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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with iHeart Radio. And
Speaker 1: how the tech are you. It's time for the tech
Speaker 1: news for Thursday, September eight, twenty two, and Apple held
Speaker 1: it's far Out event yesterday and unveiled its iPhone fourteen lineup,
Speaker 1: as well as updates to the Apple Watch line and
Speaker 1: to its air pods. So we'll do a quick rundown
Speaker 1: on some of the highlights. One thing that Apple has
Speaker 1: done is it has ditched the physical SIM card. SIM
Speaker 1: stands for Subscriber Identification Module, and it's that little micro
Speaker 1: trip that's typically embedded into a little piece of plastic
Speaker 1: that you have to insert into a new phone in
Speaker 1: order to port your phone number over to a device.
Speaker 1: Or you might go and get a SIM card if
Speaker 1: you're traveling to a foreign country, and this way you
Speaker 1: can operate on that country cellular network without ramping up
Speaker 1: those massive roaming charges. Well, Apple already had incorporated digital
Speaker 1: sims into iPhones, but had kept the physical ones as well.
Speaker 1: Now that's no longer the case. The physical ones are out,
Speaker 1: so transferring your phone number from one phone to another
Speaker 1: requires a slightly different process, and we'll actually a very
Speaker 1: different process because there's no move of physical components anymore.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, digital rather than physical. And if
Speaker 1: you are an international traveler, you might have a harder
Speaker 1: time getting an e SIM so that you can operate
Speaker 1: on the native cellular network, so that's kind of a bummer.
Speaker 1: On the flip side, digital sims can let you support
Speaker 1: more than one phone number on a single device, so
Speaker 1: you could potentially have like a business line and a
Speaker 1: personal line both going to the same device but using
Speaker 1: different phone numbers. So there are pros and there are
Speaker 1: cons to this approach. Another new feature is the addition
Speaker 1: of satellite connectivity in the event of an emergency. So
Speaker 1: let's say you're a teenager and you've stumbled into one
Speaker 1: of those ding dang darn slasher movies. You're at a
Speaker 1: remote camp ground, maybe it's even Crystal Lake, and there's
Speaker 1: no cellular service, and you need to get an emergency
Speaker 1: message out to authorities or first responders to come and
Speaker 1: rescue you. With the satellite connectivity feature, you can use
Speaker 1: an iPhone four team to locate the satellite overhead and
Speaker 1: then connect to it to send essentially an S O
Speaker 1: S signal so that first responders will know where you
Speaker 1: are and they can come help you. The feature does
Speaker 1: require you to have a clear view of the sky,
Speaker 1: so if there's cover overhead, you might not be able
Speaker 1: to connect, or it might take significantly longer to connect
Speaker 1: and send a message through. Still, this is a great
Speaker 1: addition to the iPhone. It's the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: you hope you will never need, but you're happy to
Speaker 1: have it available. Apple introduced four models of the iPhone
Speaker 1: fourteen at this event, and the base model, which has
Speaker 1: a six point one inch screen and still runs on
Speaker 1: the last generation A fifteen microchip, comes in at seven bucks.
Speaker 1: The iPhone fourteen Plus is a larger version of the
Speaker 1: base model, is six point seven inches with the screen,
Speaker 1: It has a longer battery life, and it costs eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine bucks. It also runs on the A fifteen microchip.
Speaker 1: I think these models are a modest upgrade to the
Speaker 1: base iPhone thirteen model. The phones that I think are
Speaker 1: are much more interesting are the iPhone fourteen Pro and
Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen Pro Max. So the Pro is six
Speaker 1: point one inches, the Max is six point seven. Uh.
Speaker 1: That mostly is the difference between the two. Also, the
Speaker 1: difference that involves the price, and the you know, pro
Speaker 1: is going to be based at Bucks, the max at
Speaker 1: one thousand bucks. So yeah, both of those phones come
Speaker 1: with a forty eight megapixel rear facing camera. That's four
Speaker 1: times greater than the Base and Plus models, which have
Speaker 1: twelve megapixel cameras. Now, just as a reminder, the megapixels
Speaker 1: refer to the pixel density of an image, right the resolution.
