June 8, 2020 Lilium raises $35 million to accelerate flying taxi development Lilium, the German aviation startup setting out to bring flying taxis to the world’s skies by 2025, has added a further $35 million to…
June 8, 2020 IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said…
June 8, 2020 Xbox Digital Direct replaces long redemption codes with a single click A new Xbox feature makes it easier to claim games that come with the console, doing away with the 25-digit codes that were required…
June 8, 2020 Cox Might Slow Down a Whole Neighborhood’s Internet If One Person Is Using Too Much Data If there is anything as quite as infuriating as internet data caps, having your internet speed throttled is up there—especially if you pay extra…
June 8, 2020 A Key Piece of The Last of Us TV Adaptation Has Been Revealed The new game is out Friday and the TV show has a pilot director. It’s a big week for post-apocalyptic tale The Last of Us….
June 8, 2020 Google Duo now lets you send Zoom-like invite links for group video calls Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Duo video calling platform now has invite links on mobile, making it even more of a…
June 8, 2020 Twitter clumsily fact-checks ‘5G corona’ tweets Twitter is getting more aggressive with the use its fact-checking label — it might even be hard to avoid the label in some cases….
June 8, 2020 Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Entire Ancient Roman City For the first time ever, archaeologists have used ground-penetrating radar to map an entire city while it’s still beneath the ground. Read more… via…
June 8, 2020 Tesla’s second largest shareholder invests $35 million in air taxi startup Lilium German air taxi startup Lilium said on Monday it has raised an additional $35 million to fuel its goal of launching an electric vertical…
June 8, 2020 Here’s how Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri answer the question, ‘Do black lives matter?’ Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Digital assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google state their support for the Black Lives Matter movement when…