Mark Zuckerberg says we’ll be able to send emotions to each other soon

Mark Zuckerberg believes that one day we’ll be able to directly share emotions, thoughts, and sensory feedback with each other, just as we currently share text, photos, and videos through social networks. „You’ll be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too,“ the Facebook CEO said, his comments coming as part of a lengthy question-and-answer session hosted on the wall of his own Facebook profile.

In addition to telepathy, Zuckerberg addressed a wide range of topics during the session, including Facebook’s AI research efforts, the social network’s real name policy, and the inspiration for poking. The Q&A drew questions from famous faces too, with questions on scientific study and the…

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Beats 1 radio was down for about 30 minutes on launch day

Just over eight hours after launching — and less than a minute after Jaden Smith called into the live show to request the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song (and it was played, multiple times) — Beats 1 radio seems to have gone down. Trying to access Apple Music’s flagship live radio show right now is instead giving various messages of „unknown error occurred“ when trying to access it through the Apple Music app (the Beats 1 stream via iTunes isn’t responding, either).

Update (9:06PM ET): After just over 30 minutes of downtime, Beats 1 radio is back up with Ariana Grande’s „Love Me Harder.“

Up until this point, Beats 1 radio has been running fairly smoothly (user experience oddities notwithstanding) with shows from big-name DJs (and…

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