Mobile Minutes: Microsoft VR; Facebook's content removal; Ridesharing discrimination; Standing Rock check-ins
Microsoft
VR headset details to be revealed at December event
You caught
a glimpse of the headsets during the Windows 10 event in New York last week.
You'll find out more in a matter of weeks.
Read more
at CNET
Facebook
pledges fewer content removals, new criteria as yet unclear
Facebook
will allow more content on its platform that it would have earlier removed
because it violated its standards, with new criteria being worked out, a senior
executive said on Monday, following a row over the removal of an iconic Vietnam
War photo.
Read more
at Reuters
Study
Finds Racial Discrimination by Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers
for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding
names more than twice as often as for other men. Black people in Seattle using
Uber and Lyft Inc. faced notably longer wait times to get paired with drivers
than white customers. The findings come from a study published on Monday by
researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
and the University of Washington.
Read more
at Bloomberg
Why people
are checking in to Standing Rock on Facebook
No, your
Facebook friends didn't suddenly travel to North Dakota.
Read more
at USA Today