August 18, 2020 Uber and Lyft: Okay But What If Franchises, Though? California’s rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft are still grasping for ways to get around the state’s attempts to classify their drivers as full-time employees,…
August 18, 2020 Please Keep Mark Zuckerberg Away From My Bones Most of us might think of Facebook as the social network of choice for suburban moms and conspiracy theorists, but the company hasn’t been…
August 18, 2020 Study flaws might be obscuring the role of personality in human-robot interactions Researchers at the University of Michigan find flaws in previous studies investigating the role personality plays in human-health care robot interactions.Read More via VentureBeat…
August 18, 2020 Hour One wants synthetic AI characters to be your digital avatars If you ever wondered how we’ll populate the metaverse, look no further than Hour One, an Israeli startup that is making replicas of people…
August 18, 2020 EA Play subscription service is coming to Steam on August 31st Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge EA’s subscription service is coming to Steam very soon. Today, the publisher announced that the recently renamed…
August 18, 2020 Lenovo’s new Yoga laptops feature the latest Intel and AMD chips The Lenovo Yoga 7i 15. | Image: Lenovo When you’re writing about laptops, “spec bump” is often code for “boring.” But here’s a spec…
August 18, 2020 Magic: The Gathering embraces punk aesthetics for its latest limited time drop Image: Wizards of The Coast / Wizard of Barge Magic: The Gathering has been around a long time and has experimented with a ton…
August 18, 2020 ‘Untitled Goose Game’ will get a two-goose mode in September Untitled Goose Game? More like Untitled Geese Game. House House’s adorably annoying bird simulator is getting a free two-player update on September 23rd across…
August 18, 2020 Snapchat will test making content viewable outside of its app Snapchat will soon be less of a walled garden: the company will soon experiment with making public content available outside of its app. The…
August 18, 2020 Stylish PC roguelike ‘Hades’ heads to Switch this fall The Prince of Hell is heading to Switch. Hades, the stylish action-RPG from Supergiant Games, will hit Nintendo Switch in the fall, at the…