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Facebook open-sources APIs to help fight child exploitation and terrorist propaganda

Aug02
by on August 2, 2019 at 5:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Facebook today announced it’s open-sourcing two technologies that help it curb the spread of problematic content like child exploitation, terrorist propaganda, or graphic violence online. These technologies aid the social network in detecting identical and nearly identical photos and video in order to weed out content that’s been flagged as being in violation of its policies. The company said by using these open-sourced APIs, developers can create algorithms to match two similar files without the original image or video: These technologies create an efficient way to store files as short digital hashes that can determine whether two files are the…

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Call of Duty’s push for crossplay is exactly what the industry needs

Aug01
by on August 1, 2019 at 11:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Activision today confirmed that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will have crossplay on all of its consoles, from launch. It’s a watershed moment for the people who’ve been pushing for more crossplay in mainstream games — and, with a game this popular paving the way, it’ll likely only become more common now. To be clear, we’ve known for a while that developer Infinity Ward intended to put crossplay in Modern Warfare, just not how it was going to work and with what systems. The open multiplayer beta, which was shown today, will launch in two parts this September. The first…

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Activists created a free font made from gerrymandered US voting districts

Aug01
by on August 1, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Ugly Gerry is a new, free font created by a pair of activists apparently fed up with the US government’s practice of gerrymandering voting districts. Every letter in the font is composed of images of gerrymandered US voting districts. Though a couple letters (the X, for example) are composited from more than one district to make them legible, most of them are untouched representations of just how ridiculous US politics are. It’s here. GERRY. A font created by your congressional districts. Log on to https://t.co/WkuVp7oDpu and use the font to tell congress how happy you are that your vote doesn’t…

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