June 12, 2020 Uber Eats promotes Black-owned businesses, but who benefits? If you’ve opened up the Uber Eats app within the past week you’ve likely noticed a new, prominently featured banner emblazoned with the words…
June 12, 2020 Internet Archive Ends Free Ebook Program Early in Bid to Stave Off Dangerous Lawsuit Back in March, the Internet Archive launched its National Emergency Library, a program that made roughly 1.4 million books available to the public without…
June 12, 2020 Prepare for the Never-Ending Coronavirus Plateau Earlier this week, the U.S. reached another sad milestone in the covid-19 pandemic, with the country now reporting over 2 million confirmed cases of…
June 12, 2020 Add 10TB of Western Digital Storage to Any System for $165 Western Digital 10TB Elements Portable HDD | $165 | Newegg | Use code EMCDMGG53 Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity…
June 12, 2020 Confederate Symbols Are Pollution Nearly 800 monuments celebrating the Confederacy stand in public spaces across the U.S. today. A growing number of these racist monuments are being covered in…
June 12, 2020 You Will Never Beat This Sharpshooting Robot at Table Hockey Over the years we’ve seen quite a few successful attempts to create robotic air hockey opponents, but Andrew Khorkin has dedicated himself to a…
June 12, 2020 Facebook detection challenge winners spot deepfakes with 82% accuracy Top performing AI for deepfake detection produced by the challenge winners can detect the distorted videos with 82% accuracy.Read More via VentureBeat Check out…
June 12, 2020 The DeanBeat: Sony sets the bar for the next-generation console war Sony showed off the PlayStation 5 yesterday and the all-digital event was a smashing success. Millions watched as Sony put the ball in Microsoft’s…
June 12, 2020 Researchers find racial discrimination in ‘dynamic pricing’ algorithms used by Uber, Lyft, and others A preprint study shows ride-hailing services like Uber, Lyft, and Via charge higher prices in certain neighborhoods based on racial and other biases.Read More…
June 12, 2020 Beats Solo Pro noise-canceling headphones are $70 off for the first time Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Beats Solo Pro wireless on-ear headphones with active noise cancellation are $230 at Best Buy and…