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Not in a sci-fi movie, but in a company’s promotional video, you see a robot “waking up to self-awareness.”
A robot called Ameca, built by Cornwall-based Engineered Arts engineers is just “waking up” to a video released by the company. He looks at his hand and then looks at the camera. Over 10 million people have watched the 40-second film since the beginning of the week. Ameca’s skin is gray and deliberately gender and race-neutral.
Engineered Arts designs and manufactures humanoid amusement robots for science centers, amusement parks, and businesses. Ameca is now available for purchase or lease, writes Global news.
“The human face is a severe means of communication, which is why we built these robots human,”Will Jackson, founder of Engineered Arts, told Reuters.
YouTube has been showing how many negative ratings each content has received. However, a browser extension can restore the original state.
We wouldn’t say that the action by which YouTube removed the number of dislikes under the videos went well. After making that decision, even the service co-founder, Jawed Karim, criticized them. “Simple and quick identification of bad content is the essence of a platform powered by user content,” Karim explained.
YouTube didn’t change its mind, but the internet people were still on the lookout: an add-on was created that, once added to the browser, would reveal how many people didn’t like a particular piece of video sharing.
An add-on called “Return YouTube Dislike”has been brought to our attention by 9to5Google. They think this solution will make the page even better, as the plugin will show you exactly how many likes or dislikes have been added to the recording. This page was initially abbreviated, which is not a bug at all. However, the extension also provides more detailed information, which many may need.
You can download this extension from this page to add it to Google Chrome. Find the Firefox edition here. Whatever the version, all you have to do is install it, and then everything will be the same as before when you go to YouTube.
Facebook has also deleted several pseudo-newsgroup profiles and groups from Facebook and Instagram in recent months. Among them are those created by the Belarusian KGB in connection with the refugee crisis at the Polish border.
Facebook posted a detailed report on Wednesday on what steps the community site has taken in recent months against the spread of false news and rogue information. According to the report, the report has dismantled several disinformation networks related to global political actors and events.
According to the Washington Post, Facebook, for example, has eliminated Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization, several groups linked to the Chinese state leadership, and groups that spread fake news about the refugee crisis at the Polish border. In addition, anti-vaccination groups that have subtly attacked the credibility of European doctors have been deleted.
According to the paper, the report shows the cat-and-mouse struggle that characterizes the community platform well. And Facebook’s heresy is well exemplified because certain political actors and other organizations are trying to mislead the public through this.
Even after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Meta began working to somehow dismantle fake information networks on the platform. Since then, he has deleted hundreds of political organizations, companies, and groups from the community site. Russia remains at the forefront of disinformation, the company said in a 2020 report.
Facebook has not disclosed how many people the posts used to disinform have reached, so the actual impact of the campaigns is unknown. The Chinese operation, for example, was discovered by the company after a profile publishing itself as a Swiss scientist. Wilson Edwards said the United States was putting pressure on the World Health Organization to lock in China because of the coronavirus epidemic.
A day after the fake account began to post, Chinese state papers picked up the entries. Although Facebook has not determined whether the operation is tied to the Chinese state, experts say the collaborative process suggests this.
Facebook has also deleted dozens of Facebook and Instagram profiles that have revealed themselves to Middle Eastern migrants at the Polish border, as well as journalists. Pseudo-profiles communicating in English and Arabic, created in September and October, have criticized Poles for causing a humanitarian crisis.
“Facebook says some of these are linked to the Belarusian KGB.”
But the company said they also deleted groups set up by Hamas to support the terrorist organization as an external actor and deleted anti-vaccination groups known as V_V in France and Italy to incite journalists and doctors. The groups claimed that vaccination against the coronavirus would lead to a “health dictatorship.”
Facebook says it will pay more attention and resources in the future to dismantling coordinated and sophisticated phishing networks.
If we see a photo we’re on but haven’t been asked about it, we can take it off. Public actors are an exception.
Twitter has announced a new measure to help keep users safe: it is no longer possible to post pictures that have (and are) featured by others, and the Independent writes. If this happens, those affected can take the photo off the page. The new regulation does not affect public actors.
So far, Twitter has only removed photos suspected of misuse, such as showing personal information and IDs, embarrassing situations, or nudity. Public actors can also terminate such content.
They added that it is possible that personal or unauthorized photos will still be published, as they will be considered in some cases. If the post serves the interests of that person or community, or the visual content may already be available online, it will not necessarily be deleted.
The company said in a statement, “The sense of security on Twitter means something different to everyone, and we’re working to understand and ensure that.”
It is the company’s first significant move since its CEO, CEO Jack Dorsey, was replaced by Parag Agrawal.
Because of its impact on competition, the authority has ordered Facebook, now called Meta, to dance back from its acquisition of Giphy.
ON TUESDAY, the UK competition authority announced that the acquisition of the popular GIF engine by Meta would worsen competition among social media platforms and had already knocked out a potential rival in the advertising market as it terminated Giphy’s co-operation on paid advertising at the time of the acquisition.
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, repurchased Giphy in 2020 for $400 million. The Company’s original intent was to merge the app with Instagram to make it easier for users to find GIFs relevant to their stories and messages.
