“Based on your selected comfort level—off, low, medium, or high—mute assist can either automatically mute expletives spoken by others or present a quick-access pop-up to the mute button,” Meta writes in a blog post. It will be available in testing in a handful of experiences to start.
The company, which has a logo that looks like an eclipse, has a whole thread about it. Notably, one tweet says that “in the US, [the eclipse] begins in Oregon at 9:13 AM PDT and ends in Texas at 12:03 PM CDT” — perhaps that’s when you should watch for news?
The summer, the company had teased some news for the eclipse, but it also plans to share more about its Ai Pin on November 9th. So who knows what’s really going on — guess we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
You can now ask people who want to join your X community to answer that question, and moderators can use your response to decide if you should be let in. (I’m not a huge fan of X’s “gatekeeping allowed” marketing language announcing the feature, though.)
Meta spokesperson Christine Pai just confirmed to me that the company currently doesn’t have plans to offer an edit history for its newly-added edit feature.
I’m disappointed that’s the case; edit histories, which you can find on other services like X / Twitter and iMessage, are really useful!
The company lost an appeal to overturn a ruling about two commercials for YouTube TV, as reported by Ars Technica. YouTube TV now starts at $72.99 after a price hike earlier this year.
Disney recently showed off bipedal droids that look exactly like something you’d see in a Star Wars movie, and now Disney’s Imagineers are testing the droids at Disneyland, as reported by Disneyland News Today. I love them!!
You can hear Sony’s team talk about the Access’ box in this video published Thursday starting at around 8 minutes and 13 seconds. The Access is available for preorder now ahead of its release on December 6th.
