Новости за 10.07.2018

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will be voting to ensure they won’t have to read your complaints anymore — and Democratic House members are not happy about it.

At this point, Netflix may officially be producing original content faster than even the most devoted fans can watch it, but that hasn’t slowed the streaming service down. Today, via the Twitter account @SeeWhatsNext (billed as “News about Netflix by Netflix from inside Netflix”), the company announced its plans for a new animated series, written by Futurama and Avatar: The Last Airbender screenwriter Aaron Ehasz. The show will be called The Dragon Prince, and will involve two princes and an elf... Читать дальше...

More than 46 malls in California appear to be feeding data back to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents through a license plate reader network, according to a new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Apple has combined its various artificial intelligence divisions into a new structure led by recent hire John Giannandrea, formerly Google’s head of search and AI. TechCrunch first reported the restructuring earlier today, and Apple confirmed the change with an update to its executive leadership page. Giannandrea will now be in charge of Apple’s machine learning division, its Siri team, and the Core ML team. Core ML is the machine learning API Apple launched last year to help native AI tasks and... Читать дальше...

On a short making-of documentary included on the Blu-ray release of the 2013 film The Purge, writer-director James DeMonaco says, “If it sparks any kind of discourse about violence in society, I think that’s a good thing. If people just enjoy it, great. But if they want to talk about violence, guns in our society, that’s great, too.” That kind of half-commitment to the film’s political elements defined the series until now, with the audacious 2018 prequel The First Purge. The Purge and its sequels ... Читать дальше...

WhatsApp is now labeling its forwarded messages, in a move that the company hopes will curb some of the app’s viral misinformation problems.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the iOS App Store, which has a lot of us here at The Verge thinking about what the first apps that we ever went and installed on our iPhones and iPod Touches were.

Facebook is currently testing a new feature for Messenger that would identify suspicious accounts sending unwarranted direct messages, letting users know the account’s country of origin by phone number and whether it was recently created. The new feature was first disclosed by Motherboard, which received a screenshot of the test from multimedia artist Erin Gallagher. Facebook confirmed to Motherboard that it is indeed testing the feature, but spokesperson Dalya Browne said it was a “small test” at the moment. Читать дальше...

For weeks, a subreddit dedicated to the villain of Avengers: Infinity War has been obsessed with obliterating half its community. This random, historic Reddit ban, executed yesterday, successfully slammed the door on more than 300,000 accounts. In the words of r/ThanosDidNothingWrong, balance has been achieved.

After a few long years, Pepe the Frog is finally beginning to fade from the racist internet. With the help of a team of intellectual property lawyers, cartoonist Matt Furie has successfully petitioned The Daily Stormer, a popular, Trump-loving, neo-Nazi website, to remove almost all references to or images of his long-appropriated character. “We had seen for a while that they had been using Pepe images in a few places,” one of Furie’s lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WCPHD) said, according to a Motherboard report. Читать дальше...

Apple quietly introduced a significant privacy safeguard as part of the new iOS 11.4.1 update that was released on July 9th. USB Restricted Mode prevents USB accessories that plug into the Lightning port from making data connections with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch if your iOS device has been locked for over an hour. This seemingly small change goes a long way in blocking tools used by law enforcement to crack passcodes and circumvent Apple’s encryption and built-in measures designed to shield sensitive user data. Читать дальше...

For years, having a baby in mobile life simulation game The Sims FreePlay was nothing more than a big blue button: press it, and a baby would magically appear. According to associate producer Joshua Birse, players constantly begged for a more in-depth experience that captured what it’s actually like to go through a pregnancy. But every time the studio got requests, Birse says, it would shut them down by saying it was “never” going to develop the feature. In 2018, things changed.

Moment has long offered a simple camera app to go along with its custom smartphone lenses. But now, the company has overhauled that app into something much more capable, allowing you to access full manual options and have more control over your phone’s camera.

In October, Instagram added a polling feature to its ephemeral stories. Today, the company is introducing a new twist on polling with the questions sticker, which lets your friends submit questions for you to answer in a subsequent story post. Instagram says it’s “a way to start conversations during moments when you don’t necessarily have a photo or video to share.” In other words, it’s a way to ensure that people continue posting even if they have totally run out of content ideas.

Tesla has signed a “cooperative agreement” with the Shanghai Municipal Government to build its third Gigafactory and the first in China, the company announced today. Tesla says it aims to be able to make 500,000 cars per year there in what is the biggest market for electric vehicles in the world, though the company says it will be a while before the factory is up and running.

The YouTube app on Android is getting a new feature today: a Google Chrome-esque Incognito mode that will let users browse videos on the mobile app without worrying about their watch and search history, as noted by 9to5Google.

Tana Mongeau’s attempt to hold her own convention was a disaster. Conjuring immediate comparisons to Fyre Fest, the YouTuber’s short-lived VidCon alternative promised free meet-and-greets, talks, and concerts. Instead, it delivered long lines, dehydration, and little to do. The event was canceled after its first full day, leaving fans who paid their way to Anaheim out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, with little hope for refunds. It also left many would-be attendees wondering if they’d been scammed. Читать дальше...

Samsung’s smartwatch line has gone under the Gear brand since 2014, but this year, rumors suggest that Samsung might swap that out for something better known: the Galaxy name. Even more interesting than the name change is what that change could mean for the smartwatch itself.

The fourth annual Amazon Prime Day doesn’t officially begin until Monday, July 16th at 3PM ET / 12PM PT, but the company is trickling out some worthwhile Prime-exclusive deals in the lead-up to the big event — particularly if you’ve been on the hunt for a discounted robot vacuum cleaner. Amazon is offering 30-day free trials of Prime here in case you somehow haven't signed up yet or if you let a previous subscription lapse over higher prices.

Microsoft’s new Surface Go is finally official after months of rumors and leaks. It’s an inexpensive 10-inch tablet designed to be a smaller and less powerful version of the Surface Pro. While the exterior of the Surface Go makes it look like a baby Surface Pro, Microsoft has changed a lot inside. The base model is priced at $399, but it only ships with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of slower eMMC storage, and a less powerful Intel Pentium Gold processor. Prices quickly jump to over $600 after adding the all important Type Cover... Читать дальше...

Something funny happened while San Francisco was in the throes of its “scooter wars”: the city became a sidenote.

The rescue of a trapped soccer team in Thailand’s Tham Luang cave is over, after a team of international divers retrieved the remaining boys and their coach this morning. They did so without the assistance of Elon Musk and his purpose-built “kid-sized submarine.”

There’s a school of thought in the photography world that suggests you “zoom with your feet,” but I don’t imagine any of its adherents ever conceived of the Nikon Coolpix P1000. Nikon’s latest “compact” camera has a lens with the world’s highest zoom ratio: at 24-3000mm equivalence, it’s capable of 125x optical zoom.

After intense speculation, President Trump said today that he has selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. In his announcement, the president introduced his nominee as a jurist with “impeccable credentials” and as “a judge’s judge.”

Microsoft is getting back into the cheaper tablet game today with the new Surface Go, a smaller, less powerful take on the popular Surface Pro device. The Go features a 10-inch screen, integrated kickstand, Windows 10, and a similar design to the Surface Pro, and starts at $399. It is available for preorder starting July 10th and will ship in August.