January 15, 2021 In its third season, American Gods is the most fascinating disaster on TV One of the miracles of any good television show is that it even works at all. First consider the countless people working across departments…
January 15, 2021 The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light—it loses all shape,…
January 15, 2021 By clamping down on DC rioters, Airbnb is finally acting like it owns the place Lawmakers have asked people not to travel to Washington, DC, for the inauguration. Airbnb is helping. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The home-sharing platform took…
January 15, 2021 US consumers spent record amounts on video games in 2020, NPD reports Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Spending on video games set a new record of $56.9 billion in 2020 in the US, according…
January 15, 2021 Microsoft’s new settings let users contribute recordings to improve its speech recognition systems Microsoft’s new settings allow users to contribute voice clips that’ll be used to improve the company’s AI speech technologies.Read More via VentureBeat Check out…
January 15, 2021 Facebook and NYU trained an AI to estimate COVID outcomes COVID-19 has infected more than 23 million Americans and killed 386,000 of them to date, since the global pandemic began last March. Complicating the…
January 15, 2021 How Twitter will transition presidential accounts after Inauguration Day Twitter has revealed more details about how it will transition official White House accounts when President-elect Joe ***** and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are…
January 15, 2021 Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers. Read more… via Gizmodo Check…
January 15, 2021 Signal outage is keeping messages from sending If you’re having trouble sending messages in the secure messaging app Signal, it may be due to technical difficulties the company says are affecting…
January 15, 2021 California man faces prison time after hitting police helicopter with a drone A California man is facing jail time for hitting a police helicopter with his drone. Andrew Hernandez pleaded guilty yesterday to unsafe operation of…