Twitter tries, tries again; Another Tesla auto-pilot crash, and more news.
(Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Twitter tries, tries again; Another Tesla auto-pilot crash, and more news.

Politics doesn’t pause for the Olympics: Brazil's Senate voted 59-21 to hold an impeachment trial for President Dilma Rousseff, currently suspended for breaking budget laws. (“She says they were common practice under previous administrations.”) The trial will be held the week after the Olympics closing ceremony, and a two-thirds majority will be needed to find her guilty. If she is removed from office interim President Michel Temer will hold the post until the end of term in 2018.

Disney hopes for a cord-cutting home run: The company is extending its sports offerings with a new billion-dollar investment in BAMTech, a streaming company backed by Major League Baseball. Disney now has a 33% stake in the company, and the first phase of the partnership will be the creation of an ESPN-branded subscription service — that won’t include any ESPN content. (The company already sells ESPN programming to satellite providers like Dish’s Sling.) The new service will offer content already licenced to BAMTech, like Major League Baseball and National Hockey League games, as well as ESPN content that isn’t already televised. Hope you like cricket!

Twitter’s response to Snapstagram Stories: Moments, the feature lauded as Twitter’s “Hail Mary” when it launched last year, “has failed to move the user growth needle” — but the social network is giving it another chance. Twitter is opening Moments to brands, partners, and influencers, and eventually to all users, allowing them to create their own collections of tweets around particular topics. A more democratized Moments certainly showcases one of Twitter’s strengths (current events) and tackles a pain point (surfacing quality content in a cohesive way) — but the question remains: will this really lure new users?

“Sell me this Tesla”: China has just faced its first autopilot-related Tesla crash. The automaker confirmed that the vehicle was in autopilot mode — but that the driver didn’t have his hands on the steering wheel. Luo Zhen said the technology was sold to him as ‘self-driving,’ not ‘assisted-driving,’ and other Tesla drivers in China have echoed that sentiment. The incident comes in the wake of a fatal crash in Florida that has put increased scrutiny on Tesla’s tech.

More than half of British women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a new survey from the Trades Union Congress and Everyday Sexism. Nearly 80% said they didn’t report it to their employer — often because they feared it would affect their careers — and almost one in five said the harasser was their direct supervisor.  "Things have not improved anywhere near as much as people would like to think," Laura Bates, founder of Everyday Sexism, told Reuters.

One positive step on the other side of the pond this week: the American Bar Association approved an ethics rule prohibiting harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability, religion, and other factors in the course of practicing law.

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Cover Photo: Jack Dorsey speaks onstage during 'From 7 Dwarves to 140 Characters' at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)



Matt M.

?? ???? ???? Case Manager in mental health ???? ???? ?? I save lives for a living. Not interested in defense contractors.

8 年

speaking of which, where's all the data on the next google car? it seems they won't even release their data.

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