Daily Archives: March 29, 2018

If you wanted to test a drone at the University of Michigan, your options were extremely limited — think "at night in a deserted lecture hall." Not anymore: the school has just opened up its M-Air facility, essentially a giant netted playground for UAVs and their humans.

University of Michigan opens up its M-Air UAV testing facility ...

This entry was posted in drones Education Gadgets robotics Transportation on March 29, 2018 by Devin Coldewey

SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won't have too long to wait — on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years.

FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network

This entry was posted in Gadgets Government hardware on March 29, 2018 by Devin Coldewey

A racial slur GIF slipped into GIPHY’s sticker library earlier this month, prompting Instagram and Snapchat to drop their GIPHY integrations. Now Instagram is reactivating after GIPHY confirmed its reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Snapchat said it had nothing to share right now about whether […]

Instagram reenables GIF sharing after GIPHY promises no more racism

This entry was posted in Apps Developer Drama GIFs giphy Media Mobile racism Social Startups TC and tagged instagram snapchat on March 29, 2018 by Josh Constine

Apple just released an iOS update for your iPhone and iPad. 11.3 introduces a ton of bug fixes but also a bunch of new features. If you forgot about Animjois, today is your lucky day as Apple is adding four new Animojis — a dragon, a bear, a lion and a skull. But that’s not […]

Apple releases iOS 11.3 with new Animojis

This entry was posted in Apps Gadgets iOS Mobile and tagged apple on March 29, 2018 by Romain Dillet

Google Play Audiobooks is getting a major update today that adds a number of new features to the service that were sorely missing when it launched earlier this year. None of these are groundbreaking, but they’ll help Google reach feature parity with some of its competitors while injecting a bit of its proprietary smarts into […]

Google Play audiobooks get Smart Resume, bookmarks and Assistant routines ...

This entry was posted in Android Apps Google Play iOS Mobile and tagged google on March 29, 2018 by Frederic Lardinois

More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]

Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s plan for voters’ Facebook data

This entry was posted in data protection Europe Government privacy Social TC and tagged facebook social media on March 29, 2018 by Natasha Lomas

Facebook has begun letting partners fact check photos and videos beyond news articles, and proactively review stories before Facebook asks them. Facebook is also now preemptively blocking the creation of millions of fake accounts per day. Facebook revealed this news on a conference call with journalists [Update: and later a blog post] about its efforts […]