Month: October 2022
Please God, Don’t Let Twitter Die
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported today that trolls are flocking to Twitter to post offensive hate speech. But two out of the three tweets that it describes were taken down from the site a few hours later. Another tweet mentioned of just the n-word repeated over and over may still…
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Elon Musk says Twitter will have a ‘content moderation council’
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, says the company is setting up a council to make important moderation decisions at the company. In a tweet on Friday, Musk said the “council” will have “widely diverse viewpoints” and that “no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”…
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Lego is moving on from its Mindstorms educational robots
As reported by Lego fan sites like Brick Fanatics and Brickset, Lego is discontinuing its Mindstorms kits, which are meant to let people make robots out of Lego bricks, pins, beams, motors, gears, and other pieces, and then program using Lego’s control hubs (via Gizmodo). The devices have been sold…
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Apple’s first unionized workers say the company is withholding new benefits
Organizers at Apple’s Towson Town Center store in Maryland claim that the company isn’t telling the whole truth when it comes to withholding benefits from workers at the location. As the company’s first retail location to unionize in the US pushes to negotiate a contract, workers say it’s making it…
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Intel plans major job cuts and billions in savings as profits plummet
Audio player loading… Intel has announced plans to make a “meaningful number” of layoffs as part of wider cost-cutting measures. The chip giant says its expense reduction plan is set to slash costs by $3 billion in 2023, which it predicts will grow to between $8 billion to $10 billion…
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27 Great Deals From Best Buy’s Early Black Friday Sale (2022): TVs, Phones, Laptops
Get cameras, headphones, and powerful laptops before Halloween even arrives. Source
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