Although Meta had initially been promised to give third parties access to Giphy’sscontent in the same way as they had before, it was not convinced by the UK competition authority that at the end of their investigation, it would be best for Mark Zuckerberg to sell the Giphyt to a pre-approved buyer.
The techie announced on Tuesday that he disagreed with the authority’ssdecision and is examining all options, including the possibility of legal redress.
In its investigation material released back in August, the authority wrote that controlling Facebook over Giphy would allow the Company to block access to the service from other social media platforms. Giphy’ssinterface is currently used by non-Meta providers such as Twitter, Snapchat, Apple’ssiMessage, and Slack.
While this isn’t the most bombing deal Meta has made in her career to date, the fact is that this is the first high-value deal she has to quit at the request of a public authority.
Ming-Qi Kuo, well versed in market rumors, said Apple’s latest product, the long-developed AR headset, could explode in the fourth quarter of 2022 around Christmas.
According to industry sources, Apple is also working on a particular car and AR specs that would finally allow them to enter the augmented reality market with ever-improving development opportunities. However, while consumers will still have to wait long for the former, the headset could arrive as early as next year.
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One of the best-known Apple specialists provided information on this, Ming-Qi Kuo. The analyst believes the apple company could release the two-processor device in the fourth quarter of 2022. Kuo also believes the device will be as fast as M1-chip MacBooks.
One of the essential parts of the novelty, the display pair, is manufactured by Sony; the panel is a 4K and OLED quality interface meaning you will probably not have a problem with what you see.
Generally known for his accurate news, an analyst also said MacRumorssaid the device would operate independently, a significant advantage over competing products. Kuo says this feature is also an important strategic element because Apple wants the device to replace the iPhone over time completely. Based on his feelings, this could happen from a ten-year perspective.
According to the latest reports, it is unknown how much Kuo has taken into account the manufacturing and logistics difficulties caused by the coronavirus epidemic, and the world will experience these even next year. So you may have to wait even longer for the glasses to introduce themselves.
The WhatsApp beta now offers a new feature that lets users make their stickers. Small word replacements and mood-descriptive stickers are frequently used on WhatsApp.
However, in this sense, the service level would rise. You may also create your stickers in addition to the pre-made ones. At the very least, this is mentioned in the WhatsApp beta release. A screenshot of the new functionality showed that users will see a plus sign and the words “Create caption.” From the images they post here, they can create stickers. Various tools will also be provided for you to use in this.
The sticker can be saved and added to the user’s matrix list once it is finished. You must manually save the stickers from one of your utilized chats if, for some reason, they are not duplicated to the mobile application automatically.
Tiny graphics from other parties can also be downloaded from the Google Play Store in addition to the existing WhatsApp stickers. The user will soon have the option to customize their chats with stickers. Although the exact date of “coming soon,” given that it is already in beta, a more extensive rollout may be just around the corner. It will probably start with the browser version before moving on to Android and iOS.
Some beta testers may already be trying out what’s new in WhatsApp, allowing audio to be stopped and resumed later.
The WABetaInfo site, which is at the forefront of what’s new in WhatsApp, has previously indicated that a new feature is being created that allows voice messages to be paused and resumed, meaning there is no need to send another message. I
t was just a planned change back then, but now the site has reported that some beta testers may be trying it out. The feature comes with WhatsApp for iOS beta version 2.21.230.16, but beta testers in version 2.21.230.13 have also reported seeing it.
It should be noted that the feature is not yet available to all beta testers, but anyone who already sees sound waves while recording audio in the app will most likely have the Pause Recording feature.
However, if you can’t find one, it means that your beta account hasn’t been selected to test the quality yet, so you’ll need to wait for a future update. However, even WABetaInfo does not yet know how much time to resume paused audio recording.
WhatsApp is constantly refining and developing the app. For example, you are testing a feature that can help you determine who is not seeing that you have read your message.
There was a flaw in Tesla’s system that first drove only American and Canadian drivers crazy and then signaled the rest of the world that they couldn’t start their car. Elon Musk apologized and promised no more would happen.
An hour-long system failure ruled out a crowd of foreign Tesla owners with their car the other day, and the NPR said the phenomenon was first seen in the United States and Canada and then in other regions such as South Korea.
The problem occurred on the manufacturer’s mobile app for cars. The feature-rich feature also allows the Tesla owner to open and start their vehicle, but none of these were possible due to the error discussed above.
Due to the unpleasant moments, several people started bombing Elon Musk’s official channels, including her Twitter page, noting that the company’s customer service was unavailable. The problem has been remedied in a matter of seconds, as the Tesla can also be used with the associated key.
However, due to the convenience provided by the app, a lot of people do not keep this to themselves.
In response to the complaints, Musk said an investigation would be launched. It is unknown exactly how long this took, but the business owner wrote that the network was working again after five hours. Musk apologized to the car owners and promised there would be no more in the same post.
According to the latest information, Instagram has recently asked some users to create a video that allows their faces to be seen from multiple angles due to disapproval of their account. Supposedly, the social media platform wants to filter out fake registrations and bots with this method.
