Tech News Today 1755

Changes are coming to government oversight of net neutrality rules that were approved two years ago. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced a new plan that signals a move away from those rules, and towards self regulation by the industry itself.

Instagram now has 700 million active monthly users, gaining 100 million in the last quarter. The photo sharing site is experiencing meteoric growth having doubled its user base in the last year.

Twitter may be showing signs of new life. The company announced its quarterly earnings and revealed its best quarter for user growth in two years, with nine million new users in Q1.

We also investigate robot rage, Amazon's new camera that will take photos of you while you're getting dressed, and whether or not you can own a color. Plus, Alex Kantrowitz from Buzzfeed is here to tell us why we should fear the AI winter.

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• F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules
• Instagram’s growth speeds up as it hits 700 million users
• Twitter added nine million new users last quarter, the most since early 2015
• A Silicon Valley engineer was arrested after allegedly knocking down a 300-pound robocop
• HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia
• Amazon’s new Echo Look has a built-in camera for style selfies
• We’re In An Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle
• “World’s Blackest Black” Absorbs So Much Light It Makes 3D Objects Look Flat
• World’s “Mattest and Flattest” Black Paint is Now Available for All Worldwide