July 14, 2020 US rescinds directive barring international students from online classes Photo by Anik Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Images The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have agreed to rescind…
July 14, 2020 How far will Facebook go to address their civil rights audit? Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week on the Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Rashad Robinson, president of…
July 14, 2020 Spotify expands to Russia and 12 other countries in eastern Europe Spotify is expanding to 13 additional markets. Starting today, music fans in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia,…
July 14, 2020 Microsoft is patching a dangerous Windows DNS Server exploit Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Windows’ Domain Name System software that users must patch immediately. Sagi Tzaik from Check Point found…
July 14, 2020 Andean Condor Soared for 100 Miles Without Flapping Its Wings The world’s largest soaring bird—the Andean condor—can stay aloft for 5 hours and cover more than 100 miles of real estate without flapping its…
July 14, 2020 Watch With Friends brings remote Netflix watch parties to Apple TV and Roku devices With move theaters shuttered and folks still stuck at home due to the pandemic, remote viewing party services have shot up in popularity, letting…
July 14, 2020 Massachusetts sues Uber and Lyft for identifying drivers as contractors Following similar efforts in California over how ride-hailing drivers are classified, Massachusetts is suing Uber and Lyft for treating their drivers as independent contractors….
July 14, 2020 All the Ways the Influential Hydroxychloroquine Study Was Crap A controversial, highly influential study involving the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19—one that helped launch months of research and failed clinical trials—has…
July 14, 2020 For Once, Things Are Coming Up Quibi Shortly before its rocky launch back in April, Quibi was accused of stealing the gimmicky technology at the heart of its struggling mobile-first streaming…
July 14, 2020 Microsoft’s SoftNER AI uses unsupervised learning to help triage cloud service outages In a new paper, Microsoft researchers detail an AI system that parses cloud service interruption incident descriptions to help with triaging.Read More via VentureBeat…