'Lord of the Rings' Reunion Brings Actors, Director, Writers Together on Zoom

"Just about the entire cast of The Lord of the Rings gathered their Zoom screens together for a reunion nearly two decades after the en...

Walmart Employees Complain Its Anti-Shoplifting AI Is Buggy, Inaccurate, and Dangerous

Walmart uses "Everseen" AI technology in thousands of its stores "to prevent shoplifting at registers and self-checkout kiosk...

A restaurant in the Netherlands is using creepy robot waiters for social distancing

Royal Palace Renesse/Instagram A restaurant in the Netherlands has introduced new robot waiters as a way to reduce human-to-human contact ...

Linus Torvalds Argues Against 80-Column Line Length Coding Style, As Linux Kernel Deprecates It

"The Linux kernel has officially deprecated its coding style that the length of lines of code comply with 80 columns as the 'strong...

YouTube will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube says it will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity, to demonstrate “solidari...

Protesting Mark Zuckerberg Comments About Fact-Checking, Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral

"I don't think that Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday....

82-Year-Old Ridley Scott Shares Some Secrets About 'Alien'

Ridley Scott was the fifth choice to direct the 1979 film Alien, remembers the Los Angeles Times, "meaning that no one was expecting th...