August 14, 2020 Facebook accuses the ‘Apple tax’ of stifling its plan to help struggling small businesses Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is launching a new events feature that will let page owners and event organizers create…
August 14, 2020 These AI-generated tennis matches are both eerie and impressive Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, there was no Wimbledon Championship this year. But that didn’t stop a team of researchers from Stanford University simulating…
August 14, 2020 How QAnon went mainstream When Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene won a primary contest for a Georgia House seat, it made national headlines for more reasons than a hard-fought…
August 14, 2020 Apparently, the Coronavirus Is Coming for Our Pizza Toppings “I’ll just hunker down and ride this out,” you said. “I’ll just call the pizza guy and get my vital nourishment delivered,” you said….
August 14, 2020 California Puts DoorDash in Its Crosshairs San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Wednesday announced he filed a motion that would force DoorDash to reclassify delivery workers as employees rather…
August 14, 2020 Work for USPS? Fed Up? Become an Anonymous Source The U.S. Postal Service is being destroyed from within. Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
August 14, 2020 Ubisoft’s #MeToo Reckoning, Two Months Later At the start of the summer, as the world roiled from multiple crises, something unusual and essential happened in video games. It started with…
August 14, 2020 ***** Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden Donald *****—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for leaking classified intel on dystopian surveillance of U.S. citizens—has…
August 14, 2020 Fortnite’s ‘safety and fairness’ ban actually hurts users and developers Apple and Google claim they banned Fortnite ban to ensure platform safety and fairness, but Epic’s a perfect example of why neither justification is…
August 14, 2020 Google researchers use quantum computing to help improve image classification In a new tutorial, Google researchers demonstrate how quantum computing techniques can improve accuracy in tasks like image classification.Read More via VentureBeat Check out…