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If you haven’t planned your summer vacation yet, have you thought about visiting one of the US’s national parks? Airbnb hopes you will; it’s partnering with the National Parks Foundation in an effort to encourage tourism in rural areas.

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk voice an idea a couple of months ago that involves boring tunnels underground in order to ease up traffic congestion on the roads. The city of Los Angeles was apparently open to the idea though a project of this magnitude would obviously require a formal approval. Musk today announced that The Boring Company has actually completed the very first section of its tunnel in Los Angeles.

Musk confirmed this on Twitter, as he tends to do with most of his announcements. The tunnel boring machine being used for this project is called “Godot.” He mentioned that the machine has begun boring and that it has just completed the first segment of the tunnel in LA.

Musk shared his vision of this project last month. It involves electric sleds on which cars would essentially be parked. These sleds would move underground at speeds of up to 124 miles-per-hour.

His vision involves dozens of tunnels forming a multi-layer tunnel network underground. It would probably take decades to achieve something of that sort but at least things appear to be moving forward.

It will be interesting to see how soon The Boring Company is able to complete enough of its first tunnel to actually put the idea to work.

No longer waiting for Godot. It has begun boring and just completed the first segment of tunnel in LA.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2017

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Keeping up with its mission to make Instagram a safe place for users to express themselves freely, the Facebook-owned company today announced that it has created a new artificial intelligence-based filter that automatically blocks certain offensive comments. Instagram has also launched a new spam filter in nine languages.

The company has received feedback from users who have been irked by toxic comments that discourage them from enjoying Instagram and freely expressing themselves. To put an end of this, Instagram developed a filter that will block certain offensive comments on posts and in live video on its own.

All other non-offensive comments will be shown as they normally are. Users will retain the ability to report comments, delete comments, and turn them off entirely.

Users will also be able to turn off this filter by clicking on the “…” settings menu from profile and scrolling to tap “Comments.” This filter has been launched in English first but it will get support for more languages over time.

The new spam filter is going to look for any obvious spam in comments and block it automatically from posts and live videos. It will work in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. It will also be available in additional languages as the algorithms eventually improve.

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Trumpcare could kill at least 200,000 Americans over the next decade.

“They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler.”