Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft launched its rental car service in December 2019, more than a year after Uber shut down a similar program that provided rental cars and access to bike rides and public transportation. Lyft Rentals stood out for its low starting rate of $35 a day and lack of…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge / A firefighter stands by flames as a wildfire rages in the Monts d’Arree, near Brasparts, Brittany, on July 19, 2022. A heatwave fueling ferocious wildfires in Europe pushed temperatures in Britain over 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit) for the first time after regional heat records tumbled in France. (credit: Loic Venance/Getty) Europe is on…
Enlarge / Pouch cells of the sort tested for endurance. (credit: Cuberg) While lithium-ion batteries have experienced steady improvements, a lot of research has gone into new chemistries that provide a much larger leap in performance. Some of that work has focused on materials like silicon or sulfur that can potentially store far more lithium…
United Educators, a member-owned insurance and risk management provider for education institutions, has partnered with suicide prevention nonprofit The Jed Foundation to offer a premium credit to schools that successfully complete a JED program aimed at supporting students’ mental health and well-being.Read More
Robots relying on AI to learn a new task generally require a laborious and repetitious training process. University of California, Berkeley researchers are attempting to simplify and shorten that with an innovative learning technique that has the robot filling in the gaps rather than starting from scratch. The team shared several lines of work with…
Spotify has been steadily expanding its Blend feature, most recently by letting users create shared playlists with up to 10 friends and also allowing them to get in on a shared playlist with select artists. Blend in its expanded form is a particularly good Spotify feature since it gives the service a social dimension: friends…
Mohamed El-Erian REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton The west needs to “bite the bullet” and fully sanction Russia’s energy sector, Mohamed El-Erian said. The economist thinks carve-outs for energy give Russia a “back door” and could disrupt global finance. The consequences may be severe, but short-lived if countries can coordinate and ban together, he said. The West is…
“Stray.” Annapurna Interactive “Stray” is a new sci-fi video game about a cat lost in a robot city. People have taken to social media to post videos of their cats watching them play. Here’s what the game looks like, how to play, and more details. “Stray” is a new sci-fi video game about a lost…
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Alina Habba, left, and Michael Madaio, attorneys for former president Donald Trump, in Midtown Manhattan on May 9, 2022. Matthew Cronin / Insider Donald Trump’s busiest lawyer, Alina Habba, is being sued for alleged racist behavior by an ex-employee. Na’Syia Drayton alleges Habba recently called the NY AG who’s investigating Trump’s business a ‘Black bitch.’…