Facebook launches ‘Youth Portal’ with privacy tips for teens

Facebook and other social networks can be a pretty toxic place for kids and teens, with at least one study coming to the conclusion that they deepen young people’s feelings of inadequacy.

On Tuesday, the social network launched a Youth Portal, which it says provides a “guide to all things” teens need “to have a great experience on Facebook.”

It covers the basics all Facebook users (not just young people) need to know, including privacy measures such as activating two-factor and using strong passwords, as well as tips on how to spot scams. However, it also doles out advice for teens and contains information on how the website uses their data.

Under a section called “Guiding Principles,” Facebook advised young users to think (for 5 seconds) before they post publicly.

“There will always be people at your school who are social media overshares (and adults in your life who are, too). Resist the urge, ignore their noise and save the juicy details for your close friends only,” Liz Perle, the social media’s youth and emerging trends consultant, wrote.

Perle advised teens to say something if a friend posts anything that makes them feel uncomfortable, to talk to someone if there’s anybody in their friends list who’s making them feel bad about themselves or if using Facebook is making them feel sad or stressed out in general. And for those doing the bullying, one of her other tips is “don’t be a jerk” — “Whatever energy you put out in the world, you’ll get back,” she wrote.

The portal also has a Privacy section that explains, in simple terms, how Facebook uses people’s data to improve its services and to figure out which ads to show. It explains how it shares data with researchers, vendors, advertisers and law enforcement in the face of legal requests from authorities. “We don’t sell your content or data,” that section reads, as if in defense of its data privacy issues. “We never have, and we never will. You will still own your photos and videos.”

Facebook said it spoke with teens from the U.K., U.S., Italy and Brazil to build the portal and that it’s holding more roundtables in the future to hear more from its younger users. The Youth Portal is now live and available in 60 languages, making it pretty accessible to teens around the world.

MIT built a self-driving car that can navigate unmapped country roads

Taking the road less traveled is extremely difficult for self-driving cars. Autonomous vehicles rely on highly visible lane markings, as well as detailed 3D maps in order to navigate their environment safely.

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows self-driving cars to drive on roads they’ve never been on before without 3D maps. Called MapLite, the system combines simple GPS data that you’d find on Google Maps with a series of sensors that observe the road conditions.

Source: The Verge

Stephen Hawking predicted ‘the end of the universe’ two weeks before his death

A theory explaining how we might detect parallel universes and a prediction for the end of the world was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, it has emerged.

The renowned theoretical physicist was working right up until his death last week on his final work – A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation – which is currently being reviewed by a leading scientific journal. In it he predicted that the universe would eventually end when stars run out of energy.

But Hawking also theorized in his final work that scientists could find alternate universes using probes on space ships, allowing humans to form an even better understanding of our own universe, what else is out there and our place in the cosmos.

The physicist’s final work was published alongside his co-author, Professor Thomas Hertog, of KU Leuven University in Belgium.

“He has often been nominated for the Nobel and should have won it. Now he never can,” Prof Hertog told The Sunday Times, arguing that Hawking could have won that prize for his work on this final paper.

He “would have won a Nobel Prize”, Prof Hertog said.

Hawking died last Wednesday in Cambridge at the age of 76, having suffered from a rare form of motor neuron disease since 1964 that left him in a wheelchair with very little muscular mobility.

That disease left him reliant upon people or technology for virtually every part of his life, including eating, bathing, dressing, and even speaking.

To communicate with others, Hawking used a speech synthesiser that allowed him to speak with a computerised voice that had an American accent.

He was perhaps best known for the publication of his landmark book A Brief History of Time. Published in 1988, it went on to sell more than 10 million copies.

Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76

Stephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity, died early Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 76.

His death was confirmed by a spokesman for Cambridge University.

“Not since Albert Einstein has a scientist so captured the public imagination and endeared himself to tens of millions of people around the world,” Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, said in an interview.

Dr. Hawking did that largely through his book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes,” published in 1988. It has sold more than 10 million copies and inspired a documentary film by Errol Morris. The 2014 film about his life, “The Theory of Everything,” was nominated for several Academy Awards and Eddie Redmayne, who played Dr. Hawking, won the Oscar for best actor.

 

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Ever Wondered that If Phone Could Fly

Wait is over now.

LG is all set to launch an unbelievable but fascinating drone phone, LG U+ very soon.

As for its specifications, LG is calling the phone 2 in 1 drone phone. The uniqueness of the phone lies in the fact that the phone can fly in the thin air and the user can take selfies, take video calls, do cliff jumping swimming, and paragliding, the phone can accompany them everywhere anywhere.

Another feature of the phone is that it can self-charge, and it has an extremely high-intensity flashlight of 5000cd.

We can expect that the price of the phone will be really expensive, globally. A normal smartphone with moderate features is expensive these days, but here we are talking about a phone that can just move in the air, around you, with no support, take your selfies without you stretching your hands, capture your adventurous moments by being on your side, and allow you to multitask.

The world’s first flying car you can buy is now taking orders

The world’s first flying car that you can buy has been unveiled at the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland.

Dutch firm PAL-V revealed its final production model Tuesday and is now taking pre-orders for the car/aircraft on its website.

PAL-V said the first delivery will be made in 2019 once the production model has received final safety certifications.

The firm claims the two-person vehicle has a top road speed of about 100 miles per hour (mph) while it can reach 112 mph in the air. With a maximum altitude of 11,000 feet, the air range is estimated to top out at around 350 miles.

Transforming from road to air isn’t quite as simple as pushing a button, requiring manual intervention, but Pal-V claims this can be done in less than 10 minutes.

The first limited edition model will retail at an expected 499,000 euros ($621,500) with only 90 available for sale. Thereafter a “Liberty Sport Edition” will be available for an expected price of 299,000 euros.

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Nokia brings back the 8110 slide phone from The Matrix

Nokia is hoping to bring the magic back by reviving the iconic 8110 from the film in the form of a 4G feature phone. 

The 8110 4G features the curved banana body from two decades ago, but it’s dropped the antenna and is also a fair bit smaller. As with the original, you can slide the keypad cover down to receive a call, and slide it back up to end the call.

There’s also a 2.4-inch color screen (320 x 240 pixels) with which to run apps on KaiOS (which was forked from Firefox OS), including a take on the classic Snake game. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm 205 chip, with 512MB RAM, and also comes with a 2-megapixel camera.

Nokia claims that you can get up to 25 days of standby time on a single charge with the 8110. That, along with its dual SIM support, could make it a handy device to carry around when you travel.

Pop-up cameras could soon be a mobile trend

There’s an interesting concept making its way around Mobile World Congress. Two gadgets offer cameras hidden until activated, which offer a fresh take on design and additional privacy. Vivo built a camera into a smartphone concept that’s on a little sliding tray and Huawei will soon offer a MacBook Pro clone that features a camera hidden under a door above the keyboard.

This could be glimpse of the future of mobile design.

Source: TechCrunch