expected to reach Android users for the first time.

    One interesting thing about this is that it doesn’t notify others when it takes screenshots of disappearing media instead of screenshots on Snapchat.

  • Google Parodies Jony Ive in its latest Google Pixel 5a 5G Video

    Google Parodies Jony Ive in its latest Google Pixel 5a 5G Video

    Google has released a recent video for the recently released Pixel 5a, highlighting one feature: the headphone jack.

    The video below is about the Pixel 5a having the jack connector, but Google is deliberately over-characterizing it and presenting the circular opening as revolutionary. It’s no coincidence that the video is a parody, mimicking Apple’s legendary designer Jony Ive and previous Apple shows.

    The Pixel 5a, by the way, looks like an excellent deal, and not just because of the headphone jack. It also offers a relatively compact OLED display, IP67 water resistance, and a sizable battery and is cheaper than its predecessor at $449.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZuSVl5wjM

    By the way, the high-end Pixel 6 mobiles will no longer have a jack connector, which makes such a video look a little weird, but you don’t have to take it that seriously.

  • World’s leading manufacturers in the largest smartphone market in 2021

    World’s leading manufacturers in the largest smartphone market in 2021

    Analysis firm Counterpoint Research recently took a look at China, the world’s largest smartphone market, and found that there had been a significant realignment. Vivo took the lead.

    One’s downfall is the triumph of the other — a saying that fits entirely here. Huawei’s market cut due to U.S. sanctions was good for competitors who could seize what the Chinese company had lost. Huawei held 30 percent of the Chinese market this time last year, while in the second quarter of this year, it owned only 8 percent.

    The lost percentages went to manufacturers such as Vivo, which gained the lead in the Chinese smartphone market in the first and second quarters of this year, with a share of 24 percent. Between April and June, the company sold roughly 18.3 million mobiles in China, while a year ago, 14.1 million local customers voted for them in confidence over the same period. Oppo came in second in the local market with 21 percent of the vote, while Xiaomi came in third, which gained 17 percent of the Chinese market.

    There is a lot behind Vivo’s success. Still, analysts have found that the BBK group behind the company has an excellent component supply chain, which will benefit the brand in current lead-up shortages. Series such as “Y” or “S” can still be manufactured without interruptions, which are the company’s primary weapons against competitors. Within the Y series, smartphones with 5G modems are available for as much as $200, so it’s no wonder they get caught.

    Vivo’s throne, of course, would be shared by other manufacturers. Xiaomi is constantly taking the lead, there is nothing new about this, but one of the great opponents may be Honor, which has been working since independence to take Huawei’s former place. Shortly, there will be fierce competition in the Chinese market between Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi, Apple, and Samsung, which has not presented the region for a minute, which would like to be a major player again, experts say.

  • Google pays Apple $15 billion to keep default search engine on iPhone

    Google pays Apple $15 billion to keep default search engine on iPhone

    Google would pay Apple substantial sums to make their search engine the default on the iPhones they manufacture if anyone didn’t know. So far, there has been little money spent on this, but this year the apple manufacturer has asked for even more than before for this “favor.”

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    Google’s solution is the default search engine for Apple iPhones, Mac, and iPad, and it costs Google serious dollars every year. Analysts say the amount will increase by $5 billion this year, so it will now have to pay $15 billion compared to last year’s $10 billion to keep Google’s search engine the default on apple ecosystems. The information was spotted in an investor note, and the document even stated that the already small amount will continue to grow next year and could reach $18-20 billion.

    Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi believes Google is amassing billions of dollars in Cupertino to prevent Microsoft from overlicinating them. If this were to happen, Bing would be the default search engine on iPhones, and obviously, Google doesn’t want that.

    Apple wants to increase revenue from services, including the tentacles paid for by Google. With these moves, the apple company is supposed to prove to investors that they can make a profit not only through hardware sales, at least that’s what 9to5Mac journalists think, and probably not wrong. However, analysts say there are two severe risks to Apple’s business policy.

    One of the risks of a price increase is the regulatory risk, resulting in Google losing its operating license, but if that happens, it could be years away.

    The other and more likely risk is that Google will get tired of bananas and won’t pay more. This can happen by fighting off a lower fee or simply refusing to pay a larger summa. This would also be a problematic situation for Apple. If they choose Microsoft’s solution, their market share could be reduced since not everyone will welcome cooperation between the two companies. Or you’ll be forced to settle for less and accept Google’s offer.

