The Morning After: Facebook's very busy day

It's Thursday, April 05, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Hopefully your day isn’t as busy as yesterday was for Facebook. We’ll explain what the social network is up to now, plus take a look at the first of many powerful-and-light gaming laptops on the way.   A formidable mix of power and portability.   Gigabyte Aero 15X review: the best lightweight gaming laptop yet   The earlier Aero 15X was already the most capable lightweight gaming laptop you could buy, but Gigabyte made the latest version even better. With an all-new six-core Intel processor and gaming display, it offers a rare blend of performance, portability and battery life that Steve Dent believe blows away rivals. Someone is feeling the pressure.   Facebook’s big day   With CEO Mark Zuckerberg scheduled to speak in front of Congress on April 11th, Facebook went into news overdrive. While revealing that up to 87 million people may have had their information “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica, it announced several changes to its data policy to further restrict what app developers and partners can pull. It buried a mention that scammers could have scraped public-profile info from “most” of its two billion plus users while explaining that it’s disabling the ability to search for people by phone number or email address, then proposed a rewritten data policy and TOS that more clearly explain how everything works. And then Zuckerberg himself hopped on a conference call with reporters to (try to) wrap everything up. The company's AI efforts are spreading from photos to video.   Adobe Sensei AI will automatically color-match shots in Premiere   All you have to do is tweak one shot just the way you want it, and Color Match will apply the corrections to your other shots as editable color adjustments. Beyond that, Sensei AI can key on skin tones in photos, auto-adjust music levels during dialog and more.   Sponsored Content by StackCommerce Get This Cisco IT Certification Training Bundle For $49 The Big Picture   Photos show the epic scale of VW Dieselgate   $25 billion in claims and fines. 500,000 vehicles affected. 294,000 vehicles in storage.   It’s like Netflix, except almost entirely not. BMW's car subscription starts at $2,000 per month   The automaker has launched a pilot Access by BMW program in Nashville, giving subscribers a more flexible alternative to ownership, which lets them switch cars easily (through a mobile app, of course). Opt for the performance-oriented $3,700 M tier to freely choose between the M4 convertible, M5, M6 convertible, X5M and X6M.   But wait, there's more... 1. It's time to talk about mental illness in indie development 2. The best tablets for kitchen use 3. What you might have missed from the New York Auto Show 4. Bloomberg: Apple is exploring 'touchless' gestures and curved iPhone screens The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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The Morning After: The real world doesn't matter in ‘Ready Player One’

It's Wednesday, April 04, 2018. Hey, good morning! Today, we have a refreshed Reddit, for the first time in forever, test the newest (and cheaper) iPad and take a closer look at Ready Player One.    Her family said they warned police.   YouTube shooting suspect posted angry videos about demonetization, filtering policies   Yesterday afternoon a woman shot and wounded three people on YouTube’s campus in San Bruno, CA, before shooting and killing herself. Police identified the suspect as Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old who had posted a number of videos on her YouTube channels expressing her anger at supposed filtering and demonetization negatively affecting her videos. The police said that, at this time, there is no evidence the shooter knew or specifically targeted the victims. Additionally, her father said that after Mountain View police found Aghdam asleep in a parking lot Tuesday morning, he told them he was concerned about her ire with YouTube. It doesn't look like a message board from the ‘90s anymore.   Reddit's first redesign in years is a major one   Reddit has looked pretty much the same these past years, barely changing since it first introduced subreddits in 2008. Its first major redesign in a long time is now available to one percent of the website's population and will make its way to more people in the coming months. The social network has been working on a redesign over the past year, making sure not to stray too far from what it currently looks like, while making things much easier to use and navigate for newbies.   You won't find a better tablet for the price   Apple iPad review (2018): a little better, a little less competition   Apple’s new iPad is here, and well, it’s business as usual. While it might not thrill, it’s the best cheapest iPad the company’s ever made, and there's enough performance and polish here for everyone.   It's powerful, comfortable and expensive.   HTC Vive Pro review: Better in every way, but it’s not for you   The Vive Pro has everything we wanted in HTC’s first VR headset. But it’s incredibly expensive, especially if you need to buy new accessories. At this point, it’s clearly only meant for VR professionals -- and those rich enough to afford an iterative upgrade.   Making its own in-house chips for the Mac makes more sense than ever.   I can’t wait for laptops with Apple’s own chips   Apple might be ready to ditch Intel's x86 chips in the Mac in favor of a custom-designed piece of silicon. At least that's the story out of Bloomberg, which believes that a transition by Apple to its own CPUs could begin by 2020. It's just a single, as yet unsubstantiated story, but it's already made a dent in Intel's share price, even if Apple is hardly its biggest customer. And yet it's clear that, between Intel's recent problems and Apple's successes, it's time.   Work hard, play hard.   Dell's spring lineup is filled with all-in-ones and gaming PCs   The latest refresh of Dell PCs hits at all levels, whether its all-in-one, XPS laptop, the new Dell G mid-range gaming line or high-end Alienware setups. Naturally Intel’s latest eighth-generation CPUs are available, including the six-core i9 chip for laptops unveiled last night. But wait, there's more... 1. $20,000 mail drone takes flight -- and hits a wall (and yes, there's video) 2. Apple hires Google's former AI leader to run its AI strategy, reporting directly to Tim Cook 3. Spotify is now a public company -- without doing a traditional IPO 4. Sony Xperia XZ2 review: memorable looks, forgettable features 5. In 'Ready Player One,' the real world doesn't matter The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.