June 26, 2020 Gigantic Splotches on the Star Betelgeuse Might Explain Its Freaky Dimming Betelgeuse—a gigantic star in the final stages of its life—has been acting weird lately, exhibiting dramatic drops in brightness. New research attributes enormous star…
June 26, 2020 The “Stop Hate For Profit” Movement Isn’t Going to Stop Anything Yesterday, Verizon became the latest company to join a corporate chorus boycotting Facebook advertisements in July as part of a rallying cry to get…
June 26, 2020 Sightbit deploys AI on beaches to help lifeguards spot distressed swimmers Sightbit is deploying “AI lifeguards” at beaches to spot rip currents and swimmers in distress, starting with a pilot at a beach in its…
June 26, 2020 Launch your product at Transform 2020 — The AI event for enterprise decision makers Have an AI product or service that is ready to launch? Apply to present at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 event on enterprise AI. July 15-17.Read…
June 26, 2020 AI Weekly: A deep learning pioneer’s teachable moment on AI bias Facebook chief AI scientist Yann LeCun got into a debate with Google AI ethics colead Timnit Gebru about bias, and there are lessons to…
June 26, 2020 ProBeat: Google Meet is the new Google+ In chasing Zoom, Google is treating Google Meet like Google+: adding features like no tomorrow and integrating it everwhere possible.Read More via VentureBeat Check…
June 26, 2020 Unilever will pull ads from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for the rest of the year Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Consumer goods giant Unilever said Friday that it would halt all ad spending on Facebook,…
June 26, 2020 California makes zero-emission trucks and vans mandatory by 2045 Photo by David McNew/Getty Images California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) has passed a new rule that says all commercial trucks and vans sold in…
June 26, 2020 This week’s best deals: Apple Watch Series 5, Echo Dot and more This week brought good sales on Apple and Amazon devices, as well as some intriguing gaming deals. The Apple Watch Series 5 dropped to…
June 26, 2020 The affordable OnePlus Nord phone will reportedly feature dual selfie cameras When OnePlus entered the smartphone scene back in 2014, it made a name for itself by building an affordable phone with top-of-the-line internal components. If…