YouTube gets paid by encouraging your kids to cheat
YouTube is under fire again, this time for promoting cheating in school! It seems the site finally took down hundreds of videos that were steering our kids to sites that would offer to do their work for them! More details in this Consumer Tech Update.
Uber and the catastrophic failure of its self driving car
Uber recently published videos of passengers riding in self-driving cars. None of them were paying attention or noticed anything outside the car. Now with the accident in Tempe, Arizona, one of those Uber cars struck and killed a pedestrian as she was pushing her bicycle across the street. The so-called safety driver wasn’t paying attention! This fatal accident should be a wake-up call.
Don't underestimate how much trouble Facebook is in right now
Facebook’s management doesn’t seem to understand why daily use on the site is continually falling. It may be because of all of the false promises Facebook has made about fixing problems like fake news and conspiracy videos. Facebook would do well to remember the fall of Myspace and what happened to Nokia and Blackberry.
YouTube's poor decision to reduce conspiracy videos
YouTube’s new “plan” to combat conspiracy theories is to fact check videos using various third party links. The problem is that those links are going to potentially unreliable sources.
Fake video - Just got real
Fake videos are about to become very accurate