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As extreme weather events become ever more common, climate risks are playing a role in many people's long-term decision-making. And few things are more long-term than buying real estate. In response, Zillow has announced a new partnership to bring climate risk information to its for-sale listings. Property listing pages in the US will include data about flood, wildfire, wind, heat and air quality risks at that location. This section will also list any climate-related insurance requirements for that property. The information is being provided by First Street, a specialist in climate risk financial modeling. The climate data is rolling out this year to the Zillow website and iOS app, while Android is expected to get the update early next year. Some locations have already been updated to show climate data on the web. Those five risk categories are also being applied to Zillow's interactive map search view. Each of the different climate concerns has a color-coded visualization to show the risk levels across the country or in a smaller region. It's valuable information for anybody in a position to make that big homebuying leap. For everybody else, it may add simply a touch of gloomy reality to the gleeful experience of scrolling through absurd and/or overpriced houses. Zillow also introduced improvements to its AI search feature earlier this month.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/zillow-is-adding-climate-risk-data-to-all-us-for-sale-listings-220038971.html?src=rss
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X suspended journalist Ken Klippensteins account earlier this afternoon. Xs Safety account says they issued the temporary suspension for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. [J.D.] Vances physical address and the majority of his social security number. Several news outlets that received the vetting dossier of the Republican vice presidential candidate leaked by hackers chose not to publish the sensitive document since it contained personal information. Klippenstein felt the dossier was newsworthy and decided to publish it on Substack and his social media channels and one of them took down his account. Engadget has viewed the dossier and can confirm the details mentioned by Xs Safety team are present and unredacted in Klippensteins copy of the document except for the last four numbers of Vances social security number. Klippenstein explained his decision to buck the medias trend and release Sen. Vances dossier on his Substack. President Trumps campaign has accused Irans government on more than one occasion of hacking into its files and releasing the dossier back in June. Other news outlets chose not to release the document but Klippenstein says he felt they declined in fear of finding itself at odds with the [US} governments campaign against foreign malign influence referring to the National Counterterrorism Centers organization of the same name that seeks to prevent interference in elections. I disagree, Klippenstein added. The dossier has been offered to me and Ive decided to publish it because its of keen public interest in an election season. The suspension extends beyond Klippensteins account. X has flagged the link to the dossier and automatically prevents anyone who attempts to post it. Those who do receive a warning from X saying We cant complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful. X (then Twitter) updated its policy on hacked materials after it blocked stories about Hunter Bidens laptop in 2020, saying it would allow stories about hacked materials but not links to the material if it was published by the hacker or someone working in concert with them.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-suspends-journalist-ken-klippenstein-after-he-published-jd-vance-dossier-214219066.html?src=rss
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows or ebooks from an online storefront. The Verge spotted the development, which could see marketplaces facing fines for false advertising in the state if they don't use clear language to explain the limitations of what access entails. In other words, you won't be seeing language like "buy" or "purchase" once the law takes effect in 2025. The move to digital storefronts has raised new parallel concerns about ownership and preservation for media in the modern age. Ubisoft's move to delete The Crew from players' libraries after the game's servers shuttered is one of the most recent examples of how customers can suddenly lose access to media they felt they owned. The new California law won't stop situations like The Crew's disappearance from happening, and it won't stop those losses from hurting. But it does make clearer that ownership is a pretty rare and intangible thing for digital media. Governor Newsom is having a busy week. He also signed the state's "click to cancel" bill yesterday and last week signed two bills with protections against unwanted AI likenesses of actors, both living and deceased.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/new-california-law-will-force-companies-to-admit-you-dont-own-digital-content-203053750.html?src=rss
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