YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move, which will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube.

“The openness of YouTube’s platform has helped creativity and access to information thrive,” the company said in a blog post. “It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence.”

The changes announced on…

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In an Amazon sorting center, a swarm of robots works alongside humans. Here’s what that says about Amazon—and the future of work.

The first iOS 13 developer beta is now available, and users are discovering that Apple’s 3D Touch functionality seems to have been all but replaced. 9to5Mac reports that many of the feature’s key pieces of functionality, like the context menu that appears when you press down hard on an app’s icon on the home screen, can now be accessed via a long press. The new gesture is available on all iPhones and iPads, regardless of whether they previously supported 3D Touch.

It’s not entirely unexpected that 3D Touch might be on its way out. Last year, Apple omitted the feature on the iPhone XR, and its replacement Haptic Touch feature was so capable that it made 3D Touch feel a little unnecessary in comparison. The ability to swipe on an iPhone’s…

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The Marvel star says a new group called the Footprint Coalition could significantly clean up the Earth.

General Motors is expanding the number of highways where its hands-free driver assistance feature, Super Cruise, can be used. The automaker announced on Wednesday that Super Cruise will work on an additional 70,000 miles of highways in the US and Canada by the end of 2019, building on the 130,000 compatible highways where it’s already available. The expansion comes as GM is looking to spread Super Cruise to all new Cadillac models starting next year and to other models outside the luxury brand after that.

Launched in 2017, the Super Cruise driver assistance feature is currently only available on the Cadillac CT6. It uses information from cameras and radar sensors embedded on the car, GPS data, and 3D mapping data collected by the company…

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About 130,000 miles of highway are already deemed suitable for Super Cruise.

If you enjoy a frosty beverage on a hot, sunny day, then you’ll need a dependable cooler this summer. Here are the winners out of the 18 that we’ve tested.

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