June 30, 2020 Waymo to expand autonomous truck testing in the American Southwest During a briefing with reporters, Waymo executives revealed new details about Waymo Via, Waymo’s autonomous trucking service.Read More via VentureBeat Check out the Finding…
June 30, 2020 Researchers combine reinforcement learning and NLP to escape a Grue monster Researchers from Georgia Tech and Microsoft combined reinforcement learning and language models to outperform state-of-the-art AI in text adventures games.Read More via VentureBeat Check…
June 30, 2020 FCC designates Huawei, ZTE as risks to national security Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission officially designated telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE as threats to national…
June 30, 2020 YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99 Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge YouTube TV has announced that it’ll be raising its monthly price from $50 per month to…
June 30, 2020 Discord raises $100 million and plans to move beyond gaming Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Discord on Tuesday announced it’s making a number of changes to expand its service beyond the…
June 30, 2020 Google’s Stadia controller finally works wirelessly with Android devices Google’s Stadia controller. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It has taken more than six months, but Google’s Stadia controller now…
June 30, 2020 Google buys AR glasses company North Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has bought North, a company focused on building augmented reality glasses. The companies announced the…
June 30, 2020 Netflix pledges up to $100 million toward ‘economic opportunity for Black communities’ Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is pledging 2 percent of its cash holdings to provide “economic opportunity for Black communities.” The…
June 30, 2020 House Democrats’ climate plan calls for 100 percent EV sales by 2035 House Democrats want to eliminate the US economy’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Two ways they hope to achieve this are: reaching 100 percent…
June 30, 2020 Nintendo makes vague apology for Joy-Con drift issues Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa apologized for problems with the Switch’s Joy-Cons during a recent Q&A. Furukawa acknowledged a class-action lawsuit filed in the US…