New Jersey’s attorney general has opened an investigation into Twitch and Discord over extremist content in connection to the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The gunman live-streamed part of the shooting on Twitch, a live video social media platform controlled by Amazon. He also shared plans and an invitation to view the shooting on a private Discord server. More: - New Jersey's Division of Consumer Affairs will investigate whether the platforms violated state law by claiming robust content moderation but still allowing violent extremist content.
- The probe will determine if the platforms experienced policy and/or moderation failures that allowed the hateful and racist content to spread.
- A similar investigation was launched by New York's attorney general last week. It will focus on Twitch and Discord, along with the websites 4chan and 8kun, previously 8chan, which are all platforms the shooter allegedly used to spread his white supremacist ideology.
- According to reports, the suspect live-streamed the attack on Twitch, which removed the original footage two minutes later. The video has also appeared on other social media platforms.
- The suspect, an 18-year-old white male, was charged with first-degree murder for killing 10 people, all of whom were Black, at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo on May 14. Authorities may also bring hate crime and terrorism charges against the suspect.
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 Walmart said it will expand its drone delivery network to 37 sites in six U.S. states this year, reaching as many as 4 million households. The air deliveries will launch from Walmart stores in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. More: - According to Axios, this marks the first large-scale drone delivery service in the U.S., where most deliveries have been relegated to small towns.
- Walmart says customers who live within range will be able to order from 100,000 products at a maximum weight of 10 pounds per order. The fee per delivery is $3.99.
- The deliveries will be flown remotely by a pilot to a customer's driveway or yard and lowered via a cable.
- Operator DroneUp will make the deliveries at 34 of the sites, with other companies covering the remaining three sites.
- Walmart previously launched limited drone deliveries in Arkansas and North Carolina.
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A small group of employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software has voted to unionize, making it the first union at any major video-game company in the U.S. The quality assurance workers voted 19 in favor and 3 against to form the Game Workers Alliance with the Communications Workers of America. More: - Raven Software is the Activision-owned studio that's worked on "Call of Duty" games.
- The gaming giant faced criticism for its treatment of part-time QA workers, who have described feeling "undervalued and exploited" with too many demands and too little pay. The QA workers engaged in a weeks-long strike and walkout after Activision ended 20 contracts in December.
- Activision Blizzard was accused of undermining the unionization efforts and also refused to voluntarily recognize the Game Workers Alliance.
- Last month, Activision Blizzard said it would convert all of its 1,100 temporary or contract QA workers in the U.S. to full-time employees. It also announced raises, which did not include the QA testers at Raven.
- In late 2021, Vodeo Games became the first gaming studio to formally unionize in North America. The indie studio has about a dozen remote employees in the U.S. and Canada.
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Snap will slow down hiring this year after telling employees that it will miss its quarterly targets for revenue and adjusted earnings, CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in an internal memo. The company also disclosed the news in an SEC filing, causing Snap shares to fall 30% in extended trading Monday. More: - Snap's growth is slower than expected due to rising inflation and interest rates, iOS privacy changes, supply chain shortages, the Ukraine war, and other challenges, Spiegel said.
- Due to the macroeconomic conditions, Snap said it will likely report revenue and adjusted earnings below its expectations.
- To offset the loss, Snap has also asked managers to evaluate spending to uncover additional cost savings.
- Snap also plans to hire 500+ more employees in 2022, in addition to 900 who have already accepted offers. This is a more than 40% increase in hiring YoY, but slower than the company had planned.
- Meanwhile, Meta Platforms said it will slow the pace of hiring this year as it faces lower-than-expected revenue growth. The company has also been impacted by Apple's data-privacy changes, the industry-wide downturn, and a loss of revenue in Russia following the Ukraine invasion.
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 Google announced a new smaller camera to capture more 360-degree imagery for Street View. The portable camera could make it easier to capture views in under-mapped areas such as the Amazon jungle, Google said. More: - The new camera is portable and modular and can be easily retrofitted to the top of a car's roof rack without customization, making it more flexible to use.
- The camera has the same resolution and processing capabilities as the full Street View car and setup.
- It weighs only 15 pounds, about 1/10 the weight of the current camera, and is “roughly the size of a house cat," according to Google.
- Google Maps is also rolling out a new feature to view historical Street View images on its iOS and Android apps.
- The "go back in time" feature was previously only available on the web.
- The cities with the oldest Street View data are San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.
- Both the camera and feature were unveiled today to coincide with Street View's 15th anniversary.
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Samsung said it will invest roughly $355B on core businesses including semiconductors and biopharmaceuticals over the next five years — a more than 30% increase from the South Korean conglomerate's previous five-year plan. Most of the funds will go toward chip design and manufacturing. More: - Samsung plans to create 80,000 new jobs through 2026, or about 16,000 positions a year.
- The bulk of the funding, about $285B, will be invested in South Korea.
- The investment includes advancements to mass-produce chips based on the 3-nanometer process.
- The company will also invest in biopharmaceuticals via its affiliates Samsung Biologics and Samsung Bioepis.
- The news comes after Samsung reported record revenue of $61.4B in the last quarter, driven by strong sales of its memory chips and flagship smartphones.
- Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones and TVs, has also announced plans for a chip-making factory near Austin, Texas, which is expected to start production in the second half of 2024.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and analyst at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily tech news. Since starting work at Inside, she has covered various topics including virtual reality, drones, and e-commerce. Prior to that she was a public policy and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, where she won a Pulitzer Prize nomination and First Amendment Award for reporting on the rising costs of pensions. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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