Activision and Bungie are ending their Destiny partnership after eight years, the two companies announced. Bungie will acquire the full rights to the massive first-person shooter franchise from Activision and plans on self-publishing all future Destiny content. The companies released a joint statement announcing the development: Today, we’re announcing plans for Bungie to assume full […]
Social networking site Tumblr has announced plans to ban all pornographic content, effective from 17 December. The new policy comes weeks after the site was pulled from Apple’s App Store after child abuse images made it past Tumblr’s filters. In a post, CEO Jeff D’Onorio stressed Tumblr had always had a “zero tolerance policy” to […]
Following backlash surrounding the reveal of exclusive content for the PSVR version of Beat Saber, developer Beat Games has reassured PC players they’re not being forgotten. In tweets yesterday the developer noted that it wanted PSVR players to have ‘something new’ to experience when the game launched on the platform on November 20. That includes a […]
You could’ve been forgiven for thinking that Google+ had already been consigned to the scrapheap, but news emerged this week that Google was finally shuttering the consumer version of the social product — but only after a major security vulnerability had been found. Fast forward three days, and Google has more Google+ news to share, […]
What would it look like if cinema giant Red and virtual reality powerhouse Oculus created a camera? Today, you no longer have to guess. On Wednesday, September 26, Facebook and Red unveiled the first glimpse of the Manifold, a VR camera that packs in 16 8K lens-sensor combos from RED for 6DoF captures. The camera, […]
Imagine the worst, most traumatic content the internet has to offer. Now imagine a job that inundates you with it all day, every day. Such was the life of Selena Scola, a former Facebook content moderator who, along with 7,500 or so other people, collectively screened around 10 million posts a week. Now, after being […]
[embedded content] A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically transfers content from one film into the style of another. In the vein of “deep fakes”, the A.I.-augmented videos infamous for superimposing one person’s face onto another’s body, the CMU system presents another case for how difficult […]
If you’ve been rating things on Facebook as false, the company has been quietly rating you, too. As part of a broader effort to reduce the spread of misinformation, the social media platform has been calculating and assigning reputation scores to users who report content as fake, the company confirmed to The Washington Post. Facebook […]
Vimeo is the latest platform that has removed InfoWars’ account from its platform, following Facebook and YouTube. The videos violated the company’s Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content, a Vimeo spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. InfoWars also became a hot-button topic at Vimeo last week, Business Insider has learned, with several employees […]
Alex Jones and Infowars Content Is Removed From Apple, Facebook and YouTube Video After months of increasing their scrutiny, tech companies have deleted content from the right-wing provocateur Alex Jones.Published OnAug. 6, 2018CreditImage by Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times By Jack Nicas Aug. 6, 2018 Top technology companies erased most of the posts […]
Enlarge / With Your Phone you can drag and drop a photo from the phone onto the PC, without having to plug the phone in. Microsoft Back at its Build conference in May, Microsoft showed Your Phone, a Windows 10 app (with companion apps on Android and iOS) that helped bridge between the smartphone world […]
Mark Zuckerberg got himself into hot water Wednesday after suggesting that Holocaust deniers are not “intentionally getting it wrong” while explaining why they won’t be policed on Facebook. In a lengthy interview with Recode published Wednesday, Recode co-founder Kara Swisher pressed the Facebook CEO to explain how he can simultaneously say he is combating the […]
Facebook will begin removing misinformation from the social network that could incite physical violence after months of criticism from groups who say the platform has been used to target ethnic minorities in countries like Myanmar and Sri Lanka. “We have identified that there is a type of misinformation that is shared in certain countries that […]
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been out for more than year. As one of the Switch’s premier launch-window titles, the enhanced port of the Wii U arcade racer was met with critical acclaim. We absolutely loved it, and it seems as if Nintendo will give us reasons to go back in the future. Nintendo head […]