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- What happens on a plane full of sick passengers? An aerospace medicine expert explains
- The Verge fall movie preview, October 2018
- HTC Vive opens up its VR store to Oculus Rift users
- IMAX is launching its own AV certification program for home theater setups
- The 7 biggest moments from today’s social media hearings
- AI drone pilots will challenge humans in competition sponsored by Lockheed Martin
- Firefox brings automatic dark themes to MacOS and blocks third-party trackers on Android
- Sweden’s official Twitter account will no longer be run by random Swedes
- Third-party USB-C to Lightning cables are reportedly happening
- Mercedes-Benz messed up the most important detail of its big electric car debut
| What happens on a plane full of sick passengers? An aerospace medicine expert explains Posted: 05 Sep 2018 05:01 PM PDT  When Emirates flight EK 203 from Dubai landed in New York with sick people on board on Wednesday morning, public health officials and local authorities were waiting for it. Passengers and crew had fallen ill with coughs, fevers, and stomach problems — and 11 were taken to the hospital. The scare raised some key questions: like, when you're in a metal tube hurtling through the air, how do you get help if you get sick? And what happens once you land? The 549 people on flight EK 203 found out on Wednesday, when officials evaluated them and took their temperatures. By early Wednesday afternoon, everyone was allowed to go except for the 11 who went to the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For now, the... |
| The Verge fall movie preview, October 2018 Posted: 05 Sep 2018 03:32 PM PDT  Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes with a shift into a cooler box-office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer onscreen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning. We started The Verge's four-part fall movie preview yesterday with a September 2018 roundup, looking at films from Shane Black's franchise revival The Predator to the social-media horror-comedy cautionary tale Assassination Nation. Here, we continue with October, which starts prestige season in... |
| HTC Vive opens up its VR store to Oculus Rift users Posted: 05 Sep 2018 03:01 PM PDT  HTC and Valve have opened the Vive virtual reality headset's digital store to its biggest competitor. That means Oculus Rift users who play games on the Facebook-owned headset can now start buying and downloading games and apps from HTC's Viveport store. Oculus Rift users might already have options like Steam and Oculus' own store to shop from, but at least the new compatibility gives users more options to surf through and places to do comparison shopping. Still, most of the titles carried in Viveport aren't compatible with Oculus Rift headsets. Out of 1,400 titles, only around 200 are confirmed to be compatible with Oculus headsets. There's also a subscription service component to Viveport, which HTC launched last year, that gives... |
| IMAX is launching its own AV certification program for home theater setups Posted: 05 Sep 2018 02:49 PM PDT  IMAX announced today that it's launching a new certification program called IMAX Enhanced that it's developed along with audio and surround sound specialist DTS. The idea is that qualifying televisions, projectors, A/V receivers, sound systems, and other home theater equipment should provide the best 4K / HDR images and sound quality, in IMAX's opinion. The company doesn't get specific about what qualifiers it considers before certifying a device, but it did say that they "meet a carefully prescribed set of the highest audio and video performance standards, set by a certification committee of IMAX and DTS engineers and Hollywood's leading technical specialists." The program will launch this fall with its initial partners — Sony, Denon,... |
| The 7 biggest moments from today’s social media hearings Posted: 05 Sep 2018 02:21 PM PDT  Facebook and Twitter made a hotly anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill today, as top executives sat for a day's worth of questions from lawmakers related to election interference, political bias, and more. In the day's first hearing, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared the dais with Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for questions related to how the companies are protecting their platforms from abuse. (Google declined to send its CEO, and was represented by an empty chair.) In the day's second hearing, Dorsey alone faced more four hours of questions from members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Members of Congress asked mostly well informed questions about a wide range of subjects, and the tone was generally... |
| AI drone pilots will challenge humans in competition sponsored by Lockheed Martin Posted: 05 Sep 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Drone racing has only been a human sport for a few years, but artificial intelligence is already gunning to take over. Today, the Drone Racing League (DRL), which is one of the foremost organizations trying to turn drone racing into the next NASCAR, announced a new competition for teams to develop AI pilots for its aircraft. With backing from aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, DRL wants to recruit developers from around the world, including students and drone enthusiasts. They'll have to create an AI that's capable of flying one of DRL's standardized quadcopters through its complex race courses without preprogramming or human supervision. Teams will then compete in the DRL's upcoming 2019 season by racing against one another in the same... |
| Firefox brings automatic dark themes to MacOS and blocks third-party trackers on Android Posted: 05 Sep 2018 01:52 PM PDT  Firefox's latest update for desktop is here, and there's a new automatic dark theme on macOS, a small prompt to reflect recent personal data privacy concerns, and variable fonts. Today's updates lay "the groundwork for future releases that will help people feel safe online," a spokesperson told The Verge. Firefox first announced last week that its browser would soon be blocking third-party ad trackers and strip cookies from site content by default, and it looks like it's starting that process on mobile. When you disconnect from the desktop version of Sync, which lets you sync bookmarks, tabs, and passwords across devices, Firefox will now ask if you want to wipe your Firefox profile, which contains passwords, history, cookies, and site... |
| Sweden’s official Twitter account will no longer be run by random Swedes Posted: 05 Sep 2018 01:52 PM PDT  Sweden is rightly famous for many things — its natural beauty, its health care, its wealth, Ikea — but one of the country's most public achievements, its Twitter, doesn't always come up in those conversations. Since 2011, the Swedish Institute has handed over the keys to the country's official Twitter account to a new Swede every week, letting them tweet anything they want. The goal was to show the country as it really existed through the eyes of its various citizens. "Through the stories of the various curators, not one Sweden is conveyed, but several," the government wrote on its official project website. "In an age of mass communication and increasing globalisation, a country depends largely on how it is perceived abroad," it... |
| Third-party USB-C to Lightning cables are reportedly happening Posted: 05 Sep 2018 01:46 PM PDT  Third-party hardware makers might finally be allowed to create Apple-approved USB-C to Lightning cables through the company's MFi program. Japanese publication Mac Otakara reports today that Apple informed its MFi partners that they'll be able to manufacture these cables, which only Apple has made since the accessory's debut. The website expects to see some of these cables starting in mid-2019. The website also reports that Apple will provide and require these manufacturers to use a new Lightning connector, which offers a maximum of 15W of charging with a standard power adapter and 18W with ones that support fast charging. More than anything, the timing of this rumor is interesting, given that it's been speculated that Apple will upgrade... |
| Mercedes-Benz messed up the most important detail of its big electric car debut Posted: 05 Sep 2018 01:22 PM PDT  The Mercedes-Benz EQC is one of the most important cars the company will ever release. It is the first entrant in an entirely new lineup of all-electric cars, the tip of the spear for a wholly different propulsion platform meant to help curb emissions around the globe. It's been teased by the company for two years. And yet, on the day of its announcement, Mercedes-Benz completely whiffed on arguably the most important detail: how long the EQC's battery will last. One of the biggest obstacles since the early days of mass-produced electric vehicles has been range. It was one of the top "limiting factors" to adoption in a RAND Corporation study in 2012, and the term "range anxiety" — which neatly describes the low-level fear that EVs won't... |
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