[The Morning After]( Now available on your smart speaker and wherever you get your podcasts [Apple Podcasts]( | [Spotify]( | [Google Podcasts]( It's Thursday, June 08, 2023. Wildfires in Canada have led to a surge in air pollution levels in the US, with New York currently having the worst air quality of any major city. There are plenty of images of N95-mask-wearing people walking down smog-blighted streets that wouldnât look out of place in many a dystopia. Many states and cities have urged folks to stay inside unless they absolutely need to leave, and theyâre pumping out as much Air Quality Index data as they can. But do you actually know what the Air Quality Index is, or what itâs for? Weâve done an AQI deep dive, exploring how it works and [how you can keep yourself informed and safe](. And, on the subject of being safe, weâve also knocked up a guide [for how to make a quick-and-dirty box fan air filter](. All youâll need is a box fan, some AC air filters and some duct tape, and youâll be able to screen out a lot more of the bad air floating around your home in the next few weeks. â Dan Cooper The Morning After isnât just a[newsletter]( â itâs also a daily podcast. Get our daily audio briefings, Monday through Friday, by[subscribing right here](. The biggest stories you might have missed [Volvo officially unveils the EX30, its compact electric SUV]( [Google's Bard AI is getting better at programming]( [Reddit is reportedly cutting 5 percent of its workforce]( [Scientists develop remote-controlled pill-shaped camera to diagnose digestive issues]( [âMinecraftâ for ChromeOS leaves early access, works on more machines]( [Where was all the AI at WWDC?]( Itâs one buzzword youâll rarely hear an Apple executive say. [A pair of Vision Pro headsets on display at WWDC 2023.]
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget Apple has always been one to eschew the buzzword of the day in favor of coining its own terms or, like at this weekâs WWDC, just not talking about it at all. After analyzing Appleâs big keynote, we found âAIâ [was never mentioned]( despite its obvious prevalence in so many of its products. Instead, the company prefers more accurate terms like âmachine learning,â or talking about how its models are trained on thousands of people. [Continue Reading.]( [Samsung will focus on foldables in its upcoming July Unpacked event]( The writingâs been on the wall for a while. I donât think itâs unfair to say Samsungâs king of the folding-phone hill right now, despite the number of rival companies in the space. The winds of change have hinted for a long while now that the Korean giant would put greater emphasis on its premium foldables as time went on. At its next big Unpacked event, scheduled for late July in its hometown of Seoul, Samsung has let slip itâll be a [foldables-heavy show]( maybe to the exclusion of all other categories. [Continue Reading.]( [Wordpress' Jetpack AI will write your blog posts for you]( Sadly, no AI has yet been invented that will bother to read those posts. Wordpress, which enabled countless people to find their voice online, is now offering [an AI to write your blog posts for you](. Youâll be able to type in a prompt and let the system churn out hollow but professional-sounding content for people to think about reading. Wordpress says Jetpack AI will even be able to switch the tone of its posts from informative to funny or sarcastic with the touch of a button. It wonât be long and maybe someone can cook up a bot thatâll even live your life for you, making humanity an entirely redundant part of the system. [Continue Reading.]( The following article discusses matters of a sensitive nature. [Meta vows to take action after report found Instagramâs algorithm promoted pedophilia content]( Itâs yet another wake-up call for the company. Researchers from Stanford and UMass have [found a vast network of CSAM accounts]( in the darkest corners of Instagram. Itâs the latest in a series of controversies about the power of the algorithms Metaâs companies use to connect people, as well as its inconsistent moderation. Meta has pledged to launch an internal taskforce which will address the researcherâs findings. But Facebookâs former chief security officer Alex Stamos was damning in his indictment, saying that if âthree academics with limited access could find such a huge network, [it] should set off alarms at Meta.â [Continue Reading.]( The Morning After is a daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't [subscribe](. Now available on your smart speaker and wherever you get your podcasts:
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