Vivo patents a smartphone with a flying drone camera system built in

Smartphone makers have been using camera features to help set their devices apart for years. Some phones take stellar shots from one or two cameras. Others have a bunch of cameras to cover everything from wide-angle to telephoto photography. Now it lo…

Smartphone makers have been using camera features to help set their devices apart for years. Some phones take stellar shots from one or two cameras. Others have a bunch of cameras to cover everything from wide-angle to telephoto photography. Now it looks like Chinese phone maker Vivo is considering something different. Very different. The company […]

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Facebook, Twitter pledge to fight abuse of women but leave lots of room for failure

Will they just throw more algorithms at the problem?

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Four major social media companies yesterday pledged to make efforts to improve the safety of women on their platforms. Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter all signed the pledge in response to the recommendations of a working group of 120 experts organized by the Web Foundation.

“For too long, women have been routinely harassed, attacked, and subsequently silenced in online spaces. This is a huge threat to progress on gender equality,” said Web Foundation Senior Policy Manager Azmina Dhrodia in a statement. Abuse against women online has reached epidemic proportions, with 38 percent of women reporting personal experience with online violence, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit report.

The pledges represent a step in the right direction, but it's unclear if they’ll do much to address online abuse. “I’m really grateful to Web Foundation for work that they’ve done, genuinely, to get platforms to make some efforts in this regard because there’s been very little movement over time,” Sarah Sobieraj, a professor at Tufts University and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, told Ars.

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Outdoor-Kabel: Bahn will mit Super-Glasfaser Strecken digitalisieren

Das neue Kabel ist doppelt gepanzert und soll nicht mehr in den leicht zu öffnenden Kabelkanäle entlang der Schienen verlegt werden. Mehr wird nicht verraten. (Deutsche Bahn, Long Term Evolution)

Das neue Kabel ist doppelt gepanzert und soll nicht mehr in den leicht zu öffnenden Kabelkanäle entlang der Schienen verlegt werden. Mehr wird nicht verraten. (Deutsche Bahn, Long Term Evolution)

Eng begrenztes Einwegplastikverbot tritt in Kraft

Plastikgeschirr verschwindet, aber beim Einkauf in Supermärkten und Drogerien steht die umweltbewusste Kundschaft vor alten Problemen

Plastikgeschirr verschwindet, aber beim Einkauf in Supermärkten und Drogerien steht die umweltbewusste Kundschaft vor alten Problemen

OnePlus is merging OxygenOS and ColorOS (Two Android overlays become one)

Chinese phone makers OnePlus and Oppo share a parent company and there have always been similarities between the hardware produced by the two companies. Soon there will be more similarities between the software as well. Last month the companies announ…

Chinese phone makers OnePlus and Oppo share a parent company and there have always been similarities between the hardware produced by the two companies. Soon there will be more similarities between the software as well. Last month the companies announced that they’d be integrating more of their operations with one another. Now we know at […]

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OnePlus is merging OxygenOS and ColorOS (Two Android overlays become one)

Chinese phone makers OnePlus and Oppo share a parent company and there have always been similarities between the hardware produced by the two companies. Soon there will be more similarities between the software as well. Last month the companies announ…

Chinese phone makers OnePlus and Oppo share a parent company and there have always been similarities between the hardware produced by the two companies. Soon there will be more similarities between the software as well. Last month the companies announced that they’d be integrating more of their operations with one another. Now we know at […]

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