In this week's Worldwide Wrap, crisis management experts tut at Elon Musk's public relations blunders, and Silicon Valley residents face the area's largest-ever eviction.
Musk a 'case study' in bad crisis management
Experts are calling Tesla CEO Elon Musk's behaviour in the wake of a fatal crash in one of the company's autopiloted electric cars a "case study" in poor crisis management.
In a collection of blog posts and tweets, the company has reiterated that the accident is merely a "statistical inevitability".
The car being driven in autopilot mode by Joshua Brown in Florida in May was found to be unable to distinguish between the bright sky and a white truck as it was crossing the highway in front of him.
Via: The Guardian
Silicon Valley residents face 'largest-ever' eviction
Hundreds Silicon Valley residents are soon to be displaced in what officials are calling the area's largest-ever mass eviction.
Reserve Apartments, a 216-unit complex in San Jose, about 8km from Apple's headquarters, is set to be demolished and replaced with "market-rate" housing, displacing about 670 tenants.
Because the complex is protected by rent control law, it is largely home to working-class and low-income tenants, who will struggle to find comparably-priced accommodation in the area as its property prices rapidly rise.
Via: The Guardian
Green light for South Korea's Pink Light campaign
After a successful trial in the city of Busan, South Korea plans to officially introduce its bluetooth-enabled system for helping pregnant passengers access priority seating on public transport.
The Pink Light campaign offers pregnant train and bus passengers badge-like discs which turn on lights next to priority seating when they enter a bus or carriage, letting other passengers know they should make way for those who might need the seats more urgently.
Via: BBC News
Samsung microSD card too fast for existing devices
Device-maker Samsung is showing off a 256GB microSD card it calls the world's fastest, touting read speeds of 530 megabytes per second: about five times the industry average.
Currently, there are no devices on the market that can handle such speeds.
Via: Mashable
Man City signs first e-sports player
UK football club Manchester City has signed is first e-sports player. Eighteen-year-old Kieran "Kez" Brown will represent the club at e-sports tournaments, playing the Fifa computer game.
Man City joins many other leading sports teams in picking up e-sports players.
Via: BBC News
Researchers store music video on DNA strand
Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington have reported that they managed to store a high-definition music video, as well as some other media, on strands of synthetic DNA.
While storing data on DNA is not new, the 200MB storage feat drastically outstrips the previous DNA storage record of 22MB.
Via: Mashable
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