Speaker 1: In other words, that's just one component that determines the
Speaker 1: quality of a picture. But generally speaking, higher resolution tends
Speaker 1: to be better, at least if you want to do
Speaker 1: things like, you know, blow up the photo to a
Speaker 1: much larger size, if you want to do digital zoom
Speaker 1: in and that kind of stuff, having higher resolution is
Speaker 1: important anyway. They also have several other features that set
Speaker 1: them apart from the base models, not the least of
Speaker 1: which is that they run on the A six team microchip,
Speaker 1: so Apple's latest microchip. Uh. And for all four of
Speaker 1: these models, you can start pre orders tomorrow September nine,
Speaker 1: and the phones will start to ship on September. These
Speaker 1: are not quite enough to convince me to abandon my
Speaker 1: Android phone and switch over to iPhone, But then I'm
Speaker 1: so deep in the Google ecosystem that it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to make the move, which, believe me, is all
Speaker 1: part of the strategy for companies like Google and Apple.
Speaker 1: The Apple Watch models that the company showed off we're interesting,
Speaker 1: but I've only ever owned one smart watch, and that
Speaker 1: was the Pebble back before Pebble got acquired and then
Speaker 1: subsequently dismantled, so I am not the best person to
Speaker 1: hype up wearables. Still, one feature I liked was the
Speaker 1: inclusion of accelerometers that can detect if someone has been
Speaker 1: involved in an accident like a car crash, and it
Speaker 1: activates a feature that lets you call for help right
Speaker 1: away if in fact you were involved in in an accident.
Speaker 1: And I love seeing safety features like this become standard
Speaker 1: in devices. Again, you hope you never have to use it,
Speaker 1: but you are thankful that it's there. Apple also unveiled
Speaker 1: an Ultra Watch, which is meant for folks who are
Speaker 1: hard on their gear, like those who are into extreme sports,
Speaker 1: so it's more rugged than other models. It also costs
Speaker 1: a pretty penny, starting at seven bucks. Then you've got
Speaker 1: the new Air pods, which reportedly have better noise cancelation
Speaker 1: capabilities than earlier models. They also have a speaker that
Speaker 1: lets you find out where the heck you put your
Speaker 1: darn air pods. You can use the find my app
Speaker 1: and look for your air pods and it will make
Speaker 1: a little noise and you can track them down. And
Speaker 1: that's a feature I could definitely use because I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that whenever it comes time for me to
Speaker 1: move house, when I start packing stuff up, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come across at least seventy pairs of earbuds that I've
Speaker 1: misplaced at one time or another. So this is definitely
Speaker 1: one of those features I could use in my earbuds. Still,
Speaker 1: I'm not likely to drop two fifty bucks on a
Speaker 1: air of earbuds. And also I'm not an iPhone user,
Speaker 1: so I'm not ready to make the leap just yet. SIMI.
Speaker 1: Related to this is a little tidbit from the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two Code Conference. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple,
Speaker 1: was asked by a journalist if Apple would address issues
Speaker 1: when it comes to messaging between Apple and Android devices
Speaker 1: a k a. The Green bubble issue in I message,
Speaker 1: where messages from non iOS devices pop up as green bubbles. Uh,
Speaker 1: and there are certain features that I message supports that
Speaker 1: don't work across platforms. This incompatibility means that certain functions
Speaker 1: like sending videos from one device to another aren't always supported.
