As Artificial Intelligence strengthens its grip over our lives, there has been an increase in expert voices that suggest curbing the influence as it can threaten humanity’s existence. A recent survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, around 61%, more than two-third of the American population, agree that AI threatens the future of humanity.
Twitter has suspended its services in Turkey a day before elections in the country. Twitter didn’t specify what type of content will be restricted but users suspect it’ll be about the elections. The ban was announced on a legal request just a day before Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, but twitter didn’t declare who made the request.
Elon Musk has finally announced the new CEO of twitter after months of speculation. Elon Musk has named Linda Yaccarino as new chief executive of the company while Elon Musk will remain the executive chairman and chief technology officer.
Twitter has announced that it’ll be launching encrypted DMs for verified users only. Twitter will only let its verified users who have blue ticks on their profiles to access the encrypted messaging services.
SpaceX is set to spend $2 billion on Starship rocket development this year after the previous rocket exploded midair. On 20th of April, SpaceX launched the biggest rocket ever constructed from its spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas. The Starship vehicle, developed to transport humans on a mission to Mars in the future, took off from the launch pad but exploded while airborne without any crew on board.
Twitter has restored blue ticks for many users with over millions of followers. Twitter removed blue ticks from high profile accounts recently accusing the users of not paying the due subscription fees to twitter. The accounts whose blue ticks were removed included the BBC, New York Times and some other celebrities too.
SpaceX will attempt to launch the most powerful rocket system ever developed in the entire history. SpaceX’s Starship has almost double the thrust of a conventional rocket. The two-stage rocket ship will send the upper part of the vehicle eastward in order to complete one trip around the earth.
Elon Musk had targeted the New York based newspaper by removing its blue tick after it refused to pay for it. The New York Times with 54 million strong following now looks like a random account without the blue tick. Since Musk took over twitter last year, the micro-blogging platform has been charging its users $8 a month for the blue tick to increase its revenues.
David Andreyev, a youtuber known for his obsession with the Tesla electric vehicles, is set to come up with his own customized version of Tesla Roadster and Cybertruck. David, “Cyber Hooligan” on YouTube, is taking the Tesla vehicles to another level by mashing up both the vehicles and creating a CyberRoadster.
An investigative report has revealed that Twitter has become increasingly dangerous for various reasons. Since Elon Musk took over the microblogging platform, child sexual exploitation and trolling have skyrocketed. The investigative report titled ‘Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more’ was published by BBC.
In yet another round of Twitter layoffs, Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk has fired additional 200 employees. This is not the first time layoffs, but rather a continuation of the series of layoffs Musk has been doing since he took over. Further layoffs have reduced Twitter’s workforce by 10% out of the 2000 prior workforce.
The news may have come as a surprise to many, but surprisingly, the twitter CEO Elon Musk has said it himself. He talked about his retirement as twitter CEO by the end of this year. He just recently took over the social media giant and has already started looking for someone to look after the platform when he retires in late 2023.
