⏳ Instagram has decided to compete with YouTube. The social media platform has begun testing a horizontal video format with videos up to 90 minutes long.
The videos will appear in the main feed, the Explore section, and the TV app. Users will be able to start watching on their smartphones and finish watching on TV.
🏃 🇺🇸 Three self-driving taxis in the U.S. couldn't figure out how to share the road — vehicles from Zoox, Waymo, and Tesla were unable to navigate past one another on a road in Austin.
😮💨 🇮🇳 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with an AI avatar of spiritual leader Swami Chinmayananda, who passed away in 1993. The avatar praised Modi and expressed support for him.
🔥 Fast food could steal up to 10 years of your life, doctors warn. According to some estimates, a single burger takes away around 36 minutes of healthy life.
The reason is the excess of salt, calories, and unhealthy fats, which, when consumed regularly, increase the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and colorectal cancer.
💡 An algorithmic news feed has appeared in the beta version of Telegram. News will have a separate tab, as shown in the screenshot, and users will be able to choose which channels' posts appear in a unified feed.
• Channels in the “News” tab can be read even without subscribing to them. • The second tab will be “For You” — an algorithm-driven feed similar to TikTok or Twitter.