Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 states

Duplex uses AI to make phone reservations through Google Assistant. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge More than two years af...

YouTube is relaxing some rules about ads on drug-related videos

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From this month, Google is updating some of its YouTube ad guidelines about drug-related videos. ...

Police Say They Found Mafia Fugitive On YouTube, Posting Cooking Tutorials

An alleged mafia fugitive hiding from Italian police in the Dominican Republic was arrested after being spotted showing off his cooking skil...

Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android

Microsoft has shut down its Cortana app for iOS and Android. It’s the latest in a series of moves to end support for Cortana across multipl...

SpaceX Is Adding a Glass Dome On Crew Dragon For 360 Views of Space

The Crew Dragon capsule poised to fly four civilian astronauts to space this year is getting an upgrade: a glass dome will be added at the t...

Urgent Policies Needed To Steer Countries To Net Zero, Says IEA Chief

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: New energy policies are urgently needed to put countries on the path to net zero gree...

Apple will use Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries at its California solar farm

The construction site of the energy storage project at the California Flats solar farm. | Image: Apple Apple announced Wednesday that it...