Speaker 1: Cook's response was essentially, whomever has an Android device in
Speaker 1: this communication chain should just buy an iPhone and that
Speaker 1: will solve the problem. Like, rather than solve the compatibility issues,
Speaker 1: you should just jump on the iPhone bandwagon, and that
Speaker 1: Apple customers haven't really pressed Apple to address this issue,
Speaker 1: so the company hasn't. Now Google has been pushing Apple
Speaker 1: to adopt the Rich Communications Service or r CS standard,
Speaker 1: but Apple has um declined to acquiesce to Google's request. Why. Well, again,
Speaker 1: it's about convincing folks that they need to stay within
Speaker 1: the Apple ecosystem. I Message is another feature that reinforces
Speaker 1: lock in fun times. Oh and uh a different take
Speaker 1: on Apple and lock in. Let's talk about Apple's iCloud
Speaker 1: data center in China. That's where employees have been locked
Speaker 1: into a closed loop system within the facility for the
Speaker 1: last week. They are not allowed to go home, they're
Speaker 1: not allowed to see their families. And yes, this has
Speaker 1: to do with another COVID nineteen issue in China. So
Speaker 1: China has a zero tolerance approach to any kind of
Speaker 1: outbreak of COVID nineteen, no matter are how small, and
Speaker 1: requires regions to lock down whenever a case arises in
Speaker 1: order to avoid downtime. Some facilities like this iCloud data
Speaker 1: center will force employees to live at the data center
Speaker 1: for the duration of the lockdown and continue working. We've
Speaker 1: covered similar situations with Tesla, and this is brutal. Now,
Speaker 1: arguably you could say it's an effective way to limit
Speaker 1: the spread of COVID nineteen, but it's you know, a
Speaker 1: massive trade off here. Anyway, Apple hasn't had much of
Speaker 1: an option when this comes down to it, because as
Speaker 1: long as the company wants to operate in China, it
Speaker 1: has to play by China's rules. And part of that
Speaker 1: is that, you know, China requires all companies that have
Speaker 1: that deal with with the private data of Chinese citizens
Speaker 1: to operate solely on Chinese soil. Apple cannot operate a
Speaker 1: data center that handle is Chinese citizen private data outside
Speaker 1: of China. In fact, the government required Apple to partner
Speaker 1: with a company called cloud Big Data, which the Chinese
Speaker 1: government owns, so Apple really had no other options when
Speaker 1: it comes to this. I don't want to cast too
Speaker 1: many aspersions. I do think it is a brutal policy
Speaker 1: and inhumane to employees, but uh, at least at least
Speaker 1: did this part. I mean, I can't fully blame Apple,
Speaker 1: although you could argue the company could just choose not
Speaker 1: to operate in China. Hard to do that because China
Speaker 1: it represents such a huge market. But which is You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to tell investors, Hey, we're not
Speaker 1: going to operate in the most populous country in the world.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, it's ah, there's some real tough ethical
Speaker 1: issues here. All right, We've got a lot more news
Speaker 1: to cover, some of which doesn't even involve Apple, But first,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We're back and we're starting
Speaker 1: to hear about what happened during a court hearing back
Speaker 1: in March of this year when two longtime meta engineers
Speaker 1: folks who had been working with Facebook had to sit
Speaker 1: down and answer some questions stemming from an investigation that
Speaker 1: relates all the way back to the Cambridge analytic affair,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that was going on in and
Speaker 1: the court has recently unsealed the transcript of that hearing,
Speaker 1: which is why we're now hearing about what happened. And
Speaker 1: boy howdy, it sounds like the court appointed special master
Speaker 1: guy named Daniel Gary was really getting frustrated the deeper
Speaker 1: he tried to go into Facebook's labyrinthian systems. So Gary
Speaker 1: was asking the engineers fairly straightforward questions, such as, air
Speaker 1: is a person's data stored within Facebook's subsystems. We know
Speaker 1: Facebook is combing everybody for their data, collecting huge amounts
Speaker 1: of data, including generating data from inferences about what people
Speaker 1: like based upon their behaviors, but the engineers answers were
Speaker 1: unsettling because the engineers admitted they didn't know the answer. Further,
Speaker 1: they said that it's likely no one knows that answer
Speaker 1: because the amount of data collected and the different ways
Speaker 1: that it's collected, and the different ways that Facebook uses
Speaker 1: personal information are involving multiple subsystems that are collecting and
Speaker 1: storing this information, and it's hard to know who is
Speaker 1: collecting what and for what purpose and how frequently they're
Speaker 1: using it. So they said, it's essentially impossible for us
Speaker 1: to answer these questions in a meaningful way, like there's
Speaker 1: no way for me to answer your question. And now
Speaker 1: in a way I can at least understand how this happened.
Speaker 1: Because Facebook is a company that grew very rapidly. It
Speaker 1: incorporated new systems at an incredible pace, and you had
Speaker 1: lots of different teams working on different projects all at
Speaker 1: the same time. These teams were sometimes operating more or
Speaker 1: less independently of each other, so there's likely overlap between
Speaker 1: projects as well as unique approaches used by specific subsystems.
Speaker 1: And Facebook never adopted a culture that, you know, documented things.