  • Samsung’s next Exynos chip will be designed by Artificial Intelligence

    Samsung’s next Exynos chip will be designed by Artificial Intelligence

    Samsung recently released a statement saying that the next generation of Exynos inserts for smartphones and tablets will be designed with the help of artificial intelligence.

    Thanks to Wired’s report, we know that Samsung will use Synopsys artificial intelligence feature, DSO.ai, to design the next Exynos chipset. In inserts used primarily on South Korean and European markets, not everything will be entrusted to artificial intelligence. Still, instead, so-called “enhanced learning” will be used to automatically search the design space and find the best possible solutions.

    If you haven’t heard of them, Synopsys is one of the world’s largest suppliers of chip design software. The company’s president said that DSO.ai is the first commercially available artificial intelligence software designed explicitly for processor design. The program will be a massive help for Samsung.

    Creating a processor first begins with the logical design, which human engineers carry out. The manufacturer then determines the placement of each transistor and how they are connected. Today’s modern chips can have billions or even tens of billions of transistors, so designing the layout or testing can take 20-30 weeks of work. There are countless possibilities for designers, but in the end, there are three design aspects to be developed: performance, area, and energy consumption. A compromise must be reached in the design and development of chipsets.

    Engineers working on the work already know “instinctively” how to make chips from different designs, but this kind of thinking is challenging to incorporate into computer code, which requires the enhanced learning already mentioned, which teaches algorithms with rewards and penalties.

    The DSO.ai can significantly improve the design speed. Synopsys spokespeople said the software was also able, in some cases, to increase the frequency of chips by 18 percent or reduce their power consumption by 21 percent. But more importantly, he was able to shorten the planning time from six months to just one.

    One of the significant advantages of the software is that the longer you continue to self-study, the better your abilities will improve. That is, the longer you work, the wiser you will be. And that means that in the future, it will wipe out humanity much faster. By the way, it is not only Synopsys that is engaged in developing artificial intelligence tools to help design chips, but also Google and Nvidia, to name a few.

  • YouTube paid over 30 billion to content creators in the past 3 years

    YouTube paid over 30 billion to content creators in the past 3 years

    Every year, giant tech companies that run social media sites and other platforms spend more and more on paying content producers. They have to because there would be no reason to visit the pages they manage without them.

    Google-controlled and owned YouTube has now reminded everyone that they are not stingy companies and are spending more and more to reward videographers. Over the past three years, the video-sharing site has made more than $30 billion (~$8.9 trillion) in payments. The number of users participating in various partner programs has exceeded two million.

    YouTube originally started spending some of its advertising revenue on content creators in 2007. The result was a diverse partner program that allows users who create videos to monetize their viewership.

    This was an utterly timely decision on the part of the video portal at the time, as advertisers in those days began boycotting the site because of the many videos they thought were inappropriate.

    In 2018, there were tightening restrictions and reduced the number of channels receiving ad revenue. The rules were tightened, but now the number of participants in the partnership program seems to be increasing again. You could analyze the role of the global pandemic in this, but this is a very complex topic that deserves a separate article.

    There are challenges on the market, such as TikTok, Facebook, and even Instagram, who are also trying to make huge payments to users who are receptive to content. Still, they have not yet been permanently seduced, and YouTube remains the most popular platform for publishing video content.

    By the way, YouTube also rewards traditional media outlets for posting videos on the site, but it’s not television channels or big multi-companies that break up the most. According to experts, independent content producers still benefit the most, with the bulk of advertising money going to them.

  • An Interesting Feature is now available on YouTube Premium

    An Interesting Feature is now available on YouTube Premium

    Sometimes users may also be interested in comments that come under YouTube videos. You can try how easy it is to read them in our mother tongue for a short time. Of course, this requires a YouTube Premium subscription.

    An exciting feature is tested in the YouTube app for Android and iOS: instant translation of comments into the user’s language. This option can only be tried for a limited time (until September 9) and can only be accessed by YouTube Premium subscribers.

    This is part of regular YouTube experiments, where premium users can become the first to learn about features that will become more widely available later.

