August 19, 2020 Facebook is finally cracking down on QAnon Facebook is banning hundreds of accounts affiliated with the conspiracy theory QAnon. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images For years, the conspiracy theory has spread unchecked…
August 19, 2020 Twitch star Timthetatman finally won a game of Fall Guys Image: Mediatonic While the world writhes in the clutches of a seemingly never-ending wave of chaos, one Twitch streamer’s heartwarming struggle to win a…
August 19, 2020 Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is official, will be ‘inspired by actual events’ Call of Duty: Warzone may have somewhat overshadowed the rest of the Call of Duty franchise, with the battle royale racking up 75 million…
August 19, 2020 Fossil updates its Gen 5 smartwatches with sleep tracking and more fitness features Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fossil has released a new update for its Gen 5 Wear OS smartwatches that add a…
August 19, 2020 MIT researchers show how ‘Dr. Spot’ could help diagnose COVID-19 Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots have been used in many creative ways, from surveying a Ford plant in Michigan to herding sheep in New Zealand….
August 19, 2020 Google rolls back update that gave people free access to a Nest Aware perk If you own a Google Home, you have noticed it doing something it hadn't done before. Toward the start of August, Google erroneously rolled…
August 19, 2020 Nichelle Nichols’ Family Turns to GoFundMe in an Ongoing Legal Battle With Her Manager Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols is one of the most influential sci-fi actors of the 20th century, but the actress who played Uhura remains…
August 19, 2020 iMac 2020 Review: The Last of the Best Intel iMac The new 27-inch iMac is a very good computer. That’s not surprising: Apple upgraded its newest machine to Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs, making it adept…
August 19, 2020 Facebook Has a Superspreader Problem You could make the case that stemming misinformation on social media is about as feasible as beheading a hydra, even the people running said…
August 19, 2020 Could machine learning help bring marginalized voices into historical archives? Researchers at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute and Microsoft propose using AI systems to build more inclusive, less biased historical archives.Read More via VentureBeat…