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Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso

13 novembre 2018 / noflux

“Lasso is Facebook’s latest bid to win over teens, which the large social media platform has lost its hold over. In 2018, only half of teens say they still use Facebook, compared to in 2014, when 71 percent of them said they did. The app was first reported as in development in late October.On Lasso, users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music, similar to what they can already do on TikTok. The app also lets users record short clips like Vines.”

Source : Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso – The Verge

6 novembre 2018 / noflux

“Le député soulignait la « pression psychologique sur les plus jeunes » qui « les met en danger en les obligeant à réaliser des défis de plus en plus dangereux ». En 2017, la police nationale avait mis en garde contre les risques d’un jeu similaire, le « Blue whale challenge », qui poussait les jeunes à relever pendant cinquante jours des défis chaque fois plus dangereux jusqu’à la dernière étape : le suicide”

Source : « Momo challenge » : un père porte plainte contre YouTube, WhatsApp et l’Etat

4 novembre 2018 / noflux

“Earlier this week, The Intercept was able to select “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined “detailed targeting” criterion on the social network to promote two articles to an interest group that Facebook pegged at 168,000 users large and defined as “people who have expressed an interest or like pages related to White genocide conspiracy theory.” The paid promotion was approved by Facebook’s advertising wing. After we contacted the company for comment, Facebook promptly deleted the targeting category, apologized, and said it should have never existed in the first place.”

Source : Facebook Allowed Advertisers to Target Users Interested in “White Genocide” — Even in Wake of Pittsburgh Massacre

1 novembre 2018 / noflux

“In apps marketed for children 5 and under in the Google Play store, there were pop-up ads with disturbing imagery. There were ads that no child could reasonably be expected to close out of, and which, when triggered, would send a player into more ads. Dancing treasure chests would give young players points for watching video ads, potentially endlessly. The vast majority of ads were not marked at all. Characters in children’s games gently pressured the kids to make purchases, a practice known as host-selling, banned in children’s TV programs in 1974 by the Federal Trade Commission. At other times an onscreen character would cry if the child did not buy something. “The first word that comes to mind is furious,” said Dr. Radesky, an assistant professor of developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School.”

Source : Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads – The New York Times

1 novembre 2018 / noflux

“Waymo’s permit includes day and night testing on city streets, rural roads, and highways with posted speed limits of up to 65 mph. “Our vehicles can safely handle fog and light rain, and testing in those conditions is included in our permit,” the company says. “We will gradually begin driverless testing on city streets in a limited territory and, over time, expand the area that we drive in as we gain confidence and experience to expand.” Waymo won’t offer rides to the public right off the bat; the company is close to launching its first commercial taxi service using its fleet of autonomous minivans in Phoenix, Arizona. ”

Source : Waymo gets the green light to test fully driverless cars in California – The Verge

1 novembre 2018 / noflux

“Voilà qui pourrait mettre une épine dans le pied du ministre de l’économie et des finances, Bruno Le Maire, qui multiplie les efforts pour convaincre l’Europe d’adopter une taxe européenne sur les GAFA, l’acronyme qui désigne Google, Amazon, Facebook et Apple. Seize dirigeants de grandes entreprises européennes du numérique ont adressé mardi 30 octobre une lettre aux ministres européens des finances demandant « de ne pas adopter de mesure qui causerait un dommage matériel à la croissance économique, à l’innovation et à l’emploi en Europe ». Lire aussi : Comment la France tente de sauver la taxe numérique européenne Parmi eux figurent Daniel Ek, le patron de Spotify, Kati Levoranta, la patronne du créateur de jeux vidéo finlandais Rovio, Robert Gentz, le cofondateur du site d’e-commerce Zalando, ou Gillian Tans, qui dirige le site de réservations touristiques Booking.com.”

Source : La tech européenne proteste contre le projet de taxe numérique visant les GAFA

1 novembre 2018 / noflux

“L’Association des maires de France et des députés LREM soutiennent la proposition du maire de Cannes, David Lisnard, de taxer de 1 euro chaque achat sur Internet pour financer la baisse de la taxe foncière des petits commerçants de proximité. ”

Source : Les maires veulent alléger la fiscalité locale du petit commerce

30 octobre 2018 / noflux

“But the rest of the world doesn’t even need to clamp down on the alternative web to relegate it to irrelevancy. The reason why these echo chambers are mostly ghost towns, Squirrell says, is that they deprive posters of the one thing that many of them crave: attention. “A huge amount of the culture that these people have is that they want to trigger as many people as possible,” he says. And to do that, you’re better off on the real internet. “If you want to produce something that will eventually get out into the world, 4chan is the place to do it,” Squirrel says.”

Source : The wheels are falling off the alt-right’s version of the internet | WIRED UK

30 octobre 2018 / noflux

“Cette affaire, comme beaucoup d’autres, illustre une nouvelle fois la difficulté qu’a Twitter à modérer son réseau social. Malgré les avalanches d’annonces ces dernières années visant à faire de cette plate-forme un espace de discussion plus « sain », Twitter a échoué à supprimer une menace de mort signalée par la personne ciblée – et n’a réagi que lorsque l’auteur de ce message a fait les gros titres. Malgré les efforts annoncés par Twitter, les messages de haine, les menaces et le harcèlement parviennent à subsister sur le réseau social.”

Source : Colis piégés aux Etats-Unis : Twitter s’excuse d’avoir laissé en ligne des menaces du suspect

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