Hey there welcome to Brainy and welcome to a brand new episode of tech news.
The series on this channel in which I give a breakdown of some of the top tech news of
the day or week.
Keeping you informed whenever something new pops up.
So let's get into the news.
First up we have a very interesting story coming from gadgetsnow.com and it seems that
twitter has accidentally been forcing people to follow Donald trump.
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to follow US President Donald Trump on Twitter
after a technical glitch, prompting the social networking site to apologize to users.
The new President was handed control of the @POTUS account when he took the oath of office
at Friday's inauguration.
Some users parted ways with @POTUS on the social network once it changed hands from
former president Barack Obama to Trump.
However, for reasons unexplained, they automatically re-followed the presidential account without
their permission.
Users who noticed the glitch were quick to bring it to the attention of Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey who acknowledged "mistakes" in the process that caused users who unfollowed the
POTUS account to follow it without opting to do so.
He explained in a series of tweets that users who followed President Obama's new handle
-- @POTUS44 -- after noon on Friday were automatically set to follow the Trump-run @POTUS handle.
In addition, "some people who unfollowed @POTUS in the past were mistakenly marked to now
follow @POTUS," Dorsey said via Twitter.
"This also affected other official Administration accounts like @VP, @WhiteHouse, and @PressSec."
"We believe this affected about 560,000 people.
This was a mistake, it wasn't right, we own it, and we apologize.
No excuses," he tweeted.
Dorsey said the issue has been corrected.
So this story is actually pretty interesting and I do find it kind of strange that this
problem happened to people who unfollowed the account of the US president.
Coincidence or not it's still pretty weird that this accident happened directly in relation
to the @potus handle.
What passes through my mind is the possibility of the problem actually happening to other
users who unfollowed other accounts on twitter and may not have known this glitch happened
to them, or even the chance of twitter glitching out in the future and this same problem occurring
again.
Either way I hope twitter holds everything together to prevent this from happening again.
Moving on Samsung teases tablet for Mobile World Congress reveal.
Now the interesting thing about this story is the fact that I said in a previous video
that Samsung would not be appearing at the mobile world congress with the Samsung galaxy
s8 but it seems they have another device in mind.
Samsung just sent out invitations for its MWC press event complete with a shadowy image
of what seems to be a new slate.
The invite doesn't give away any details, but a supposed Galaxy Tab S3 did pass through
the FCC earlier today, and Korean outlet ET News claims the device will have a 9.6-inch
2048 x 1536 display, a Snapdragon 820 processor, and 4GB of RAM.
The 2015 Galaxy Tab S2 was a solid tablet with an exceptionally slim design.
It wasn't particularly cutting-edge even upon release, though, so Samsung's mainstream
tablet line is due a refresh.
The event is on February 26th at 1PM ET.
So quite interesting.
Our next story comes from theverge.com.
Mozilla is shutting down the group behind Firefox OS.
Mozilla is shutting down its "connected devices" group, which was responsible for
the failed smartphone operating system Firefox OS and, more recently, attempts to build the
OS into devices like routers, streaming boxes, and even basic computers.
CNET first reported the news, saying that "about 50 people" are being laid off from
the company.
Ari Jaaksi, who's been in charge of Mozilla's connected devices unit for a little over two
years, is also said to be leaving.
Mozilla confirmed that it was cutting positions in a statement to The Verge.
The company said it would shift its focus to researching new technologies for connected
devices and "step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial products."
To some extent, this dissolution of Mozilla's connected devices group feels like it's
been a long time coming.
Mozilla has had no luck when it comes to mobile, and it hasn't been clear what benefits Firefox
could bring to routers and other connected devices that existing platforms couldn't
offer.
With Mozilla being controlled by a nonprofit, its ability to offer a strong alternate platform
could have had a meaningful impact on how major players in the connected devices space
decide to deal with privacy.
But Mozilla's initiative to get Firefox inside of connected devices never really got
off the ground.
It gave up on putting Firefox OS into phones back in late 2015, and began shifting over
to "exploring the IoT market" last year — making some layoffs in the process.
Whatever came of that effort never made it to the public.
For its part, Mozilla still believes it could find a role in the growing ecosystem of connected
devices.
"IoT is clearly an emerging technology space," the company says, "but it's still early."
And finally the last story also comes from theverge.com . Google's self-driving cars
just got way better at driving themselves California's Department of Motor Vehicles
released its annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report today, in which all the companies that
are actively testing self-driving cars on public roads in the Golden State disclose
the number of times that human drivers were forced to take control of their driverless
vehicles.
The biggest news to come out of this report is from Waymo, Google's new self-driving
car company, which reported a huge drop in disengagements in 2016 despite an almost equally
huge increase in the number of miles driven.
In other words, Waymo's self-driving cars are failing at a much lower rate, even as
they are driving a whole lot more miles.
The company says that since 2015, its rate of safety-related disengages has fallen from
0.8 per thousand miles to 0.2 per thousand miles in 2016.
So while Waymo increased its driving by 50 percent in the state — racking up a total
of 635,868 miles — the company's total number of reportable disengages fell from
341 in 2015 to 124.
"This four-fold improvement reflects the significant work we've been doing to make
our software and hardware more capable and mature," Dmitri Dolgov, head of self-driving
technology for Waymo, wrote in a blog post.
"And because we're creating a self-driving car that can take you from door to door, almost
all our time has been spent on complex urban or suburban streets.
This has given us valuable experience sharing the road safely with pedestrians and cyclists,
and practicing advanced maneuvers such as making unprotected left turns and traversing
multi-lane intersections."
The majority of Waymo's disengagements were the result of "software glitches," the
company says.
"Unwanted maneuvers," "perception discrepancies," and "recklessly behaving road user" also
accounted for dozens of disengagements.
There were no reports of crashes or accidents.
California requires companies that want to test autonomous vehicles on the roads to register
for an autonomous driving permit.
As part of this program, companies are also required to report their disengagement rates
to the DMV, which then makes those numbers public.
This requirement was likely a factor in Uber's refusal to obtain an autonomous permit, resulting
in the DMV revoking the ride-hail company's vehicle registration for its self-driving
cars.
Waymo is miles ahead of its competitors in public testing.
While a host of car and tech companies have been testing for many years privately, Waymo
still has the edge on real-world experience.
Also, the news of the improvements in Waymo's self-driving technology comes just as the
company plans to deploy its fleet of autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans, which it first
debuted at the Detroit auto show last month.
The vans will hit the road in Mountain View, CA, and Phoenix, AZ, sometime in the next
few days.
And that's just about it
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