Speaker 1: It just didn't. It didn't create documents about these systems
Speaker 1: to explain what they were, how they work, and what
Speaker 1: information they actually use. So there are no official documents
Speaker 1: that detail these subsystems or the types of data that
Speaker 1: flow into them. Instead, according to the engineers, the code
Speaker 1: itself is about as close as you can get to
Speaker 1: actual documentation. Now, this raises some very trouble ling questions.
Speaker 1: For example, how can Facebook assure that it is complying
Speaker 1: with various data privacy laws around the world if no
Speaker 1: one at the company actually knows where all the data
Speaker 1: is going. And the answer is it can't. It's impossible
Speaker 1: unless you make the ludicrous argument that there's security through obscurity.
Speaker 1: In other words, the system is so complex that no
Speaker 1: one is going to be able to find their way
Speaker 1: through it, so you don't have to worry about people
Speaker 1: abusing it. But that is not a really good answer,
Speaker 1: and so it looks like there is no way for
Speaker 1: Facebook to actually be transparent because no one at the
Speaker 1: company even knows how to make that happen. That transparency
Speaker 1: is impossible due to the way these various subsystems were
Speaker 1: designed and no one documented in anything. So this transcript,
Speaker 1: this court transcript, is available to read, but I warn
Speaker 1: you it's like a descent into madness if you you
Speaker 1: are at all concerned about data security and privacy. Not
Speaker 1: long ago, the US government passed a bill that will
Speaker 1: provide federal money to companies that are building out semiconductor
Speaker 1: manufacturing facilities in the United States budded. Order to get
Speaker 1: hands on that cold, hard cash, the companies are going
Speaker 1: to have to agree to some firm rules, and one
Speaker 1: big one is that the companies will not be allowed
Speaker 1: to build quote advanced technology facilities end quote in China
Speaker 1: for ten years now. The purpose for that restriction is
Speaker 1: to protect national security. According to Gina Romundo, the U
Speaker 1: S Commerce Secretary, and that's definitely a massive concern. I've
Speaker 1: talked in previous episodes about how China allegedly has a
Speaker 1: very long history of industrial espionage stealing technology from other companies.
Speaker 1: To curb China's technological advancement, the US is looking to
Speaker 1: make the States more self reliant when it comes to
Speaker 1: semiconductor tech as well as cut off or at least
Speaker 1: reduce the chance of Chinese spies stealing US design technology.
Speaker 1: That also includes a moratorium on companies sending advanced technology
Speaker 1: to China, so they're not supposed to build facilities in China,
Speaker 1: they're not supposed to ship advanced tech to China. And
Speaker 1: really there are other related rules that are meant to
Speaker 1: cut off this flow of technology, and I p to
Speaker 1: the Chinese. Now, I have a habit of criticizing Tesla
Speaker 1: pretty harshly for lots of things. You know, I I
Speaker 1: acknowledge I go hard against Tesla pretty frequently, But I
Speaker 1: do want to give the company its props when they
Speaker 1: are deserved and over in Europe, Tesla's model why ranked
Speaker 1: first in a European safety test of driver assist systems. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to be clear here, the systems like autopilot
Speaker 1: and full self driving mode are meant to be driver
Speaker 1: assist features in order to improve safety. They are not
Speaker 1: meant to be autonomous driving modes. So if you are
Speaker 1: using the systems the way they are meant to be used,
Speaker 1: then they are incredibly effective. They work very well, well
Speaker 1: enough so that Tesla took first place in these tests,
Speaker 1: But that doesn't erase the fact that some Tesla owners
Speaker 1: use these features irresponsibly, nor does it push aside the
Speaker 1: problem with Tesla's marketing of these features, which at least
Speaker 1: I feel implies that the tech can do more than
Speaker 1: it's actually capable of doing, or that it's meant to
Speaker 1: perform a job other than what it's actually designed to do. Hey,
Speaker 1: do you remember Travis Killenic, co founder of Uber. He's
Speaker 1: the guy who has a truly terrible reputation as far
Speaker 1: as how he treats other human beings, and he was
Speaker 1: ultimately forced to vacate his position of CEO of Uber
Speaker 1: and two thousands venteen and to surrender his seat on
Speaker 1: the board of directors in two thousand nineteen when he
Speaker 1: cashed out of Uber entirely. And a lot of folks
Speaker 1: point at Kala Nick when they talk about the toxic
