Author: Tech Support

    • Lilium, a German electric flying taxi manufacturer, has raised $240M from existing investors led by Tencent, to launch an on-demand flying taxi service by 2025 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Lilium, a German electric flying taxi manufacturer, has raised $240M from existing investors led by Tencent, to launch an on-demand flying taxi service by 2025  —  Long and short distance travel have all but stopped for many people at the moment.  But looking forward to a time when that may no

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    • Streaming services see signup spikes over the past week, boosted by free trials, with Disney+ up 300%+, HBO Now 90%, Showtime 78%, Netflix 47%, and Apple 10% (Ariel Shapiro/Forbes)

    Ariel Shapiro / Forbes: Streaming services see signup spikes over the past week, boosted by free trials, with Disney+ up 300%+, HBO Now 90%, Showtime 78%, Netflix 47%, and Apple 10%  —  Topline: As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, they are subscribing … Streaming services see signup

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    • YouTube, Apple TV+, and Amazon Prime Video reduce image quality in Europe following Netflix

    In the latest round of coronavirus-induced tech news, YouTube, AppleTV+, and Amazon Prime video have all begun to reduce default streaming bitrates in Europe, following a similar move by Netflix. The actions came about after EU Commissioner Thierry Breton called on streaming services to restrict image quality to lessen the burden on Europe‘s internet infrastructure.

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    • Study: speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentify words 19% of the time with white people vs. 35% with black people (Cade Metz/New York Times)

    Cade Metz / New York Times: Study: speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentify words 19% of the time with white people vs. 35% with black people  —  Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. Study: speech recognition systems from

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    LEGO My Colorful Custom Clock

    [Sofia] spent a lot of time looking around for the perfect LEGO clock. Eventually, she realized that the perfect LEGO clock is, of course, the one you build yourself. So if you find yourself staring at the same old boring clock, contemplating time and the meaning of time itself, why not spend some time making

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    • In a letter to Trump, Uber CEO seeks updated labor laws to provide a "third way" of classifying workers, between contractors and employees (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

    Lauren Feiner / CNBC: In a letter to Trump, Uber CEO seeks updated labor laws to provide a “third way” of classifying workers, between contractors and employees  —  – Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi asked President Donald Trump to provide relief to gig workers whose income has been significantly cut due to the coronavirus crisis. In

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