July 17, 2020 Vergecast: the significance of the Twitter hack, NBC’s Peacock, and the threat of a TikTok ban Illustration by William Joel / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Russell Brandom, and Julia Alexander discuss the unprecedented…
July 17, 2020 Respawns won’t save you in ‘Weird West’ Weird West isn’t a horror game, but it has at least one narrative arc involving cannibalism. In some scenes, citizens in quaint Old West…
July 17, 2020 Twitch Is Bringing Radio to Your Face Twitch, home to popular esports streamers, is partnering with Radio.com parent Entercom for interactive livestreams of sports radio stations in major cities in the…
July 17, 2020 Funko Is Auctioning Off Ultra Rare Pops for Charity During SDCC Without San Diego Comic-Con as a place for Funko collectors to meet this year, the company decided to do something extra special. The tiny…
July 17, 2020 Police Arrest Suspect in the Murder of Tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh Investigators arrested a suspect this morning for the murder of tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh, 33. Saleh’s personal assistant, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, is expected…
July 17, 2020 The U.S. Had a Record Number of Overdose Deaths Last Year The covid-19 pandemic isn’t the only public health crisis the U.S. is currently dealing with, as new government data released this week illustrates. In…
July 17, 2020 Researchers warn court ruling could have a chilling effect on adversarial machine learning A team of researchers say inconsistent interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) could have a chilling effect on cybersecurity.Read More via…
July 17, 2020 Uber: Tooling is a critical part of AI development and deployment Uber chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani spoke at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 summit about the importance of tooling in AI model development.Read More via VentureBeat Check…
July 17, 2020 ProBeat: How to watch Transform 2020 on demand, plus some online event takeaways Transform 2020, VentureBeat’s flagship AI event for enterprise decision-makers, is bigger than ever. Here is how to watch session videos on demand.Read More via…
July 17, 2020 NASA astronauts set to return to Earth in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on August 2nd Image: NASA NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are tentatively scheduled to return to Earth inside SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule on August…