October 7, 2020 Nvidia Wants to Eliminate Compression During Video Calls by Using Neural Networks to Perfectly Render Your Face There are a thousand reasons to hate hopping on a video call every 10 minutes to chat with your co-workers, among them the ugly video…
October 7, 2020 Facebook will ban US political ads indefinitely after election Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will ban US-based political ads indefinitely after the presidential election, attempting to forestall confusion over its…
October 7, 2020 Presidential Debate Commission Clearly Not Playing With a Full Deck The first telephone was invented in 1861. The underlying technology evolved greatly over the next 100 years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that…
October 7, 2020 Facebook will ban political ads after polls close on election night Facebook is once again tightening its rules as it prepares for a potentially chaotic election. The company said that it would ban all political…
October 7, 2020 Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel…
October 7, 2020 Twitch seems to have picked up most of Mixer’s streamers Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Streamers seem to have flocked to Twitch from Mixer after the Microsoft-owned live-streaming service announced plans to…
October 7, 2020 GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati A Reddit user went on an impressive comment streak last week. The user stuck to the pages of the mega-popular AskReddit subforum, and their…
October 7, 2020 10 Jedi Facilities That Survived Star Wars’ Order 66 Order 66 may have massacred most of the Jedi, but it wasn’t just people that survived Palpatine’s purge. The Jedi existed for eons before…
October 7, 2020 How to watch AMD’s Zen 3 event introducing Ryzen 5000 processors With the proclamation that “a new journey begins,” AMD is announcing its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 processors for desktops, featuring its new Zen…
October 7, 2020 Did the Coronavirus Plan the Vice Presidential Debate? The vice presidential debate tonight between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris looks set to go ahead, despite Pence’s recent exposure to people who later…