    © Android Police

    If this translation feature becomes active on your smartphone and the video service detects that the comments are in a different language from the language used on the device, the “Translate” switch with the Google Translate icon appears below the foreign language text. If you click this, you can read the comments about the video in your language. You need to click “View Original.”

    The new feature is only available in the latest YouTube app, and it’s not yet known when it will be released more widely.

  • Halo Infinite Limited Edition Xbox Series X price doubles

    Halo Infinite Limited Edition Xbox Series X price doubles

    Yesterday, Gamescom launched, Geoff Keighley’s opening event announced a ton of games. You can find our summary here. One of the big stars undeniably was Halo Infinite, which finally got its release date. The FPS game will be released on December 8.

    This year, the franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary, so that Microsoft will launch a beautiful, special Xbox Series X modelled after Master Chief armour. The console comes with a lavish Elite controller and Halo Infinite download code. As expected, unfortunately, profiteers have also appeared, and they are already offering the special console on eBay for double the price.

    A Twitter user spotted the console, which has a list price of $550, being sold for $1,100 in the digital marketplace. The bindery of the matter is that you can’t even get the console in pre-order. At least when writing this article, there is no such option at Microsoft, either directly or from a reseller. Another twist is that profiteers have appeared in the UK, where a bill to ban the use of profiteering sticks from the country was presented back in February. The bill was passed back in February, but unfortunately, it hasn’t moved forward at all since then, so profiteers can still keep their heads (or sticks) up wherever they want.

    The reason for the hard GPU shortage is partly due to the machination of profiteers. Video cards are also heavily purchased by bots, as are console hardware. The virus adds a shovel to this and the fact that the production of the cards requires incredible engineering precision, so only 2 manufacturers are responsible globally for the latter. In these circumstances, it is no wonder that it has been almost a year since the generational change, but there is still a lack of hardware.

  • Netflix makes documentary about SpaceX’s civilian mission, cameras will be in space

    Netflix makes documentary about SpaceX’s civilian mission, cameras will be in space

    Netflix is making a five-part documentary series with SpaceX about the company’s first mission to bring civilians into space. The last part describes the period between the start and return.

    If all goes according to plan, SpaceX’s next mission, Inspiration4, will launch on September 14, bringing civilians into space for the first time. The historical journey is thoroughly documented.

    © NASA/Bill Ingalls

    Netflix has announced Countdown: The Inspiration4 Mission to Space, a five-part documentary series that offers an “unprecedented insight” into travel. The first two episodes will be shown on September 6, in which we will get to know the characters of the trip.

    The second two episodes arrive on September 13, showing months of preparation. The launch will be monitored on Netflix’s YouTube channel, and the final episode will air in late September, a few days after return, showing the entire journey until the return. In other words, the last part is made from the moment it starts to the landing, so we can see what is happening in almost real-time.

    Jason Hehir will direct the series, creator of the documentary series Michael Jordan – To the Last Championship, writes Entrepreneur.

    Four people will take part in the journey. Jared Isaacman, 38, who finances the entire project, is a medical assistant to Hayley Arceneaux, 29, who managed to beat bone cancer- Chris Sembroski, 41, a former U.S. Air Force officer Sian Proctor, 51, who worked as a teacher. The team will spend three days in space after launch and return to Earth.

  • Self-driving cars can be better now that Tesla has created a buffalo-strength processor

    Self-driving cars can be better now that Tesla has created a buffalo-strength processor

    In 2022, Tesla’s D1 processor will begin production, assisting in artificial intelligence training. Tesla requires artificial intelligence technology to develop advanced self-driving cars, despite Elon Musk’s frequent statements that he views the future as bleak. As a result, the company has created a processor that fulfills this need.

    According to Tom’s Hardware, the D1 chip was inspired by Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer, used to train AI models within the company. With 7nm production technology, TSMC, one of the world’s largest semiconductor makers, built the unit. The insert has almost 50 billion transistors and has a total surface area of 645 square millimeters.

    According to Tesla, the D1 has a 362 TeraFLOP computational capacity, albeit the CPU has been tuned for a particular sort of activity. Despite this, it defeated Nvidia’s Ampere graphics processor, which has “only” 312 TFLOPs of processing power.

    The chips will aid AI in learning to recognize various objects based on what Tesla’s cameras view. This could improve the precision of self-driving vehicles and help them spread. In 2022, the first servers using D1 processors will be available.

  • Engineers discovered a way to make drones fly faster.

