Facebook’s Instagram Kids Retreat Signals Limits on Expansion Potential

The Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index, an obscure tracker of wholesale used-car prices, has become closely watched by the finance world’s high rollers.

The automaker and a supplier will spend $11.4 billion on three battery factories and a truck plant, creating 11,000 jobs.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had been examining allegations of gender-based harassment and retaliation at the embattled videogame-publishing giant.

Pulling methane out of the atmosphere has the potential to help slow global warming in the next few decades—but researchers are still trying to figure out if it’s really feasible. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and human activities like natural-gas extraction and agriculture have more than doubled its concentration since the preindustrial era. Removing…

TikTok announced a big milestone on Monday: more than 1 billion people around the world log on to the ByteDance-owned video app every month. In the chart above, we plot just how fast it reached that level—and how that rapid ascent compares to Instagram’s earlier rise.Our analysis, which uses past company statements as well as a suit filed by TikTok against the U.S. government last year, shows that it took TikTok just four years since ByteDance launched the app in 2017 to get to 1 billion users. For Instagram, it took eight years from its 2010 launch to hit that milestone—or about twice as long. 

Activision Blizzard has settled one of its outstanding civil suits regarding its discrimination and harassment of employees.

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have published a paper highlighting their AI solution for imaging the Moon’s shadowed craters. HORUS (Hyper-effective nOise Removal U-net Software) is a machine learning algorithm that enables these dark craters to be mapped out at far higher resolutions than ever before. The... Read more »The post AI provides imaging solution for the Moon’s shadowy craters appeared first on AI News.

Manufacturing plants that were planned last year will likely start producing chips in the coming months, helping to alleviate shortages for PC parts.

Apiiro is making sure application risk management takes center stage in the life cycle of a software development project.

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phiar Technologies, a market leader in AI-powered Augmented Reality navigation for driving, today announced the close of a new $12 million Series A funding round and the hiring of new CEO Gene Karshenboym, formerly Google's Global Head of Android Automotive Platforms. The new Series A fund was led by State Farm Ventures that includes new investors Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Telenav, and previous investors Norwest Venture Partners, The Venture Reality

The US booster program is about to get underway, after the CDC backed additional shots for a large swathe of the American public. The agency now recommends that people aged 65 years and older, adults in long-term care and those over 50 with underlying medical conditions should get a third Pfizer/BioNTech shot. (Those whose first…

Netflix released data Monday on its most-watched TV shows and movies.

Pre-pandemic, it took Nike about 40 days to move product from Asia to North America, said CFO Matt Friend. That has since doubled.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phiar Technologies, a market leader in AI-powered Augmented Reality navigation for driving, today announced the close of a new $12 million Series A funding round and the hiring of new CEO Gene Karshenboym, formerly Google's Global Head of Android Automotive Platforms. The new Series A fund was led by State Farm Ventures that includes new investors Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Telenav, and previous investors Norwest Venture Partners, The Venture Reality

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U.S. health regulators last week authorized the use of the first artificial-intelligence tool designed to help doctors diagnose prostate cancer.

In August, Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida dialed into a Zoom call with Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook’s Instagram, and two of his colleagues. Castor said in an interview that the executives “wanted to try to calm the waters” after she had spent months publicly criticizing Instagram’s development of an app for children under the age of 13.Instagram’s policy ostensibly blocks people under 13 from using the app. But the Instagram leaders told Castor that many were already finding ways to use Instagram by, for instance, lying about their age. A youth version of the app would give parents greater control over what their children saw online. Castor, unconvinced, implored them to abandon the app. From her perspective, Facebook wanted to grow its business empire. Launching the Kids app was similar to how tobacco companies had “surreptitiously marketed to young people through Joe Camel and other ways to get kids hooked early” to “benefit their bottom line,” she said.On Monday, the company abruptly announced it was pausing work on Instagram Kids. The surprising about-face came after it spent months unsuccessfully trying to sell the idea to politicians, child safety groups and skeptical employees. Scandal consumed the public relations effort and it ultimately proved unwinnable.

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