Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is teaming up with Office Depot to bring on-demand office and school supplies to the Uber Eats platform. It’s the latest effort by the ride-hailing company to diversify its delivery options beyond takeout and groceries. Starting today, Uber Eats customers can place orders from 900 Office Depot…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Movie stills by Alamy The site’s long history still has lessons for the internet today Continue reading… Read More
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann. | Photo by Ryan Muir / Getty Images via The New York Times Adam Neumann, the co-founder and former CEO of the shared office startup WeWork, is working on a new rental real estate business that has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz. According to a report from The New York Times,…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap is finding early success with its paid subscription service Snapchat Plus. The company says it has amassed 1 million paid users since launching Snapchat Plus in late June. A Snapchat Plus subscription gives users early and exclusive access to features for $3.99 a month, including changing the…
The $2,400 Dione is a luxury buy for people who don’t want to deal with surrounds or a subwoofer Continue reading… Read More
Enlarge (credit: HUM Images | Getty) Farmers around the world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the way they could with…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) I am not a data scientist. And while I know my way around a Jupyter notebook and have written a good amount of Python code, I do not profess to be anything close to a machine learning expert. So when I performed the first part of our no-code/low-code…
Enlarge / Art from Various Daylife, one of the games that left Apple Arcade in August 2022. (credit: https://variousdaylife.square-enix-games.com) Several games that were previously available as part of the Apple Arcade subscription service have been removed. Fifteen titles have been dropped, and all of them are games that were introduced in the early days of…
Enlarge (credit: KATERYNA KON) Vertebrates such as ourselves rely on a complicated, multi-layer immune system to limit the impact of pathogens. Specialized B and T cells play a central role by recognizing specific pathogens and providing a memory of past infections. Obviously, single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea can’t take the same approach. But that…
Enlarge / Stacey Morgan and her four children watch Drew Morgan launch in July 2019. (credit: Stacey Morgan) One of the very first things that a new NASA astronaut learns is that there is no “I” in team. As part of their nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments, prospective astronauts…