Twitter reinstates accounts of suspended journalists and Mastodon

Twitter reinstates accounts of suspended journalists and Mastodon

Twitter has announced through its Safety account that it has “identified several policies where permanent suspension was a disproportionate action for breaking Twitter rules.” The website has already started reinstating accounts that were suspended for violating those rules, the tweet continued, and it will lift more suspensions every week over the next month. Twitter didn’t … Read more

John Carmack leaves Meta with a memo criticizing the company’s efficiency

John Carmack leaves Meta with a memo criticizing the company’s efficiency

John Carmack, the virtual reality pioneer who joined Meta from Oculus after its $2 billion acquisition, has left the social network. Business Insider first reported his departure, citing people familiar with the company, and published pieces of his internal memo that contained sentiments critical of Meta and its augmented and virtual reality efforts. After Insider’s … Read more

Google, Apple and Mozilla team up to build a better browser benchmark

Google, Apple and Mozilla team up to build a better browser benchmark

Google, Apple and Mozilla are collaborating on a better web browser benchmark. Speedometer 3 will be a “cross-industry collaborative effort” from the Chrome, Safari and Firefox makers to create a new model that balances the companies’ visions for measuring responsiveness. Three companies making a tool that will rate the effectiveness of their competing products sounds … Read more

NHTSA opens probe into GM’s autonomous driving technology

NHTSA opens probe into GM’s autonomous driving technology

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced Thursday that it is opening an investigation into the self-driving technology behind General Motors’ robotaxi fleet. This announcement follows three reported accidents allegedly caused by Cruise vehicles braking hard or otherwise becoming immobilized in traffic, creating unannounced obstacles for other vehicles and resulting in rear-end collisions with other … Read more

Ford F-150 Lightning prices are going up again

Ford F-150 Lightning prices are going up again

Ford F-150 Lightning prices are going up again. The US automaker is raising the electric pickup’s starting cost by $4,000, bringing the new entry price to $55,974. That’s a 40 percent increase over the electric vehicle’s initial starting price in May 2021. Ford toldCNBC today that it is changing pricing “as a normal course of … Read more

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