Speaker 1: work culture that was in the spotlight back in two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen. That was a very, very tough year for Uber,
Speaker 1: at least on the pr front. Kalin Nick has kept
Speaker 1: a relatively low profile in the public eye since then,
Speaker 1: but he's been working on something else that just got
Speaker 1: a big influx of cash thanks to Microsoft. That thing
Speaker 1: is called Cloud Kitchen. Kala Nick has used the money
Speaker 1: that he made from cashing out an Uber, which amounted
Speaker 1: to like two and a half billion dollars, to initially
Speaker 1: fund this project. He has received investments from other parties
Speaker 1: as well, and he purchased steak in an existing company
Speaker 1: that was called City Storage Systems before converting that over,
Speaker 1: and City Storage Systems was buying up warehouse space in
Speaker 1: various cities. He converted that to Cloud Kitchen, which is
Speaker 1: a company that offers restaurants the chance to operate water
Speaker 1: called dark kitchens, which sounds you know, scary and stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's not really. A dark kitchen in this sense
Speaker 1: is a facility where a restaurant can produce it's dishes,
Speaker 1: specifically for delivery services like door dash. So the idea
Speaker 1: here is that the home restaurant can really focus on
Speaker 1: serving customers at that location, whether it's people who are
Speaker 1: dining in or picking up or whatever. And the dark
Speaker 1: kitchens will make the same dishes, but in facilities that
Speaker 1: are inside these warehouses that are dedicated just to producing
Speaker 1: meals meant for delivery services. So you can order a
Speaker 1: delivery of that delicious pia from your favorite Spanish restaurant,
Speaker 1: but it could be that the dishes actually made in
Speaker 1: a warehouse somewhere, not in that restaurant's dedicated kitchen. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Microsoft is reportedly the first US based company that had
Speaker 1: previously invested in Uber to then go and invest in
Speaker 1: Cloud Kitchen, and according to FT dot com, some folks
Speaker 1: who were at least at one time associated with Cloud
Speaker 1: Kitchen are saying that the culture there is just as
Speaker 1: toxic or perhaps even worse as the bad old days
Speaker 1: at Uber, saying there's this massive issue with turnover due
Speaker 1: to that terrible culture. So I guess some thing's never change,
Speaker 1: all right. We've got a few more stories that we
Speaker 1: need to cover before we get to that. Let's take
Speaker 1: another quick break over at Google. The company is cutting
Speaker 1: way back on expenses and we've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: tech companies in particular cut back on things like hiring,
Speaker 1: and some are going much further by being off employees
Speaker 1: at least in certain divisions, all in an effort to
Speaker 1: reduce expenses during our current economic turmoil. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to say recession, but economists are still divided about whether
Speaker 1: or not we're actually in one. I say, if it
Speaker 1: walks like a recession and quacks like a recession, it's
Speaker 1: a recession. But anyway, since there's not consensus, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say economic uncertainty or economic turmoil or whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: these cutbacks now include company travel at Google, so the
Speaker 1: company is stressing that all but the most critical company
Speaker 1: travel should be considered off the table, and that if
Speaker 1: employees have an option to say, attend a virtual event
Speaker 1: rather than a physical one, they should choose the virtual option. Now,
Speaker 1: if other companies follow suit, that is going to be
Speaker 1: a super tough situation for the airline industry, which heavily
Speaker 1: counts on regular business travel. And you know, it was
Speaker 1: just starting to get back into the swing of things
Speaker 1: after the pandemic effectively eliminated nearly all travel, particularly business travel,
Speaker 1: for a long while. So we'll have to keep our
Speaker 1: eyes on this see if this trend expands beyond Google
Speaker 1: and what effects that might cause down the line. Now
Speaker 1: that being said, United is reportedly investing fifteen million dollars
Speaker 1: into a startup air taxi company. As the name implies,
Speaker 1: an air taxi is a vehicle that flies from point
Speaker 1: A to point B, and the idea here is that
Speaker 1: this flying vehicle will take passengers from crowded city areas
Speaker 1: to nearby airports, skipping all the terrestrial traffic, all for
Speaker 1: the low low price of a hundred bucks a seat.
Speaker 1: On the low end, it could be much higher than that.
