Pop! Goes the Uber
Things haven’t been going so hot for Uber, which is burning through billions of dollars a year with no fleet of driverless taxis in sight to...
Despite embracing the government, DEF CON maintains its mischievous hacker roots
Raucous applause filled the the large convention room inside Las Vegas’s Paris casino: the government had arrived. Seated behind a table at the annual DEF CON...
Energy Vault raises $110 million from SoftBank Vision Fund as energy storage grabs headlines
Imagine a moving tower made of huge cement bricks weighing 35 metric tons. The movement of these massive blocks is powered by wind or solar power...
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Looks Like a Masterpiece of Mindfuckery
The official trailer is here for Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winner, Parasite, and while it may not be as genre-leaning as many of his earlier films...
Racial bias observed in hate speech detection algorithm from Google
Understanding what makes something offensive or hurtful is difficult enough that many people can’t figure it out, let alone AI systems. And people of color are...
VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal
VMware today confirmed that it is in talks to acquire software development platform Pivotal Software, the service best known for commercializing the open-source Cloud Foundry platform....
14 Years Ago, Matador Painted a Surprising Serial Killer Story in a Rainbow of Color
Whether it’s superheroes, historical fiction, or survival horror, you can tell any kind of story in comics. More importantly, because comics require freezing specific instances in...
Tinder and Bumble try keg-standing their way to success
The wholesome, all-American tradition of drunken Texas fraternity parties just got even more American: they’re now part of a corporate marketing ploy! A new report from...
AT&T and T-Mobile Fight Robocall Menace With New Call-Verification Partnership
Mobile users are rightfully exhausted with receiving predatory robocalls, and certainly of getting spoof calls attempting to trick them into answering. Companies this year finally started...
Newark’s Lead-Tainted Water Crisis Is Getting Worse
When Al Moussab had his water tested for lead, he got comparatively good news. Tests on the taps in his Newark, New Jersey home revealed lead...
