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The Senate took a look at Facebook, Instagram changed its logo, and a Hyperloop moved for the first time.

Do You Know What Happened In Tech News The Week Of May 9?

This week, the US Senate Commerce committee launched an inquiry into Facebook, penning a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking to be briefed on the social network's standards and practices. Why is the Senate looking at Facebook?

Following a report from [Gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/senate-gop-launches-inquiry-into-facebook-s-news-curati-1775767018) that alleged Facebook's trending news tab was deliberately leaving conservative news outlets out of the section, Senate GOP members sent an inquiry to the Facebook founder and CEO.

It's potentially filtering conservative voices.

1\. Facebook

Instagram just shed its retro icon for a new one. What does it look like now?

It's.... that one!

2\. Instagram

The creator of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, is back in action with .... another virtual assistant, unveiled this week at New York's TechCrunch Disrupt. What is its name?

Following a the tradition of bestowing all virtual assistants with female names, Kittlaus' newest work is called Viv. Nomenclature set aside, the technology sounds powerful: "For anyone who’s found themselves screaming at their smartphone for an answer to the most basic question, it felt like a tangible little leap forward," BuzzFeed News' Charlie Warzel [writes](https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/siris-creators-want-to-take-on-facebook-be-your-everything-a?utm_term=.ima9de50B#.nk5y8P7Qa).

It's Viv.

3\. Artificial Intelligence

This week, the [Hyperloop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop) — Elon Musk's city-to-city fever dream — got its first public test, courtesy of Hyperloop One, one of the startups racing to get Musk's idea off the ground. In its first outing, how far did the (unmanned) pod travel?

According to a report from the [Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/hyperloop-one-accelerates-towards-future-with-high-speed-test-1462960803), the trip took "about two seconds." Of course, this is just a _tiny_ step on the way to Hyperloop becoming an actual thing — if anything, this was just proof that we are able to shoot a large pod very, very fast.

It went a half mile.

4\. Hyperloop

A BuzzFeed News investigation revealed, among other things, that Palantir — the highly valued, highly secretive data mining startup — used code names for all of its clients, including companies like BP, Coca-Cola, and Bank of America. Which of the following nicknames are real?

To find out which company each nickname stood for, read William Alden's story, [Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Company](https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silicon-valleys-most-secretive-company?utm_term=.ln6Pw2jdr#.jp6V8YODX).

All of them are real.

5\. Palantir

Google just made a keyboard for iOS, called — _sigh_ — Gboard. It looks to be legitimately useful. What **CAN'T** Gboard do?

While Gboard adds a lot of features to Apple's Messages app, it won't take a date and time from your messages and put it in your calendar.

It can't move things directly to a Google calendar.

6\. Google

This week, a major messaging service got its first desktop application. Which service was it?

The Facebook-owned, 500-million users-strong messaging service [just released](https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000621/Introducing-WhatsApps-desktop-app) its first desktop app ever.

It's WhatsApp.

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