Image: Hyundai, Screenshot: Umar Shakir / The Verge New car events are usually pretty cringe, full of pointless pyrotechnics, emotionless futurescapes, shameless pandering to “the youth,” or hapless CEO antics. (Remember Elon Musk’s Cybertruck window smash fail? Simpler times.) So it is with some degree of hesitation that I must point you to this video…
A C-130J in Alaska in 2016. US Air Force / Stephanie Serrano On July 13, Boston’s Merlin Labs announced that it would be working with the US Air Force to add autonomy to the C-130J Super Hercules cargo transport plane. Merlin’s technology is a kind of advanced auto-copilot, designed to take over the responsibilities of…
Meta today released its first annual human rights report, which — in the company’s words — includes “insights and actions from [Meta’s] human rights due diligence on products, countries, and responses to emerging crises.” The 83-page report, covering the years 2020 and 2021, strikes a largely self-congratulatory tone, defending Meta’s misinformation strategy while failing to…
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Founded in 2014 by early Tinder VP Whitney Wolfe Herd, dating app Bumble‘s claim to fame was that women “make the first move” — meaning that for straight couples, only women can message their matches first. Eight years later, discussions around gender and sexuality look a lot different. Now, the app is changing its gender…
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A US Army Special Forces combat diver off the coast of Washington, August 14, 2014. US Army US special operators are investing in tech to give it an advantage against highly capable adversaries. US Special Operations Command recently awarded a $10 million contract for jet boots to give its divers that edge. With the US…
In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo rioters supporting President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington. John Minchillo/AP Ray Epps traveled to Washington D.C. to support President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021. He was later pegged to a conspiracy theory alleging the feds incited the Capitol riot. He told The New York Times…