Heres what you need to know: Wall Street is hampering some small businesses seeking aid. When Michael Sullivan borrowed $22 million from a specialist Wall Street lender in 2018 to buy and renovate two Florida hotels, he had no idea how costly that decision …
Betsy DeVos is finally able to enact major parts of her education privatization agenda thanks to the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Congress passed in late March. The education secretary has faced resistance from lawmakers on diverting funds from pub…
The band should’ve been on tour right now, celebrating a vibrant new album that was three years in the making. Instead, it’s on Instagram.“It's so weird,” said Hooper. “I'm really not a techie person, and I'm pretty private. I'm not one of the people that's always on Instagram Live. I actually hadn't used it, I…
The list of things that Covid-19 does to the body keeps getting longer. Between the cytokine storms, the neurological ailments, the swollen-up toes, it’s all rather confusing, frightening, and yes, decidedly weird—though, as virology Twitter will happily remind you, “all viruses are weird.”Everything You Need to Know About the CoronavirusHere's all the WIRED coverage in…
“The first Asian Jew in false space” — that’s how Josh Burstein launched himself to me when we hopped on the cell phone earlier this week. The false space in…
(Reuters) - Electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China later this year or early next that it expects will bring the cost of electric vehicles in line with gasoline models, and allow…
Apple has acquired virtual-reality company NextVR, as VentureBeat and 9to5Mac first reported. The acquisition comes as the tech giant has pushed deeper into entertainment offerings and digital services in recent years. NextVR is best known for providing acce…
Introducing "this word does not exist" today - AI generated English words with dictionary definitions. Be kind! https://t.co/iDSIFsykoe— Thomas Dimson (@turtlesoupy) May 13, 2020 Created by developer Thomas Dimson, ThisWordDoesNotExist.com uses GPT-2, a neural net designed to create predictive text. OpenAI invented GPT-2 and warned that it could write believable fake news. After some debate,…
If there's one thing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has left people with, it's free time to discover new things to read, watch, and listen to. But if there's one thing the Covid-19 lockdowns haven't given folks, it's disposable income to spend on those things. For comic book fans, though, there's a bit of a silver…
Uber is rolling out a sequence of changes to its rush-hailing and on-query food shipping apps, starting up Monday, as cities and states grasp dwell-at-house orders attributable to the COVID-19…
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