The Daily Crunch 11/23/16 Facebook's potential China compromise, Google's AI translators translate themselves and Twitter tackles its top troll. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for November 23, 2016. 1. Facebook wants into China badly Facebook has built a censorship tool that it's considering handing over to a third-party in order to pave the way for unblocking its use in China. This is a prime example of what I was talking about in this week's Sunday Snapshot, where FB is looking to hand off the risk and responsibility of the actual act of censorship and benefit by opening up a huge potential market in return. Sure, it makes good business sense – but is it the right thing to do? 
2. Google's translation AI developed its own language Google's machine translation software can translate between two languages without being taught explicitly to do so, which means it's using its own internal language to fill in the gaps. Agnagowe bowekmaa almeomdkpp sphzzlz (this means "I commend your brilliance and offer you my allegiance" in the AI's new mother tongue). 3. Twitter suspends its CEO Twitter has a real problem with trolls, but at least it got rid of Troll #1: Jack Dorsey. The co-founder and CEO of the social network had his account suspended temporarily last night but it turns out this was just an internal error. Oops. 4. Telegram gets into long-form anonymity Sending messages securely is good, but being able to blog securely could be even better, in terms of reaching an audience and making an impact. Telegraph is a new offering from the creators of Telegram that does that, with a minimalist, anonymous publishing platform designed to make it difficult to track you via your online presence. 5. Andy Rubin's hardware incubator is looking to raise big Android co-creator Andy Rubin is gearing up to add $500 million to his Playground Ventures' next fund. This could help launch a lot of hardware startups which would be great because then we'd have more interesting stuff to check out. Good luck on the raise, Andy. 6. Your next muscle could be nylon Nylon muscle grafts to bulk up? Not too fantastic, with a new research project by MIT that heats special nylon fiber to mimic the biological behavior of muscle tissue. Time for some cyborg enhancement fun! 7. Could your smartphone soon auto-lock certain features while driving? NHTSA wants smartphones to develop a way to tell if a smartphone is being used by a driver or a passenger in a moving vehicle, and to automatically prevent certain features, like watching video, from being used if it's a driver doing the mobile computing. Sounds safe, but will OEMs bite? | 
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