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YouTube, Like Facebook, Ignored Toxicity Warnings in Favor of ‘Engagement’
YouTube, Like Facebook, Ignored Toxicity Warnings in Favor of ‘Engagement’

YouTube, like Facebook, appears to have been fully aware of its own toxic content and platform problems. It just didn't prioritize dealing with them.

ISS at Increased Risk of Impact After Indian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test
ISS at Increased Risk of Impact After Indian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last week that the Mission Shakti test had successfully destroyed a satellite in low-Earth orbit. Now, NASA is expressing concern that the test could have placed the International Space Station at risk.

AMD Expected to Launch Zen 2, Possibly Navi at Computex 2019
AMD Expected to Launch Zen 2, Possibly Navi at Computex 2019

AMD's Lisa Su will give the Computex keynote — and discuss the company's upcoming 7nm product families.

Scientists May Have Pinpointed the Source of Mars’ Methane
Scientists May Have Pinpointed the Source of Mars’ Methane

Six years after Curiosity detected methane on Mars, scientists may have figured out where it comes from.

New Path-Traced Shaders Make Minecraft Look Amazing
New Path-Traced Shaders Make Minecraft Look Amazing

Adding path tracing to Minecraft turns it into a beautiful game.

NASA, MIT Design Hollow Morphing Airplane Wing
NASA, MIT Design Hollow Morphing Airplane Wing

A team of engineers developed a new kind of wing composed of hundreds of individual pieces that could be lighter and more energy-efficient.

Google’s AI Ethics Council Is Collapsing After a Week
Google’s AI Ethics Council Is Collapsing After a Week

Google's AI council was supposed to help the company navigate treacherous waters. Instead, it's already falling apart.

Cloudflare Adds a Free VPN to its 1.1.1.1 App
Cloudflare Adds a Free VPN to its 1.1.1.1 App

The company has fittingly chosen this hallowed day of April 1st to announce that its 1.1.1.1 DNS service is getting a new feature: a free VPN. Again, it says this is not a joke.

No Fooling: Reddit r/Games Subreddit Goes Dark to Highlight Bigotry Online
No Fooling: Reddit r/Games Subreddit Goes Dark to Highlight Bigotry Online

The r/games subreddit has gone dark for April Fools to push back against toxicity in their own community and to ask gamers to focus on what brings them together. No April Fools.

Google Stops Selling the Pixel 2 and 2 XL
Google Stops Selling the Pixel 2 and 2 XL

Today is the end of the line for Google's 2017 flagship smartphones. The Pixel 2 and 2 XL are no longer available for purchase on the Google Store.

Astronomers Spot Rare Disintegrating Asteroid
Astronomers Spot Rare Disintegrating Asteroid

The object known as (6478) Gault is spinning so fast that it's tearing itself to pieces. The result is a comet-like tail, which attracted the attention of researchers on the lookout for supernovae.

We May Have Found Fossils From the Dinosaurs’ Last Moments on Earth
We May Have Found Fossils From the Dinosaurs’ Last Moments on Earth

A new discovery could reshape our understanding of what happened on Earth the day the dinosaurs died.