As voters weigh Prop 22, a California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling ordering Uber and Lyft to stop classifying drivers as independent contractors (Cyrus Farivar/NBC News)
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: As voters weigh Prop 22, a California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling ordering Uber and Lyft to stop classifying drivers as independent contractors — OAKLAND, Calif.—A California state appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that…
What The Golf? Comes To Steam With Surprise Level Editor
What the Golf?, Triband’s hilarious anti-golf game, is now available on Steam, and it comes with a cool new feature. For the first time, players will be able to craft their own unique courses for the game. The level editor is a surprise addition, and…
Bringing The Hero To Life In Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Click here to watch embedded media While Marvel’s Spider-Man brought Yuri Lowenthal into the spotlight for his brilliant work as Peter Parker, it’s now time for another web-slinger’s to shine. That’s where actor Nadji Jeter comes into play. After voicing the character in not only…
Halo 5 Is Not Getting A Dedicated Xbox Series X Upgrade, But It Will Have Faster Load Times
Microsoft has confirmed that it has no plans to release a dedicated optimization update for Halo 5: Guardians on Xbox Series X/S as it’s doing for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. While there won’t be the same 120fps/4K optimizations for Halo 5 on the next-gen…
Xiaomi crowdfunds the 8H Milan Smart Electric Bed Pro with voice control
Xiaomi has launched the 8H Milan Smart Electric Bed Pro under the Youpin crowdfunding platform. The smart bed is a direct successor to the 8H Milan smart electric bed which was launched under crowdfunding in December 2019, priced at 1999 yuan (~$300). The 8H Milan Smart…
Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, and others released an open framework to help security analysts detect, counter, and remediate threats against machine learning systems (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, and others released an open framework to help security analysts detect, counter, and remediate threats against machine learning systems — Microsoft, the nonprofit MITRE Corporation, and 11 organizations including IBM, Nvidia, Airbus, and Bosch today released … Source:…
Spellbreak Adds A New Mode And Prologue Chapter In Major Update
Spellbreak has received a major new update, adding the game’s first new mode and a prologue chapter to the free-to-play magic-based battle royale. The Prologue: The Gathering Storm update is now available on PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. The new mode is called Clash,…
Second Extinction Early Access Review
Historically, splicing dino-DNA with different species has gone terribly for everyone involved, but in this case merging it with the frantic intensity of Left 4 Dead’s co-op and setting it on a vast, open world-style map has worked out nicely thus far. Second Extinction, by…
Star Wars: Liam Neeson Says Disney Hasn't Approached Him About Playing Qui-Gon Jinn Again
If an actor has ever starred in a Marvel, DC, or Star Wars film, it’s only a matter of time before people start asking when they’ll play that character again. Liam Neeson has played countless memorable roles over the years, but for many, he’s Jedi…
TikTok will now specify which content policy a removed video violated, after testing the notification feature and seeing a 14% reduction in user appeals (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge: TikTok will now specify which content policy a removed video violated, after testing the notification feature and seeing a 14% reduction in user appeals — You know what you did. Or do you? Until recently, TikTok wouldn’t necessarily explain why…
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