    Engineers discovered a way to make drones fly faster.

    Drones are being tested to see if they can fly faster than ever before while avoiding obstacles with fantastic accuracy.

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    Drone racing is a relatively new sport in which drones are flown on a track with numerous obstacles, including time. The faster these gadgets pass, however, the more insecure they become. Accidents happen all the time. Of course, if drones could be made faster and more capable, they could be utilized in off-field time-critical activities like hunting for natural disaster survivors.

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a team of aerospace engineers working on this. They’ve created an algorithm that allows drones to travel as swiftly as possible while avoiding obstacles. If drones are designed for slow flight, it is pretty simple to train them to fly around obstacles. This is because, at low speeds, the rules of aerodynamics are less critical and can be ignored when simulating the drone’s behavior.

    However, these effects are far more evident at high rates, and vehicle handling is more difficult to predict. Researchers must do multiple laboratory experiments with drones of various speeds and trajectories to discover which ones fly without crashing to learn how high-speed aerodynamics affect drones in flight. All of this is an expensive and frequently dangerous training process.

    The MIT team adopted a different approach, developing a high-speed flight planning algorithm that reduces the number of failed tries to find quick and safe flight paths. The program integrates the results of drone tests in real-world physical space with simulations of drones flying through a simulated obstacle course.

    According to the researchers, the drone trained by the researchers flew up to 20% faster over a short obstacle course than a drone oriented using typical design methods. Surprisingly, the drone’s new algorithm didn’t always keep it ahead of its competitors on the racetrack.

    In certain circumstances, he chose to slow down the gadget to negotiate a tight turn or conserve energy, finally speeding up and passing his competitors.

    Engineers believe that the algorithm they’re working on will be critical in allowing future drones to navigate risky, obstacle-filled regions rapidly.

  • 4 out of 10 people don’t use a dating app because they’re afraid of scammers – and this is why

    4 out of 10 people don’t use a dating app because they’re afraid of scammers – and this is why

    A recent global survey commissioned by Kaspersky examines the role of dating apps and the current state of technology and relationships. According to the study’s findings, scammers significantly discourage people from using dating apps.

    Millions of people use online dating apps or social media sites to date. But instead of finding a partner, many people are confronted by con artists trying to exorcize money from them. Scammers are attracted to dating services because they know that people who visit these platforms want a personal relationship and can take advantage of it, Kaspersky points out in its new analysis.

    According to the company’s survey of 18,000 people, users most often encountered the following problems when using dating apps:

    • catfishing, i.e., deception based on false identity (51%),
    • malicious links or attachments (21%),
    • or identity theft (17%).

    Those who managed to avoid an attack successfully identified a suspected fraudster with a false profile (50%); they were cautious and never sent money to dating apps (49%) or listened to suspicious messages (47%).

    Almost a fifth (21%) of respondents became suspicious when the fraudster refused to go into a video call.

    Lack of privacy is also a severe problem for dating apps. Twenty-six percent of respondents are concerned that their data will circulate in the online space. What’s more, 19 percent of users deleted dating services because they wanted to make their personal information private.

    Online dating can be a risky business, as we do not know anything about each other at the beginning of the acquaintance, explained Árpád Tóth, Director of Kaspersky in Hungary, who believes that by paying attention to sure warning signs, we can remain vigilant and take care of the behavior of our digital partner. Suppose you’re already asking for money or personal information on the first or second day of online dating. In that case, it’s better to think about how safe it is to continue the relationship.

    “Anyone who registers on a dating app is theoretically willing to open up and release their personal information to a certain extent. After all, to get to know each other, we must be willing to reveal certain details about ourselves. However, taking advantage of this openness and a little helplessness can cause serious wounds. Hopefully, during an analog meeting, we will recognize whether someone has good intentions or bad intentions. Here, however, we can be wrong because experienced scammers are incredibly good at disguised.”

    According to Kaspersky experts, observing three principles can avoid many scams.

    • Carefully check your security settings in your social media and dating app accounts to make sure sensitive information, such as your home address and work address, isn’t public.
    • Use an effective security solution that provides adequate protection on multiple devices.
    • Don’t share your phone number or the name you use in messaging apps. It’s safer to use the dating app’s built-in messaging platforms, and it’s wise to continue to do so until you’re sure you can trust the other person.