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…
August 19, 2020 Netflix’s High Score tells the stories of gaming’s golden age High Score is a new documentary series on Netflix that debuted today, and we talked with the series’ executive producers about the project.Read More…
August 19, 2020 Facebook purges 790 QAnon groups as the fringe conspiracy movement keeps growing Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has conducted its biggest purge yet of the pro-***** QAnon conspiracy movement, announcing on Wednesday that…
August 19, 2020 Uber CEO on the fight in California: ‘We can’t go out and hire 50,000 people overnight’ Photo by Philip Cheung for The Verge In a podcast interview Wednesday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi rejected the notion his company is capable of…
August 19, 2020 Netflix still can’t figure out how to make talk shows work On Tuesday, comedian Hasan Minhaj announced that after two years and six seasons, Netflix canceled Patriot Act. Despite the unexpected axing, it’s a symptom…