Slack went down, and the workers of the world united...on Twitter

Slack went down, and workers were left scrambling.

The popular workplace collaboration client suffered "connectivity issues" late Tuesday afternoon (PDT), affecting access to the service worldwide.

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Slack responded to tweets about the outage on Twitter, and on its status page — which had also been working intermittently — it said they were "actively investigating" the problem.

We're sincerely sorry for the service disruption you're seeing at the moment. We're working on it with top priority: https://t.co/hlhV4ZiG7E

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AT&T wants to put AI in the public's hands

Thanks to AT&T, you may soon be able to build your own AI-powered app. 

The Acumos "AI Marketplace," launched with open-source nonprofit the Linux Foundation, is currently open for "initial access" to companies who pay a registration fee. The platform will be released to the public, for free, in early 2018. 

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Acumos will provide a platform through which developers can select AI capabilities (such as location tracking and facial recognition) and string them together to create apps. The interface will be easy to use, according to Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs' vice president of advanced technology. Read more...

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Next year's iPhones won't have the new TrueDepth tech on its rear camera, says analyst

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I finally understand what the iPhone X 'notch' is for

I had an epiphany the other day. 

I was finalizing my review of LG V30, which would be my third review of a "bezel-less" phone in a row. And as I struggled to find the words to describe the V30's design, which is so similar to all the other big-screened Android flagships that came out lately, I finally realized that the iPhone X's "notch" is not only a good design choice — it's a necessary one. 

With the notch, the iPhone X has one extremely important advantage over most other flagship smartphones: It's different. 

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Don't get me wrong, I still don't like the notch. I'd still prefer the iPhone X without it — the idea of a phone that's essentially just a screen is so wonderfully futuristic that I'd be the first in line to buy one (I'll actually be the first in line to buy the iPhone X anyway, but that's because it's kinda my job).  Read more...

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You can now use Instagram in Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic

Languages written from right to left are having an Instagram moment. 

The photo-and-video social app now supports languages read from right to left, including Hebrew, Farsi, and Arabic. The new languages will first be available on Android devices.

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Instagram already has more than two dozen language options including Chinese, Greek, Turkish, and Swedish, but those are are all read left to right, like English. Now the app will be compatible with  languages written and read in the other direction.

Posts have already had Arabic and other right-to-left languages in the captions and on hashtags, but now the language settings will include that option within the framework of the app, so phrases like "Stories" and "Likes" will be in those languages. Read more...

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Here's how much better Snapchat lenses are on the iPhone X

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Watch your furniture come to life with this dynamic surface

MIT developed TRANSFORM, a shape-shifting interface that not only looks cool, but also makes your life easier.

The surface changes shape for a variety of purposes, revamping the ergonomics and functionality of the surface. Read more...

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NYC's plan to finally kill the MetroCard

New York City is preparing to join London in the transportation future. 

Last week, the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced a $573 million plan to replace its nearly 25-year-old MetroCard swiping system with a modernized payment program modeled after London's. It will allow the city's over 1.7 billion annual riders to waive a phone or card across a sensor, as opposed to swiping a flimsy card through a reader. 

The rollout of the system will begin in 2019. By 2023, the MTA plans to officially kill the MetroCard. 

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This AI nightmare bot spits out a new horror story every hour

Deep inside an MIT laboratory, an artificially intelligent bot is composing ghastly tales of nightmarish creatures and strange shrieks in the night. 

MIT researchers named their bot Shelley (after Frankenstein author Mary Shelley). They endowed her with an artificial mind, called a neural network, an advanced form of machine learning in which a computer learns a task by relying on training examples. In Shelley's case, MIT researchers fed her silicon brain 140,000 horror stories published by writers on Reddit's "No Sleep" forum.

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People are getting locked out of their Google Docs. Here's why you should be concerned

It turns out that even your private documents can be censored online. This morning, a ton of users reported being locked out of completely innocuous Google Docs for "inappropriate content." 

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Google's abuse policy prohibits the posting of serious threats, needlessly graphic or violent content, hate speech, harassment, confidential information, pornography, and anything illegal including child exploitation and copyrighted content. 

Today, however, multiple users believe that the content they were locked out of did not contain prohibited materialNational Geographic reporter Rachael Bale, who was locked out of a draft of a story about wildlife crime, claims that nothing in her document violated Google's policies. "It's about legal, but ethically dubious activity," she tweeted.  Read more...

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How to take a screenshot with the iPhone X

The iPhone X is finally here.

If you've been lucky enough to get your hands on one, then you know that the lack of a home button means you have to relearn quite a few basic tasks, like taking screenshots.

SEE ALSO: Apple iPhone X review: A bold step into the future

While other tasks, like app-switching, have replaced the home button with swipe gestures, taking a screen cap still requires you to press physical buttons. If you've ever been an Android user, then chances are, the new workflow will feel familiar. 

To take a screenshot with the iPhone X, hold the power switch and and the volume up key. You should still her the "click" and see the visual indication that the image was taken. Read more...

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These photos show how far the iPhone's camera has come, from the original to the iPhone X

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Your mailman could soon deliver packages on this electric scooter

An electric three-wheel scooter with a compartment for packages could one day become the preferred method for parcel delivery. With the eCommerce industry rapidly expanding, it's never been more crucial to find ways to reduce bulk as well as emissions from large trucks.

The "Leo" design and prototype comes from Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) and TUMCREATE. Read more...

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Apple Photos can correctly identify your 'brassiere' photos in search

Apple has used image recognition algorithms to search and organize its Photos app since iOS 10 debuted in 2016 — but a viral tweet put the tool in the spotlight after it appeared to be stockpiling photos of women's bras in a separate storage category within the Photos app.

Before going any further, it's important to make a few things clear: There isn't a separate "folder" filled with your intimate pics within the Photos app, and no one else can access your photos without you giving them permission. So the chance of your private photos leaking is exactly the same as it was before.

And what if you already have folders of your intimate photos on your phone, secret or otherwise? More power to you. You do you. Got it? Good.  Read more...

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iOS 11.1 is out now, and it's filled with hundreds of new emoji

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Russian Facebook trolls advocated killing 'dangerous illegal aliens'

This just keeps getting worse. Another messed-up shoe has dropped in the ongoing saga of Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This time, it's the revelation that Russian-linked troll accounts called for race-based violence. 

Facebook has so far refused to publicly release the Russian-backed ads that ran on its platform, potentially reaching up to 126 million Americans in the process. But that didn't stop Jonathan Albright of Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism from collecting and collating the contents of six (now removed) Russian-linked groups reportedly created by the Internet Research Agency.  Read more...

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