The idea itself isn’t entirely new; Instagram started testing this authentication method last year but was forced to abandon the project due to technical issues. You’re probably wondering why such a solution might be needed: the social site has long struggled with accounts registered by fake and bots, harassing other users with spam and otherwise, or artificially increasing the number of followers of specific profiles.
The Instagram PR team told Twitter that strangely behaving accounts may require their owners to create a video selfie. The company has emphasized that no facial recognition is used. All that is done is to review the submitted footage to see if real people are behind them, meaning a natural person is behind the account.
Instagram is now using video selfies to confirm users identity
A few even captured the thing during operation. Instagram requests a video for identification that shows every angle of the user’s face, proving that it’s a natural person. Once completed, the video will need to be submitted to the social networking site, whose staff will then confirm your identity. Instagram promises that the video will be deleted from the company’s agencies within 30 days.
It is not yet known whether this is now testing or a phasing-in, whether it will be mandatory for everyone to submit such a video in the end, or whether this procedure will only be used for grossly suspicious profiles. In addition, Instagram is also testing the “Take a Break” feature, through which the platform alerts users sometimes to close the app and deal with something else.
Google recently announced that it has begun hiding the number of dislikes on YouTube, mandatory for all videos. Plenty of videos have spoken out against this, and most users don’t even support the search giant’s move. The company has also been criticized for an unexpected place, with one of YouTube’s original inventors speaking out, not just anywhere!
Remember what the first YouTube video was? The 18-second recording was uploaded in 2005 by Jawed Karim, one of the site’s founders.
The historical video “Me at the zoo” was made at the San Diego Zoo and Karim talks about elephants on it. The recording has already been seen by more than 200 million people and is, of course, available to this day.
Since the acquisition of Google, Karim has had little to do with the platform, and since then, it has been the only video under his username. However, now he still felt the need to speak out against the removal of dislike, so he changed the description below the video.
In short, he writes that something was very wrong, and Google’s announcement was not sincere at all. It has been said that it is in the interest of videographers, while most content producers oppose it. Dislike has made it possible to filter out lousy content quickly and easily, and now they lose the opportunity to do so.
Finally, he concludes:
In business, only one thing is more important than “Make it better.” And this is “Don’t f**k.”
After writing the founder of YouTube, the video received a lot of new comments, the number of words exceeded 10 million, a lot of people expressed their support and are happy to speak out against Google’s move.
The search giant’s official justification is that dislike will be removed anyway to protect smaller videographers from “harassment.” Still, many say they want to favor companies the most, who don’t enjoy negative visual feedback during their videos.
Previously, Spotify focused only on music streaming, then slowly began to open up in other directions, such as podcasts and audiobooks. A significant acquisition now evidences the latter.
Spotify has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in building its podcast business to expand beyond music. Now it is also opening up towards audiobooks: it recently acquired a company called Findaway in Ohio, founded in 2004.
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The creed of this company is that with the power of the spoken word, audiobooks can change the world, and perhaps it already follows from this that it is a company that distributes digital audiobooks. And not just about anything: Findaway can claim the largest selection of audiobooks distributed.
It is not the first time that Spotify has tried to do so in this area: it has previously made nine exclusive audiobooks available on the platform. Last summer, it offered a job offer for the position of audiobook manager. And last week’s announcement of Findaway’s acquisition has now brought certainty.
“We look forward to combining the Findaway team, the best-in-class technology platform, and robust audiobook catalog with Spotify’s expertise to revolutionize audiobook sharing, as we have done with music and podcasts,” said Gustav Söderström, research, and development at Spotify.
Director of Development. He added that they would build on Findaway’s significant innovation, adding everything Spotify knows about personalization and discovery while innovating in format, visualization, creative tools, etc.
Findaway’s technology infrastructure allows Spotify to quickly expand its audiobook catalog and innovate the consumer experience while providing new avenues for publishers and authors.
Spotify will take over the entire Findaway team of approximately 150 people. It also plans to give extended access to audiobooks to its 381 million active users per month. However, there is no information yet on when to launch this service.
SpaceX’s first man, Elon Musk, says the Earth faces several threats that we can’t avert. The solution: we have to go somewhere else.
Humankind is already facing several dangers that we could only remedy at the cost of great sacrifices, Elon Musk said at a scientific meeting.
Speaking of difficulties, Musk cited examples of declining birth rates, human-induced climate change and its consequences, the threat of destruction by objects from the sky, such as comets, and the so-called “nuclear armageddon.” By the latter, the first man in SpaceX understood the risks associated with nuclear weapons. What was said was summarized by Futurism.
Musk, who often states that he is trying to establish himself as a prophet, also stressed that moving to a new planet is the only lasting solution. And that billionaire would assign that role to Mars because he thinks we’ll get there sooner or later.
Musk stressed that the key to humanity’s survival lies not in technology but in becoming so-called multi-planetary. That is, we are not only settling on one planet. We are trying to get our feet off elsewhere. The inventor noted that bases designed for long-term use could also be built on Mars.
SpaceX’s father acknowledged, however, that his plans were not harmless at all. He cited the first sea crossings as an example, suggesting that not all ships reached their destination.
