Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is one of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations on the planet. But just how powerful is it, and how exactly did it get there in just under two and a half decades? To fully understand the company’s trajectory, and what it’ll mean for future antitrust regulation,
Read MoreImage: Dune I think the new Mac Pro looks quite nice (yes, even if it does look like a giant cheese grater), but I don’t want (or need) to pay $5,999 just to have it sitting on my desk. But if you, like me, dream of having a Mac Pro at your desk at a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Donald Trump has joined streaming service Twitch as part of his re-election strategy. Twitch is owned by Amazon, the company led by Jeff Bezos — and both Amazon and Bezos are frequent targets for Trump’s displeasure. It appears Trump recently joined Twitch, and has just over 135
Read MoreBMW retells the incredible story of Klaus-Günter Jacobi and his efforts to help his best friend make it to West Berlin in the 1960s. Sneaking to freedom from East Berlin to West in a modified BMW Isetta – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Scott Eisen/Getty Images Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent a letter to Twitter Wednesday, asking that the platform reject any political ads placed by Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that are found to be misleading or false. Twitter did not respond to the campaign’s request, but said, in a statement to The Verge Thursday night,
Read MoreAfter a bit of public sniping, Jim Bridenstine and Elon Musk put on a unified front as they look ahead to launching astronauts to the ISS in 2020. Elon Musk and NASA chief play nice in person after SpaceX kerfuffle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you thought your handheld digital oscilloscope was the most transportable of your signal analyzing tools, then you’re in for a surprise. This oscilloscope made by [Mark Omo] measures only one square inch, with the majority of the space taken up by the OLED screen. It folds out into an easier instrument to hold, and
Read MoreThis is CNET’s list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years. From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, these 30 personalities defined the 2010s – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCharles Duhigg / New Yorker: A deep dive into Amazon’s enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators — Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back. A deep
Read MoreGeorge Clooney, Colin Firth, Ian McKellan, Robert De Niro and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among the celebrities taken on by this voice actor using deepfake software. This deepfake shows an impressionist take on 20 celebrities, convincingly – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA machine learning developer named Sebastian Schuchmann recently developed a pair of neural networks. At first, they were like siblings, learning their way in a strange new world together with only one another for company. Then he forced them to fight for the amusement of his YouTube subscribers. The networks, represented as a police cruiser
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Parsley Health raises $26M Series B to roll out its personalized telemedicine service to all 50 states in the next six months, starting with NY and CA — Parsley Health, a New York-based personalized medicine provider founded in 2016, today revealed that it closed a $26 million series B funding round
Read MoreTech companies’ involvement with the Hong Kong protests just keeps getting more and more tangled. Now Google has banned a game about the protests, joining Apple and Blizzard in allegedly suppressing anything that might offend the Chinese government. The game is called The Revolution of Our Times and it apparently was a game documenting the life
Read MoreWanna better yourself in a battle royale? Heed the words of pros from recent Apex Preseason Invitational champs Team SoloMid, among other top-tier players. Six ways to improve your game in Apex Legends, from the pros Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe National Science Foundation has announced a new joint federal program to fund research focused on artificial intelligence at colleges, universities and nonprofit or nonacademic organizations focused on educational or research activities. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program expects to award approximately $120 million in 2020 to fund planning grants and up to six
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Safety studies have lagged behind the popular trend Continue reading… Vaping health crisis: the latest on lung injuries, exploding e-cigs, and seizures Source: New feed
Read MoreA post-workout ice bath can reduce swelling in your sore muscles, which sounds like a great idea after a hard workout. But even though some athletes swear by them, ice baths may not be very helpful for recovery. Read more… What Do Ice Baths Do For Your Body? Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreFacebook’s allowance of falsehoods in politicians’ ads has sparked anger over viral untruths during the 2020 campaign. But company executives argue, “It is not our role to intervene when politicians speak.” A Facebook policy on political speech lets politicians lie in ads Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MorePhoto: Sam Byford / The Verge iPad keyboard maker Brydge is suing the apparent creator of a very similar-looking competitor called Libra. Not only that, but Brydge is suing Kickstarter, too, for hosting a crowdfunding campaign in support of the Libra keyboard. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a federal court in New York, accuses the
Read MorePhoto: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures If recent pop culture fans know The Addams Family at all, they probably remember it as a 1960s TV show, a 2010 Broadway musical, or a set of 1990s movies directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. But the “creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky” family actually started life as a series of
Read More“But until we have a hint of a beginning of a design, with some visible path towards autonomous AI systems with non-trivial intelligence, we are arguing about the sex of angels.” Yann LeCun. There’s yet another online debate raging between world-renowned AI experts. This time it’s the big one: will AI rise up and murder
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The blockbuster T-Mobile / Sprint merger was approved the Department of Justice in July, along with a complicated set of conditions aimed at turning Dish Network into a national wireless carrier. Instead of blocking the merger and maintaining all four major wireless carriers, the government is essentially trying
Read MoreTable saws are highly useful tools, but tend to take up a lot of space. They’re usually designed to handle the bigger jobs in a workshop. It doesn’t have to be that way, however, as [KJDOT] demonstrates with a miniature table saw. It’s a saw that relies on a simple build. The frame is made
Read MoreThe next generation of Toyota’s FCEV is a dramatic departure from the original model. Get an early look before it bows at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show. 2021 Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicle revealed and it looks amazing – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe longer warranty extends to all 2020 hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell models, even those already on the road. Toyota extends hybrid battery warranty to 10 years, 150K miles for 2020 models – Roadshow Source: CNet
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