Speaker 1: United has conditionally agreed to purchase two hundred air taxis,
Speaker 1: with the option to buy two hundred more. The startup
Speaker 1: is called Eve air Mobility, and we should see its
Speaker 1: aircraft in operation sometime around at the earliest. These are
Speaker 1: going to be v T o L aircraft that's vertical
Speaker 1: takeoff and landing, so similar to how a helicopter operates,
Speaker 1: but not an actual helicopter, maybe more like a quad copter,
Speaker 1: but you know, vehicle sized. That's kind of that flying
Speaker 1: car concept we've been hearing about for a while now,
Speaker 1: and the hope is that United will find enough customers
Speaker 1: who are willing to pony up the cash to skip
Speaker 1: out on having to navigate through tough traffic in places
Speaker 1: like New York City and Chicago. By the way, there
Speaker 1: are already helicopter taxi services in New York that can
Speaker 1: take you from say, Manhattan to JFK. There's a company
Speaker 1: called Blade that does that for the low, low price
Speaker 1: of a bucks per person. And yeah, this is expensive, right,
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money to pay for a one
Speaker 1: way trip to an airport. But y'all, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: I have been in situations in New York where I
Speaker 1: was convinced I was going to miss my flight the
Speaker 1: as I was in a taxi that was stuck in
Speaker 1: stand still traffic. And if taking this option means I
Speaker 1: can avoid a nervous breakdown, I might be willing to
Speaker 1: fork over a couple hundred bucks, especially if I could
Speaker 1: expense it. But then we get back to that story
Speaker 1: about companies cutting back on travel expenses and shucks. Also, finally,
Speaker 1: I somehow missed the news last week that Twitter announced
Speaker 1: it was going to allow users to edit tweets. This
Speaker 1: is a feature that Twitter users have been asking for
Speaker 1: for years, but now we've learned a little bit more
Speaker 1: about how that's going to work. So the edit option
Speaker 1: is only active for thirty minutes from the point when
Speaker 1: you post a tweet, and users will only be able
Speaker 1: to edit it up to five times. So if you've
Speaker 1: edited it five times, or if thirty minutes have passed,
Speaker 1: that's it. You can't touch that tweet again. Moreover, this
Speaker 1: option is only going to go to a sub of
Speaker 1: Twitter Blue users. Twitter Blue is a subscription tier of
Speaker 1: Twitter service, so that means these folks who are accessing
Speaker 1: it are essentially paying to have access to that feature.
Speaker 1: It's initially launching in New Zealand, and Twitter will monitor
Speaker 1: how people use it and whether or not folks start
Speaker 1: to abuse the feature. You can imagine someone using Twitter
Speaker 1: to post something really controversial or terrible, then waiting a
Speaker 1: bit and then go back in and edit the tweet
Speaker 1: to make it appear innocent. Instigators and trolls would likely
Speaker 1: use that feature to do just that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you might assume that a posted tweet is
Speaker 1: most seen within that thirty minutes of posting, because otherwise
Speaker 1: it tends to get buried below other tweets. So a
Speaker 1: troll might just decide to post something really awful weight
Speaker 1: twenty nine minutes and then go in and edit the tweet,
Speaker 1: and then you've got your plausible deniability while your followers
Speaker 1: all saw the terrible things you said and maybe take
Speaker 1: action base upon it. That's something Twitter is going to
Speaker 1: have to be on the lookout for. And you know,
Speaker 1: once upon a time, I was one of those folks
Speaker 1: who really felt there needed to be an edit feature
Speaker 1: on Twitter, specifically so you can fix innocent stuff like typos,
Speaker 1: particularly if you made a typo when you were typing
Speaker 1: out an at reply to someone and your message would
Speaker 1: otherwise go to the wrong person. But as we've seen
Speaker 1: folks weaponize their Twitter accounts in order to target vulnerable
Speaker 1: people or to spread misinformation, I have grown more concerned
Speaker 1: than an edit feature will really just help bad actors
Speaker 1: cover their tracks. Anyway, Twitter has plans to extend the
Speaker 1: rollout to countries like Australia, Canada, and the US after
Speaker 1: seeing how folks use it in New Zealand. My guess
Speaker 1: is that Twitter is going to pay very close attention
Speaker 1: to this and make tweaks on the system as they
Speaker 1: see problems arise. Because I'm certain the people at Twitter
Speaker 1: are aware of the potential abuse scenarios. That's it for
Speaker 1: the news for Thursday, September eight, twenty two. If you
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