Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, August 15th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook Tweaks Groups. Google Assistant lets you remind family members, can we be training

voice AI in a better way, say hello to the Sega Genesis mini and the free app that can

save your life out in the wilderness.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Facebook has simplified its groups privacy settings to simply public and private.

The previously known secret groups are now private. The previously known secret groups are now private and hidden and the

previously known closed groups are now private and visible.

Quote, we're making this change because we've heard from people that they want more clarity about the privacy settings for their groups.

Having two privacy settings, public and private, will help make it clearer about who can find the group and see the members and posts that are part of it.

We've also heard that most people prefer to use the terms public and private to describe the

privacy settings of groups they belong to, end quote.

Quoting from The Verge, the name change itself isn't likely to stop any bad behavior

as secret groups will still be around.

Closed groups, which only let current members view group content and see who else is in the group

will now be labeled as private but visible groups. Secret groups which are hidden from

search but still require an invitation to join will be changed to a private and hidden group.

Facebook says it uses AI and machine learning to quote,

proactively detect bad content before anyone reports it and sometimes

before people even see it."

Flagged content inside of groups gets reviewed by humans to see if it violates

Facebook's community standards, but clearly, as we've seen in recent news, the system is flawed if offensive groups

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