February 5, 2021 iOS 14.5 public beta lets Apple Watch users try the new mask-friendly Face ID The public betas of iOS and iPad OS 14.5 are out, giving eligible users their first taste of automatically unlocking their iPhone while wearing…
February 5, 2021 Ford commits $29 billion to electric and autonomous vehicle development Ford will invest $29 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025, more than double the $11.5 billion it promised through 2022 less than…
February 5, 2021 Nevada Wants to Let Tech Companies Form Their Own Governments Steve Sisolak, the Democratic governor of Nevada, wants to incentivize technology companies to move to his state, and he’s got some wild ideas about…
February 5, 2021 Google engineers leave the company over controversial exit of top AI ethicist Google has lost a couple of talents due to the way it treated and the departure of its former top AI ethics researcher, Dr….
February 5, 2021 Chrome 88 update includes important security fix for zero-day vulnerability Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s more important than usual to update to the latest version of Chrome. Version 88.0.4324.150 of Google’s…
February 5, 2021 Xiaomi’s new concept phone has a waterfall display on all four edges Xiaomi has announced its latest phone concept: a “quad-curved waterfall display.” This means that the unnamed phone’s screen not only has deep 88-degree “waterfall”…
February 5, 2021 Google is reportedly working on an anti-tracking feature for Android Google is looking to develop an anti—tracking feature for Android similar to the one Apple is rolling out with iOS 14.5, according to Bloomberg….
February 5, 2021 Baltimore’s spy planes will fly no more Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Baltimore, Maryland city officials have unanimously voted to end the city police department’s spy plane surveillance program,…
February 5, 2021 Dominion Tells Facebook, Parler, And Other Sites to Keep the Receipts Dominion Voting Systems is taking some of the most vocal election fraud conspiracy theorists to court over their toothless claims in a string of…
February 5, 2021 SpaceX filing reveals Starlink internet service has over 10,000 users Public beta testing for SpaceX’s satellite-beamed internet service kicked off late last year for people in the US, Canada and the UK, and an…