According to the report, the phone starts to slow down after using the camera continuously for a few minutes. It shows overheating warnings and eventually stops working, turning off the flash and later the camera. The device reportedly doesn’t get uncomfortably hot when these overheating warnings pop up though. This indicates the problem is caused by a software bug rather than a hardware flaw. The Camera app in the Pixel 5 is triggering the overheating warnings at quite low temperatures than it should....

Meng is a strong proponent of mindfulness and is quoted as saying that it could “change the world.” To get a full understanding of what he means by that, read Mindful.org’s article on “Meng’s Peace Plan” in which Meng expounds his “three easy steps to world peace” (spoiler alert: meditation is a key component). The book is slated for a May 2012 publication date. In the meantime, you can also read Mindful....

Wear OS has definitely been neglected over the past couple of years. Google failed to release any notable updates to Wear OS 2 after a while, and we all began to lose faith in it. However, last year, Google announced that it wanted to pay more attention to its smartwatch operating system and unveiled Wear OS 3. We’re still waiting to really see Wear OS 3 at its full potential, as it’s slowly trickling to the general populace....

Rosen said that the prevalence of hate speech on Facebook has dipped by 50% over the past three quarters (9 months). Moreover, Facebook also shared a graph illustrating the downward trend. “What these documents demonstrate is that our integrity work is a multi-year journey. While we will never be perfect, our teams continually work to develop our systems, identify issues and build solutions,” Rosen said in the post (via). The aforementioned WSJ report pointed out that Facebook’s AI systems could do little to curb hate speech on the platform....

As I write this, hanging out is discouraged and even outlawed during the pandemic, and we’ve relied on technological substitutes. Nevertheless, no virus can remove the human propensity to gather. Community is essential to life. And yet, our pull to community requires continual examination, because the very glue we use to hold ourselves together in community can fester into in-groupiness, where the key defining feature of the group is who is excluded....